[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] How You Like Them?

First, the photo:

Now, this apple tree actually does crank out some pretty tasty apples. Unfortunately, I don't spray the tree to keep the worms and other bugs out. The tree is just too close to the house, and it's kind of right above the neighbor's screen porch. I suppose, if I wanted to spray, I could just reach out the bedroom window and give it a nice spritzing; however, the thing is, if I sprayed, I'd have a whole hell of a lot of apples, and though these things make ridiculously tasty pies, I don't want to make two hundred ridiculously tasty pies.

I really don't need that many apples.

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 7/31/2008 10:14:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Wednesday...

Today kind of sucks, and I'm sitting here hoping that my good mood is hiding at the bottom of my coffee mug. I'm working my way there, I guess, but the thing is, the Clone made the coffee, and well... I question his skills.

Anyway, here's a picture for today:

I kind of like how the light and the lines work in this shot. It's kind of trippy when you start looking at the angles and whatnots.

Anyway, I've got to get myself jacked on my mug o' madness. Then, I've got to climb into my buggy and lumber my aching carcass across town to the doc's office for one of those pointless appointments where I pretty much sit around explaining that things could be better, but they could also be a whole hell of a lot worse.

Meh...

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 7/30/2008 08:50:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] We Aim to Answer...

Dawn asks:

What is the story with the fierce looking DeafCat pic on your sidebar?

You must be talking about this picture:

Yesterday, I was puttering around outside, and DeafCat was just sort of tagging along and doing her usual thing of patrolling the yard with her nose. And, as I was contemplating mowing the lawn, I heard this funny hissing sound from behind me.

When I turned to look at the source, I found DeafCat somewhat upset by something.

So, I looked around for another cat, possibly a dog, or even a misplaced stick that might have set her off and started this whole raging little outburst. What I found is that this hunk of shrubbery you see pictured on the right was tremendously offensive to my poor, confused cat.

As you can see, it does need a trim. I've sort of let it go, and perhaps DeafCat was simply voicing her displeasure at my apathetic style of landscaping. The shrub has become an insult to her and her discerning tastes.

Fortunately, after a minute or two of her telling the bush to fuck off in no uncertain terms, she turned and ran to the front door to find safety inside the house. Obviously, she just wanted to make sure that this bush was put in its place, and it's going to think twice now before getting out of line.

-DP


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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 7/29/2008 11:38:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] It's Old, But it's New!

Hot damn!

As you can see in my Blogger profile, the Schlitz light is a go, and its cool and delicious light is a beacon of comfort to a hot and thirsty world.

Clearly, people want change. In fact, they want change so badly that the brewery can't keep up production of this tasty old beer. And, when I sent the Clone out on a Schlitz run, he had to search high and low, over hill and dale, to find me my delicious beer.

However, he succeeded, and he was rewarded greatly. He was allowed to live another day, and he only had to scrub the black mold off half the walls of the dungeon.

Now, I'm off to rejoice with the drunken villagers.

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 7/29/2008 10:43:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] DogCat says "Stretch!"

I don't know if I'll ever be able to find the words to fully describe the crushing envy I feel every time I see a cat stretching.

I mean, my cat can even stretch between his toes!

Gyaagh! If I could do that, I wouldn't be half as surly. Nothing beats a damn, good stretch.

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 7/28/2008 02:12:00 PM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] It's a bash...

Hey look! I went to a concert.

Yesterday evening, I heard the unmistakable thump and din of live music carried on the wind through my town. So, I threw my dinner in the oven, put on some shoes, grabbed my camera and headed out into the blue-collar wilderness to see what all the fuss was about.

As it turned out, after a little hoof-work down the street, I managed to find the BoDeans tucked away on a stage somewhere in the tangle of buildings that is the Bucyrus crane-making complex.

Unfortunately, after snapping a whole heap of pictures of the band (which you can find in a Flickr set here), I started to get thirsty. And, considering I had a grueling half-mile walk back to my house, I thought it important to hydrate. So, I went in search of a nice, cold beer to guzzle down.

The thing is, they didn't have any there...

They weren't selling beer...

I started to twitch a little when I realized that the plastic cups that everyone was carrying around were filled with cherry soda and not some delicious beer that would have been perfect after my brutal death march beneath the blazing hot sun of summer.

Now, I could have gone to just about any employee locker to find a six-pack tucked away in dirty work clothes and whatnots, but I decided that would just be too nosy and settled on silently whimpering to myself.

Anyway, after the band had wrapped up, I hoofed it back to my house, took my dinner out of the oven and sat down to eat and pick out some pictures to upload.

So, that was a nice surprise to find on my weekend. I hope your weekend also had some nice surprises.

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 7/27/2008 09:51:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Toys!

Saturday's picture just makes me want to play...

I just want to reach over there, pick up that dump truck and move it around while muttering: "Brrbrbrbrrbbbrr... reeeeech... beeep! beeep! Brrrrbrbrbrbbrrr... Time for a smoke break, Louey. We love the union."

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 7/26/2008 12:50:00 AM