Ok y’all, I have some laundry detergent in need of a good home.
One full costco brand liquid bottle. (which I think is like 96 loads)
One half-box of tide pellets (maybe 15-20 loads)
First come first served. The catch is that you have to get them at the trunk of my car in the pit. I’m not carrying them in.
here it is…
I’m at some sort of ocean-front resort just enjoying myself when I hear an odd crunching noise coming from the freezer of a building I’m walking by. I open the freezer and there’s an animal that looks like a cross between a weasel and a cat chewing on frozen fuit. (Peaches I think, and the animal had little conical teeth.) For some reason, I called the animal a stoat. I chased it around for a little while and then managed to catch it by the scruff of its neck.
For some reason, I then decided to throw it in the ocean so I carried it down to the beach. Unfortunately, after I threw it in, it started running so fast that it was basically flying on top of the water and it ran/flew down the beach to where two people were getting married and bit the minister. (with associated arm flapping as the stoat bit down and wouldn’t let go.)
Then there was more chasing although this time I had a wiffle bat and was just swinging wildly at the little animal.
Finally, I woke up and my feet were cold.
I have three posts to make this morning, assuming I can remember all the interesting stuff.
On my car ride this morning, I drove through a patch of sun. Just then Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” came on and played for a while until it got to a really uplifting major-chord part.
Just then, a burst of wind caught a little yellow tree and blew all of the leaves straight up into the sky right as the music crescendoed. It made me wish that I shot movies.
… or at least that’s what my old man tells me one should do.
In keeping with that spirit, I direct everyone to today’s Christopher Hitchens piece in Slate. I usually like reading Hitchens, as he’s very good about getting his facts straight, offers the perspective of a Brit living in the U.S., and is not afraid to play devil’s advocate to make his point.
Anyways, I found today’s article particularly enlightening, and it reminded me how much more I should continue to learn about other parts of the world to really understand what’s going on there.
I have no intention of booking a trip to Las Vegas in the next three hours… but for Nathaniel’s sake I am posting this opportunity.
So, since pretty much every team that I wanted to win on Saturday lost, I think I will give up on watching sports and take up knitting. Seriously, you would think that maybe 1 out of 15 games I cared about would go my way right? No. CU, ND, Cal, PSU, Arkansas, and even Nebraska barely pulled it out against Baylor … AND the Cardinals went down 3-1 in the NLCS. I guess the one thing I have is that the Bronco’s didn’t choke this week, and Jake Plummer didn’t throw away the game against the Patties (sorry Pats fans, but I gotta have something).
I just checked my bank’s website, and it turns out they’ve joined a new ATM network, and there are now ATMs within a reasonable distance that don’t charge me for taking out money! Two in White River, one in West Leb, and one in Leb. I even drive by the one in West Leb on the way to Price Chopper and Walmart. Whee! Free money!!
