We have the pitbulls of August, chewing on cats.

We have odd power outages and downtown brawls.

In my own neighborhood we have an increase in people expressing their irritability loudly and often.

My friends all have stories of their cars mysteriously dying, of witnessing bad accidents right in front of them, of surly custom service people, and of general universal lack of communication.

Here on OlyBlog we have learned exactly what is going on beneath the 4th Ave. bridge and also what exactly happens to a squirrel experiencing a particular type of destruction.

August is only half way through, so I propose we turn the month around to the Tranquilty of August. I'll work on collecting examples of this glass-half-full month, even while currently the month seems half-empty.

I admit it is possible that I'm the one that is irritable. But thinking about that just makes me cranky.

^@^