{"id":52,"date":"2005-07-19T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-10-11T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T22:50:34","slug":"fireflies-and-shed-bulldozing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Fireflies and Shed-Bulldozing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current mood: Humidified<\/em><\/p>\n

I am currently in Tennessee. For those of you who have never been here, it is just like California, except with more trees, more grass, more humidity, and a whole lot less everything else. For those of you who have never been to California, that comparison is useless. For those of you who are<\/em> from California, that comparison is probably still<\/em> useless.<\/p>\n

I guess a better way to put it is this;<\/p>\n

They have fireflies here. You drive down the road, and you can see them winking on and then off again among the plants growing at the side of the road. I like to imagine that they are greeting the car’s headlights, which they might have mistaken for their long lost king and queen.<\/p>\n

A possum ran across the road in front of me. I am happy to say that I missed him. Sadly, I cannot say the same of about 30 percent the frogs that have tried the same stunt this week.<\/p>\n

The sky has been unapollogetically rainey and wet this week. When I look out the window, I expect it to be cold, but it isn’t. It is hot outside, pretty much all the time. This is widely agreed to be an unpleasant thing, but actually I think it is not so bad. Sure, the shock of walking from an excessively air-conditioned room into the hot humid outdoors isn’t very nice, but once you get use to the outside air– and as long as you know a shower is waiting for you when you go back inside– it can be quite pleasant.<\/p>\n


\nThis picture is my house. The bushes out front are gone now, already rooted-up. Don’t feel bad for them. They were nicer bushes in the picture than they were in real life.<\/p>\n


\nIn the back is a lop-sided shed, another lop-sided shed, and a garage which, while not lop-sided, is certainly thinking about lopping. They will be torn down this week, and I get to stand by and watch. It is very important that I be present for this occasion, because there is a middling chance that one of the sheds has Pirate Treasure hidden in the roof. I am a little worried about how to fend off the Vengeful Zombie Pirate Skeletons which will no doubt leap out to guard it, but the demolition guys will have a bulldozer, and I think Sam (my contractor) is going to be bringing a chainsaw, so I think we can take them.<\/p>\n

If all goes well, I will bring home a gold doubloon for each of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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