Connery's eye is recovering quite nicely, assuming that you by nicely you mean looking like he went 10 rounds with Rocky. He is coping well, however, telling anyone who will listen that it is "a small cut on my eye." Quite an adventure for him, more gray hair and shaved-off years for me. As usual, my mom--having taken me to the emergency room approximately 3,752 times before I was 5 as a result of my repeated attempts to knock out my teeth and crack open my head--is not big in the sympathy department. Of course she was very worried about Connery, don't misunderstand, but she is seeing many of my parental struggles as divine retribution. I can't say the experience is giving me much room to doubt that. As my Gang of Four friends and I were fond of saying in college, "The good news is there is a God. The bad news is that he is a white, male Republican with a bad sense of humor."
Anyway.
When you tell someone in Montana that you live in Livingston, you can expect to hear some wiescrack about the wind shortly thereafter. (This is of course an improvement on telling someone from outside of Montana that you are from Livingston, since the declaration will normally be met by a blank stare.) Yes, it's windy here. Chicago may get all the credit, but Livingston, Montana is where the wind really blows...and I mean that in every sense of the verb.
The highway headed east of here was closed yesterday afternoon after the wind tipped over three semi trucks and a Winnebago. It was still closed as of this morning. The wind also knocked out power for an hour and a half, and caused surges and brownouts throughout most of yesterday and this morning. I think it's time for a new Livingston town slogan. Livingston: Blowing Over Semis and Uprooting Trees and Power Lines Since the Early 20th Century.
OK, so maybe it could use a little work. Here are some other ideas:
Livingston: It Blows, But It Doesn't Suck
Livingston: Ruining Your Hair for 110 Years
Livingston: All Clean Air, All the Time
Livingston: It's Not the Wind, It's the Lack of Humidity
Livingston: Here's Gravel in Your Eye
More suggestions?