You know what's alarming (besides being shunted to some new form of Blogger that looks unfamiliar)?

it's alarming to be sitting, eating breakfast at 6:30 am and watch a police car pull up to the next-door-neighbors' house, a fully uniformed officer get out, go up to the house, and start knocking on the door.

no, I don't totally know what's going on. When I went to take my cereal bowl to the kitchen, I could hear the officer say to whoever answered the door: "well, is he at home?"

I presume it's not that he was inviting the fellow to go out fishing with him this morning.