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Raccoon on the roof
April 4, 2013 | BlogIts 4:30 am, do you know where your raccoon is? It’s on my roof eating frozen death from my garden hose, that’s where. Ryan 1, raccoon 0. After a bit more sleep, I climbed onto the roof to see the damage. That ring tailed bastard ate through the vent pipe flashing! Being on the roof […]
Parenting is like a sci-fi fantasy epic
March 6, 2013 | BlogA young couple asked me what it’s like raising children. I told them every day was like living a sci fi fantasy epic. The 2 year old is goose stepping around the kitchen island with a bath towel on her head yelling ZOMBIE! over and over and over. The 4 year old, who has totally […]
No ordinary cat
January 31, 2013 | BlogThe old cat has a psychological prowess. A way of the mind. An uncanny ability to motivate bloodless ends to misdirected mice who find them selves inside this house. And so it is, that I find myself thinking I should feel badly for the mouse who just now went scurrying across my basement floor. Is […]
Public school gulag
January 30, 2013 | BlogTrue story. While signing Kid A up for school today, a girl walks into the office and asks the admin for the key to the dungeon. I like this place.
Senior cat box
January 29, 2013 | BlogI’m quite proud of the senior cat box I made last night out of a large Rubbermaid storage bin. The door is low to the floor for no effort access, tall sides keep wayward fannies on target, and there’s enough room for a litter free zone for those times she doesn’t feel like digging. Also […]
Memo from management re: end of world
December 21, 2012 | BlogFirst off I’d like to congratulate all of you on yet another fantastic End of the World! The circumflexing of the poles was imaginative, and it really felt like a millennia of burning, hateful torment. Good job, Mayans! On to business. The multiverse rebooted as expected and on time at 12:01 AM, with minimal data […]
Wet foot
November 19, 2012 | BlogKid A and I transplanted 4 birch saplings on the weekend. During which, I did that thing to my back that makes me mildly grumbly whenever I use it, I broke 1 shovel handle, Kid A got a wet foot, and I’m pretty sure as of this morning that one of those saplings isn’t a […]
Tom Waits on responsibility, maybe?
November 13, 2012 | BlogWe’re chained to the world and we all gotta pull. Tom Waits Regardless, I like it.
The problem with computers
October 3, 2012 | BlogThe problem with computers is the lack of ferrules and Siberian weasel hair.