The news hits close to home

Last night I was watching the news, and this story came on.

In short, an apartment complex that's on my way just about everywhere (including between our house and TRex's daycare) was the scene to a rather grisly murder. Not only that, our local pizzeria/sandwich shop plays into the story... the victim, a 57-year-old cancer patient who had worked at the pizzeria until he quit to undergo treatment, was found dead in his apartment on Saturday night. He'd apparently been dead for 2-3 weeks. His son has apparently confessed to beating him to death because he couldn't care for him anymore. According to the restaurant manager, "He was getting up there in his years so he said he probably wasn't going to come back. He did stop in, he was stopping in almost every night. Especially every Saturday night, he'd come in and I'd make him a pie." The web story truncates the rest of that quote, though. Three weeks ago, the victim didn't come in on Saturday night. So the manager called the apartment and the son told him that the victim wasn't feeling well. So the manager had a pizza delivered with a note inside.

The victim, however, was already dead.

I am the shoe-findingest!

I had given up hope of ever finding reasonable new winter boots mid-season, and I needed new ones because the $3 ones I bought at Target last year have sprung a leak. I've been shopping a bunch of times and I found a number of boots that I liked, but there was something wrong with most of them... they didn't fit right, they were too expensive, they weren't warm, whatever. I had found some by Totes that I liked but I hadn't found them for what I thought was a reasonable price for what they are. They've been going on clearance all over the place lately, though, but nobody had them in my size (stupid commonly-sized feet).

Today, though, it occurred to me to go to A.J. Wright when I stopped off at the grocery store to buy Skinny Cows (on sale, hooray!) and milk for TRex. Et voila! They had the Totes boots in my size, for only $18!!!!