da Kine Rising Tide

Some blog trivia: On average, a blog is created every minute. The average readership for a blog is 1. A blogger commented in the latest issue of the Society of Environmental Journalists' quarterly journal that a blog is like a hungry puppy. You need to feed it at least twice a day, and then it gets hungrier -- and needs to be fed even more often. This reminds me of a phrase well-known to those who labor for wire services (a wire service is a news service that operates 24/7, such as The Associated Press, or Bloomberg, or Reuters, or Agence France Presse, or Deutsche Presse Agentur): A newsperson's job at a wire service is "feeding the beast. "

On Monday evening, as Surfergrl was about to make dinner, she turned on the kitchen light and saw ... GASP!!! the biggest cockroach she's seen since leaving Hawaii to go to college. This roach was THREE INCHES LONG! (Am now going to abandon the third-person ...) I have since found out from longtime beach residents that roaches and ants are as much a part of life at the beach as the sand and the ocean. A big roach is OK, I'm told. You just tolerate its presence, and it will eventually scuttle away, back where it came from. One should be alarmed should one spot a bunch of baby roaches. Then you probably need to get out the insecticide. At least the ants in my apartment are the small black ones. I crush them and leave their carcasses where they lie, hoping that the bodies will send out signals that their brethren should stay away from this dangerous zone. +++ At 5 p.m. local time this Saturday, Aug. 16, CNN will carry a live broadcast of the Rev. Rick Warren's forum in Lake Fo...

It's supposed to be a hot day today, so the grayness laying over the coast should dissipate by the afternoon. I hope.