| | • Guinea Pig Farmer •
Boy, I never envisioned this last Friday…
or this…
but, there they are, in black and white (ha!), our two newest members of the Asala clan. The top one (Betty), and the bottom one, Eko (pronounced like echo, which, coincidentally, is pronounced like ecko or ekko, but I digress…)
Betty? How do we know it's a girl? We don't. A boy guinea pig named Betty won't really know the difference, thank you.
Why Eko? Because I wanted to name "him" Mr. Eko, from Lost. The Mrs. said "No," and I asked "why?" and she said "because last week he slit the throats of two guys," and I said "but that was in a flashback," and she said "but it was still violent," and I said "but he's so cool!" and she said "okay, whatever, but how about just Eko?" and I said "okay, I can live with that," and Regan said "hey, guys, when's dinner?"
And if Eko – Mr. Eko here in blogland, thank you very much - is a girl, then I'll drop the Mr. even from the blog.
Ah, I never envisioned blogging about guinea pigs, mostly because I would never go to a blog about guinea pigs and purposely read it, but last Friday I never envisioned having three times as many guinea pigs as before. Slutty little Daisy.
Oh, and the guinea pigs come out of the mom (ick) ready to run a marathon. Within an hour they were prancing in a cage and eating solid food. It took a year for our 19-month old to do that. The guinea pigs already listen way better than she does, too. Sigh.
• Gamer •
Yes, it's become World of Warcrack. Roger my dwarf hunter is 13th level, and he has a really, really cool pet boar that follows him around and tusks things (can tusks be used as a verb?). I seem to be randomly walking around shooting and stabbing things in the Warcraft world, which, thankfully, doesn't mirror real life (yet). I go around and around until I get killed by giant whatchajiggies that are like 20th level and make me a ghosts. I died about six times in ten minutes the other day just trying to GET OUT of one area. After the third death I pleasantly tried telling them that I'm leaving, thank you very much, without even trying to shoot or stab anything. It was to no avail - I guess dealing with giant, cleaver-wielding skeletons is tricky business.
Next week: A play-by-play of my World of Warcraft-induced divorce proceedings…
• Teacher •
I actually said this to a student two weeks ago:
"And why are you wearing your aunt's pants?"
Now, that may seem strange to say to a fifth grader, and possibly suggestive (it wasn't, trust me). It was said to a BOY who was complaining that other kids were making fun of his pants. Yes, he admitted that they were his aunt's…
• Comic Book reader •
Anyone out there start reading any online comics, like Finder or Girl Genius? I'm curious as to the quality and ease-of-use perception.
Do you think that it will catch on and people will make money doing it that way? Curious, because I think that the potential is pretty high.
The movie 300 is in production, based on one of my favorite comics of all time, Frank Miller's 300, about King Leonidas and his Spartan guards that defend Greece against Xerxes and the Persian army. I can't wait to see this! It's definitely in my top five, and I hope the movie is good.
I caught an old 60s movie called 300 Spartans, which tells basically the same story, but was sooooo cheesy that I couldn't take it. On our digital cable it got 1 star out of 4. That rating is usually reserved for movies like Meatballs 7, or a make-for-Sci-Fi movie starring one of the Sweathogs that wasn't John Travolta. It was gawwdawful. The ending scene had "special effects" that rivaled any Doctor Who episode, though.
• Adventurer •
It looks like we have 6 for our next Canada trip! That would rock. Means we could carry waaaaaaay more booze than in previous years. Woot! |
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