On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your favorite color of the alphabet?

The line about, "There's no such thing as a dumb question...." - I may be crossing that threshold here, but,
How does someone with a pacemaker ever die? To quote Celine Deion, "my heart will go on and on."
I understand if my head falls off or something like that, but isn't having a pacemaker like having somebody standing there 24/7 to do CPR indefinitely?
(When I asked Pam how someone with a pacemaker dies she answered, "Their wife runs a knife through them." Uh-oh.)

This video is too cool! I know it says you can fast forward to the 1:50 mark to get to the point of the thing, but don't. Trust me, don't. For some of you it will be the best part. Besides being classic 1930's video it does an incredible job of explaining a "mystery," and if you've got a kid in the house they should watch this, too. Science lesson.

We have a 50% chance of precip tonight. Hopefully a good gully washer.

There's a small town 50 miles NW of here called Congress. Nobody works there.
Another 50 miles beyond that is Bagdad. Really, really hot.

Once or twice a year we get, uhm, a critter inside our house. La cucaracha. We get the BIG ones, the kind you could put a leash on.
We used to get them in two's and three's, and more often, until I put Borax in the cupboards. It only takes a fine dusting in the very back of the shelves - kitchen, bath, under sinks, etc. - to do the trick. The Borax sticks to their feet, they lick it off, and effectively poison themselves.
But the occasional stalwart still manages to scare the bejeebus out of us.

Very early this morning I was sitting in my recliner reading when I watched one of the nasties come out from underneath Pam's recliner and just as quickly scamper back. I got one of my sandals and a broom, but by the time I got back.... gone. Haven't seen it since. I told Pam I think it crawled up inside her chair.
(see method of death, above)

I just read online that the trick is to mix Borax and sugar 50/50 in the lid of a jar, make it into a pile in the center of that lid, and set it where you've seen the cockroaches. Check the next day, and if the pile has been disturbed your problems are over. I'll report back in tomorrow's post.