Lazy Man's Holiday

[infanttyrone]

All week I've managed to walk my pups and be home by 2, or 3 at the latest. I've managed this by being short two dogs this week, going to bed early after the bar, and riding like a crazy man. Hence, each day this week has found me comfortably ensconced on my couch in time for the bombastic opening credits of "Magnum P.I." and sometimes even "

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[fuzzilla]

>"Storm My Ass".<

Ha! That's right, there's a storm coming. I guess I did my laundry just in time after all. The kids on my block might have an awesome sky for the Halloween movie.

>I would satiate my inner brooding adolescent by walking around the lakeshore park in the catastrophic weather with headphones, thinking 'bout how nobody really "gets" me.<

I haven't watched Mystery Science Theater 3000 in ages, but one bit I remember was a guy turning to someone else in a bar, I guess to talk about aliens or whatever the movie was about. The joky voice-over had him saying "aren't these people phony?"

[infanttyrone]

Oh golly, I've got a suitcase full of hundreds of MSTs on VHS. Maybe that's what I'll do with my evening.

And while there wasn't any adverse weather all day, I'm looking east out my office window now and it looks like the apocalypse is rolling in from the southeast.

[micheinnz]

Sounds like an awesome day.

(Stopped dead, huh? Did it need a kick start?)

[infanttyrone]

No, I realized that if I didn't react it would be really creepy, so I think I said something astute and witty like "uhhhhhh..."

[bluebellrock]

I can't do zoos. I boycotted them about a 14 years ago - after I saw a crocodile in a shallow puddle of water once at a mini zoo by an amusement park. Depressed the hell out of me. I know their brains are supposedly pea-sized, but who are we to deprive them of the ability to swim and roll around and lurk underwater? I decided to lift the ban when my nephew came to town last month but then I didn't go after all. But I do want to. I want to see all the animals I've missed seeing for so long. I want to find out about the programmes the zoo has for animals near extinction.

PS: Talk about a too-hot-for-LJ encounter in the lift. Lordy!

[infanttyrone]

Yeah, I normally avoid 'em. But it's right there, in the middle of the city, and I figured I could stop by... The other human beings were often as if not more depressing, what with the hooting and whistling and banging on the rails and walking around with cameras in front of their faces.

Heh, only to me did that even qualify as an "encounter". Before I could untangle the leash myself she had moved in. I had an iced coffee in one hand and my thumb looped into my backpack strap, and in my rush to grab the leash I would have smacked her in the face. I really wish I had bothered to wear clean clothes today. (She dresses real purdy, so I think she probably noticed that I was extra-slovenly.)

[bluebellrock]

That would qualify as an 'encounter' to us all, trust me. Accidental bondage. Yikes!

[jettison]

I love that weird little park, but I always seem to run into homely middle-aged people taking either what I presume are photos for their singles ad or some other sort of glamour shots in that jawn. You know: lady stretched out on rock, lips pursed, hair tousled, while her sweaty male companion snaps away. Seriously, like 90% of the times I've gone there. And I just wanted to smoke.

[infanttyrone]

"jawn"? Now that you mention it, I should have had someone photograph me when I was there, all pensive and brooding with my jutting jaw and scudding clouds behind the willows... Call it "primitive man".

When you gonna come into the bar and keep me company? Stop in tonight and getcher picher taken with my new phone!

[slipkid]

you certainly did dodge a bullet. a love bullet.

Sapphire Bullets of Pure Gross

[infanttyrone]

Would that I could link to a tiny clip of Steve Martin as the Jerk dodging the sniper fire at the gas station ("he hates these cans!")