Category: Life

Sometimes, I feel the need to talk about me (imagine that).

Before dinner this evening, my wife & I walked down to our local Farmer’s Market. It was a bit hotter out than I’d thought it would be, making me extra glad we’d brought along bottles of iced tea to drink. However upon returning home, we were dismayed to find our apartment to be a scene of some illegal dumping.

The Accused: Captain Jack — known aliases “Jack”, “Captain”, “Fuzz Butt”, “Stinky”, “Jacque”
The Crime: Illegal dumping (e.g. pooping on the bathmat not more than two feet from his litter box).
The Prosecuting Attorney: Me.
The Judge: Her Honourable Judge Michelle1

Statement by the Prosecution: In this apartment there are 3 living beings; myself, my wife and Captain Jack. Two of them were out of the apartment at the time of the incident. No illegal dumping had occurred prior to Michelle & I leaving for the Farmer’s Market. The apartment was securely locked while we were gone and there were no signs of forced entry.

Statement by the Accused: *meow*

Verdict: Guilty as charged. The accused is to have his nose pointed at, but not quite in, the illegal dumping to show him what he did wrong. Further, the accused is to held in solitary confinement for a period of not less than 10 and not more than 30 minutes.

1 Judge Judy ain’t got nothin’ on my wife! *grin*

Discovery Shuttle Crew STS-114

Everything morning of the work-week, I’m awakened by my clock radio. Usually, the sounds coming from it are that of an especially annoying DJ. This morning was a bit different; there was a news anchor on the air giving live coverage of the shuttle Discovery making it’s way home. He said it would be landing in about 10 minutes; so I hit the snooze button. 🙂

When the clock went off again, I got up, headed for my TV and found some live video coverage of the event. I’d gotten up just in time as the shuttle landed safely a few seconds later. Welcome home Discovery crew and congratulations to you and to all of NASA on a successful trip!

Heck of a surprise!

After work this evening, Michelle & I walked over to the grocery store to pick up a few things for dinner. On the way back to the apartment, a fire-engine went driving by. I didn’t think much of it; as we live close enough to the fire department that this is a frequent occurance. Then we walked up into the parking lot and saw two fire-engines at the far end of the lot. There were a couple of people standing around but nobody looked paniced and they didn’t have the big hoses out. So we took the groceries inside and then I walked down towards the fire-fighters to try finding out what was going on.

Apparently, it was a small oven fire caused by a piece of oven mitt (or something like that) getting caught in the oven and burning up. I’m not too clear on the details, mostly because they had an extremely noisy fan hooked up to clear whatever smoke was in the building. Overall, there was no need to be alarmed but it was something of a shock to come home to flashing lights with fire-fighters standing around the place.

At work, I’m on an email thread discussing what people are planning on eating at an upcoming office function. There’s been talk of grilling some steaks, but some people feel that’s kind of expensive. One of the other people on the list is a vegetarian and she jokingly replied saying “tofu is cheaper!” To which somebody else replied “But I don’t eat bean flesh!”. Then our vegetarian replied saying:

There are two kinds of things in the world. Things that fart. And things that make things fart.

I don’t eat things that fart.

She later claimed she was quoting somebody else who wishes to remain anonymous but I think she’s just trying to shift the blame. :p