Dampeoples switched his weblog over to WordPress recently and has started posting some really cool pictures to his weblog. He’s got more cool looking stuff in hiw photo gallery.
While I’m on the topic, over at karenika.com, she’s started a nifty project collecting pictures from each state in the US. There are some really cool pictures in there and she’s taking submissions.
Lots of cool stuff to be seen around the country that you just won’t find in travel books and magazines.
Do I stink?
Got a package in the mail yesterday. Wasn’t anything terribly unusual, just one of those promo sized things of deodorant.
What was unusual was who it was addressed to. It was addressed to one of my Hooligan aliases, which as far as I know has never been associated with my snail mail address.
When I first saw the package, I thought “Cool, something from my friends!”. But then when I opened it, I was rather disappointed to find that it was just a promotion for a brand of deodorant.
Perhaps my friends are trying to tell me something. I don’t think I smell that bad, do I?
Beats using a cadaver
So my wife started her summer Gross Anatomy class yesterday. They hit the ground running pretty fast, so she’s spending a lot of time studying.
In the process, I’ve become her anatomy model. So while she’s studying, every now and then she’ll call me over and use me to check something out that she’s just learned. So I have to stop what I’m doing, get up, and sometimes contort myself into several pretzel like shapes so she can see what she’s been reading about.
Fortunately I’m only good for surface anatomy. For the rest of it she’ll have to stick with the cadaver.
From the Really Weird Dreams Department
Sometimes I have these really inexplicably weird dreams that wake me up and leave me wondering “What the heck was that?”
It started off with me wandering around the townhouse complex where I grew up. There was this funny looking chihuahua following me around for some reason. Then this funny looking dog thing appeared. It looked a lot like Speak, the South American rodent thing that the Tick adopted as a dog. Suddenly, the chihuahua gave a yelp, jumped up and landed on the back of the Speak-resembling-thing and started humping it.
A woman standing next to me asks “Is that dog humping the other one?”
After looking a little bit, I replied “No…I think he’s trying to ride it…like a horse”
Eventually the Speak-resembling-thing took off with the chihuahua riding on it’s back. There’s this guy filming the chihuahua jumping onto the Speak-resembling-thing’s back to send to America’s Funniest Animals. He’s recording it on a strange format film, so when it’s played back it looks and sounds like slow motion.
Suddenly, Speak-resembling-thing is being operated on. Midline incision is made, and strange looking guts are revealed. And then I woke up.
Remind me not to read my wife’s anatomy textbooks before going to bed…
Opposites really do attract
My wife and I are completely and totally the opposite of each other. It’s a wonder that we get along as well as we do.
- My wife is a social butterfly and people person. I am not.
- She likes going out clubbing and dancing. I hate clubs, and have no rhythm at all.
- She likes eating out at fancy restaurants. I just want to go to the burger place down the road.
- Physics turns me on. It turns her off.
- I like playing outdoors and doing outdoorsy things. She can’t stand being anywhere bugs might land on her.
- She likes to plan and schedule everything. I have a hard time planning what I’m going to be doing in 10 minutes.
- I cook experimentally and throw together whatever happens to be on hand. She wants to stick with the recipe.
- She waffles. When I make a decision, I’m committed unless there’s a good reason to make me change my mind.
- I’m a pack rat. She’s forever looking to throw away my stuff.
Despite all that, we still manage to get along amazingly well and have been for the past 11 years. Rather than thinking of us as being total opposites, I prefer to think of us as being very complementary.