Then the well pump died on a Friday afternoon, and by the time we got it replaced we were (a) very thirsty and (b) in the hole for $1100 just to get back to where we’d been 36 hours earlier. Then the basement flooded and I had to stay up all night pumping it out through a garden hose. Then the guy from DirecTV showed up to replace the satellite dish and turned out to be a major jerk who glared at us silently while he bent our brand-new gutters. That was a separate ordeal, incidentally, from the day I spent unwinding the steel cable from the blades last month. I ended up wrapping a steel cable around the pulley and getting Kathy to stand ten feet away and pull on it real hard. In late May I took a break from finalizing this issue to mow the lawn, and the mowing deck on the tractor went kafloozie, necessitating my spending several days on my face in the driveway trying to fix the damn thing, which isn’t fun when you have only limited use of your left arm and you really need said left arm to pull an idler pulley against a big spring so you can get the goddamn drive belt back on the deck. Then, just a few weeks ago, I was sitting on the couch in my office, again working on this site, when a sudden windstorm knocked half a large tree into the side of the house, missing the window behind me by about six inches.
Wee duplicate detective install#
It started a few years ago when I took a break from formatting this site to go downstairs and install a window air conditioner and was promptly struck by lightning.
Wee duplicate detective series#
I have come to the reluctant conclusion that it is, in fact, my frantic attempt to stick to something resembling a monthly schedule that has actually caused a recent series of disasters around here. There is, however, a case to be made for not updating this site at all, ever. Anyway, there will also be a June issue sometime before July.
I guess we’ll just call this the Late May Issue, eh, kids? I’d call it the June Issue, but there are people out there paying by the month to read this on Kindles and Nooks and iPhones and iPads and iLord-knows-what other satanic devices, and I don’t want to upset Steve Jobs, ’cause he’s already nuts enough.
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