I must have studied Italian way, too much, because this isn’t making too much sense to me. Of course, my opening statement also doesn’t make much sense, but that’s just to clue you in on the collapsing state of my brain’s synapses.

Chedderson owns a shipping company. That isn’t being a builder.  There is a peacock running amok on the golf course. Either this peacock is quite the runner or the Sunny Soleil Society is a stone’s throw from this resort. That makes it even harder to believe Cherry didn’t know of its existence. Mark is going to play golf with his backpack still strapped on. And taking a cue from Cherry, Happy is also making excuses for Mark. It’s as if they are all in on a secret and don’t want Mark to figure it out. That doesn’t seem too difficult. A few of you readers probably golf, yes? Looking back over the strips this week, I’m not sure I’ve seen a course that looks like this one.

This is the end of the second week for Mark’s storyline. By tradition, we should be heading back to a week of the dramatic story of Violet and the Lost Peacock. That might mean some time-travel for Cherry to get back into her work clothes and hunt down the peacock that we seem to be viewing in today’s strip. But, maybe this particular peacock is one of those feral peacocks known to roam through various southern states, as I mentioned last Sunday. Is it? As I wrote earlier, are these two storylines even on the same chronological timeline?

Not to give Rivera too much literary credit, but this temporal conundrum (largely of my own making!) reminds me a tiny bit of Kurt Vonnegut’s great book, Slaughterhouse 5 and how the book’s protagonist, Bill Pilgrim, time-traveled through various times of his life, as if time was not linear at all (this was also a great movie, by the way).

Art Dept. There is another visual puzzle depicted today, featuring what might appear to be a continuity problem. But is it? Can you spot it? And I don’t mean the bad inking job in panel 2 where it only looks like Mark is wearing a ball cap. But you wouldn’t be too far off.