Oh so true

"Writers, by nature, tend to be people in whom l’esprit de l’escalier is a recurrent experience: they are always thinking of the perfect riposte after the moment for saying it has passed. So they take a few years longer and put it in print."

That sums it up, doesn't it? And I just love the phrase l'esprit de l'escalier. Or, as Barbara Hambly puts it, "a bad case of 'I shoulda said'."

Oh yeah, and Happy Solstice. Today is the day the weather is given free rein to beat the life out of you with a hot, humid stick. At least around here.