Oh, that's just my pet snake, Reggie!

(I used to be an archaeologist; it's impossible for me not to respond to an Indiana Jones quote.)

snerks at flea

One time my aunt screwed up and told me to come into their house when the alarm system was armed. (They were delayed, so I got there first, and was told to pick the key up from its hiding place.)

The result was that the phone rang and I explained to the nice lady that I was her niece, and no police were dispatched.

(I'm assuming they didn't then call my aunt on her cell and check that there was INDEED a niece who was expected to be in the house.)

Seems to me there's a whopping big hole in their security system....

I need to never trip the alarm at my parents' house. I assume I'd end up riddled with bullets. I don't remember the safe word for it.

I can work out the disarm code if you give me five minutes. Everyone else has it memorised, but I never have to use it. I just remember how she made it up.

After NINE HOURS freezing my ass off, I made the executive decision to hit the ON switch and leave. It either works or it doesn't. And I successfully reset the root password. Why the FUCK does anyone ever give me root privileges?

And then the pool was really really warm. Probably over 85. It's not really invigorating.

What is it with the extremes today.

judging from what i've experiened the sequence was something like:

- you trip alarm

- alarm company notices

- alarm co calls loc, you answer, talk ensues

- alarm co calls police, call set up w/ increased priority because there's someone o/s w/ no passcode

- alarm co calls yr aunt, who says "oh yeah, she's ok to be there. our code is blah blah blah"

- alarm co calls police and tells em to cancel, which is hunky dory because the ofcrs weren't exactly screaming down the street to the audible alarm

So likely a call was set up, but was cancelled before they got close enough for you to see them.

• that's just for my neck of the woods, tho. policies could be different elsewhere.

edited for crummy formatting

Cockfight Killing: Jose Luis Ochoa Killed By Armed Bird

DELANO, Calif. — A California man attending a cockfight has died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb.

The Kern County coroner says 35-year-old Jose Luis Ochoa was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he suffered the injury in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30.

An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental "sharp force injury" to his right calf.

Huh.

You can die due to a slash to the calf when poison's not involved? I could see if if Foghorn Leghorn managed to cut your femoral artery or something, but given that people can last more than two hours despite gunshot wounds to the torso that seems like a very unlucky set of circumstances.

And now I have to cover a coworker another day due to a family emergency. I really don't have time for this (though it sucks worse for her, clearly.) I've got a dentist appt Weds and need to get my car in for emissions. Oy.

And now I don't remember my guest security code for the alarm.

I am a nattering nabob of negativity. Sorry to inflict it on y'all.