In House Outhouse

Hi Dear Readers!

I hope this blog post finds you and brings you some joy, insight, or action steps for defeating the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs). Not gonna lie...it's barely 9 AM and I've already defeated several DFUs (two confirmed). I haven't even had breakfast yet! (Although, I did have coffee...kind of mandatory when laying waste to DFUs on a Sunday morning in the Northland, where I'm visiting on temporary hiatus from Melbourne AUS).

To wit, I'm up at my folks' cabin, currently housing me, Deborah, and - not unsurprisingly - my folks. I am writing this post as I sit on the toilet of the indoor outhouse at the cabin. Back in the day, outhouses were toilets (usually of the pit variety) detached from the cabin proper and some distance away, making for some unpleasant ablutional experiences when one had to, say...ablute in the middle of a rainy night or in the middle of a hot and humid day (these outhouses were un-air conditioned).

My folks had the ingenius idea to install an in house outhouse, converting a utility closet inside the cabin into a water closet (as the Europeans call them), complete with plumbing and a porcelain throne (on which I now sit).

It's been a while since I last posted, and for that I apologize to any readers who anxiously await the next installment of this virtual life narrative. A lot has transpired in the past few weeks. Indeed...in the past few days. Of import are: 1. Deborah is officially applying for an Australian partner and resident alien visa; 2. We bought a new house (that is to say, we have an accepted offer on a new house). Both events have the unfortunate consequence of increasing the number of DFUs in our lives, but not insurmountably so.

Other than those milestones, life is generally pretty normal. Business is good. Diet and exercise are optimized. Social and mainstream media (SMSM) consumption are at all time minimums. So, the Dark Magic (the force that undermines the DFUs) is flowing voluminously...perhaps even superfluously.

Take care of yourselves and reach out if you are having any difficulty defeating the DFUs in your life. I am a licensed therapist, certified in DFU demolition, in the most abstract terms possible.

Fin.