Don't mind me. I'm just sitting here eating cupcakes and trying not to think about the ever-increasing expense of SkooterPie's roof replacement project.

They're red velvet, by the way. Which sort of matches the color of my face when SkooterPie told me that the cost of hauling away the old roofing material was twice the estimate and more than the cost of the new roofing material.

He told me when I called him on my way to meet the lovely friend who made the cupcakes. After we hung up, a panhandler asked me for money. I wasn't very nice to him either.