First off, my cat is a lunatic. And she thinks she is a dog.

Secondly, brownie is not a proper medium for [haunted] gingerbread house construction.



[Note to Yuri: no, the baby was not allowed to eat the candy corn. Your candy-corn-of-death nursing school story scarred me for life.]
Halloween limps toward us. The costumes for the little 'uns are bought and sewed, the big people fuss lazily. I gave up on the elf costume, so the man has been bending over the sewing machine whilst I drink booze. "I will go as all the members of
OK Go, and wear a vest and break into dance when people ask what I am." "Nobody will know what you're talking about." "Well you could do it with me, and we could do slo-mo choreographed fighting." "I am an elf." "Elfs dance." "Not so much."
Well what is this,
then? I win.Doom strummethI felt moody at the library today. An elderly gent asked for something on writing nonprofit policy, so I walked him over to the legal books. He frowned at the first ones I handed him. "These are all written by women. I guess women are lawyers more and more nowadays.
I don't think it's right. Women didn't used to try to work in men's fields. But it's ok," he said, casting me a consoling look, "I don't have many years left. I don't have to see it much longer." I carefully shelved the NOLO tome I was holding, and managed not to hasten his departure.
Stomped upstairs in the dark after work, and stopped when I heard the strum of a guitar, feeling an unexpected surge of anger. Shook it off, baffled by my reaction. S
tomp stomp stomp up the stairs in my boots -
strum. I stopped again, looked around, inexplicably pissed off. The moon cast silent shadows, the neighbor's windows were dark.
Stomp stomp stomp across the lanai to the door - no guitar. But what was this? The house smelled like Krispy Kreme. Mike came trotting from the bedroom, having successfully laid the infink to bed, and stripped off his shirt and pulled homemade bread from the oven. Wooarr.

This is why I keep the man around.
The mystery of the phantom Guitar of Anger remains.