Windows faw down go boom?
Yuan now less than 7 to the US dollar.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is real.
Big deal, it’s just a salesperson’s ancestor.
Rehearsed for the Willie P memorial concert. I’m starting to be mildly nervous.
Category: Nature
Mad yet?
It’s been bally ages since I posted a decent moose pic
Chickens break up rabbit fight
Owlcam
When I saw it the mom was roosting by the nest.
Lady Miss B’s cat Suzie
is tangled up in snakey orange. Too good not to cross post.
An ongoing education
It’s the damnedest thing, but living with Jeff is proving to be quite educational. The dishwasher started groaning like the dog that guards the gates of hell, and Jeff said, “I think it’s the sensor. Let’s clean it.” I was dubious, but it worked fine after that. I thought there’s not even 2 thou of soap scum on it, what difference would that make? Amazing.
Gizmo sat on me for the first time on the weekend…. I forgot to mention that. I didn’t even notice when he sat down, but that might have had something to do with just getting the moving finished and being slightly brain dead.
Every day I come home on the bus thinking foodlike thoughts – what shall I make us for dinner? …. tonight I’m thinking I want to stop off at Brentwood and get some salad fixin’s and taters to pair up with pork chops. Then if I simply must start the box shifting magick.
Bad nooz…. Jarmo and the family is going to Whistler, so no fries. I’m almost tempted to go buy a deep fryer, but maybe I’ll just find something equally dripping with fat.
From LMB
Links
This is part of a global network of big city blogs.
This is another cool arts and history and other blog.
The genealogy of Western Thought – warning, PDF.
An extreme take on the collapse of the US.
And now, Eddie:
LOLGizmo
Loadso pix from Ottawa
This one’s from Leo. Can you tell what Whiskers is thinking?
Clichés so totally rock my world
I was horrified to read a list of clichés on gawker… and I’ve used almost every one.
I will try to “use my words” in future. If I do any LOLcats stuff I’ll put in my Livejournal, how’s that? And perhaps I will be more judicious in my use of italics.
I draw the line at my ‘Inertnests’ neologizm going away, though. I thought it was a nice play on words, all those people in their little inert nests, smashing the stumble button, playing around with reddit, watching Noam Chomsky interviews on youtube….
Today I will do a bundle buggy shop. I want to see how hard it is to shop locally…..
Oh my god. I went to the Chinese greasy spoon at the corner of 22nd and Rupert yesterday am. I ordered scrambled eggs and sausage and got scrambled eggs and fried wieners. While I was contemplating this horkworthy attempt at breakfast, a trembling, staggering cockroach meandered down the far wall next to the kitchen.
I dropped by Planet Bachelor where the boys had a full house – Jessica W and Katie were there for brekky. Christ, I should have gone there first. I hung around long enough to suck back some coffee and pick up some more tax return stuff and then went home, where I stared at the walls and did zero packing for about six hours. To intersperse with staring at the walls I re-read Curse of Chalion and read Oryx and Crake, which is like holy crap, how many dystopian novels does the world actually require?
Then I came back here on the bus… which only runs every half hour after supper on weekends. Gizmo and Eddie are starting to get used to me and they are certainly handsome cats. Eddie will walk right up to you and give you a shove when he’s hungry, with his paw. It was quite funny. Both of the cats snore; Giz is wheezing quietly right now.
I’m contemplating the pile of remotes and wondering if I dare try to turn something on. I need coffee.
Geeking out
Honest to god, Kung Fu Mike wasn’t through the door at the new place an inch before he and Jeff were geeking out. Mike and I hung around for a Few Days in September and a single beer, and then I got a lift home. A pleasant evening hanging around and watching a movie and shooting the breeze.
Earlier Mike and I went to Kathmandu Cafe. Small menu but everything we ate was delicious.
We got to the new place and Jeff had already set up the tvs. He described how he got everything moved – I was stunned because that stuff is super awkward when you’re by yourself. Mike drooled so hard on the tv (and why not) and examined it closely for burnt out pixels. Then they geeked out some more (Jeff moved through part of a scenario in Assassin’s Creed.) Happy sigh. All in all a thoroughly satisfying evening, and I even got enough sleep!! No packing, of course….
Oh, and Gizmo ran away earlier and came back while Mike and I were visiting. Then he demanded to be let out again, and I told Jeff to let him. (He showed up, guzzled some food, and demanded to be let out again…. welcome to having a teenager, I said.)