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By Keith, September 2, 2010 7:02 pm

This evening, as the outside air temperature was beginning to drop, I opened my bedroom window to let the breeze blow through and cool off my computers.  While re-watching season 1 of The Big Bang Theory, movement outside my window caught my attention.  To my dismay and mild discomfort, I saw two young men dressed in dress slacks, white short sleeve shirts, ties, and black backpacks.  They were just sort of loitering in my next door neighbor’s back yard.

As if the presence of what appeared to be two Mormon mental cases (offense intended) outside my window was not disturbing enough, I saw no sign of anyone else with them.  So they were just standing around observing things as if they were from another planet.  One of them picked up a fist sized stone that some higher power had piled around the base of a tree, looked at it very closely, no doubt trying to determine god’s purpose for it, before dropping it back on the pile.  Meanwhile, the other one was analyzing the bark on a nearby tree and apparently wondering why tree skin is rough to the touch, but human skin is not.

The whole time these two nut jobs were in the yard next door, I never saw anyone else with them, so why were they hanging out there?  Were they shirking their evangelical duties?  Didn’t they know that their omniscient god (who already knows who will and won’t have believed in her) can see them through leaves?

Whatever their reason for being there, they creeped me out a little.  Part of me feared that once they had their fill of god’s glorious creation, i.e. rocks and tree bark, they might ring my doorbell next.  Fortunately, they soon left to find more interesting inanimate objects to investigate elsewhere.  Weirdos!

Creepy Weirdos

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By Keith, September 1, 2010 7:39 pm

Due to the author’s general feelings of blahness, there will not be a blog post today.  This post is merely a filler so that it looks like he posted something on Wednesday.

The author would also like to note that he received his recycling bin today, but the box it came in will probably not fit inside it even when broke down.  Also, the bin does not have a lid.  Stupid bin.

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By Keith, August 31, 2010 6:05 pm

I thought that these hot sticky days were the dog days of summer; days that we should all be lazing about like dogs on a shady front porch, conserving our energy, doing as little as possible.  As is often the case with things like this, boy was I wrong!

It turns out that the dog days correspond with the rising of Sirius, the dog star, and have nothing to do with actual real life lazy dogs lazing about in the sultry summer heat.  Also, the dog days occur from July 3 to August 11, so I’m off by a few weeks.  I just assumed that the dog days were whatever hot muggy days during any summer month that I did not feel like doing any physical activity whatsoever.  So basically, I thought it was any/every day during the summer.

None of this has anything to do with the idiom that every dog has its day, which has everything to do with school shootings and mailmen going postal.  I suppose that since dogs are notorious for chasing mail carriers, one could find some tenuous connection there if one squints really hard. >.<