My poor puppies...

I just got finished giving my two dogs baths and they are not speaking to me anymore.

Voodoo, a small black Schnauzer-mutt... thing, was fairly easy as I can bodily lift him in and out of a tub.

But poor Jazz, a Benji-looking Airedale terrier-mutt, had to get a haircut, too. Her fur was matted like the Rasta. (She also has a horrible case of kennel cough which we need to have looked at...)

They also have fleas, despite every type of flea shampoo known to man, flea collars, treatment drops, and dips. ::sad face::

Oh well. They're clean, for now.

Writer's Block: Miss Manners

[Error: unknown template qotd]Dear God, we as a society seem to really hate cell phones.
Okay, show of hands, who here does not have one?
You? Yeah, well, stow the smugness, because no matter what your 'anti-yuppy' sensibilities tell you, you are not, in fact, better than anyone else. Sorry.

Yes, my technological pet peeve is cell phones, but not for the purely obvious of reasons. I mean, I hate the morons that drive and talk, weaving all over the road while trundling a good ten miles under the speed limit, happily chatting to who-the-fuck-ever could not wait.

But what I hate more is the people who walk and talk. It's not just a joke, a lot of people cannot do it. I ride a bike on my school campus, so I do a lot of ducking and weaving through crowds as a general rule. As a biker, you can predict how quickly you need go in order to get through a gap in traffic before someone has to dodge or you have to hit the breaks.
But all of this gets fouled up when someone is on the phone.
A person who is just walking, or even walking and talking to someone next to them, has a general awareness of the world around them. They walk in straight lines and are easy to predict. Even those listening to mp3 players are consistent. But people chatting it up on the phone wander. Very few people realize this, but when you walk and talk, you weave back and forth and your speed is affected by your speech habits. If you talk slow, you walk slow. Your attention is not on the world around you.

I always have to watch out for the people with one hand glued to their cheekbone, because they are unpredictable and dangerous. Many accidents have almost occurred in my experience, all of them from the person I'm passing suddenly shifting direction or speeding up/slowing down.

So, seriously, people. Hang up and drive and at the very least, pay attention!

It's all a joke.

Watchmen.

If you do not want to see this movie, you are not a person. This movie is the most awesome of awesomes that ever awesomed.

Good. God. Why Eee ESS!

If nothing else, watch it just so you finally know how to pronounce 'Rorschach'.