get out!

there's no turning back now. my wife and i sold our current house and bought a new one. our bank account be damned!

that's our new house, to your left, with my wife and i in front. it's got double the bedrooms, double the bathrooms, and double the horror!

as many of you know, my wife (of three years, tommorrow) is slightly scared of houses, so this new one's going to take some getting used to.

the seller's disclosure statement said that it makes strange noises at night and may in fact be haunted. our realtor, however, told us it was OK since a priest has performed an exorcism on the house.

with all the new space, we could get lost inside. we're just hoping that we don't also get possessed!

there's a hidden room in the basement, just off the laundry room, that we're already calling the texas chainsaw massacre room. it's even got a deep freezer!

in all seriousness, it's a great house, and we're really excited. we're closing on both houses at the end of june. in the meantime, we've got a lot of packing and furniture shopping to do.

there'll be a great big housewarming party when we're all moved in. you're all invited, as are all the house's demonic inhabitants!

pretty pathetic

so it's been a loooooooong time since i wrote. pretty pathetic. one loyal reader asked me if i was ever going to write again. i guess this is her answer. it's an update on my so-called post-vacation life:

my belated basketball team, cobra kai, lost our last basketball game of the season by 37 on a sour note when our center got flagged with a technical foul with only 3 seconds remaining. we thus finished 0 for 8 and in last place (i believe) in the league. i, myself, much like michael jordan after his stint with the white sox, am considering retiring and returning to the sport in which i am a superstar, volleyball.

my wife and i have been house-shopping during non-working hours almost non-stop. i won't lie and say it's been fun, although i do like looking at people's pictures, as well as their crazy home-decorating styles and unhealthy kitchen cabinets. the house pictured above is the future house of mcdoer, as long as the seller meets my outrageous demands.

can you say reunion? we caught the smoking popes on the comeback trail in lawrence, ks and stayed out way past our collective bedtimes. they kicked ass, i sang along, and they reminded me that i still need my rock n' roll batteries recharged every now and again.

we also saw the turdbirds host their in-state rivals (are they really rivals anymore?), the st. louis cardinals at busch stadium west. there was way more red in the crowd than powder blue, and i'm pretty sure i was harassed at my own stadium for wearing a kc trucker hat. the mighty albert pujols hit a towering home run while my wife, of course, was in the bathroom.

last, but not least, my little brother's coming home from tropical hawaii, where he went after finishing his third year of college in sunny arizona, to visit for a few weeks before he skips across the ocean to london, where he's spending the summer. it doesn't seem real fair, but i'm excited to see him nonetheless.