Still no bat…

Which means that I can finally eat my dinner without keeping a hand at the ready to swat a flying mammal away. Of course, I’m not so sure that bats like pizza or roasted chicken, but in the interests of safety I’ll assume that bats are always hungry for anything, and they’re most interested [...]

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No bat yet…

Now the guessing game begins. Where will its little desiccated body turn up? Should I have a necklace of garlic bulbs at the ready, just in case it zombifies into a vampire? One would think it’d be easier to find. I’ve checked in all the nooks and crannies downstairs (we were [...]

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No bat yet, but some t-rific soup.

Is it terrible that I hope it crawled away in some unseen corner and will die before we find it? Finding a dead bat is a little less stress-inducing than being chased around one’s house by a live one. We probably ought to get some pest control people out here to peer into [...]

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Welcome home!

I cleaned the house up before we left so as to maximize our after-holiday comfort upon our return. We enjoyed it quite a bit for a couple hours while watching the Bears game, and then the welcoming committee arrived. In flying-mammal form. Refresh your memory of the critters who share our house [...]

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Man, do I love to drive.

I am repeating this to myself until approximately 11:30pm tonight, when, if all goes well, we’ll roll into the ‘ville ready to stay up for another couple hours gabbing with T’s mama. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for the long-promised guest bedroom set up downstairs. My mother-in-law is the kindest, most hospitable host [...]

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Nibblin’ away

There’s a depressing story at USA Today about twentysomethings and debt. Now, spouse is a real live thirtysomething, but I (being so much younger and prettier) am still hanging out in the general vicinity of the hipness of twentysomething. Which means I get roped into the debt monster suggested by the chart below:

All [...]

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I wish people would stop dying…

First Ed Bradley, and now Robert Altman? I probably spent more time watching Gosford Park in the last few years than I spent watching 60 Minutes, only partly because it’s a long movie and really easy to rack up the hours. Mostly I watched it over and over again because the performances are [...]

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And another thing…

If you think, “Hey, I’m not allergic to nuts!” and happily gobble a handful of mixed nuts at, say, a friend’s regular post-football-game party, you may want to have a hefty supply of Benadryl ready. Spouse has never been allergic to much besides cats, being one of the few in his family who can [...]

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Forget this PhD thing

I changed my mind. I don’t want to write history, I want to write the little blurbs in the “Scopin’ the Soaps” section of the weekly TV guide in the newspaper. I can think of no better content to encapsulate in five sentences or less. To wit:“All My Children: Dixie was [...]

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4 things I learned today from Clarkson and Crawford (2001)

1. Potatoes have vitamin C. Not a whole lot per potato, but when you eat loads and loads of them, you end up with a pretty high daily level of vitamin C. Pre-Famine, male adult laborers ate an average of 12 pounds of potatoes per day. 12 pounds.2. If you’re [...]

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