Still splootin’
This week has been pretty active. The neighborhood walks have continued - typically twice a day - and we’ve met everyone in a 100 mile radius that isn’t inside while we’re out and about. Cardiff keeps meeting her best friend around every corner. Also, now that they’re both fully vaccinated, she was able to get a play date with my niece’s puppy that is two weeks older, and they had a blast. Add that to the ontgoing wrestling matches with my mom and dad’s dog, and it’s starting to look like ongoing doggo-friends.
I had kind of the opposite effect on my neighbors because I’m getting rid of my old lawnmower, and it must have no gas in it for the city to pick it up. I jury-rigged the safety to allow the thing to run until the gas was gone without me holding it, and had people looking out of windows and walking by frowning at my bad form for wasting fossil fuels. It wasn’t like I was just pouring gas in the street, but I did have the thing running in my driveway for over 10 minutes. I swear there was only a slight liquid sheen down at the bottom of the the tank when I started it, but that sucker just kept going.
This week I found myself in the backyard trying to deal with the very small nettles which constitute the joke of a lawn, and have resorted to vacuuming them up. Seriously. Vacuum. I borrowed my dad’s shop vac and am sucking up all the burrs that are constantly invading the house via Cardiff’s fur. It feels really silly. Kind of like rinsing stuff to be recycled, or as Jim Gaffigan calls it: “washing the garbage”.
I’ve looked at several different spots to travel to next. Still in the state, and not more than a few hours away. It’s a lot harder to determine the right place as I learn more about the process and the type of campground people and environment we’ll be enjoying. Does it look like a parking lot with no grass? Is the majority of the clientele looking to “git drunk and nekkid” on their boat or next to the lake? Is the place decorated in a theme like ‘western’ or ‘surfer’? Do they allow dogs?
ON a totally different topic, I was finally able to install some AI software for art generation on my computer, and boy is it fun. It runs so much faster than the last version I played with. I created images of everything from super villains to statues to D&D characters. Check out some samples if you’re interested.
Lastly, my mom supplied Cardiff with a kerchief to help her be my chick-magnet, but she wasn’t having any of it. You see her below exclaming “I can’t breathe!” and re-enacting the death scene from Over the Hedge. What’s a little air compared to my future happiness? She’s so selfish.
