TBW Daily Diary

Day-long heavy rains continue as I write. Fear of floods is well-founded. We spent the day dashing from smoke detector to smoke detector; humidity was the culprit . . . Received five over-sized paperback cryptic crossword puzzle books from England. Postage? Less than $4. I could not have sent them across town for that amount . . . John Goldsmith writes that, indeed, his film debut will be next Thursday when he is an extra in a movie . . . Copies of October's TheBurg are now available at The Bare Wall . . . Guess we owe a big "thank you" to Rep. Tim Solobay who was the victim of an attempted mugging a few nights ago. His traumatic experience even made the Patriot-News which has long ignored the numerous muggings that have plagued the city all summer. Today's paper reported on several of the incidents in our crime wave. It took a "notable" victim to get them off their duffs. Don't know what office he is currently running for but I would vote for Tim if I could. (He is from Washington County.) . . .