A moment of respite

The Major was not in today, thank God, so I actually had a normal work day for a change. I actually wound up putting away overstock for about an hour, something I love to do which I haven't done in a while. As I was putting away some bottles of barbeque sauce (that time of year again: people are firing up the backyard grills), I discovered a large, blue playground ball sitting on the top shelf, behind some salad dressing bottles. I'm wondering if some kid tossed it up there or if a parent stuck it up there to get it away from a kid who was getting rambunctious with it (we've got playground balls for sale, which is why the ball was in the store to begin with).

Fandom rant: There is a time and a place for horizontal tangos, but do they have to be in every book

Okay. Maybe my libido is still burnt out from the critical overload it suffered while I was trying to read the Merry Gentry series, but I'm rather glad that Jim Butcher keeps the sexual content in the Dresden Files to a reasonable level. Yes, Harry is a normal guy with healthy impulses, but thankfully, Jim does not turn every novel into a bonk-buster. So far, there's been count 'em *ONE* definate explicit sex-scene out of nine books and a healthy amount of either out-of-sight bits or non-explicit moments where our boy's hormones get revved up but he keeps the choke on 'em. I'd like to know, certain members of the fandom, is there some Federal regulation that every adult-level novel has to have a certain quota of sex scenes? Is it really necessary for our boy to get laid in every book or something? The thing with writing sex scenes is that they have to fit in with the flow of the plot and not seem like they got tacked in to keep the hormonal males of the fandom happy. This is my major carp with "Supernatural": the pr0no patches have seemed too obviously patched-in. I'd rather read something with good plotting and good pacing where the sex scenes seem cohesive with everything else (and where the plot doesn't get bogged down by bonk-a-thons. Hello, Laurell K. Hamilton?).