the blog is done.

after a lot of thought, i've decided that this blog is going on hiatus. i ain't got much to say, and i what i do have to say i'm pretty sure isn't terribly interesting.

on the odd chance there is anything interesting going on, you can see it on flickr.

smell ya later.

dubya's OK in my book

i mean, he listens to dwight yoakam too!

where was this when i was in college?

i was a big abuser of the computer labs in college, primarily because i had an old tandy t-1000 that just sucked ass ... and once i got a glimpse of that funky new york font that magically made a half-page paper turn into a full page in word 5.1, well, i was hooked.

had i read this helpful article on the internet then, i might have gotten laid more. of course, there was no internet then -- not as we know it today -- so i doubt that it would have helped.

If you've spotted a girl in the lab who you think you'd like to "get to know better," the first thing you're going to want to do is try and look at what she's doing on the computer.

Don't.

This is not going to get you any points with her. I can't tell you how many times I've peeked over a random girl's shoulder in the lab and gotten slapped simply for saying, "What are you looking at?" or "Who are you writing an e-mail to?" or "You're looking at YahooNews? It's things like that that make me cry when I think about you while masturbating." Yeah, I don't know why that ticks them off either. Girls are weird.

They are.

i can't touch this one

caption it

at the risk of realizing i have no readers anymore ...

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, originally uploaded by pr9000.

it snowed.

as anyone who lives around here knows ... we got a bit of snow today. i went to bed last night and could see the driveway, and trotter and i woke up to snow up above his belly (which makes for intriguing potty trips).

i got home and broke out the camera.

wreath IV, originally uploaded by pr9000.

i had trotsky helping me on this one, so i had frijolita take him inside so i could go explore the neighborhood a bit.

i've never been a huge fan of colored lights -- that is, until i saw my neighbors' bushes before the snow. but they're even more beautiful after.

neighbors' lights II, originally uploaded by pr9000.

and the night ended up with me, on my back, in the middle of the road, to get this one.

it snowed., originally uploaded by pr9000.

this is football

fletcher IV

fletcher IV, originally uploaded by pr9000.

"you're gonna get/coal in your stocking/because you're yuppie scum"

sing it, foamy the squirrel ...

oh, it's not exactly safe for work.

when you can confim you've lost it

i'm sitting here on the couch, watching "outside the lines" detail why it's a good idea and a bad idea for the colts to try to go 16-0, and liebchen is trying to get out of the living room.

we have put up baby gates at all major entrances to the room, to keep trotter p from getting out (or in, depending on circumstances) and chewing on/peeing & pooping on/eating things in other rooms.

but we provide an escape route: french doors that lead to a sitting room of sorts off the main living room. they're cracked enough for a cat to fit through, even fat ones like ours.

so liebchen, aka "beastie" for her ferocious hiss, is trying to physically move a baby gate that weighs five pounds or so, with her little paw.

i find myself saying out loud "beastie ... there's a door right over there (gesturing toward the french doors) you could go out of. you do it every day, so why are you trying to go out that way?"

you know you've lost it when you start talking to your pets in english complicated enough to pass for real human conversation.