Roaches held the key to our happiness

Well, the trip to Oklahoma was an experience. After breaking down twice in the mountains of Colorado, we finally arrived at the house we were going to rent at 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday night. It was a great little brick home with hardwood floors. Amie was really excited to get inside and set up our air mattresses so we could get to sleep, but we were greeted with hundreds of roaches who had a plan to keep us from moving in. This place was filthy and we were forced to sleep at the Norman Holiday Inn. The next day, we had an exterminator come out to assess and treat the house before we moved everything in. To our surprise, the exterminator said that the place was totally infested and that it would take up to 3 months to control the situation. That same night, after we moved into a different apartment, I went to take pictures of the madness so we could hold the landlady liable for paying back our deposit and first month's rent. A rat ran between my legs on this visit and the roaches were having the party of their lives. We also discovered a rotten rodent lying in one of the cupboards in the kitchen. Needless to say, I was disturbed by this first experience, but not turned off to the area. I will start working with an artifact collection from a site in Eastern Oklahoma in August and I am frantically looking for a second job that will supplement our income. Everything is going quite well now and after 2 visits to Texas already, it's like being home again. I am excited to see you all at some conference in the near future. Aaron, you and I have an abstract to write and hopefully we can all save some money to go to the SAA's in Puerto Rico. It may be a long shot for most of us, but what the hey. At least I can count on you guys being in Austin, Texas in 2007. Ok. Take care all and thanks for the support with the OPA video.