J and I are back from a weeklong vacation in Toronto. The muffler fell off my car halfway across Michigan, I worked remotely for three long days and felt bad for not doing more, and a raccoon fell down our chimney while we were gone, raided the basement pantry, destroyed the master bedroom miniblinds, and pooped on the living room carpet.<\/p>\n
It was the best vacation ever!<\/p>\n
In all seriousness, it was great to spend time with J’s parents, and World Fantasy was excellent (more on that later). Also, I’m always worried that I’ll come home to a burglarized house so finding that our intruder stole only food was not so bad.<\/p>\n
Except, we don’t know how the raccoon got out…so it might still be in the house. Probably the basement. So we’re camped out in the guest room (we had the door to this room closed while we were gone) and tomorrow we’ll see if anything in the basement moved around since this evening.<\/p>\n
The raccoon ate a huge amount of rat poison, so if it didn’t get out again we’ll probably find it in a few days. I am so looking forward to that! (Edit: Apparently it climbed back up the chimney–J went up on the roof this morning and found a bag of dried strawberries inside the top of the chimney.)<\/p>\n
On a completely unrelated note: Dear Americans, please vote tomorrow if you haven’t already! I won’t pretend I don’t care who you vote for–choose the candidate who will keep raccoons out of my house.<\/p>\n
(J says: “I’m J—, and I approve this post.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
J and I are back from a weeklong vacation in Toronto. The muffler fell off my car halfway across Michigan, I worked remotely for three long days and felt bad for not doing more, and a raccoon fell down our … Continue reading