Sorry for no post yesterday. My building is being termite-tented from today through Monday, and I had a lot to do to get ready for it.

  1. I had considered saving my money so that I could buy a house-house in San Diego. Considering how much of a pain in the ass it was to pack up what I needed for a weekend in a nearby hotel + move the cats out of the apartment, I am thinking that I might never move ever. Well, my apartment is on the second floor, and bad knees run in my family, so I might need to move to assisted living in several decades. But until then.

  2. The poison gas is so poisonous that all food had to be double-bagged in magical bags provided by the fumigation company. The poison gas so pervasive that it makes its way into the walls and into the wood structures of the building and deep into wherever it is that the termites are hiding; it could even make its way into sealed containers in the refrigerator (unless they are in the magic bags). The poison gas is so harmless that I don’t need to do anything special afterwards. The poison gas is so ephemeral that when they remove the tent all of the gas is gone from all of the nooks and crannies that it snuck its way into. Toothbrush? Needs to go in the magic bags. Fork? Don’t need to do anything.

  3. Gwen is spending the weekend at a cat resort (credentials: purring/parrot). Sophie came to work with me today and will be spending the weekend with us at the hotel. (If you follow that link after Monday, you will be looking at someone else’s cat.)

  4. Even though the natural disaster warning people have told me that I should have a bag ready with important things to take with me in case of a natural disaster, I had a hard time deciding what to take with me for the weekend of termite tenting. In addition to clothes + cats + the cats’ impedimenta, I ended up taking my birth certificate, social security card, and passport (because I know that I am going to lose at least one of these in the future, and I want to be certain that they were not lost or stolen as part of the termite tenting), one of my back-up hard drives, and two pieces of family heirloom jewelry.