Security Alarms Checked: Ok!

Don’t know why we have the bloody things in the first place.

Other than to add an extra challenge to our home-coming after every holiday: exactly 45 seconds to input a six-digit code before the entire house lights up like a Christmas tree accompanied by a wailing sampled from the sound of nails dragged across a blackboard added to a cat’s appreciation of being plunged into the Rhine on New Year’s Eve.

Not that we actually have anything worth stealing either; it’s just the thought of coming home to find that “someone else has been walking around your abode which makes my skin crawl.