The swimming pools have been filled, conditioned and heated up and now the Memorial Day weekend is upon us, the pools are now open for use. Coming home tonight already the kids were splashing around screaming “Marco Polo.” Maybe it is just me but I fail to see the bloody point, noisy bar stewards.

Hopefully if the weather holds out I’ll take a late evening dip, the pair of ducks who have been spending time in the pool have departed to escape the screaming kids.

Max our rabbit likes to watch out the window. His cage was on the floor but now sits on a foam mattress on top of the spare bed box spring. He likes to jump from one shelf to the other as the cage bounces on the bed, or he will sit staring at me on the computer, “I see what you’re looking at Dad!”

So, anyhoo, what is the point of Marco Polo?

Standing at the bus stop this morning awaiting my bus to work, I was rubbing my chin and felt the telltale lump of a zit forming. Dang, I prodded and poked at it as you do, wondering when it will be ready for bursting time. I have been fortunate not to have had to suffer much in the way of acne during my life, no need to waste my money on lotions, scrubs and natural acne treatment stuff.

‘Cause now I’ve just jinxed myself!

I made myself stopped prodding my chin and took in my surroundings. I was standing near a 76 gas station. When there were no customers the girl behind the counter came outside to share a coffee with her boyfriend. I assumed he was her boyfriend, either that or he is very affectionate kissing everyone he meets.

I noticed he had a cigarette in his hand, surely it isn’t lit, I thought. But he flicked the ash off the end of it, come one. Gasoline and naked flame, not a good combo methinks. They even have signs up about switching off your engine and to extinguish all cigarettes don’t they?

I am sure the gas companies make their equipment as safe as possible but there must be some risk. If I drove and smoked (I don’t do either) I certainly wouldn’t get out of my car as a t gas station with a lit cigarette.

A woman pulled up in her truck and she got out and I saw that she too had a cigarette in her mouth.

I was glad to get on the bus before the whole place went up in a ball of flames.

Our son-in-law took his daughter to the store, one of the items they had to get was tampons. While in the aisle Aurianna started asking her Dad what tampons were for, she was attracting attention. Her Dad told her they were something Mummy needed. Aurianna asked why, several women were looking and chuckling as Aurianna’s Dad was getting redder and redder. He said he hasn’t been so embarrassed.

When they got home and told our daughter, she laughed, then asked Aurianna what tampons were for. Aurianna explained what they were and she started laughing.

“So you knew what they were for all along?” asked her Dad.

“Yeah,” Aurianna replied.

When asked why she did it, she said because she thought it was funny.

They all had a good laugh over it. Sneaking little tyke.

The article I found linked below, is about a 13 year old Texan boy who ordered an extra credit card from his father’s credit card provider and went on a shopping spree with his friends. He racked up $30,000 in charges.

They ordered a couple of hookers from an escort agency, whom when arrived, found the boys playing Halo on the Xbox. They told the girls they were of restricted growth and worked at a circus! The hookers ended up playing Halo with the boys.

Money.co.uk article link

A delivery driver who delivery snacks to the boys alerted authorities as he noticed they were underage. The motel people obviously had no issues renting them a room.

The boy is quoted as saying he wanted someday to be a politician, well, he certainly has made a good start on that road! Although I bet when he orders hookers then, he won’t ignore them to play Xbox.

Checking mail today we got a crap load of catalogs, a furniture catalog, one for curtains and drapes another for bed linens, I guess the wife is going to town with moving to a new place and finally getting everything she has always wanted in our own place. I have to say it is exciting and looking forward to getting the new place all spiffy.

Residing in Seattle we get used to it being damp a lot of the time, they say Seattle people don’t tan, they rust!

We complain when it is constantly raining, then when the hot weather gets here we are moaning again. We are currently sweltering in record temperatures, we have fans running and drinking tons of water.

I feel like getting a jet charter and flying off to Alaska or somewhere similar to cool off, then of course, I’ll complain I am too cold.

The swimming pools have just been filled but doesn’t open until Memorial Day, I feel like scaling the fence and diving in.

BBC News Friday: Man ram-raids supermarket wearing boots and a sheet.

This BBC News caught my eye, a drunken man wearing a sheet and his girlfriend’s Ugg boots¹ ram-raids a supermarket and gets jailed.

This guy steals his girlfriends boots and car (I wonder which upset her more?), and gets involved in car chase with Police and repeatedly rams his car into the front of a grocery store. He also gets caught on CCTV doing all this and is naked except the boots and a sheet.

He now has a four year jail term to consider his stupidity, I mean come on dude, that sheet no way goes with those boots!

BBC News article link

On another note Carolyn and I are currently budgeting and planning in preparation for us moving house, hopefully service here won’t be too disrupted.

1. what the frick are Ugg boots? [↩]

I walked past a downtown restaurant and noticed they had painted a big mural on the side of the building. Bright red brickwork with their big logo and the legend underneath said;

“Icon Grill - Aroused Americana Cooking.”

I’m not quite certain what Aroused cooking is!

Maybe they sprinkle their food with liberal quantities of aphrodisiacs, something like a heap of powdered Blister beetle¹.

If you’re looking for a website to review the various pills available, check out Consumer Price Watch.net, they rank various diet and other pills on all sorts of criteria, pills like Phentermine for instance.

1. commonly called Spanish Fly [↩]

I have business cards for this blog and ordered some for the Mentalism stuff I am getting into. Posted a picture over on the other blog.

Thought Reader cards