It’s chilly and dreary out. It’s been raining off and on all day. The four rugs I put on the laundry line last weekend have never dried and at this rate they never will. Sigh. Brett’s back is still fucked up. It was better Thursday, but he made the mistake of going to work Friday […]

We’ve all had blemishes… pimples, zits, whatever. We all pick at them now and then, and sometimes little scabs form. It’s a normal part of the healing process, right? Well, this is a story about a blemish and the little embarassments life can dish up. I was sitting in my car taking a break. (I’m […]

I’ve redone the site. I’m going to move many of the old pages into MT as entries so I never, ever have to mess with them again and they’ll be updated automatically whenever I update the MT templates. Some stuff I’m just going to delete. I have so much crap on my server I can’t […]

Last Friday, Mr. Brett hurt his back. Badly. A group of small muscles in his lower back were so swollen they were pulling his spine out. The man could barely move. He spent the weekend in pain, stuck on the couch. Joe found him a muscle relaxant that put him out like a light for […]

I was catching up on reading blogs this afternoon. I went to a friend’s blog and then followed a link to one of her friends’ blogs… and holy shit, The Sloth is a funny, funny blog. Especially the post for August 17th! Normally I would’t mention a blog twice-removed, but the chick writes with such […]

The week before last, I got bit by something – a mosquito, or a spider perhaps – on the left eyebrow. Naturally I had to pick at it. The fact that I did it unconsciously because it itched doesn’t reduce the outcome one bit. First I scratched it, then I scratched off the scab and […]