My Mates

              

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The alarm clock and the gas gauge are my approximates.

They are close because they never let me down … exactly.

 

note: it’s good to have friends in places … or just one place.

double note: digital stuff requires counting on your fingers or something.

triple note: close is good enough usually … except for those horsegrenades and handshoes.

quadruple note: the alarm clock is at 10 to 2 because that’s when I took the photo. I wasn’t influenced by advertising … or anything. I was just being coinci…dense…and all.

quintuple note: people who read these entries under the “personal tag” must be really disappointed … or any tags for that matter … now that I think about it … but I don’t usually … so it’s not such a bother.

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notes to myself #184

For someone who loves to talk our alone time is pretty precious.

Is Statue?

                                       

Some statues are better in situations than others.

                                 

Some statues are more tolerant than others too!

 

note: I think I’m monumental.

double note: Tenaga and Ashinaga (long arms-long legs) on a bridge in Takayama, Gifu-ken.

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notes to myself #183

We like travelling not to see something amazing, but to see something amazingly silly.

Invincible

 

I want to be naturally invincible.

Just the knowledge that if Superman tried to make me pick up some litter that he though I had dropped, but really didn’t … I wouldn’t have the slightest twinge of nervousness creep over me

… or a horrible feeling in my stomach
… or “deer in headlights” syndrome
… or the sweats.

The best thing about it would be that I wouldn’t have to work out, learn martial arts, or eat properly.

It would all be “natural”: like being double jointed or being able to wiggle your ears.

I’m sure I’d use this ability wisely … like I’m sure if I won a huge lottery I’d use all the money wisely.

It would just be nice to say, “I don’t think so” to Superman, if he tried to make me pick up that litter that he thought I had dropped, but really didn’t.

 

note: if Superman had landed in China, I bet the farmers who found him would have had a tough time explaining that one.

… Superman would probably be saving the Great Wall of China, pandas, and the communist party more often too!

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notes to myself #182

When we are 45 years old, the person at McDonalds puts an extra Quarter Pounder with cheese in our bag. Total score!!!

Animotion

 

Is it just me or are anime characters getting sexier looking?

oh! okay.

nevermind.

 

note: in response to omawarisan over at Blurt who has a photo of a truck with testicles  on it. I’d call this a rebuttal, but I didn’t take a picture of the otherside car with that on it.

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notes to myself #181

It takes us about 30 years before we actually know what the real lyrics to AC/DC‘s “Back in Black” are. They mention a Cadillac!

Van … ishing

 

The van’s “rain umbrellas” deployed accidentally during a wash.

 

note: someone called it a dirty old van, so I washed it.
The same person called it a dirty old van afterwards too!
Maybe I need a hearing check.

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notes to myself #180

The doctor doesn’t let us keep the meteor sized chunk of wax that he flushes out of our ear when we are 9 years old. I’m pretty sure he kept it for himself.

Pun … ishment

 

BEEHEADED AND BUTTERFLIED

 

note: possibly this is a capital offense too.

double note: he’s not wearing a cap, so it’s not a decapitation … or maybe it is.

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notes to myself #179

Scrappy-Doo is the villain in the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie!
… sorry.

Pooling Resources

 

Why does drying out require so much liquid?

 

note: my holiday is officially over and hopefully normal posting and checking out all of your blogs will resume normally.

double note: I haven’t been a total bum for the last week.

 

Just waiting for a copy to see if it looks okay and is ready for public consumption.

As I said before, I will send anyone on my blogroll a free copy. … I figure you’ve read most of this stuff in one form or another over the last few years, so it’s not like it’s anything too new and exciting.

If you would like a copy (hopefully arriving at a postbox near you in June) … and don’t mind sending an address to hey_ross@hotmail.com  , I will mail you one. All names/addresses info will be strictly confidential.

If you don’t trust me with your confidential info, you can still read it on here for free when I officially publish it publicly. ( hopefully May 20 something or so) … and I figure out how to attach a blurb widgetty thingey over here.

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notes to myself #178

The first day back at school is a lot easier than the first day back at work:
you don’t get any new pencils or anything!

Phun With Fonics!

 

a diphthong

 

note: a donkey wearing a thong would be weird.

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notes to myself #177

One day people won’t really know what you do at work.

Ladders

 

I bet the first person to make a ladder had a cat

… and a tree.

 

note: staring at ladders is the first step.

double note: step-ladders are wicked.

triple note: the game “step-ladders and step-snakes” is a smaller car friendly version of the classic.

quadruple note: sorry, I’m still on holidays and am not really here that much. I will spam all of you with comments very soon.

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notes to myself #176

The sponge you wash dishes with was never a sea creature.

Experiment #6

 

Three of my experiments are dead or complete.
The other two are limping along.
I was in a rut and needed something new to fill in countless freetime hours.

I was debating over growing mini-carrots or becoming a mini-peanut plantation owner when Mr. Pettit  brought my attention to “The Legend of Ants: Pyramid Mystery” through pointing and more pointing.

I’m not really a pet person, but ants I can handle! … and I can call myself a farmer too!

So myself and Mr. Pettit  are now owners of ant farms and will probably have farmer tans in no time … and start petitioning the government for subsidies … and wearing overalls over our underalls … and hanging out at farmers’ markets and stuff.

 

note: ants are hard to catch … alive.

double note: top right hand corner “KIDS with ANT“.

triple note: I have the cool pyramid one. Mr. Pettit went for the traditional model.

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notes to myself #175

Chocolate milk never loses its appeal.