In the late 90’s, I lived at my grandparents’ house for six or seven months. It was wonderful – I’d never really grokked them before then, not really. But living with them as an adult showed me that they weren’t unemotional but subtle, they weren’t grouchy but outspoken, they weren’t scary but fun. I learned […]

Today Outlook 2002 informed me that I was supposed to clean the laundry room and entry way. I did that, sort of, but instead focused on accounting. This meant I drove to the bank and put money in the hole, and I dropped off bills by hand to those dumbass local companies who either don’t […]

Brett made the dryer work yesterday. It was (are you ready for this?) a bad fuse. Not a blown fuse, but an intact fuse that was bad out of the box. Can you believe that?! I did three loads of laundry yesterday and it was heaven, I tell you. Sweet, warm, fluffy heaven. I did […]

Sunday I bought a new drier at Menard’s. We stopped for cocktails and sandwiches at the Tom-Tom Club. We went home and Brett installed the new appliance while I started a load of laundry. We were surprized to discover that we never did have any kind of exhaust pipe or hose installed, not even when […]