Archive for October, 2007

Magic laundry.

Tonight Matt ran the dryer for eighty minutes. Then he opened the dryer and freaked out because the sheets he was drying weren’t in there anymore. Magically disappearing laundry? No, the sheets were on the futon, where I put them this morning because they were dry. The very same futon that we’d been sitting by, [...]

Children of the corn. At least in it.

Last Saturday Matt and I visited our very first corn maze (ironic, I know–we’re from Iowa, and we’re experiencing our first corn maze in Utah). I don’t think I ever want to do that again. At least we didn’t go to one of the “haunted” ones. I might’ve punched a clown out of frustration and [...]

Change…not just for annoying people at the grocery store.

Today…I enjoyed teaching. So, have I changed, or has teaching changed? Or is it just that I enjoy teaching web design? And I like that my students know to laugh when I tell them the Internet is really just a bunch of different-sized tubes connected by really cute kittens who speak in ungrammatical sentences. And [...]

Fun times in old houses.

It is a wonderful weekend of fun here at Casa Bemer. Want to know how I know? Of course you do. Well, on Saturday at eleven the drains backed up again (as in “hey, what’s that coming out of the dr-ew ew ew sewage” backed up). It is three days over our thirty-day Roto Rooter [...]

Gosh, Batman. You’re always right.

It’s finally Friday of a really long week. I’m getting through the day purely with the power of Batman Quotations. Has this show been put in a box set yet? I could use some bat wisdom at the moment.