Prelude to the Year of the Hedgehog

This past weekend was pretty low-key...

Saturday was laundry and grocery-shopping day, and Athennia ended up with a killer migraine on Sunday; so, not too much worth blogging about, all things considered.

Monday's highlight was when Angel finally sent us over an updated CTA to push settlement on the Kutztown property out to 29 March—purely tentatively, of course, since the Congress-critters have not yet pulled heads from asses and passed a federal budget resolution...

And so, the USDA has no funding available to them yet...

And so our dippity-doo loan officer doesn't have a briefcase full of cash for us to bring to closing.

Monday night we had no dinner plan, but a tempting array of Burger King coupons on our kitchen table, so I treated Athennia, Riley, and myself to the royalty that is kingly burgers.

Apparently the "king" at our location is trying to watch his figure, because the Whopper patties were even smaller than I remembered.

Also, they absolutely nailed the first half of our "can we get cheese on those?" request—the part where they charge us extra for said cheese—but then they forgot about phase two, which is the actual putting of the cheese onto the burgers.

Riley had wolfed down 75% of her Whopper before we noticed though... which was a bummer, since we could have otherwise driven back and demanded three additional Whoppers (this time with cheese), and then we could've taken the patties from the first Whoppers and added them to the second ones to make them the size you'd actually expect a Whopper burger to be in the first place.

Alas, that was not meant to be. And so, here was the expectation...

Aaaand, here was the reality...

Personally, I predict regicide if this happens again.

Wednesday afternoon, my mom took me out for an early birthday lunch, since that was the day our schedules happened to jibe most optimally.

Needless to say, Booger King had left me still thoroughly craving an actual burger; and so, Mom and I settled on Red Robin...

Yes, that's an entire jalapeño that they Excalibured into the top of my burger to make sure only someone who was worthy would be able to eat it ;)

After lunch, we headed to my parents' house so I could do some laundry in an on-prem washer and dryer for once, and give my mom some tech support to fix her printer-connectivity issue and get her email client working again.

Then we watched a couple episodes of Just Shoot Me from back in 1997 (because Athennia got me the boxed set for Christmas, since I like to actually own the media I purchase, instead of perpetually renting it from some corporate gatekeeper who can unilaterally revoke my access at their leisure).

Meanwhile, Wednesday was also apparently Ahlina's and CJ's court date from their whole fiasco last month—when they tried to fight to the death over CJ dating a minor.

Since neither party is really our concern at this point (Taylor and Ahlina are still dating, but Ahlina's at least states away in Connecticut for the time being), I'll just very briefly sum up by saying that Ahlina dodged a moderately-sized bullet when CJ declined to show up at court...

Having been facing the possibility of a year or two in jail and a several-thousand-dollar fine, Ahlina got this knocked down to a $300 fine and no jail time.

Hopefully she learned a valuable lesson from this experience!

Anyway, later Wednesday night, we had no dinner plans again...

But we still had coupons...

So we went...

(don't judge us)...

around the corner...

(but get ready for disappointment)...

to...

...

...

<cough> ^{Burger King.} <cough>

It was delicious!

(Nah, not really. It sucked. We'll probably go again in a few days though.)

Cats x 63

Finally, here are the month's 63 best cat pics.

But first, a super-serious message from Lucky...

reh.

— The Mighty Odin