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Confused Spider

Yesterday morning I was toodling around on my computer, when a little spider ran across my screen.  After my initial startle, I took a closer look:  Wait a minute...am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?  I was!  He was chasing after my cursor arrow!  He would follow it all around, and occasionally try to bite it.  It was very cute, and very funny, and afterwards I thought "Damn, I wish I'd videotaped that!". 

Well, turns out I didn't have to.  This seems to be a fairly common thing.  Stupid spiders!

I Gotta Get Me One of These!

Blogging from my iPhone

I'm back in town after being gone for almost two weeks. Aah! Temperate weather! I love Seattle. I'm trying out my newly updated iPhone and the Typepad app. Pretty cool, but I wonder how big this pics gonna post?

My Poor Dog!!!

Tiki has been acting a bit odd for the last several weeks.  She's been smacking her mouth, as though it's very dry, and occasionally making little gagging motions.  She's also been whiny sometimes.  Whining a bit as she lays down.  She has epilepsy and arthritis so we figured it was her meds or something that were causing these symptoms. 

In the last 10 days or so, we've suddenly noticed her breath smelling AWFUL.  I mean, it's never been great.  She's a dog, after all.  But lately, it's been something that you can smell from 10 feet away.  That's not normal.  So I called the doctor.  "Bring her in right away," they said.  "A dramatic change in breath can be an indicator of some pretty serious conditions."

So I brought her in, and the asked me as many questions as they could.  I've also recently changed Tiki's diet, and they said that might be it.  The doctor then went to examine her, checking out her teeth, and then opening the mouth a bit wider.

"She has a stick caught in her throat."

!!!!!

The poor thing has had a 2" long, 1/8" diameter twig wedged across the roof of her mouth for God knows how long.  The smell?  It was the smell of the horrible infection raging in her mouth. 

I feel just awful that I didn't notice it there.  But they got the stick out, and she's on the mend. 

Smart and Funny

A conversation I had with my hubby this morning:

Me:  Hey!
Hubby:  What?
Me:  I just registered to test drive a Smart car!
Hubby:  Cool!  When?
Me:  I dunno, they still have to contact me.  I just filled out a form online.
Hubby:  Cool.  I wanna go.
Me:  OK, but you can't point and laugh like you do every time we drive by one.
Hubby:  I can't help it!  They're funny!
Me: You have to suppress that urge.
Hubby:  That's ridiculous.  That's like saying "Don't laugh at a cow".

A Funny Graph

This one made me chuckle:

Thanks to Tony for the find! 

Let's Get Small

Remember Steve Martin's album, Let's Get Small?  Well, the other night, I did.  I got so small I climbed right into an acoustic guitar.

(OK, really we were at the Pacific Science Center on our way to see U2 3D at the Imax theatre.  There's some sort of cool music display going on there right now, with GIANT guitars.   The movie rocked, btw.  Go see it.  Try to go see it at an IMAX theater if you can.)

Ouch, Charlie! That really hurt!

From the looks of the high numbers on the view count, I might be the last person to see this video.  Still, it's pretty darn funny. 

Foamy Monkeys

A dream I had this morning, as relayed to my husband via Skype

Leslie Irish Evans
9:16 AM
Oh!

9:16 AM
I had a very bizarre dream about you last night.

Chris Evans
9:16 AM
yeah?

Leslie Irish Evans
9:16 AM
Yeah. We were in South Africa....

9:16 AM
and it was night time

9:17 AM
and we were driving around in an SUV....

9:17 AM
with other tourists in the back seat.

9:17 AM
You were driving...I was riding shotgun....

9:17 AM
and we were in a town...

9:17 AM
with lots of buildings and the right...and the beach on the left...

9:17 AM
and we were supposed to be turning back....

9:18 AM
but you kept wanting to go a little farther...a little farther....

9:18 AM
and it kept getting darker and darker....

9:18 AM
and we were looking at the water...and noticing the big foamy head on it...and saying "Ah, yes. Remember this from last time we were here? The water gets very foamy. It's just what it does."

9:19 AM
And then we saw monkeys playing in the foam...and we were showing the people in the back seat..."Look! Look at that ! See? This is just like we saw last time...the monkeys playing in the foam"

Chris Evans
9:19 AM
And then it was BEER!

Leslie Irish Evans
9:19 AM
and I said "OK, Chris, it keeps getting darker...we need to turn around and go back"

9:19 AM
and you said "not yet"

9:19 AM
and then a foamy monkey jumped in through the sun roof and starting MESSING with me!!!!

9:20 AM
And I was like UGH! FUCKING FOAMY MONKEY!

Chris Evans
9:20 AM
LOL

Leslie Irish Evans
9:20 AM
And then Kate came clomping into our room asking me if I had that white t-shirt she told me she needed three days ago....

9:20 AM
and she woke me up

9:20 AM
and I said "Thank you."

Chris Evans
9:20 AM
lol

9:20 AM
Fucking foamy monkey!

Leslie Irish Evans
9:21 AM
Exactly

Chris Evans
9:21 AM
Foamy Monkey - a great band name

Leslie Irish Evans
9:21 AM
They're obnoxious enough when they're NOT foamy

9:21 AM
And I kept hissing at him to make him go away, and forgetting that just makes things WORSE

Chris Evans
9:21 AM
yeah but foamed - they're like an evil latte with thumbs!