Monthly Archives: September 2006

Just take the refund offer on the house

Idaho Couple’s Home Infested With Snakes Really. You cannot fight nature: Turns out the property was a winter snake sanctuary, likely a snake den or hibernaculum where snakes gather in large numbers to hibernate for the winter, said Lauri Hanauska-Brown, a biologist with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. In the spring and summer [...]

In which I talk more trash about music from the 1980s

I love Radio Paradise. They play a wonderfully eclectic variety of usually excellent music. Sometimes, however, they slip in CRAP LIKE THIS just to mess with me. Yes, I do believe it is personal. If you looooooove the linked song, I DO NOT CARE. If you feel compelled to try to convince me of its [...]

Blast from the past

What the hell is going on here?

The other thing about a cold

…is that you become obsessed with things like the pyramid-shaped teabags of your Lipton White Tea with Island Mango and Peach. How cool is that? Come on. Work with me here. I’m sick.

The thing about a cold

…that’s so completely ridiculous is that while you tell people that you woke up this morning feeling like industrious little elves had spent the entire night packing your head with cotton, you also believe that is quite possibly EXACTLY what happened.

Cue dramatic/euphoric music of your choice

Sick and tired

So I just realized why I feel bad … not that I had precisely mentioned that to anyone (lest you think you missed something or that there was ANY context for this at all). I’m clearly coming down with some sort of cold-type thing. If it is anything like what my coworker has, it will [...]