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Let’s See If It Gets To Be A New Year’s Cat

Recently, my wife conned me into buying a Christmas Incandescent Tinsel Cat at Target. Not that it’s a bad thing, just that things didn’t turn out as expected. She bought it because she wanted to decorate the outside of the house for Christmas. She got it for only like $20…but then she never put it outside. It’s still sitting right next to the balcony door, a foot from where she intended to put it outside, still in the original box. As of the time I am writing this, Christmas was yesterday.

Let’s see if she gets it outside in time for Christmas.

 

It’s Rare To Run Across a Looney Tunes Animated Gif For Which I Don’t Remember The Cartoon

It’s rare to run across a Looney Tunes animated gif for which I don’t remember the cartoon. I can’t remember the cartoon for this one though:

No clue at all.

That Was An Unusual Amount Of Spam Waiting For Me

I scheduled a little less than a week of posts ahead of time and just came back to find 79 spam comments waiting for me.

That’s highly unusual. Usually I have around 25 for the same time period. My blog must be getting more popular with the bots.

Of Course It Snows The Day After Christmas

Of course it snows the day AFTER Christmas.

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And of course even that isn’t much.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Now it’s just a game.

You Go, Spam Comment

Fish and vegetation are being harvested from one system.

You go, spam comment. I have more fun reading some of the spam comments I get than writing posts. Not the bulk of them, which are repetitive and boring, but a few like this one. I just keep thinking someone paid someone to write that.

THANKSGIVING AGAIN!

THANKSGIVING AGAIN!

Everyone interrupts the Thanksgiving season for Christmas, so it’s only fair to interrupt the Christmas season for Thanksgiving. I’m not even big on Thanksgiving, but here we are.

There’s Not Enough Restrooms In Downtown Denver Anyway

I walk through Civic Center Park in downtown Denver on the way to work. Recently, I noticed a guy walking towards a corner formed by some of the stone walls located there. It’s one of the lowest spots in the park, most hidden by the road.

I knew what he was doing. I looked away and didn’t look back.

He seemed unconcerned by my presence, if he even saw me. Sure enough, I heard the sounds of liquid splattering a few moments later.

Why would I do anything? Sure, we can have problems if too many people are peeing outside downtown. If we wanted to stop that though, we would need more public restrooms. There aren’t many, if any, official public restrooms. I’ve seen a couple trailers of “public restrooms” the city sometimes drops at various places downtown, but I don’t see them often. Even places that people can sneak in an use the restrooms generally sometimes balk at the homeless. The library was a block away and I would hope they wouldn’t chase away someone from the bathroom for being homeless, but I’m not sure if it was even open yet. Besides, I am not the potty police. I thought it best to just look the other way and give the guy some privacy.

Well, other than blogging about it.

This Spam Comment Sounds Pretty Sketchy

Just deleted a spam comment that seemed particularly sketchy:

Completely satisfied Birthday to the all little ones.

What is that supposed to even mean? It can’t be good.

Looks Like My Lowest Reading List In Almost A Decade

As of the time I’m writing this, it looks like I’ll clock in at just over 200 books read this year. I’m not even quite there yet. Given my normal reading, that makes for the lowest number likely since 2009 (the last time I read less than 200). It’s utterly unimportant, but I noted it.

Part of hitting 200 each year is that it makes it easier to convey how much I normally read. 200-300 a year is a pretty easy thing to roll off the tongue. 100-300 a year seems a lot less like an actual answer, and less communicative of the actuality.

This year just got busy. There was all the editing and prep for the release of Roses Are Red, Violets Are Stealing Loose Change from My Pockets While I Sleep, then the release and promotional work, then what turned into a three month moving process. Honestly, my brain was just fried a lot. That really slowed me down.

I also blame not wanting to finish Shōgun.