Went with Court to her doctor's appointment today. She got a prescription for some painkiller for days her back is bad. The doc said that the MRI of her back looks like that of someone much older than her. Basically, he said she's too young for the kind of surgery it'd take, but 10 years down the road it'll have to happen. I just hope it doesn't get any worse. :(

Cubs won tonight, after Mr. D called to raz me about Prior going on the DL. It's 15 day, retro from his last start, so he'll miss a start. The Cubs called up some nobody to take his space for the start. Hopefully, it's a good kind of 'nobody' meaning that teams won't have a script for him so they won't know what they're seeing until it's too late. We'll see what happens.

Dinner at Ale House tonight, after we decided to forget the idea of having yesterday's OG leftovers. After the doc we weren't in the mood for re-heated yesterday food. In fact, I'm never in the mood for that. AH was ok...I can do without going there for a while...and it's enough like Hooters where I can forget that for a while too.

Our trash bungee cord was stolen ...

WHOA...just saw a huge roach on the wall. Ran downstairs, got the RAID, and BLASTED it! El-gone-o! Sucked it up with the vacuum. Good thing Court didn't see that. She can't handle bugs. Funny, we just put roach motels in the crevices and bowels of the house tonight too. Reminds me of my days at ACE where if I saw a bug I'd run to lawn & garden, get some spray, and blast it out of existence.

Anyway...back to the bungee cord. So, the dang bungee cord I use to close up the trash can each night was stolen by some bastard. This morning I noticed it was gone when I picked up the trash can from the street, and I figured the trash guys just threw it in with the trash. I happened to mention that to Court and she said that when she left this morning she had to move to lid, cord, and trashcan out of the way of her car. So the trash guys didn't take it...some bastard in our neighborhood did. We live at the end of a cul-de-sac of sorts, so there are only about 4 families that could have even seen it to take it. And out of those, one is our new neighbors (extremely unlikely) and one is our semi-new neighbors (older couple, no chance whatsoever) so it's either 'late night raining stereo installer' people or 'people I don't even know and have rarely if ever seen'. I'll keep a lookout. It's a $2 cord, but after 'The Great Gas Grill Heist' in the backyard I'm taking no chances, especially with important things in the house, like my DVDs, Tivo, TV, and the cat. (in that order)

Well, I'm off to read and to bed. Later Skaters