Good evening from Independence, Missouri, roughly 17 miles outside of Kansas City. Holy cow is it hot here. My in-car thermostat hit 98 degrees this afternoon. While I was waiting for my dinner to be prepared (more on that later) with the windows rolled down, the sun baked me into submission. Maybe I was wrong [...]

Greetings from Covington, KY – home of…that White Castle half-a-block away from the plush hotel room in which I’m currently situated. After a ten-hours-plus drive, I am relaxing on a couch, sipping a bottle of Bell’s Cherry Stout. There’s another bottle of beer (Goose Island Bourbon Stout) on ice, waiting for The Sopranos to start.
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Wow. We sure drank a lot last night. The best part was, no one had to spend a single dollar on alcohol. You’d be amazed at how drunk five or six people can get simply by mixing gross combinations of booze into their drinking game (three or four different beers – sometimes mixed together, rum, [...]

Phew. Today was a very long day. It’s 5pm, but there is still so much work to be done. I’ve been out of the house since noon, running errands which brought me to each corner of Essex county. Now that I have a moment to sit and relax before dinner plans and an evening of [...]

Phew. The days…they are getting busier! I woke up, worked three hours, showered, went to Chatham to get a new passport (and passport photo, which I must say is the most atrocious photograph of me that’s ever been taken), purchased some personal items from the convenience store (deodorant, razors, soap, a gross of Magnums™), grabbed [...]

I’m not writing a “real” entry today, but for those of you who anticipated a conclusion to the bee story, I’ll briefly tell you about my afternoon with the exterminator. Apparently he didn’t see fit to call the press about any major infestation, he actually decided there was no nest in the house. I still [...]

The wasp infestation in my bedroom reached a sort of critical mass last evening. While I was on the phone with my roommate-to-be, I uncovered another dead wasp (that makes a handful found dead or alive this past week). At about 2am this morning, I was trying to edit some music and transfer files [...]