Last night, Thunder(cat) was hanging out by the fireplace when he suddenly lunged upwards and knocked something off the bricks. It was a spider.<\/p>\n
The size of a Buick.<\/p>\n
Between.
\nThe.
\nEyes.<\/p>\n
He knocked it to the floor and batted it around for a bit. I called out,<\/p>\n
“Thunder! Keep him busy!”<\/p>\n
I went to the kitchen to get a glass and a pad of paper. Thunder was still working him over when I got back and I captured the spider between the cup and pad – then took it outside.<\/p>\n
I don’t really mind spiders – but I already have one dangerous room-mate.<\/p>\n
Later that evening, I came upon the cat staring up at the ceiling on the second floor landing. I looked up and saw a housefly on the light. I reached up and knocked it off and then – because it was disoriented – managed to hit it in midair and knock it down into Thunder’s range. He happily chased it downstairs and I’m guessing he played with it to death.<\/p>\n
So, between the two of us, we’re pretty fierce and mighty hunters. Woe be it to any spiders or bugs that invade our fortress.<\/p>\n
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Over the weekend, I went to Bahama Breeze for dinner. We made the mistake of – after having waited the suggested time – asking how much longer it would be. We got seated right away.<\/p>\n
At the most distant and obscure corner of the restaurant. Right next to the emergency exit.<\/p>\n
And the steel drum band.<\/p>\n
Well, the steel drum player – there was just the one of him.<\/p>\n
And I remembered that I like steel drum music – except I can only handle one song at a time and then I need at least 7 months to get the song from the little mermaid out of my head.<\/p>\n
It’s kinda like the bagpipes. One song and you’re all like “wow, that’s haunting and amazing”. At the second, it’s all, “please stop hurting that cat and also stop forever,”<\/p>\n
I’m the same way about candy corn (one kernel per year) and circus peanuts (one per 5 year cycle)<\/p>\n
Come to think of it, I’m overdue for a circus peanut.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the music was terrible in quantity, but the food was excellent. I had the jerk chicken. And yes, that’s redundant – all chickens are jerks.<\/p>\n
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A few months ago, my garage door started to act funny. It would either go down and then right back up – or it wouldn’t move at all. It would just sit there and buzz at me.<\/p>\n
Not a big deal during the summer, but when the first bit of frost showed up on the ground I knew I needed to take action. I did not want to be manually opening and closing my garage door like some neanderthal.<\/p>\n
If, you know, a neanderthal drove a Civic.<\/p>\n
My neighbor suggested a local company that had worked on his door a few years ago and I called and had the guy come over today. I took a little time off work and met him at my house and he figured out the problem and fixed it – plus replaced a couple of parts and tightened up everything. He was done in about 40 minutes and only charged me $65.<\/p>\n
I was expecting to have one of my arms and perhaps a leg removed to pay for it – and I would have been fine with that (if I could pick which ones), so I was pleasantly\u00a0surprised.<\/p>\n
I’m feeling like a modern man again with doors that open at the push of a button.<\/p>\n
Yep – I’m George Freaking Jetson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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