I’m apparently feeling self-destructive today

We’re having a bit of a fruitfly problem on occasion. I think maybe we need to put the apples in the fridge.

I felt something on my hand, glanced and saw a dark spot, then smacked my hand. WHAM! OW! CRAP!

The dark spot was a scab. I was out pruning the rose bushes earlier today, and roses like to prune back.

Fortunately, Steve wasn’t in the room.

Unfortunately, I felt the need to share my awesome stupidity with him and with YOU!

Some people lose keys or socks

I’ve lost a BED.

It’s not like I have a house with 394 rooms and hidden passages and people named Lurch who might enjoy hiding a bed behind the secret staircase or something!

In my defense, the bed isn’t assembled. Losing an assembled bed would be slightly worse.

Still, how does one say to one’s sister, “O sister, I would like to return the bed unto you but, um, I lost it”?

She already thinks I’m deeply troubled. O sister, you are so, so right.

Fatigue and Poetry Crossroads

I’ve not been online in the past couple of weeks as much as usual, so I haven’t been doing any updates to the Crossroads. Unfortunately, neither has anyone else except attempted Bulgarian spammers. I’m afraid this idea is either before, or after, its time.

So, I’m probably shutting it down. It’s not doing anyone any good as it is, and keeping the spammers off is just a pain. If I were in a better mood, I might have a different reaction but I’m not.

Speaking of Bulgarian spammers: Jeez Louise those people are stupid.

Bertram is murmuring

We adopted Bertram the Very Fuzzy Cat hoping that we could end our long streak of nothing-but-bad-news.

Instead, we are told that Bertram has a significant heart murmur. It could be nothing serious, or it could be a sign of something very bad like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy–a disease we’ve already dealt with in one cat.

Suck.