The dog goes on holiday, too.

Current Conditions: Stormy. Then sunny. WTF?
Currently listening to: I hate this keyboard. Hate. Hate. Hate! HATE!!


The folks are away on vacation, their house all closed up and empty. The family dog was going to be left in place, and looked in on by the duitiful siblings, but on close inspection this weekend, I find that the sister unit has taken said dog into her own house, and the dog was discovered happily wandering around the 'new' house, snacking on food and meeting with various children. So not only do the folks get to vacation somewhere else for a while, the dog does too.

I guess this is the follow-on effect of vacationing: other things that are related to you get a vacation of sorts as well. In fact, if we could all figure out a way of organising our vacation times, we could possibly all enjoy a break of sorts throughout the year. Get on that, would you?


Bad DVDs

On renting a DVD on the weekend, I stumbled into the one thing any DVD watcher fears most of all. The glitchy DVD. Yes, I know some of you quailed in spirit as you read the words. You never know if it's going to happen, or when it might occur. But Jodie Foster's just picked up a fire extinguisher, is about to hit Peter Saarsgard with it, and wh..aa..aa..aa.. ARRRGH!! the DVD player starts skipping and grinding, grinding and skipping. Is there anything more frustrating than glichy DVDs? At least VHS tapes wouldn't skip. The picture and sound might warp, but it would only stop if it was on fire. Sometimes I miss that.


Meal in a bun.

Whilst feasting on a mighty Turkey toasted sandwich from the good folks at Subway (eat fresh!) it occured to me that what I had wasn't just a sandwich, it was the essential elements of a meal. You've got your meat (turkey), cheese, lettuce, other healthy type things and some bread. That's a meal where I come from, only convientiently stacked together. Well played, Subway. Well played.


Installing software.

In my day, installing something took about 30 minutes. Obviously at some point I have been abducted and transported through a wormhole into the furtherest reaches of time, because it has taken pretty much all of today to install two software products on this computer. At 4 and a bit gig. I hope the Microsoft slaves are beaten extra-hard tonight for this outrage.


Peace out.