Just Not Steve Buscemi

It's Sunday morning. The power was off all day yesterday as PG&E had a "We Shoot All Chronicle Investigative Reporters" Day. Two things surprised Plotnik:

1) He could NOT stop walking into rooms and hitting the light switches. When nothing happened it fooled him every time. All day long. As his mentor Bugs Bunny used to say: "What a mo-roon!"

2) All the neighbors came out on a glorious, hot and sunny day. Plottie sat on his neighbor's stoop and talked with people he hadn't seen in a year, and these are people he likes. Refer to Bugs's comment above.

In the NYT Travel Section this morning the cover feature is the guy who rode his bike across the whole country, including his last section where Plotnik and pals just finished. Plotnik is thinking about two more things:

1) The man's knees.

2) The man's nuts.

Bicycle shorts help for the first four hours. You may think you're wearing some kind of styrofoam diaper when you're off the bike seat, but when you're on it the padding is welcome. But by nightfall you feel like a squirrel has burrowed into your pants and is playing bocci with his friends.

Knees -- this guy is not a young man. Plotnik is impressed.

But does it sound like something Plottie would LOVE to do? Yes indeedy. Especially with a newspaper contract and film in the works with Plotnik played by anyone except Steve Buscemi.