Hello again. It’s that wonderful time of the year when the rain has just about stopped, when the yard is just about to call it quits for the summer, when I Ortho sprayed all the clover that was quickly taking over the lawn, when said spraying resulted in our yard now having huge yellow, dead patches, when What do you mean Ortho Basic Solutions ™ is “NOT recommended for spot weed control in lawns since Basic Solutions ™ Weed and Grass Killer kills all green plants, including lawn grass"? – in other words, When all else fails, read the directions. Dummy.

Hello again. It’s that wonderful time of the year when I’m – finally – starting to work regular, when I might actually make enough money in a month so that Michelle doesn’t have to bail my ass out and help me with my bills, when I can afford to take us out to eat without worrying about the next car payment, when I get a full 40 hours on my weekly paycheck, when I have less time to fart around on the computer for hours on end in the morning – in other words, god, I miss those two- and three-day workweeks.

Hi, I wrote this a week ago, but I had some sort of e-mail error come up, so I don't know if you got it. So here goes (again. Maybe.). Joe It's that wonderful time of the year when turkey sandwiches qualify as cooking and you can feel the inevitable winter weight starting to settle around your belt so that you have that donelap disease (as in, my belly donelap over my belt). And you think, Why can't everything come with elastic in the waist?