lights_out flux christmas eve. night the sketchers are most likely to come, historically. the night where fewest people are in the house, so thus it's easiest to get in and steal anything left out. last four or five years, things have been stolen on christmas eve.. computers, stereo equipment, speakers.. i think, by this point, we've almost learned our lesson.. i made sure that everything that could be carried off was locked away in special rooms, and anything that couldn't be removed was locked down tight. however.. the pair we voted for as "house thugs" for the break disappeared for the night, and so it seems it's fallen to me to patrol the house, make sure the doors are secured, make sure no sketch_holes are wandering the halls.. so i'm walking down the halls carrying knives at my sides and realizing just how paranoid carrying knives makes me. when i carry them, i expect the worst. that's no way to live.. and yet.. 041225 what's it to you? who go blather from