Spent the last hour running new phone cord. Verizon wanted to send a tech. Uh, no. So far seems to be holding up. Put the modem on a new dedicated line.

Still going to look into getting off the copper.

Neighbor was cleaning out his basement and found a nylon tent he'd bought for his mini-whippets ages ago. They were terrified of it.

The minute he put it on my floor, Loki was in it.

I'm going to need a third shower before bed. Running line and stripping wires is surprisingly sweaty work.

Condescending Crustacean

This made me laugh.

what's the time/distance to your first effective weapon, and what weapon in it.

I'm gonna go with the keys in my hand. I have also considered how my travel mug could be used for self defense. Beyond that, the kitchen is the first room in and pointy things live there. If I'm attacked, that is. I doubt I would go on the offensive if backing away and using the phone were an option. The only actual weapon I own is 4" switchblade that I keep in my desk and use as a letter opener.

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

Ha!

Meara, UGH indeed.

This discussion is freaking me out as there have been two home invasions in our neighborhood in the past week. When did we start calling robberies home invasions?

I don't know about condescending crustacean but I do know that the next time someone pulls some passive aggressive move on me I am going to make snappy claw gestures at them with my fingers.

Neighbor was cleaning out his basement and found a nylon tent he'd bought for his mini-whippets ages ago. They were terrified of it.

Hah! I am familiar with this response.

I don't know about condescending crustacean but I do know that the next time someone pulls some passive aggressive move on me I am going to make snappy claw gestures at them with my fingers.

Love this idea.

It's camo. Looking closely, its camo with cats and birds of prey so no wonder the teeny little couch sloths would be afraid (and bunnies and dogs and birds, but still. Hell, his pups are so neurotic, the bunnies probably scared them.)

I'm unmedicated for the first time since Thursday. A little hacky, but seem to be heading towards clear. Still will take the delsym tonight. My ribs ache from breakthrough coughing. Appetite is still shot. Slow-ass swims as a result.

When did we start calling robberies home invasions?

I understood home invasions to be burglaries where the homeowners are in the house and the burglars hold them up/tie them up. I tend to think of a robbery as happening not in the home, like a hold up on the street.

But that could be my long-ago criminal law class speaking, because we had to memorize the elements of common law crimes.

Wasn't that one of the lessons that we were supposed to learn from Scream? If there's someone in the house, you run out of the house, not further in.

I just got back from rehearsal (I'm working backstage crew), and I'm both hungry and exhausted. I'm trying to decide if I'm too exhausted to get up and make myself a snack.

If anyone is in my house, I'll know it because my cats will be hiding instead of coming to greet me. This is the extent of their usefulness as home protectors.

I also use the cats as ghost radar. When I get freaked out by a movie or my own imagination, I look at the cats, and if they're calm, there are no ghosts in the area. Very effective.

Ah, new thread. But I still say Chuck Norris only wishes he was Werner Herzog.