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Frigging bats.

I guess the fireworks made one crazy inside its head and it decided to come inside and visit. Thankfully it wasn't swooping around. I heard a thunk and clatter clatter and knew that saint nick wasn't popping by for a cold one so I get up to see what kind of fucking critter has invaded.

I head down the hallway towards the sound, clunk, clatter clatter and don't see anything... except that's not a sock, WTF is that?

Frigging bat ran aground; "help me I've fallen and I can't get up!"

I go to the kitchen and get a big glass and my student loan bill and scoop it up, spider style, and toss it outside into the air with a little English on it, hoping the toss might jump start it. Otherwise one of the neighborhood's 10,000 cats will find it.

And as I toss the frigging thing I somehow manage to pull a muscle in my forearm.

Frigging bats.