My Little Pony!
Remember that one time I wrote about losing a sock in the laundry? And I was all like “wow I finally lost a sock in the laundry”? Well, the sock turned up today! I was doing laundry, again, and when I took off my bed sheet, there was the suck. Tucked up inside somehow. My bed sheet is way bigger than my bed, and somehow the sock had stayed hidden in a fold. Funny that. Luckily I had kept the other leftover sock, so now they are reunited and all is bliss in Sockville.
It’s a Movie Of The Week in the making.
I had a strange dream involving Pelle, my old classmate. He was a world-famous writer and friends with Stephen King. I was very jealous of that. I always wanted to be a writer, you know. And to hang out with Stephen King. Or Dennis Jürgensen. Man I was a big, obnoxious dumbass when I was a kid. I’m sure they all hated me. Sorry Pelle, and you others.
Speaking of books, I got an email today. From saxo.dk, saying that they have sent out my Eels book. So I should receive it tomorrow. Or Friday latest. I am excited. And relieved. I was starting to worry that it would be sold out or something. But now it’s almost here and I’m looking very forward to it. Things the grandchildren should know. Aparently E’s father invented the parallel universe theory. Or so the blurb says. Which links nicely to The Middleman’s final episode, with its goatee-evil parallel universe fantasmicality. I think I love The Middleman more than any other new show since Lost and Heroes. It’s just so wonderfully full of geekiness. And I love going online and reading up on all the references in the episode I just watched. I’m a geek, but I’m not cool-geeky enough to get all the references. Bless the middleblog. I hate the fact that it will be canceled. Hate, hate, hate.
But enough geekiness. Let’s have some goats instead! One goat at least. In a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbeyF6FcrJo. Magnethe. Just because I can. Nothing much happens in it. Just a lot of goat scratching. I like the start, when she comes up to sniff at the camera. Goats are so curious, they sniff at everything. If you stand next to a goat with a camera then you can be pretty sure that you’ll get a video of a great, big goat-nose right in the camera lens.
(EDIT: Rereading that last line I think I should point out that I didn’t mean that you should stand next to a goat and the goat should hold a camera. YOU should hold the camera and then stand next to the goat. I hope that settles any confusion there might have been. If you ever find yourself “standing next to a goat with a camera” you should immediately ask the goat what it’s doing with a camera and where it got the camera. And possibly if it would mind taking a picture of you for your holiday album)
And a joy it is.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:11
Frankie wants to learn how to drive. I’ll bet he could use a camera. He would probably take pictures of our feet.
We saw about 2 dozen ostriches today not too far from home. We are going to paint a barn (drat!) and the owner of the barn also raises ostriches. All the birds came up to the fence when we got out of the truck to see if we had food.
They are really tall. Maybe 7-8 feet tall. Some had really pink legs and some pink on their beaks. It was drizzling rain, so no one looked for good feather-wise.
And no, they weren’t pink flamingoes, they were really ostriches.
We also went to visit some miniature horses, donkeys, llamas, and two emus. They all came over to the fence to see us, too. There was a baby mini horse that was really, really tiny.
Our donkey was a crazy girl tonight. She was running, bucking, and jumping on her walk. Then she wanted to rear up and dance on her back legs. Don’t know what got into her.
LuisLemmings: Just heard on a commercial on TV that we (Americans) are addicted to gasoline. Did I miss something? Is there a 12 Step Program for this addiction?
Hi, my name is “Debster” and I’m a gas-a-holic!
September 6th, 2008 at 1:32
I think, Debster, we are but it isn’t our fault. With people moving into the suburbs in the 1960s and away from metropolitan areas like the big cities there was no choice but to buy cars which, of course, requires gasoline. We don’t have mass transit like they do in Europe. And back then gas was so cheap in the United States. When I first drove back in the late 1970s, gas cost less than $1!! Can you believe that?? With just a handful of quarters I could fill up my tank and it would last for weeks.
The Europeans are way ahead of us in terms of transportation. They knew ahead of time that populating their countries with cars wasn’t a good idea. Where in the heck are you going to put all of them?
I’ve heard that America wil slowly evolve into mini-communities where stores, libraries, schools, etc will be centrally located so that very few will need to drive on freeways, highways, and throughways.
Where I live now in San Diego, I have to drive everywhere. My goodness, you know how high gas has been, Debster. I don’t care where one lives in America, gas is expensive all over!!
So it’s funny that you mentioned gasoline, I have been thinking of getting rid of this big house and moving into some place much smaller PLUS move to another part of town of San Diego where I can just walk to the groceries or some other store. I have friends who do and they’ve been encouraging me to do it. Since it’s the family home, I can always give it to another family member.
Also, did the ostriches give a greeting like a loud squawk? I’ve heard that they could kill by using their claws. Man, that’s scary.
I don’t know how you and Plume do it. You guys are around animals so much so everything is second nature. For me, a goat looks at me and will charge, fly through the air and ram me in the forehead.
…and after we pick Plume off of the ground because he was laughing so much, I’ll stick my tongue out at the goat, and run away crying back to my car.
Hi, my name is “LuisLemmings” and I’m afraid of flying goats!
September 6th, 2008 at 23:07
Luckily the only gas problem I have is when I eat too many eggs… but enough about that!
..I’d probably be afraid of flying goats too though. Magnethe at the wheel of a jumbojet?! Can you say “Kamikaze”!
September 7th, 2008 at 5:42
The ostriches made a funny noise alright. Then we saw the baby ones and they make a noise like the velosoraptors in Jurassic Park, the noise they make before they strike and eat you!