tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12912215.post-1126956641456243342005-09-17T06:30:00.000-05:002005-09-17T06:30:41.463-05:00When my wife or I are out of town and our household becomes a single parent home, our dog, JP, gets extra-sensitive. Near bedtime he barks at every little sound, which is unusual for him. He tries to get about 18 hours of sleep every day, so this leaves little time for senseless howling. This week was no exception, as the wife was gone a few nights for business.<br /><br />I was exhausted Thursday night after a full day of work and then coming home to play the role of sole caregiver to my daughter. Once she was finally asleep, I hopped into bed with a good book, hopeful that I would pass out in 15 minutes or so. JP soon found his way to the bed, but I could tell he wasn’t going to sleep easily. He started a low growl and then proceeded to bark. I couldn’t hear what was upsetting him. After a few minutes I figured out that he was hearing the air conditioning unit in the attic. <br /><br />At this point, my child-like imagination goes into action. This is odd for me, because I usually do not have such crazy, vivid thoughts. I either go right to sleep, or have deep thoughts about whether we are saving enough for retirement, etc. Hey, I’m an accountant, so naturally most of my “imagination” ventures are about money.<br /><br />I got to thinking, what if someone was in our attic. I wasn’t scared because (a) I live in the ghetto, so being scared about noises in the night was something I had to get over a long time ago and (b) it would be impossible for someone to get in our house without our alarm system going into celebration mode. However, a man in the attic, was good food for thought. I guess I’m being sexist here, but if there was a seedy criminal living in our attic, I would just assume it was a man.<br /><br />It would be fairly easy to live in our attic. We rarely go up there, and while our alarm system covers all of the entrances and windows to our house, it doesn’t detect internal motion, due to our dog. If you lived in our attic, and did not want to be detected, I think it would be very doable. Boring as hell, but easy to do.<br /><br />You would just have to learn to be quiet during the evening. Everything else would be simple. You would have our whole house to yourself during the day; use of our cable television, use of our high speed internet and so on. We wouldn’t notice if you took a little food. Our dog is not a biter, he’s a licker, so it would take about 16 seconds for him to get used to you. I think it would be a fairly good life.<br /><br />So, the next time life gets too hard, and you need some truly private time, just consider our attic, we won’t even know you’re here!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12912215-112695664145624334?l=nonesramblings.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Master of Nonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13141000651172455966noreply@blogger.com6