* The first thing spouse and I noticed when we arrived in Orange County was that it is the land of giant vehicles. Expeditions, Escalades and Hummers oh my.
* You know the Skymall magazine in the planes? I don't read it anymore as I get so irritated by the frivolous nature of so many of the items. Serge always reads it cover to cover. This time, he pulled on my sleeve and pointed at something. It was this. A turd freezer to aid in the picking up of your pet turds. Maybe I should start reading it again.
* In a related story, I received this book for Christmas from Laverne. I'll post my favorite page another day. (Gotta stretch out these poop blogging opportunities, lol)* We went to the big indian (can I say that?) casino "Pechanga" while out west. Spouse and Gramma won. I donated a hundred bucks.
* One disappointing thing out there was that there is no free wireless. Every place charged ridiculous rates. 11 bucks a day in the hotel room. 7 bucks to access at the airport. Thank heavens for friends and family with wireless. See what I don't get is, why aren't the people banding together like up here, sticking it to the man and creating an unbroken hotspot all over the city by sharing their connection in a huge collective exercise?
* We have this oldish car see. It has a cassette player in it. I don't have any cassettes. At best buy though, I found a cassette adapter that plugs into your ipod. Now I have my whole library available in the car. I lovingly refer to the new ipod touch as "my cute little thing".
* I got brand new white tshirts for Christmas. Later, I bit into a tangerine, right at the top to be able to peel it, and juice spewed down the front of me. Spouse scolded me. I was confused because nothing had happened to him. It was my appearance that had been sullied and my garment that had been stained.
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Oh I hate having a new tee shirt or shirt and spill something on it. I can appreciate Serge being upset with the tangerine.
All the hotels here in NC offer free wireless. I've not heard of places charging.
I'd expect Orange county to be more environmentally conscious. I guess if they have money, they have to show it off.
I can't believe Laverne bought you that book. That's hilarious!
Re: wireless: You were once American. You know we'd rather gouge each other than cooperate. S/He who gouges most and most often wins.
Touch my cute little thing? You might want to change that phrase.
surprising that there's not more wifi, but i guess greed still has a stronghold.
hey, at least your car doesn't have an 8 track.
i gotta get me some of that spray stuff. although a michigan winter pretty much makes its own poopsicles.
I wish I understood my bowels. Will you give me the highs and lows of that book once you've read it?
The last thing my Tazzy needs is a poop freezer. It's already like a big smorgasbord of poopsicles in our yard! I should go poop picking...
Spouse certainly gives you a hard time over spilled stuff.
I guess Spouse cares about not being seen with his spouse wearing a tangerine-stained shirt since you don't look your best at that point.
I always love your snippets, even though I don't comment on all of them.
Forget poopsicles; I want that spray stuff to freeze other things. What will a tennis ball do when it's frozen? Will a balloon freeze and shatter? This has "fun" written all over it. Think of the possibilities.
When hubby travels, he notes the locations of all the Panera bakeries. They have free WiFi in every store, and the speed isn't too bad.
I am so on-board with your annoyance over hotels charging for WiFi. Data wants to be free.
Welcome back. Sounds like over all, you've had a great vacation.
I knew one of your early posts upon return would be a poop post...who knew you'd get human AND dog poop into it?
I have the cassette player/iPod thing as well. LOVE. IT.
People wont band together in SoCal cause they're Americans and we're all for ourselves, unlike Canadians who do things for the greater good.
Sorry about the shirt. Turn it into a new dustrag if Serge doesnt want you to wear it. :)
HUGS...
Great snippets and great pics, below. Glad you're back. You leave a huge void in Blogosphere!
I like that city-wide wireless idea!
I must've spent about $15 or so on wireless access in airports on our last trip.
As to freezing things, nothing beats liquid nitrogen. It's probably cheaper too.
And the iPod adapter, I went the other way and got the little radio transmitter. This way all I do is find a quiet spot on the FM band and then tune the transmitter to match the frequency.
And since I know RF, I've already isolated out the antenna lead on the thing and am building a nice little wideband amplifier for it. Mobile pirate radio!
I'm certain you've referred to something else as "my cute little thing" before the cassette converted, yes?
My Spouse hates to be with me when I sing karaoke because he says it makes him nervous. He's not the one singing, so why would he be nervous? Probably the same reason Serge scolded you for sullying your appearance (not his).
Mark :-)
While this time of year our dog poo is already frozen it's usually under snow and we don't pick it up. We save it for the annual poo harvest in the spring when we have a bumper crop. I'd rather have that than no dog. The Poop Freeze is tempting, I'm going to look into that and see how much poo it can give the cold shoulder to.
I stayed in a hotel recently and didn't pay for wireless. But I also have a broadband card on my laptop in case.
You can't go anywhere in the country without seeing mammouth vehicles.
A turd freezer....I'm going to order a case....and keep a can of it by the toilet.
Oops..I forgot: Come out to Portland! Apparently, we have more FREE wireless hot spots than any other city in the nation. Weird.
Spray some Resolve on the Tangerine stain then wash it. Good as new.
I remember having an 8-Track player in my car and buying an adapter so I could play Cassette Tapes.
Southern California may need a turd freezer but we just call it Winter. Ed
Those little Tide -to-go stick thingies work real good too. Its small enough for a pocket or glove box in the car. Works just like in the commercials
What a lovely book you got. Here's a link to another book that you may find interesting. It's called What's Your Poo Telling You.
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Your-Poo-Telling-You/dp/0811857824/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200198199&sr=8-1
A turd freezer?! Now I truly have heard it all! I can't wait to see which is your favourite page from your new book. Is this bedtime reading for you, Torn ... or do you keep that book as a bathroom companion? :)
Holy shit! 125,000 copies of a book sold about bowels?
125,000 of the bowel books have been sold. Good times. Seems the love of poo does not make you unique. Is that good or bad? I don't know.
I do know that freezing poo is only good. God love the skymall.
I need to see the warnings on the freezing poo label.
Great about the adapter thingie.
Does spouse do the laundry?
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