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The Cat Tax

Posted on: Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 in: Uncategorized

According to my household accounting software, the cost of maintaining our cats (as in, maintaining them in the style to which they’ve become accustomed) amounts to a mere $473 per year, or $39.41 per month. Not too bad, you’d say; your bare-bones cellular plan probably costs more. And compared to the cost of […]

Garbage

Posted on: Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 in: Uncategorized

I have a newfound appreciation for the utility of homeowner associations.
My next door neighbors — specifically, the troupe of 6 sophomores and juniors from WWU who recently moved in downwind of me — are clearly not familiar with the delicate social etiquette of residential neighborhoods. They clearly do not understand the delicate weft and […]

Terrible News

Posted on: Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in: Uncategorized

My cousin, Bjorn Anders Nielsen, is dying.
I cannot wrap my pathetic little brain around this simple fact. A fact that he has accepted with an incredible amount of dignity.
Let the world end.