Dear blog readers,
How do I prevent Victor from putting his dumb motocross, NASCAR and surfing movies at the top of our Netflix queue so that my movies never move up, without doing something underhanded and vengeful like changing the password to our account?
-Kelly
P.S. I love you, baby!
Victor has been taking pictures of his clients at work. Here’s a sampling of the fine animals that frequent his establishment.
By the way, Victor has been elevated to the status of Manager-In-Training at Planet Pooch, after only 3 short months. He will assume the mantle of manager when the current holder of the position departs to run their new location in San Jose. Hurray for Victor!
Last Saturday Victor and I went on a hike on nearby Sweeney Ridge. We were ostensibly going to look for burrowing owls. Bob and Rodney, our erstwhile co-workers, are coordinating a statewide burrowing owl survey and asked us to check out this area, which apparently had burrowing owls historically.
We didn’t see any burrowing owls. It was foggy, and windy, and everything’s grown up with coyote brush- there’s no habitat. But we did find plenty of berries. The blackberries are just starting to be ripe, here, and the thimbleberries are in full swing.
I think thimbleberries have a really unique flavor, and given the fact that they’re pretty ubiquitous in these parts I’m somewhat surprised that I don’t see them around more in local cuisine, you know, “pork tenderloin with thimbleberry-port reduction”, that sort of thing. We didn’t eat the sage: that’s just an inedible garnish.
Some households find that one television per person is simply insufficient for their needs.
Victor and I are finding that one computer per person is insufficient for our household.
We have a laptop, which Victor has set up in a semi-permanent, ergonomically friendly workstation in the living room, and a desktop, which I use, in the bedroom. But, when I’m doing things that don’t require much concentration, I don’t want to be exiled to the bedroom. I want to be able to be in the living room, where the action is. So, sometimes there are turf wars over Victor’s laptop, from which we’ve concluded that we need an additional laptop. Not that we’re getting one any time soon. Still, how sad is that? How many computers do you need in a 750 sq. foot apartment?
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Victor knows which lane to be in. He can optimize his lane choice over the course of multiple complex traffic maneuvers. Do you remember that scene in the movie Hero, where the two samurai are facing each other, eyes closed, unmoving, poised for combat? They are visualizing how their contest will unfold: how one move must, inevitably, follow another, with Newtonian predetermination. No shopping center approach is too complex, no highway interchange too convoluted, as Victor chooses, unfailingly, the path that will lead him to his ultimate destination.