Pervy Mark Halperin NOT Pervy Mark Helprin!

Ran into Pat at the post office. “So, do I owe you a groveling apology?” I asked.

She laughed and touched my arm. “No! He can be really annoying. There’ve been plenty of times when I wished that I could stalk off myself.”

So that’s okay.

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Also, Ken, the guy who lives across the road, is installing his own septic tank. I don’t know whether to be admiring or appalled. There’s a reason why most of us country livers outsource septic tank installations.

Ken’s kind of an arrogant SOB. Beyond drooling over him whenever he mows the lawn shirtless, I generally avoid Ken. He’s in his 60s, but he literally has the body of a guy in his 30s. He’s quite the exercise nut.

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I’m out of stuff to read. I wish Hilary Mantel would hurry up with the third installment of the Thomas Cromwell series.

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Also, I had quite the heart-stopping moment when the Pervy Mark Halperin story broke.

The name “Mark Halperin” is very like the name “Mark Helprin.”

The former is – or was – MSNBC’s pet Trump apologist; the latter is the author of one of my favorite steampunk novels, A Winter’s Tale.

How did a sensitive fiction writer end up as a conservative talking head and groper? I wondered.

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Yesterday, the weather turned beautiful again, and today promises to be just as nice. But a mini-Sandy Storm is forecast for tomorrow – on the fifth anniversary of Sandy. I’m driving to T-burg, and I hope the lashing rains and winds hold off until after I leave.

It won’t be storming in the west.