Someone shoot me, hats and me, and Doctor Who mystery deepens.

My Blog for today:

It's Sunday. It's pouring rain. It's cold. I'm sick. I have a fever. I have to walk to work. I don't have an umbrella. Someone please shoot me. The end.

But seriously, thank goodness there's a trolley today. I was up half the night coughing, and I feel rather...funky, this morning. My temp is about 100, and I feel a bit weird, but...I'm up, I'm forcing down some breakfast--oh, did I mention that I've also caught my boss's stomach ailment, as well--that's right, two, yes two--illnesses for the price of one! What a bargain, ey?

Well, hopefully I can keep a slice of toast, two scambled eggs and some sweet tea, down. We'll see. I hope my hat is dry, from being out in the rain Friday. Usually, I wear baseball caps, but I have a traditional Adirondack hiker's hat, called a "Crusher" that I wear for foul weather. A Crusher is a felt hat--traditional colours were red and forest green, sometimes grey--but mine's dark blue...and sometimes you used to find them in hunter's ornange or yellow--for deer hunting season. It's a floppy hat with a medium width hatband, that you can literally roll up and stick in your pocket or backpack...and unroll back to (theroetically) it's original shape--mine looks a bit like an old fashioned fedora hat--but floppier. I bought one of the last one's ever made by the company (Now out of business). Not the most attractive head gear, I suppose, for a lady..but it keeps my head reaonably dry. I used to have a real cowboy hat--actually, have done--dozens and dozens of cowboy hats of every shape and material-- for over 40 years. I prefer at least a 3X felt hat. Bit expensive, the higher the "X" factor (2X-to 4X beaver felt--the higher the "X" number, the better the quality of the felt)They do shed rain quite nicely, as real one's are made with beaver felt, but it accidently got run over by a truck when it blew off my head at a horse auction two years ago. Never been much of an umbrella person...like having my hands free. There. I've probably told you more about hats than you'll ever want to know, ha-ha.

You know, once in a while, it really irks some women that I wear my hats? I mean, they really get upset with me for wearing a man's hat! Mind you, women wear "women's" hats all the time, and if I were going around wearing a fancy ladies hat, likely no one would bother me about it...so much for women's lib, ey? Partly, I wear one out of sheer habit...wearing a hat is just part of who I am, as a person. Partly, I was always outside, when I was younger, and it was simply practical, and partly, it's because of frequent lack of funds and/or time for a proper haircut, and, partly, I wear one because I just plain like wearing a hat. It's sort of like the Peanuts cartoon character Linus and his blanket, I suppose.

Anyway...I was saying last night about the mysterious words in the Christmas Invasion episode...this fan wrote me and said he thought it was more like "We are the mysterons." I looked it up, and found out that they were part of an old British TV programme, Captain Scarlet. Is this really what's being said? Was the composer of the show having a bit of fun? Are we looking at a TV crossover? Don't know...the search for answers continues...