I guess I'm going to have to settle in to a "3 posts a week" cycle for a while, since things are just busy busy busy busy beeeee. Various important bits of info:

• Sears is both cool and outrageously sucky. We got a guy to come out and look at our broken washing machine, with the following result: "We no longer make parts for that thing. What is it, like 25 years old? That'll be $65 please." Great. Upside: he gave us a coupon for $65 off any appliance at any Sears.

  "Does this work at the outlet over across from University Plaza?" I ask.

  "Should. At least, they told me it does."

  Ah, they. Someday, I'm going to meet they and kick they right in the jubblies.

  So last night we went to the outlet store and selected a nice Kenmore washer for $329, and discovered that the coupon was useless at the outlet store. Thanks, Sears; thanks a panload. That reminds me, I need to give the pertinent information to Hearnwife so she can call and yell at them. (I'm too meek and mild-mannered, don't you know.)

• We ripped up all the carpeting, pad, tack strips, and various staples in our bedroom. The floor looks great, except for a few imperfections: the carpeting had covered up a hideous job of installing a marble floor piece in the doorframe to the bathroom, so there's all kinds of crumbling concrete visible; and the previous owners apparently didn't like squeaky floors, so throughout the room there's random nails and SCREWS (freakin' SCREWS? WTF?) in the floor, some of which stick out a 1/4" or so.

  I'm hoping to cover up the nasty concrete jaunt by the bathroom door by shaping a piece of wood to act as a small ramp (so I'll stop kicking the marble as I go over it), and hopefully I'll be able to get some of the screws out (many of the heads are stripped). Still, it looks totally awesome. Pictures to come, I hopes.

• I haven't been to the high school for rehearsal in over a week 'cause it keep snowing me out. I'm going on Thursday to work the pit band over a little more; hopefully they won't be sucking. The chorus should be fine, their stuff is easy, they've known it for weeks. Bless my father for agreeing to play piano for this show . . . anyway, come see "Cinderella" at Brandywine High School, 3/17-19 at 7pm, with a 2pm matinee on 3/19. Tickets are 8 bucks, I'm told.