...Rivaled only by keen intelligence. I discovered my inbox inundated with offday word-of-the-day mails sent from Webster. Since I was unable to verbally integrate them into my speech, why not list a word puzzle for sitDiary commentators? So, here. Enjoy all of you diehard etymologists. And no, I'm not referring to bug scientists. http://www.madlibs.org/cgi-bin/madlib?rigby.ml2 Insert these as your word choices in the appropriate blanks, if desired: torrid, indissoluble, chirography, crux, and fecund. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Gazing back on the events of today, my conscience is shouting never to set high expectations with unfounded evidence. Confounded evidence, maybe. Unfounded, decisively no. If I were a standup comedian babbling incessantly about the foibles of friends, I would insert a wisecrack highlighting the concept of a fairweather friend, but wordplay the cliche into fairtethered friend. Often a sense of duty tugging on me to just forgive and forget, overshadows the circumstances of the situation and my truthful response to that situation. Taper off the wagon of self-pity; move on. I know, face forward. But I love to count the bright colored swimming goldfish in this wallowing pond...