Life of Brian

Just as my wife was was bringing dinner to the table see cried, “Roach!” This as we all know is the man of the house’s call to action. I shout where as I reach for a suitable insect death device. She points down and says, “There, but hurry it is going under that chair.” She spins the big armchair next to the couch out of the way. With no shoes handy, I grab the top magazine from the plethora of them semi-neatly fanned across the coffee table.

By now Donna has her bug tracker radar locked on the intruder and has correctly ascertained that it is a large spider. Like most modern warplanes her radar can track and identify several targets at once, so she orders me to drop the newest Southern Living I had picked up and replace it with last week’s Time.

I’m grateful it is a slow moving spider, I have a chance at that, those palmetto bug/roaches move very fast and I usually end up slapping the floor several times right where the bug used to be before it squeezes under the baseboard making good its escape.

By now the large black, 1-1/2″ long, spider is under one of the end tables which limits my arm travel. I make several ineffective swats at it and I am beginning to think it might get away when I get lucky and it zigs right under where I’m swinging.

I think I need some spider swatting lessons from Garfield.

Because I need another little project that I want to do, I found something at work that a vendor gifted the receptionist with. It is just too neat for words and now I want to make one for my very own self. A desk calendar that sits inside a old school full-size CD case.

You must have one of these cases sitting in a draw somewhere, go get it, I’ll wait…..

…..never mind, I just pulled out a few CD cases I have and realized that the thing they used for the calendar is not standard issue. It must have been specially designed so that it didin’t have the insert for the disc and it could fold back further to get the proper slant to hold the tiny pages.

I went to the dentist yesterday to get a temporary filling that should last until the new year. I need a crown on the tooth, but that costs just at the 4 figure mark, so I convinced the dentist to tide me over until after January 1, so I can use my Medical Flex Spending.

I didn’t even get a single shot of novocaine, because I’m a tough guy, yeah, right. I’m actually a big wimp, but I didn’t need any pain killer because he was working on the tooth that had the root canal done on it last month.

While Main Stream Media would have you believe that the majority of the country is covered with snow thanks to the ongoing blizzard, we here in the southeast experienced the return of fall today. After a line of thunderstorms blew through this morning the skies cleared and we reached the low 70’s. Donna and I went into work a little early this morning and because we were just ahead of that front we got to ride in with the top down. After work it went back down for the ride home. It will be back to winter tomorrow though, with a high of 54 and Thursday night’s low will be 38.