Thanks to everyone who has made a donation to my 5k run for the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America next month. Today, I surpassed my goal of $2500 in fundraising. Of course, if you still want to contribute, please do. I'm still about $100 behind 7-year-old Mason and it's pissing me off. I suppose he does have the cute factor. A friend and I were chatting about it online the other day. He and his wife had donated to my fund, and when I told them about Mason, he looked him up on the web site. His wife, walking up behind him as he looked at Mason's web page, said, "Ooh..he's so cute!" She felt bad for him and donated $50.

So far today, I've woken up with a really bad stress headache (or perhaps from the change in pressure since it rained last night), and have what I believe is the beginnings of a chest cold. I've been laying around all day trying to decide if I want to go to work tonight or not. Since I really don't want to have to make up the missed day on one of my regular days off, I'll probably suck it up and go work tonight.

The song of the day is a little more recent than my usual picks, but it came up on my iPod today and I remembered how much I like it. It's "Love and Happiness" by John Mellencamp off his 1991 album Whenever We Wanted. This was Mellencamp's 11th album, his first after the 80s were done, and also the first that was credited solely to his given name. I always dug his stuff back in the day, but this song really struck a chord with me with it's harder, more serious edge. Check out the lyrics. They're still pretty meaningful with what's going on in the world today.