Beth is in Santa Cruz right now, at Grace’s BlogHer Brunch. The girls up there apparently logged on, checked out the mess in my last entry, and then started placing odds on whether I had cleaned it up or not. My wife, Chuck booster that she is, apparently was firmly in the “There’s no way in hell he cleaned up, he doesn’t even know how to turn on the vacuum cleaner” camp.

Bzzt! Wrong.

You can apologize at your leisure, honey. In print.

Never leave a Jack Russell Terrier unattended and bored for several hours.