Early To Bed

Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007 - 10:29 a.m.

Getting home early and going to sleep is something of a novelty at Chez TooOld, despite every best intention. The gig yesterday ran from two pm to eight pm, which is also something of a novelty, and Old Buddy Dave had visions of actually getting to sleep before ten thirty pm on a Saturday night.

As I recall, he did exactly that.

Jim the roomie came home at around a quarter of three in the morning, and fired up every device in his room, including his computer, a small fan, and a big heater.

Then he took a long hot shower. When he got out and plugged in the hair dryer, the breaker switch tripped, and he spent the next minute and a half flipping the big noisy switches. These switches reverberate through the walls, along with what have been nicknamed the 'Pipe Ghosts'. The Pipe Ghosts are the knocking pipes leading to the water heater and which knock after somebody takes a long hot shower.

Needless to say, it was a memorable homecoming.

Dave says Jim is most certainly not in trouble, and even said it was partially his fault for not labelling the breaker switches.

And from what Dave said, he was able to get right back to sleep, so there was about a six hour block of uninterrupted slumber.

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Solange T. Cat is playing more and more. Her eyes are staying bright and clear since she's done finding where the dust bunnies live.

One of the stray gatos del barrio left her a nice gigantic present out on the back balcony, pretty much right in the center of the back welcome mat.

I guess it's a territorial cat thing.

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Found over on the alt.obituaries newsgroup of all things, here's the Wacky Warnings website, which features labels and warnings designed to prevent lawsuits by litigation-mad consumers.

The most recent winning submissions include a warning on a t-shirt transfer: "Do Not Iron While Wearing Shirt."

And so forth.

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I think that's it. Have a good Sunday!

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