Frank, what Sparky said. Also, you probably want to contact the fire department -- or whoever's handling matters in place of your landlord -- about access to the apartment for packing purposes. Another helpful hint: Don't worry too much about packing neatly. You can always sort things out in the new place.

(Part of the Buffista hive mind is the BTDT crew. Although in our case, we'd already found a place and given notice before the fire happened. The fire fighters threw some of our stuff in the boxes we'd already collected, which helped the packing along.)

Anyone having a bad day should take a look at these baby lions that are at my zoo! [link]

My ear is stopped up! I've had two lie downs with H2O2, so it's better than when I first woke up, but I have tinnitus, and this is like cranking the volume. I am going NUTS.

OH the joys of sending out emails to people with instructions to remove me from tasks. good times.

Did I mention here that I started watching White Collar on Netflix. I never watched it before - that is some good times. The green screen backgrounds are bad when they use them, but otherwise I like the visuals. I mainlined S1 over the weekend and started S2 last night.

I put up the new patio umbrella that I ordered over Amazon and have dubbed it the Shademaker 2000. Next step is the screen-tent-thing that I bought to hang off it so that I have the equivalent of a little screen house where I can hide from the mosquitos and so on.

I may be unemployed but damn am I going to do it in style....

From the NYT:

he police had been called two times to a house where three young women from Cleveland, who disappeared about a decade ago and who friends and relatives feared were gone forever, were found on Monday, the authorities said on Tuesday.

Is it wrong that I'd rather they had said "twice" than "two times"? Is twice too difficult a word for NYT readers?

that is some good times

Isn't it fun! Now that Leverage is done, it's our best source of heist/caper TV, and I like the characters and enjoy the emotional stakes.

Plus, seriously, HOW HOT ARE THEY????

sumi, I can't even say why exactly, but just plain "twice" reads to me a little like possibly two calls in a row or two calls about the same incident, but "two times" makes it more clear that it really was two separate occasions.

I am trying to think about my reaction to the Cleveland stuff. I am thrilled that the 3 women are alive and relatively healthy and dismayed at what they have gone through over the past 10 years.

I don't know what to think about the police being called to the house and turning away. We don't want our privacy rights violated by having a funky neighbor call and then our house is violated, but on the other hand, after the report of a naked woman in the backyard, couldn't they have interviewed all the neighbors, made a concerted effort to contact the owner of the house, and brought him in for brief questioning?

Diane ups the Hot factor by about 10 and it was already plenty hot.

I still never saw all of Leverage. I am taping reruns off some channels and so far they have all been things I have seen before, but I am hoping soon that I will hit new ones. I love capers.