i know i said i was going to blog about something else but guess what happened–it’s far more exciting!

So we came downstairs this morning to discover that somebody came by to hang out.
On one of our carbon monoxide detectors.
In case you are unaware, Missouri is the Cave State.  Which means we are bat-a-trophic.  Our neighborhood and house are sneaking up on 100 years of age.  Bats are quite ingrained in the fabric of [...]

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play

The guy who invented this:

and this:

died last month.  Hans Beck, aged 79.
Bow your heads, moms and dads, for a man of brilliance.
Boywonder and Bottled Lightning own the above systems and a great many of their accoutrements.  Freckles McYoungest had an American Doll instead.  What a mistake.  I shudder to think of the fracas that is [...]

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1T

I have been chastised.

By Bottled Lightning and Freckles McYoungest.  (Boywonder doesn’t give a flyin’ monkey butt.)

About my language. No, not the %&**@#!! kind.  They’re fine with that.  It’s text slang.  Apparently, you have to have a license to use it, and there’s an age criteria.  Under 30.
Things like “K” instead of okay.
Squee.
Prolly.
I guess those words [...]

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book report # 8: why they all heart Twilight

I am not an innocent, idealistic young lady between the ages of 12 and 16 with insecurities and deep unnamed longings.
Therefore, I am not a big fan of Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer.
I read the first book of the trilogy plus one at the insistence of Freckles McYoungest.  She is a rabid fanpire.  (Fanpire.  I like [...]

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