Son noticed me looking around for something.
Son: ?
Me: I thought I brought a napkin over, but I guess I forgot.
Son: Want me to go get you one?
Me: That’s okay, I’ll just use my shirt.
Son: I’ll go get you one.
Me: Wait, who’s the parent here?
The recent cold snap has driven the bugs indoors. Pest control has been by. It seems to have made the bugs angrier. Last night Alpha Geek and I had the following text exchange:
Bertha: OMG there were three enormous cockroaches in the kitchen
Alpha Geek: Did you get them or did they scurry off somewhere?
Bertha: I got two
Bertha: ONE OF WHICH WAS FLYING BTW
Alpha Geek: Jesus
Bertha: BTW if you find puddles around the sink, it’s because I used the sprayer to bring down the flying one
Bertha: I think I got all the water cleaned up
Alpha Geek: Wow you had a real battle
Bertha: It was epic
Bertha: There was swashbuckling and feats of heroism
Bertha: There was betrayal and redemption
Bertha: I expect a movie soon
Bertha: I want Michelle Yeoh to play me
Alpha Geek: And Gilbert Gottfried should play the cockroach
Bertha: Perfect
Last summer when I was looking for work, at some point I applied for a few positions offered by an accounting temp agency. Never heard back, not even an auto-replay acknowledging my submissions.
Today they called my cell phone, just checking in to see if I was still looking for work. Been working for most of a year now, dude, where were you when I was unemployed?
I choose to take this as a sign that the job market is improving. Mostly because I hope it is.