Tick Tock Tick Tock

Hey kids, real ticks don't actually look like me!

I just removed tick number 6 from Jeff. This one was deep in his ear. They don't seem to be bothering him but they have a nasty reputation. The one I just removed I put in a plastic container with a lid. He/she is just crawling around in there trying to find something else to parasitically attach itself to - GOOD LUCK IN SOLITARY! Jeff wants me to take a photo and put it on his Facebook page - Jeff Helser.  He already has 12 friends after one day on Facebook. It took me two months to get that many. Just to shut him up I may photograph the tick later and put it on his page. I imagine we will find more ticks on/in him before we are done too. He doesn't complain or fidget when we look for them or yank them out either. He is a good traveller, a great Frisbee artist and a tough guy. I wish I were more like Jeff (especially the lying around having people get me stuff all the time deal).

I actually slept 5-1/2 hours this morning. That is the most I have slept in one sitting lying all at once in quite some time. Tonight (my Saturday morning) I will probably just stay up until 22:00 or so and see if I can sleep all the way to 06:00. I am certain that I will not make it eight hours straight but bloggy-steps. What will probably happen is that I will stay up that long and then my body/mind/whatever will say "hey, this is the time we work not the time we rest" and I will be up most of the night. Whatevs!

We are going to record Dirty Laundry Podcast tomorrow night. The Lost Sock is gonna be back on the show this week. Among many other things he is the face behind Dirty Laundry Podcast. He has done almost all of the graphics/cartoons/drawings of Cha Cha and I. We're very excited. He is always a good time and he has a quiz/game worked-up. I don't even know what it is so I cannot prep or cheat or anything. I have been accused of being a cheater at games from time to time. I will agree that I am very competitive but, cheating is an abomination and I would not do that if I thought I was gonna get caught. There is one particular incident that still comes up occasionally with accusations of my under-handedness. I still say to this day, and I will until the day I die, that I did not cheat. Not the Bill Clinton kinda "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" kinda cheat but rather a good use of my deductive and observational skills. This is what I do for a living now so, apparently, I am an expert in this field. I am going to make a note of it and we will talk about in on this week's podcast and see if listeners all over the world will play jury and weigh-in on the incident for the following week's show.

Writing the blog is tough when it is nearly podcast recording time. I don't like to cover the same things in both so I have to weigh the things and decide what would be better to write about and which would be better to discuss on the show. Every week this occurs and it doesn't seem to get easier. Sometimes there is some cross-over but sometimes it seems okay depending on the topic/story. If I have the same things on both all the time why even do both? It's not always easy being the doofus of all media.

Do you think dogs have fur so that when they get their slobber all over you there is a convenient place to wipe your hands? I do too.

Our 26th year wedding anniversary is Wednesday. According to some site I just looked at the 26-year wedding anniversary gift theme is "original pictures." What in the Hell does that mean? We suppose to have our pictures taken or I am supposed to draw her something? How about a drawing of a tick? (that, in the blogging business, is called a throw-back). Another site says the same thing but offers suggestions: "photograph gifts, movie gifts of DVD's or a night at the movies." How about we watch a on Netflix or Red Box? Next year is a sculpture gift? A trip to a pottery story or a sculptured cake or a piece of art. Who in the Hell came up with this malarkey? Couldn't I just sculpt a pizza for dinner or something next year? Maybe I could just get some nude photos (original pictures all right) of me done for her this year and then I wouldn't have to worry about next year's sculpture deal. The problem with that is, as a media celebrity, those "original photographs" would come back to haunt me. But, they could also propel me into super stardom. Out of sympathy, of course. I am fine with pity fame and fortune! I have to work Wednesday night so I guess the point is moot. Doesn't it aggravate you when people say the point is "mute?" Difficult to get your point across if nobody can hear it!

I am beginning to ramble. I probably have Lyme Disease. I would rather have Key Lyme Disease but, like our crappy weather in the the MIDDLEwest, you get what you get. Have a great night. I don't know of any reason that I wouldn't blog tomorrow so I will probably blog. I hope something interesting happens to me tonight. Thanks a lot for stopping by. TTTT...MITM  (out) TA!