Daily Reports: Accidents and Mishaps

Puppy Tyson got a bath today, and now the kid is all wound up and ready to party. He's definitely a water dog.

My new $25 phone got stolen again, along with Epril's old $25 backup phone. Three houses in the neighborhood have been broken into recently. Susan and Ednil and Epril's best friend Fatima are now doing shifts standing watch overnight until we can hire a night watchman. Three out of the last 4 houses I lived in have been visited by thieves... but this is the first repeat visit we've had. One of the locks on the doors in the living room is broken, but the girls didn't realize it (and I never checked) because the roller on that door is also broken so it can't be opened without a strength which the girls lack.

It's pretty easy to get a picture of the kind of thief we have though: He walked past Epril's $800 laptop computer, my $500 Playstation 3, and stole 2 phones that were (very obviously) worth $25 each, plus a loaf of bread and chicken out of the refrigerator.

Mike Bird's 2-year-old nephew, J.M., took a header over the railing of Mike's porch today: That's about an 8-foot drop onto hard packed dirt... head first as best Mike can tell. Kids bounce well, but even for a rubbery toddler, that's a pretty fair distance. No broken bones apparently, but the hospital is keeping him overnight and is going to do a CT scan in the morning. (BTW: $150 for a CT scan here.) Why they are waiting until the next morning to find out what injuries this child's brain may have is beyond me: Fire that damn thing up and start checking now.

Well, not my call... though I did tell Mike my opinion.

Other than that, things are plodding along.