Noises from inside my house are most likely cats. Possibly cats that are not my cats and therefore technically intruders, but I'm not gonna grab a weapon to deal with them.

That said, the water-turn-off-thing is right by the door, but more so I know where it is than to be a handy weapon. My plan if I came home and thought something was terribly is to stay outside and call 911, maybe knock on a neighbor's door.

I now have a 3' length of steel pipe. It's very 'in the basement with the butler.'

While on hold with verizon, internet came back. Of course. But I have the logs indicating is it going up and down and up and down at will. But I think I'm done with them. I need a better connection speed and would like to get off my ancient phone lines.

My apartment is the farthest from the front door of our building, so if someone's in there it means either everyone else in the building has already been robbed

Or they want to start in the lowest traffic area. Near the front door is not good planning.

It's a consideration.

Noises from inside my house are most likely cats. Possibly cats that are not my cats

I suspect that some of the noises are chipmunks who have discovered the dry food. Although this morning there was a noise that could totally have been someone sliding in through the dining room window. I was too tired and went back to sleep.

No weapons nearby, at least potentials that I'm not talking about. Maybe I should move the butcher's block around the other way...

I was just about to lament my lack of weaponry by the front door when I remembered we usually have a large pair of garden shears right there. But dialing 911 would probably be the first thing I'd try.

Hmm, I should practice trying to lock the bathroom door. It's one of those cheap ones where you pull a small tab out on the side of the knob, and usually I have a door hanger over the top so it never closes properly.

What show prompted all this, ita? Is he a lawyer or a cop?

Ai yai -- I got new glasses, including eye exam, on a whim after work, and the dilation is finally going away!

I got new glasses, including eye exam, on a whim after work

I had the bright idea a few weeks back to do that on my lunch hour!

The closest things to hand would be books. I could throw them and yell "Hark!"

Yo! Don't hurt the books!

That's all I got.

Such a Monday of Mondays. I am attempting to train #1 son to help me with tech stuff so I was having him install a utility on a server, but I didn't look over his shoulder and it wasn't the right server and he took down a diagnostic center in the middle of the day. Sob. I lacked confidence in how to get out of the mess and called DH for the rescue. He teased me about his being high level support since I pretty much never call for help, but fixed it. Fortunately this center loves me dearly so they were cool with the down time. That pretty much kept me off my game all day.

The only real smile for the day was my amusement with Chuck Norris. And then I made a fun dinner for the carb avoiding DH and #2 son so that was cool. I think a lot of junk tv is in my immediate future.