Category: General

I don’t think I’ve ever put up the top search results for reaching this site, but I saw another blog do it today, so I thought I would check it out. Here’s what we get so far in October:

mardi graw 13.60%
elbuzzard.com 11.80%
peanus 7.40% — Thanks Bopper!!
mardi-graw 4.90%
mardi gras images 2.40%
hurricane katrina terrytown photos 1.80%
rebecca havemeyer 1.80% — Whoa!! I don’t think I ever recall mentioning Rebecca here.
beginners tools for taxidermy 1.80% — The Taxidermy Library still pulls ’em in.
images hurricanes 1.80%
cnn 1.80%
lakeview pictures 1.80%
jkrawlings 1.20%
jack woynowski terrytown la. 1.20%
mardi graw pictures 1.20%
oakwood mall and terrytown 1.20%
new orleans saints head coach jim haslett photo 1.20%
brent joseph 1.20%
el buzzard 1.20%
superbowl champions 1.20% — How about that, Dave? You wanted a page of Superbowl Champs, and its bringing them in.
pictures 2005 atlanta pride 1.20%
lakeview photos 1.20%
publix 0.60%
sick charlie brown 0.60%

I would like to know why everyone’s spelling is so terrible.

If you have the chance in your town, go see the Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean/Jim Henson’s Creature Shop film MirrorMask. It’s visually stunning and absolutely beautiful.

We’ve started getting hit by spam comments, so I’ve had to turn on the “You must be registered and logged in to comment” feature.

If anyone can’t figure out how to register an account, go away. After dealing with Dave’s internet-phobic fantasy football league, I’ve used up all my tolerance for folks who won’t learn how to use the the interweb.

A moment of quiet in the house. No one is there. Strange.

Dad should be back from Florida on Friday or Saturday, and we expect Dave on Friday afternoon, so this moment of normalcy will quickly end.

Not that I mind having everyone here. I absolutely love it.

It’s the center house in the red circle. Click the image for a larger view.

Oakwood Mall is on fire. Firemen attempting to put it out were fired on from the Westbank Expressway.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard ordered the firemen out and will let the Mall burn as a “signal to President Bush.”

Brent Joseph gave me this report today:

Last night, Broussard held a press conference in which he said that apparently the only way to get aid from the US Government was to be a foreign country. So he was seceeding Jefferson Parish from the Union and requesting foreign aid from the neighboring United States.

We both made it back to ATL safe and sound and very tired.

Now I have 194205943574792 emails to answer.

Yay.

Today I was sitting in my office – decorated in post-modern warehouse – with pretty blue walls, a rather comfortable wicker chair and a fabulous flat-screen monitor and who walks in but the Terminex guy. I’ve heard good things about the Terminex guy from those who have worked here longer than I. He hates bugs, doesn’t mind mice, despises rats. An exterminator who has a passion for his job – you don’t see many of those these days.

Our Terminex man was called because my boss thought he smelled dead mice in the ceiling and walls. I just thought the smell was normal as I haven’t been here that long and who’s to say what’s normal here? As Mr. Terminex examines our drop ceilings for ‘droppings’ he asked if I had seen any flies. What a question! I respond with a ‘Yes!’ and say in fact, I have noticed a few flies the last couple of weeks and the day they annoyed me most was Thursday, August 4th. He says, and this is where it gets gross, that the flies show up when the carcass of the mice are decomposing, hence the reason he does not see mice carcasses in the walls and ceilings.

So not only was I bothered by ridiculously large flies for about 2 weeks, I was actually sitting below the dead carcasses of mice.

My office. A standard office in a warehouse building. It’s a large room, enough for a good-sized, L-shaped desk and all of the standard office accrutrements. This office, being the front room and the only room air-conditioned in the middle of August in Atlanta, gets plenty of visitors, including Atlanta’s most obnoxious fly. It’s huge, the fly, landing on the rolodex, the flat-screen monitor, my coffee cup. I’ve attacked it with my phone message book, tried to pin it between the window and the blinds. I’ve tried to coax it out the door – to freedom! – to no avail. At most, I’ve been able to shoo it into Dave’s office but it always comes back to annoy me.

I thought these things we’re supposed to have a life span of 24 hours.

It’s the fly from hell. It’s been here since Monday. And it likes to fly near my ears.