People,

So, last night as Ladybetrothed Sarah and I were just settling into bed, under a blanket in the wonderfully frigid air conditioning, blissfully slipping into sleep after another long day, we were forcibly snapped back into the world of the awake by Melvin.

Melvin is the skunk who lives in our yard. We haven't seen too much of him this summer, but he was certainly around last night. I have a theory that he was actually watching through our window, waiting for exactly the right moment to make his skunk fart into our air conditioner's outside air intake. Sort of a "welcome to the neighborhood, LS" gesture.

Anywho, the smell was overpowering and in my infinite wisdom I decided to remedy it by spraying bathroom air freshener right in front of the air conditioner's fan, an act that left me covered in air freshener and the room smelling 87 times worse.

Melvin 1, Joe 0.