The BumbleRabbit Archives

Good morning, Erin. First things first: yes, I absolutely did wake up super-early to watch the Single’s Inferno 4 debut—and I have proof! As you can see, I got a little way into the episode before I thought to take this picture (which, when I texted it to my friend, I referred to as a “proof-of- no -life” photo), but…there it is.  Priorities. But, much as I would love to chat with you about this new season of “the hottest inferno in the world” after having forsaken sleep for the better part of 36 hours, we are here to, instead, talk about happiness. Wait—that can’t be right… [ checks notes ] Ah! I mean Happiness , the 2021 zombie outbreak series. That…that makes way more sense than me talking about being happy. That would be laughable.  But, yes, we’ve got a show that came out of nowhere and had me tossing aside everything else I was watching so I could get through all 12 of its episodes as quickly as possible. Why? I dunno! But I remember that I spontaneously decided to watc...

Good morning, Erin. In my previous letter, I told you I’d spent about 10 hours cracking a murder-mystery-in-a-box. And, somewhat unexpectedly, I have a follow-up to that story: I passed the game to my sisters so they could give it a shot—which, to my surprise, they did the very next day. My littler little sister texted me to say she’d been working on it for a bit and was stuck on the same password puzzle I’d been stuck on. But, she told me, things had been going very well outside of that one snag in their investigation.  I asked whereabouts in the rest of the mystery she was, and she said…well, I’ll show you:   Yes, Daryl. Yes, it does. It opens because there is a secret note inside. I had not even considered that there was anything more to the lighter than the phone number prominently written on the outside of it. (Which leads to a voicemail box that is a clue.) In fact, the rest of the text conversation let me know that there were two or three pieces of the overall puzz...