There's a very loud very big buzzy bug in my living room. It doesn't seem to be able to see very well, because it keeps ricocheting off thing, including me, several times. It's also hit the ceiling fan a few times, and just bounces off. It's getting rather annoying.

It was so flipping hot here today they actually closed the beach.

I turn on the ac (and the heat) at the drop of a hat. But that's one of the advantages of a small place.

OK, I'm home from my trip and I just caught up on nearly 1,000 posts, and... now I'm about to go to bed. In my nicely air-conditioned apartment. I never had A/C until moving to Nashville, but wow, it's really nice when you need it.

Also, I would like to report that in the last week, I got to see Scrappy, Amy, Tom Scola, Jess, and flea & mr. flea! I think all vacations should include copious amounts of Buffistas. Anyone planning a trip to Nashville this summer?

Kate P., is M.'s family safe in OKC?

Thanks for asking, amyth! Yes, they made it through the tornadoes just fine.

Anyone planning a trip to Nashville this summer?

Next weekend (for the Supernatural convention) if car repairs allow.

Oh, in other news, I answered a personals ad as an extreme long shot today (dude wasn't actually looking for another guy) and have spent all afternoon and evening writing back and forth and discovering a scary amount of overlap in our hobbies and interests. Even if it turns out he's not curious enough to go through with any experimenting, sounds like I've made a new friend to hang out with.

Next weekend (for the Supernatural convention) if car repairs allow.

Awesome! Except, I'll actually be in Chattanooga & Birmingham this weekend for a trip with my choir. Maybe I should rephrase: Anyone going to be in Nashville after July 4th this summer?

I hope the convention is fabulous, though, and I'm sad I won't be here for it. It would make me very happy to think of legions of SPN fans walking the streets of my city.

That's kinda awesome, Matt!

And yay, Kate for Buffistas tour! In a normal summer I'd be at least considering eastern Tennessee, but this one is all booked up. I have a bunch of Nashville friends, though, so it's not too unlikely a prospect one of these days.

Oh, and smonster, I'm leaving Wednesday, but my mail will be forwarded if you send to the PO box, and there's a housesitter if you send to the house. So it'll be fine either way, but do tell me what postage costs you, because I might not see the package and know to reimburse you!

My guests all came, hung out, ate, chilled on the deck and then left at a reasonable time. I thought we were going to be out there all night, so I'm happy to have seen everybody, and as happy to have some evening left to keep getting stuff done. It's been a good day.

One of these days we'd love to visit you guys, Liese. Your place seems so chill. (Btw, that was not meant to be a bad AC pun.)

It is totally chill. You would love it. We could sit on the deck and listen to tunes while the sun sets over the junipers. I would feed you peach jam and homemade ice cream and talk about life and philosophy and music.

t packs a bag

We don't have any AC in our house. Usually there's only a month or two in late summer that I truly miss it. But we keep dithering on getting it installed because really the only thing that makes sense is getting central AC and heat together, and then suddenly it starts to sound really expensive.