Category : Doofus Domesticus

25th June 2007 : At Least I Got to Third Base

I played softball last night. In the fifth inning, I was manning my usual position at third, when the batter skipped a hot grounder to my left. To my credit, I got in front of the ball. To my discredit, the ball hopped over my glove and hit me, instead.… more »
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20th June 2007 : The Wrongest Yard

The missus and I are in the midst of a home maintenance crisis. It involves our yard. Our lawn is not an ideal lawn. It's not large, nor particularly beautiful. The grass is spotty in some places. Much of it resides on forty-five degree slopes in front… more »
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In this house, it's my wife who's in charge of buying things. This should surprise no one who knows us well at all. My wife is the practical, down-to-earth, well-reasoned, wicked smart, and generally wonderful sort of person who can be trusted with impor… more »
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11th June 2007 : PB & Jilted

Some days when I go to work, I take our pooch to 'doggy day care'. I do this because she owns our asses. My wife and I rescued the mutt from the pound, gave her a fluffy bed and three square meals of ground-up horse meat and cereal filler a day, but stil… more »
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I had an unsettling experience recently. I went to a bachelor party over the weekend -- a bachelor party without strippers. But that's not the unsettling part. 'Incomprehensible', maybe. 'Unfathomable', perhaps. But not 'unsettling', per se. No, it was… more »
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