Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Operation: Phantom Knocker

Never a dull moment around the Ashram.

Tiamat (F's pain in the ass mother) has a new issue.

Tiamat lives in a senior citizen apartment complex. You can only get into the building if you have a key.

Someone has been knocking on her door in the middle of the night, and when she looks through the peephole there is no one there.

It doesn't happen every night, but, it has been happening often enough to be a nuisance.

I think that it's either some poor soul with the beginnings of dementia wandering the halls when they can't sleep or Tiamat is making it all up.

F thinks that it's his mother's neighbor from across the hall because his mother and the neighbor don't get along. (Franklly, very few people get along with Tiamat, but that's a story for another time!) So his line of thought is that when the neighbor gets up in the middle of the night to take a pee, he steps out into the hall, knocks on Tiamat's door and ducks back into his own apartment! Can you imagine?!!!

They complained to the apartment manager about the knocking, and there are security cameras, but, apparently they don't see anyone or anything on the dates and times that these incidents have supposedly occurred, so there's nothing that they can do.

So now F and his brother "M" are going to take matters into their own hands.

F ordered one of those miniature "spy cameras" and hooked it up to a space above his mother's door. And they were also able to hook it up so that they can watch it on her television set. But they can't figure out how to record the images, so supposedly this coming weekend F and M are going to have a "pajama party" at "Mommy's" to watch the TV in shifts to see if they can catch who's doing it!

Assuming that someone knocks that night.

And assuming that whoever it is (if there is someone!) won't catch on to what's going on or hear about it through the "apartment grapevine" as Tiamat has a big mouth!

I'll keep you all posted as things develop.

P.S. And no! It's not me! ;)

Thursday, June 16, 2011

And Now I Am A Dead Man...

Here is (camera shy) "F" and our beloved Teddyji, just lounging in bed, awaiting my arrival to go to sleep for the night!

So, if foul play does occur to me, you're all my witnesses and you know who did the deed!

Friday, June 3, 2011

After The Storm

Hello All!

This will have to be a quick post as I am at work. Our cable/phone/Internet at home are all down so I don't know when I'll be posting again (yesterday's post was done on my cellphone!).

Parts of Springfield look like a war zone. Just Google "Springfield MA Tornado" and you will see it all.

The tornado touched down just two streets from us. Our house, and Teddy-ji (our dog) are both fine. I tried to get home for two hours Wednesday night, but there were trees down everywhere!

I finally parked my car at a local shopping plaza and walked to my house two miles away.

"F" couldn't get through at all and spent the night with his mother in East Longmeadow (the next town over).

We didn't have power and my cellphone's battery was getting low, so all I was able to do was let F and my family know that we were safe.

Fortunately our power came back on later that night and I was able to charge my phone and make additional calls, update Facebook, post to my blog-all through my phone! Ah, Technology!!

I'll try to visit your blogs today, but, if you don't hear from me for a few days, you'll know why. TTFN!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Thoughts on the Latest Doctor Who, and Easter Mayhem

So, I watched the season premiere of Doctor Who on Saturday night, and I have to say that I'm a little concerned with where the show seems to be going this season.

First and foremost, Doctor Who is a "family" show.

Mind you, it can be quite scary. In fact in England, most fans will say that they grew up watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa!

But this episode felt more like an "X-Files" episode rather than a Doctor Who.

It was a two-parter, so I am hoping that the conclusion will be a little lighter.

For anyone interested in starting to watch Doctor Who, I would not recommend this episode as the place to start.

In other news, an Easter miracle occurred, because for the first time in I don't know how many years, we did not have to spend any portion of it with F-Chan's family! Hooray!!!

Which of course, didn't preclude F-Chan from having to play chauffeur for Tiamat (his mother) in order deliver her over to his brother A's house for dinner!

Heaven forbid that A come and collect his mother himself! Oh no! That would be too much! (More on F-Chan's family in future posts with a handy-dandy guide to boot!)

Anyway, after that was done, we proceeded over to my sister's for Easter dinner.

It was a bit chaotic as she has three kids, (two of whom are twins-age 3!) plus there were her husband's side of the family there and they have kids, so it made for a rambunctious but fun day!

There's lots more details, but this has to be a quick posting, so I promise you more "dish" in the weeks to come! TTFN!