Michael Livingston

Mar

29

Squirrel Killing

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | 1 Comment

There was a reason I YouTubed (is that a verb now? Like “to Google”?) Squirrel Nut Zippers the other day: we’ve had a significant squirrel-in-attic problem here for a few weeks.
Now, since I technically live on Citadel property, I don’t have to pay for pest control to deal with this sort of thing. I [...]

Mar

27

Squirrel Nut Zippers

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | Leave a Comment

There are many reasons to love YouTube. This is one of them:

Mar

23

780 Gallons of Leaves

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | 2 Comments

That’s what we raked up from the yard this afternoon. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a big yard. Indeed, I believe it constitutes a small to average yard in America. And much of it was raked a couple months ago.
Twenty (20) 39-gallon trash bags filled to bursting. That’s approximately [...]

Mar

16

Tornadoes in Charleston

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | Leave a Comment

What a crazy bit of weather we just had in the Two Rivers! Tornado watches and warnings, oh my!
The weatherfolk were going crazy with anxious excitement: low pressure! wind shear! look at that speeds! wow! let’s look at our exclusive super duper doppler again! now with more color! yowzers!
Breathless excitement. Apparently Charleston gets [...]

Feb

15

Bored, Bored, Bored

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | 2 Comments

Bedrest blows. Can’t do squat. Can’t walk. Can’t really talk.
Blech.
The only thing making it tolerable at the moment is season 2 of HBO’s Rome. Good stuff. Useful for my mind, too, since Four Shards has many of the same characters.

Feb

14

Influenzavirus A

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | 4 Comments

Not a little “flu” bug. No no. The real, bonafide Influenzavirus, type A.
So that’s why I feel so horrid. The doctor actually laughed a bit, saying the diagnosis was pretty easy since there weren’t many respiratory problems that could make a person look as bad as I do. Gee, thanks. He said he’d had [...]

Feb

13

Misery and Woe

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | Leave a Comment

Can’t move. Can’t think. Can’t hardly breathe.
And the gorram doctor — I actually broke down and called a professional — can’t see me until tomorrow morning.
I thought about going to the ER — it really feels like that — but without a bullet in my gut I’d probably just lay around in even [...]

Feb

11

Stupid Plague

2008 | Filed Under Homelife | 3 Comments

It seems my plague has returned. I spent a good chunk of the day with the shakes, a nagging tickling cough, and a deep core body ache.
Yippee.
It’s becoming clear that the only thing that will get me better is rest, something I generally refuse to submit to on principle.
But, since tomorrow [...]

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