Wednesday Whining and Wonderment

1) Still no shutter color across the street. I have to say I’ve never seen painters work this hard with this much care about their work and in a heat wave on top of it all. I’m writing down their name and number from the sign they put up because the workmanship is amazing.

2) Boy kitty’s brain must be fried from the heat. He destroyed a whole roll of paper towels I’d left upstairs on the floor. It is shredded and bitten and torn into confetti-like pieces. He’s ten years old and not a kitten…so it must be the heat.

3) I am not cool. I used a fork at the Japanese restaurant. I have tried to use chop sticks, even the ones they put an elastic band on so kids can learn, still the food falls all over and gets cold before I can pick up one morsel. So, I might have been the only forker in the restaurant but I managed to get the food in my mouth with precision and timeliness.

4) China Massacres 50,000 Dogs in Anti-Rabies Campaign

Dogs Being Walked Seized From Their Owners and Beaten to Death on the Spot

This headline made me want to scream –it also makes me realize just how inhuman, human beings can be.

The “don’t inoculate; do annihilate” theory of rabies control is right up there with suicide bombers who are told by a non-suicide bomber to go blow themselves up. Why wouldn’t one of them think to say: hey, you go first.

By the way, dog owners were offered a whopping 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs.

5) If I wouldn’t have to clean the mess up, I would love to crack an egg on the sidewalk today, just to see what would happen. With temps over 100, it would be an interesting experiment.

6) The big whine is today I must do laundry and clean up the crib here. I’ve let it go but today, heat or no heat, I have to get my place in order. I am going to try to stay off the computer. Wish me luck. See you later!