Insomnia Blogging: Another Carmine Story

I haven’t been keeping up with updating the Life with Carmine blog. Carmine’s adventures often happen in the summer when he’s out working in the yard, digging ponds and tending to the fish and whatnot. But something happened yesterday that, I think, is worth telling.

Yesterday, I received a phone call from one of Carmine’s neighbours. It seemed that Carmine had left a window open all day and the wind (which was really strong yesterday) had knocked something over, creating a loud bang sound. Carmine’s neighbour was calling around to make sure that Carmine knew his window was open. You never know, could be a burgler or something. Carmine’s neighbour was concerned.

What’s makes this story funny to me was the fact that the neighbour actually said the following: “I can’t see Carmine as the sort of person who would leave a window open all day long while at work.”

Carmine is the sort of person who would leave a window open, doors unlocked, lights on, water running and commit pretty much every sort of absent minded mistake imaginable.

At least once a year, Carmine will refill the pond in his backyard with water. Usually just a topoff if there has been a week or more without any rain. Carmine regularly checks the water level each morning before leaving for work. On average, once a year, Carmine will put the lawn hose in the pond, turn on the faucet, forget the water is on and leave for work. When Carmine’s wife returns home after work, she would often take a look at the backyard (at this point, a rice field) and turn off the water.

I distinctly remember one time, Carmine left town (and the country) for a business trip. Forgetting to turn on the alarm system is no big deal for him. Forgetting to lock the door isn’t a big deal either. He lives in a pretty safe neighbourhood. But he forget to actually close the front door. His wife returned home from work the day he left to find the front door swinging in the wind. How does one forget to close the front door of the house?

So I laughed very, very hard when Carmine’s neighbour said “I can’t see Carmine as the sort of person who would leave a window open all day long while at work.”

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In other news, I again, had little sleep last night. Okay, that’s not exactly news, or even new. Instead of watching late night/early morning television, I went abloggin’. I read a blog by a certain Rawbean. A post that made no sense to me what-so-ever. I made some incoherent comment and left the site all-together.

Now, in the light of day, I’ve returned to the site and still the post makes no sense to me. And yesterday, that certain blogger left a comment on my blog that made no sense.

What I’d like, is to have some people read Rawbean’s blog and tell me which of the following is true, because I am really, really confused here. Is Rawbean: a) drunk blogging; b) just gone completely batty; c) pulling some April Fool’s gag where she is trying to make people think she’s batty; or d) operating at a higher plain.

Thank you very much, good night and God speed.