Rain Fiesta

Yes, the rain still continues. It wasn't bad this morning, when I went to do my laundry and run a few small errands around the neighborhood. Actually, it didn't really rain at all this morning, but it was still cloudy, damp, and cool. I read Five Little Peppers...and How They Grew and listened to Dad play guitar. He's self-taught, and really quite good. Right now, he's working on the 70s soft rock hit "The Last Time I Felt Like This." His house was cozily quiet. Jessa was at school, Jodie at work, and Uncle Ken and Dolores are still in Florida.

I made the usual quick rounds to CVS (got Mom's Mother's Day card) and the Oaklyn Library (took out Miss Potter, Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and Alice Adams, then headed back to Dad's and grabbed my laundry load. Watched the feature-length Donald Duck vehicle The Three Caballeros in honor of Cinco Del Mayo; I'd run Saludos Amigos during breakfast. The plot of both is basically "Donald Duck learns about Latin and South American culture." Donald is in only two of several shorts strung together for Amigos, where the focus is entirely on South America. The more inspired Caballeros takes us as far south as Antarctica and as far north as Mexico, with stops in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and the Andes Mountains in between. Caballeros sports some great live-action/animation footage, including the insanely surreal finale, with Donald dancing with Mexican beauties and waving cacti. The films also introduce Disney south-of-the-border stars Jose Carioca, Panchito the Rooster, and the nutty Aracuan Bird.

Work was pretty much a repeat of yesterday - very busy for a Tuesday, with lots of cranky customers. Cranky employees, too. The older cashier behind me usually works early in the morning, but he had a very rare night shift tonight, and complained about it all night...and he always yammers on to every customer in his line. It got annoying after a while.