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I’m not always the brightest bulb. This morning I got dressed in the dark…and threw on a shirt that I thought was a different shirt. The one I actually wound up wearing has a giant permanent grease stain smack dab in the middle on the front. Naturally I didn’t notice it until after I got to work. Also? In my excitement to get my son ready for summer camp this morning I sprayed him up and down with both sunblock and insect repellent…inside the house. Brilliant. Tomorrow morning I’ll wait until we’re no longer in an enclosed space. And maybe I’ll look at myself in the mirror with a light on. Lessons learned.

Five good things:

• Israeli Separation Wall Turns Into Huge World Cup TV Screen: “Its purpose may be to divide, but for the past few nights, the wall that separates this biblical town in the West Bank from nearby Jerusalem has been bringing an international crowd together to watch the World Cup games.”
• Gorgeous photography: The Mysterious Light Of Tokihiro Sato - Presence or Absence
• A couple of items of note in the New Yorker - can twitter save books? Hmmm. And one of Kate Beaton’s fantastic cartoons too.
• Devo hosted a cat listening party for their new album. And why not? They’re trying to tap all markets with this release and crazy cat people have as much disposable income as anyone.
• Adam is a genius mixologist. Town Talk Diner wins Iron Bartender–again!

On this, the first day of summer, Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Science Center had a snowball day:

In addition to naming their own price, every person who brings a snowball to the Science Center on June 21 will be able to launch his or her snowball into the Ohio River from aboard the USS Requin submarine (weather permitting).

That sounds like a pretty darned good start to summer. And my son has been saving a snowball in our freezer (but it’s looking pretty sorry at this point). Thankfully our solstice was decent enough. The kid enjoyed his first full day of summer camp. With the side effect (bonus?) of utterly wearing him out. I’m not sure how much energy he will have left over for other activities. Like weeknight movies and music in the park events. Maybe I can at least get him to crank something out for this Threadless kid art contest. I’d love to see something of his on a t-shirt. I suppose I could make that happen easily enough, contest or no, but I have my own summer haze/daze happening right now. Hopefully I’ll snap out of it soon and get motivated.