Yeah, it’s true that I sometimes make odd choices at auctions. Pallets of choir music, Sousaphones, Strapping Machines, Pallets of Computers, Pallets of Printers, Car Loads of Printers, Library Card Catalogs, Library Shelves, Refrigerators, Doors, Books, but I wanted everyone to know that it’s an old Sommerer family tradition. While we were back in Missouri [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Conservation of Fatness
February 27, 2009
Something has happened to the cats since Cricket’s illness. (She’s doing better, by the way.) We started feeding them Iams instead of their weird mix of bladder-health food, and they switched roles. In this house, Pfennig has always been fat and stupid pretty, while Cricket has been thinner and meaner. (They have strange dangly pooches [...]
Uno
February 26, 2009
Why Mrs. Sommerer has vocal nodules: “Do you have a red or a seven? That’s a seven, use that. Do you have a seven or a green? That’s a 2. Do you have a green? How about that green one? Do you have a green or a five? No? Try this one from the pile. [...]
Shelf Update
February 25, 2009
I took the shelf to the Center last week, and Melanie and I installed it in her room. She’s begun to put many of her cool things on it, and I’ll post a picture when it’s completely done, but I was in her room with the non-nappers today and snapped a photo. Please ignore the [...]
A futile trip
February 24, 2009
I dashed into Lincoln tonight to run a few errands, and was mostly disappointed by it all. They didn’t have my hairspray at Shopko, and the curtains I bought there are not going to work out. (That’s another post for another day, so don’t ask.) Stupid hairspray. Stupid not-measuring-before-you-buy. At Sam’s they had the food [...]
Arrived.
February 23, 2009
The spatulas arrived today. Many thanks to David Hall, best guy in the world! That’s all I have to say about that.



February 28, 2009
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