1) I got stung by a yellow jacket yesterday when I was in the park with my kid. I haven't been stung by a winged insect in probably 30 years. Newsflash: it still hurts LAMF like it did when I was a kid.
B) I got my Bl'ast pre-order today, and despite one of the best packing jobs I've seen in recent years (they had little corner protectors and everything) USPS managed to ding the fuck out of the spine. It's so bad that even the lyric sheet indide the sleeve got dented. This has been happening more and more lately. This is just about enough to make me start buying CDs again.