Sherry’s mom has a chupacabra digging complex tunnels in her garden and yard killing her plants. It is building a city and preparing the way for our new alien masters, the sky people.
It may also be voles.
Either way, we’re going to leave a bunch of open tuna cans to attract a population of cat people. [...]
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This is Clover. We met her yesterday in Orillia, and she’s coming home with us next week. She is a Miniature Pinscher, born March 17.
She is tiny and soft. She thinks my beard is interesting and tasty.
Sherry’s mother, who was initially blasé about the prospect of us getting a puppy, immediately took [...]
Right now The Sherry is blogging about how I love me some Battlestar Galactica. Details to follow.
The Sherry sez:
If we have a kid like you, I’m going to punch him in the face. On a daily basis. Cause I can see him doing all the annoying things you do, except he’ll be small.
So the only thing that’s stopped her from pummeling me so far is that I’m bigger than she is. [...]
Dinner with Sherry’s parents involved a lot of mumbling and introduced me to novel terms like “beaver puke.” I feel uncomfortable around people who choose not to speak in complete sentences. Sherry’s parents think I’m deaf.
She reminded me that my family has its own peculiar dialect too. But ours has nouns.
Somewhere in the wash of [...]
It’s been an eventful couple of weeks.
Christmas came and went with its attendant flurry of chaotic consumption and forced family merry-making. The Red Polar Threat left offerings under the family X-mas stick to persuade me not to come after him and make him pay (in blood and pain) for the damage his toy factories have [...]
While Sherry may have a hard time getting into the X-mas spirit, I’m doing fine (now that it’s December) and I may actually start my gift shopping this week. And I have Ben Folds’s “Bizarre Christmas Incident” to thank. It’s a song so festive and joyful it almost undoes the hours of late-nineties electronic remixes [...]
You can’t just waltz into November without thinking ahead and expect to escape alive with a story to tell. That’s jackass thinking. You gotta lay down some goals first. Set aside a day or two in late October to sketch out some concepts in that navy blue spiral-bound notebook you’re always carrying around with you. [...]