Royal Toybox Can Wield a Sword of Guilt

Stupid BufBloPoFo '09.

After having lunch with the author of The Royal Toybox yesterday, he mentioned how I would drop the ball in his blog festivities if I did not post SOMETHING in his fortnight of tortuous creative writing. Despite my stating I would not be a part of the competition this year and my intention to be the worst blogger, I have been undone by a simple request not to be the weakest link. It seems I'm a day late here, but here it goes.

I did some brief research on the young lady blogger who sits below me on the BufBloPoFo '09 list. This writer calls herself Becky Boop, and fills people in on all things Becky from her loved city of Chicago. She has been known I believe, to team up with her sister who can also update the blog with a different perspective.

Perhaps Becky Devlin? I am uncertain. I just know she is from Chicago, goes by Becky, has a sister, is friends with Mike Garvey, and works for a dental supplier.

I know she does ponder the contemporary conundrum of a woman: careers vs. family. She respects those that have found a way, and knows how difficult it can be.

She struggles with the BufProFo deadlines due to her hectic schedule, and likens her sometimes clumsy ways to Bridget Jones or Lucille ball. If you want a good example of this, a funny read, and more proof that Murphy is everywhere, read this.

I see that you seem to have the best relationships from those that you initially dislike. Which must make it difficult to know when to pursue someone. So Becky Boop, my question for you is this: Assume in this scenario you are single. If you walked into a bar and there were a bunch of potential fellas there ripe for picking, what five questions would you ask each one of them to determine best compatibility? Same five questions for each one, obviously.

I find it useful to look at past relationships and try to find out why they weren't successful. Then I try to come up with a question that would help me to avoid that pitfall again. For example:

Do you wash your feet with a toothbrush?
Is your favorite musician named Yanni?
Do you hate monkeys?
Do you have a collection of 'Precious Moments" figurines?
Can you make a tasty sandwich?

Understood if you don't get a chance to reply to these.

Hindquarters not functional.

Well I think that anyone suffering from depression should have a dog with this disorder.  



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Old News

Yet another facet in the gem that is Back to The Future:

Quoted from The New York Times:

In a comparative survey of primate behavior, Richard Byrne and Nadia Corp of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found a direct relationship between sneakiness and brain size. The larger the average volume of a primate species’ neocortex — the newest, “highest” region of the brain — the greater the chance that the monkey or ape would pull a stunt like this one described in The New Scientist: a young baboon being chased by an enraged mother intent on punishment suddenly stopped in midpursuit, stood up and began scanning the horizon intently, an act that conveniently distracted the entire baboon troop into preparing for nonexistent intruders.

Uh, you mean Marty saying "Hey Biff - What's that!? (points in the distance and then sucker punches, mom swoons, skateboard invented from weird wooden '50's thing)

So what I'm saying is that anything you spend hours and hours nay YEARS of research on I can tell you it's already well documented in Back to the Future.  Silly primate behaviorists.

You Can Have the Other Seasons....

...and I'll take fall.  If there is one reason to justify living in a place famous for snow and high taxes, it would be the months following August and before November.  Well okay, maybe a few weeks of late August too.  Oh and we don't have all-consuming, end-of-the-world, four-horseman-of-the-apocalypse forest fires.  I think I'd rather be forced to stay home and sip hot chocolate for a few days than have my home burned to the ground.  On the flip side, California must be a great state to have a construction business.  Anyway, I thought a nice photo essay re-capping a few items of note would be a solid tribute to the season.  You know, sort of give a nod to fellow bloggers Royal Toybox and Pretty Bird and their contributions to the subject.  So here it goes:

(above) Cool looking tree, right?  You wait three weeks and then clean the gutters.  It's like having a compost pile for a roof line.  

(above) This is one of the holes at the local frisbee-golf course.

 (above) Niagara Falls from the Canadian side.

 (above) Niagara Falls again.  Look at the little Cave of the Winds people - awwww.

And of course, last but not least: my cousin doing his best at Frisbee golf but getting denied by the top deck.  This was the only shot he missed all day, man did I get schooled.  But it was well worth the embarrassment just to be out in the sun and leaves.

Please Be True

I drive by this thing everyday.  I don't know what it is, but it's on the right hand side of the highway on the way into the city.  I glance at it just about every time I go by.  And every time without fail, the same image of the inside flashes through my mind.  The intentionally bland exterior shows no sign of what I surmise to be inside.  You can't see the massive amount of wires sprouting from the earth and all winding their way around the walls and ceiling toward the central triangle that looks just like a flux capacitor on the west wall.  

This of course, is all under one enormous 2-foot x 4-foot porcelain light switch.  

Please oh please I just want to go in for a second.   

   

Question of the Day

Former president of Russia and now prime minister, what's Vladimir Putin doing these days? Is it: 

a) Shooting tigers

b) Adopting tigers

c) Starring in his own instructional judo DVD

d) All of the above

ANS:  d 

For The Love of God

Doggles?  Seriously?  There must be something better we can do with our time. Like blog about them.