Indifferent pug with lichen

I think she's gotten tired of having her picture taken. She really had a much better time on vacation than it looks.

Technical difficulties

Kind of bad weather for swimming. Fortunately, we never go swimming at the beach. Not so fortunately, we got home and found there was a power failure that fried our cable modem.

After lots of yelling on the phone, tomorrow I have to go try to get one, or else I can't really work. In the meantime we're hoping that our neighbor's wireless doesn't stop working. Thank goodness for people who don't worry about computer security.

At the beach! Not too wet!

There was something like a monsoon yesterday and they forecast a 90% chance of rain today, so it was not looking good. But it's 4 PM and so far we've been having a good time outdoors all day. All the rest of us would get fired if we did our job as poorly as weather forecasters do, but at least it is not raining on my vacation.

And the mattresses are so much more poofy!

So we have huge nasty economic perturbations AND gas lines; why doesn’t it feel like the 70s? Better graphics, I think. The society’s look-and-feel is set on perma-shiny, and even if we do see apple vendors on every corner, they will have signs they made at Kinkos. And the apples will be organic.

-James Lileks at Lileks.com.

yes sir yes sir three chins down

Bamu and Kinako and friend.

Middle age is not for sissies, but preferable to the alternative

Nature, in her infinite wisdom, did us the favor of having our vision deteriorate at the same time that our skin becomes wrinkled. We had to go and screw it up by inventing eyeglasses.

But just after thinking this, I noticed I was having trouble seeing a tiger at a distance yesterday. Which could have been a problem if it were happening somewhere other than at the zoo. I guess the survival value of eyeglasses outweighs their cost to vanity.

Question regarding the banking crisis

If you want to keep your money in a mattress, are you supposed to put it between the mattress and the boxspring, or are you supposed to actually cut the mattress open and put the money inside?