Okay, the news irritates me today. I heard that the price of beer is probably going to increase. That’s not the problem I have with the news however. The reason that the price of beer is going to go up is that there’s a drought in the west side of the country. Again, nothing unusual there, except for the fact that this drought has been going on for months and I’ve known about it the...

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     Firkin’s a good kitty.      I woke up this morning to use my laptop and I found a lovely dead mouse beside it. Aparently the mouse that we saw the other day (Mickey the First) didn’t last nearly as long as I thought it would. So much for the live mouse trap that we got. Brianne brought up a good point though; at least Firkin didn’t leave it in our bed. Sneakers...

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     Well, we’re getting there. My original plan was to start washing walls on Wednesday and then I couldn’t because Michelle, who was moving out of that apartment couldn’t move out, because Dave hadn’t finished the repairs on her new place yet. Then since I couldn’t get in on Wednesday to start, it didn’t make sense to get started on Thursday, so I didn’t end up doing...

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     Whoo! Yesterday, my bike got the tune-up, wait, that’s not the word, overhaul, of a lifetime. I got new everything on it and now it rides better then the day that I got it. I’m very happy about it.      This vacation isn’t turning out to be useful in the intended direction. I meant to take this week off so that I could paint the new place so that when we moved in...

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     Well! Plans are coming together quite nicely for us to get out of our old place and into the new one. The one hold up that we’ve run into is that Michelle (who currently is at the place we’re moving into) is being held up by Dave (who is moving into one of the apartments in the house) because he’s not done his repairs yet. Stephen, our new landlord, has been assured that Dave will be...

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