Pretty soon now you're gonna get older

This week has just been an absolute crush of events and stressors and there's no sense putting them in chronological order. I'm going to start with the most important one and it is about our pet rabbit Sunshine and how I ended up screaming ``DIE IN A FIRE'' into a phone at 11:30 pm.

( The story. It concerns pet health, although only insofar as our pet has a possible health concern that I had thought we might get examined. )

Trivia: Medical literature in the 1860s debated whether reading while travelling by railroad was particularly stressful or fatiguing to the eyes. One contributor to an 1866 medical congress conceded that while it might be bad, it was also unstoppable: ``no matter what one says or does, reading will remain the most natural occupation of railway travelers, in this new form of locomotion that has so profoundly altered the traveler's relations to each other''. Source: The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century, Wolfgang Schivelbush.

Currently Reading: Lost Sagendorf: Spur Line, Bud Sagendorf. Editor Stephanie Noell. She got newspaper copies of Bud Sagendorf's forgotten 1954-55 railroad comic strip put together in a zine. Sagendorf would write Popeye comic books and comic strips for decades. It does have a strong Thimble Theatre vibe to it, have to say. I get why he might have been hired on to the main strip from this.