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October 22, 2007

 

I Got The Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Blues

 

Well, the pneumonia anyway, not sure about the boogie woogie blues. Anyway, I'm still at home, resting as per doctor's orders. I'll have an interesting tale to tell about our health care system once I'm feeling a little better. Seems it isn't all it's cracked up to be to. Or maybe it is, depends on your point of view.

I've managed to figure a few things out re: the blog and the design is slowly coming back. Man, there are so many templates it's crazy. My back ups were pretty old too so if you no longer see your blog in the blog roll it's because the last time I saved my templates they weren't there. Not to worry, I'll add you back in.

And speaking of the blog it's ocured to me recently that I've been doing a lot of story writing and not a lot of just plain old blogging, as in, what's up with me and mine. In fact my blog seems to have become nothing but stories lately. Although I enjoy "writing" I'm not happy with the direction the blog has taken. As to the stories themselves it seems I've been trying to write long dragged out things, and I'm not sure I'm happy with that either. See, what I enjoy are little stories, written in one sit down, while I have an idea to work with. All of which is to say that I believe I'll keep the stories shorter in the future and get back to having some fun (truthfully the least couple of stories stopped being fun after a couple of chapters).

Anyway, it's a return to the past maybe, but a little variety is needed, like I used to have.

As for Lumbago, I'll finish his Halloween adventure somehow but after that maybe I'll confine the Lumbago stories to short ones too, sort of like snippets from the life of a nut.

   

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October 17, 2007

 

New Look ?

 

My host upgraded my blog to MT 4 and it seems to have reverted to a default style. He's trying to bring it back. If not then I'll have to give it a go. However the upgraded version looks so different I'm going to have to learn where everything is first.

I probably won't be doing much of anything for the next few days though. I'm home with pneumonia and possibly some other infection. MY GP is close to sticking me in the hospital, says if I don't make some improvement by the end of the week then in I go (I've been sick since the weekend).

Anyway, all of which is to say that watching television and doing some reading are the extent of my activities for now. So I may not get to the blog until next week.

   

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October 9, 2007

 

Dog Food - A Lumbago Pain Mystery - Part 1

 

Lumbago stared at the scene on the carousel. Someone had removed two of the horses and in their place were a small Cocker Spaniel and a large mechanical cat. The dog's tongue hung out of the side of it's mouth and it's eyes bugged out. It appeared to be running, which was impossible as it was dead. Behind it the mechanical cat chased it round and round. As the carousel made its way through a complete revolution the cat's mouth opened wide until, near the end of the revolution, it chomped down on the dog's ass. It had actually taken a couple of bites, as evidenced by the dog's raw and bleeding rear. Having chewed most of it away however it now appeared to be chomping the air behind the dog, perhaps eager to get a little closer and finish the mutt off.

This was the third such dog killing in as many weeks. Last week someone had taken down the Quickie Dog's big sign, a chubby little boy about to bite into a hot dog and replaced it with a ten foot cat about to bite into a hot dog with a real Dachshund inside the bun. The cat was licking it's chops as it eyed the dog, which appeared to be trying to scrunch itself as far as possible to the other end of the bun.

The week before that, at the Kitty Kat Klub, someone had replaced the olive in the large neon cat's martini with a poodle painted all green except for its nose, which was a bright red. Every time the sign flashed the poodle lit up and swirled around in the bottom of the glass as the cat tipped a wink.

Lumbago thought dogs were overrated. They slobbered profusely, shed everywhere, and were about as independent as a crack whore. Still, this was getting nasty. Someone, probably a cat lover, had it in for dogs in a very big way. And whoever it was had money, talent, and an interesting sense of humour.

He'd called for the ME's wagon and it was just arriving. The Radio Flyer was being pulled by his trusty assistant Kitty, who looked somewhat like a cat herself, dressed as she was in a Catwoman costume. He'd asked her several times not to wear it in public but she was so enamoured of him and saw him as her Batman, romantic, mysterious, yet untouchable. Which was fine by Lumbago as Kitty was nuttier than a fruitcake. Plus there was that thing with his dick. Better Kitty think he was playing hard to get rather than find out the truth, that he couldn't get hard. It was a small distinction but one he preferred to keep to himself.

Lumbago looked in the wagon. It was filled with nail polish in every colour of the rainbow, skin cleansers and emollients galore, and hair care products in every scent from avocado to zinnia. In short, it looked like a rolling Avon Wagon.

"Kitty, where's the autopsy stuff ?" asked Lumbago.

"Autopsy stuffy ?" replied Kitty.

"Yeah, the saws, tubes, chemicals. You know, the stuff to determine cause of death." said Lumbago.

"Oh that stuff. I threw it all out, it was interfering with my Karma." replied Kitty.

Lumbago put on his hat, bathing the scene in an eerie red and blue light.

It was going to be a long night.

   

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October 5, 2007

 

Getting Arrested

 

I was out for a walk a little earlier and saw a guy getting arrested. The police had the cuffs on him and were putting him in the back of the cruiser when I walked by.

Funny, he wasn't even trying hard.

   

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October 4, 2007

 

Supernatural Season Premiere

 

The lad and I will be watching this tonight. We're big fans.

   

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October 2, 2007

 

Putting Order to the Disorder

 

I have a bad habit of writing ideas down all over the place. Little slips of paper, e-mails I send to myself, unfinished blog entries with just a few lines, etc. Today I decided to put some order to the disorder, gather the chaff so I can separate the wheat from it, if you will. Turns out I have 3-4 pages of stuff to work with. Not all of it will ever see the light of day, probably not even most of it, but it's nice to have it all in one spot for a change. And it's a neat reminder for me of the fact that I'm a very visual person. When I get an idea I have to be able to see it before I can write it. As long as I can't see what's happening, well, it just doesn't come to life.

I guess that explains why I love photography so much too. I'm not good at it but I love it. And colours in nature. Colours just blow me away some times. Then again, a good song will make me cry too.

I think I'l stop now ...

   

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How Nerdy Are You ?

 

Found this one this morning. I can live with the results.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

   

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October 1, 2007

 

Musings

 

I was channel surfing yesterday afternoon and noticed that the programs "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" were playing at the same time. I've watched "Everybody Loves Raymond" a few times and don't like it. I'm not going to watch "Everybody Hates Chris". These shows are too emotionally draining for me, especially on a Sunday afternoon when I want to veg out to something light. Give me "Some People Like Bob And Some People Don't And Bob's Okay With That." That's a show I could watch.

   

Posted by OldGuy at 12:01 PM