Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader’s bachelor-dom ened last Friday night about 8:30pm. Mrs. Villain and the Villainettes and the wee Villain arrived home from the beach. They were tanned, rested, and hyper. The Wee Villain was particularly hyper. He is now walking all over the place. But he has developed a bad habit. He is now at the “I’ll point at something and scream at the top of my lungs until I get it” stage. So the peace that your Maximum Leader enjoyed at the Villainschloss last week was now often shattered by his Villainous Son screaming as hard as he could.

Other than that, it is good to have everyone back. The Villainettes are very good company. Indeed Villainette #2 and your Maximum Leader watched a baseball game (or two) on TV. Nationals vs. Padres. We were disappointed as the Padres swept their 3 game series with the Nats. (But your Maximum Leader is sure that Brian B, and a few others are happy.)

Sunday afternoon your Maximum Leader went out to help Mrs. Villain do some yard work. She was weeding the garden. Your Maximum Leader chose to mow the grass. Well, although he was in a long-sleeved T-shirt, sweatpants, socks, and shoes he got stung by a bee. Probably one of those ground-dwelling yellow-jackets.

Your Maximum Leader was stung 4 times by bees about two weeks ago. Same type. He had a very bad reaction to the stings. He later snuck out and poured gasoline down the bee-hole and killed the little bastards. The one that got him last night was in a different part of the yard altogether. Indeed, neither your Maximum Leader nor Mrs. Villain had any knowledge that the bees were there. (And if we had foreknowledge, we would have killed the bees.)

But your Maximum Leader now has a massively swollen ankle and lots of pain to show for one bee sting. He is contemplating gassing the whole yard just to be sure. Damned bees.

So… Due to bee stings, your Maximum Leader is in a surly mood.

He might go light on blogging today.

Carry on.