Oddball Update

I went to pick up some homemade soup for Apple today. Her Thai friend down at her workplace had made her something special, so when I stopped in to get it, we got to talking a little bit.

By now, most Americans are intimately familiar with the “credit crisis” that’s affected our lives in a myriad of ways, from losses on the stock market to difficulty in getting a loan.

Just yesterday I posted up a rant about how much this year is costing us so far, and at the end, I smarmily asked for an end to the surcharges.

2008 is barely a month old (barely four days old if you live in China) and it’s already costing us a great deal of money.
First there were the rats in our attic. Well, more like rat, singular.