Surf the Corpse!

I feel like I've been on radio silence.  It's the new job.  I don't have 8 uninterrupted hours of goofing off on the internet anymore, so I tend to have less of an internet footprint.  I don't really have a computer at home, either.  This doohickey I'm typing on now is Allen's.  I try to limit my internet time on it, because it's in the guest-room/studio, AKA "Man Space" so I try to limit spreading my estrogen around in here.  The next thing you know, I'll be vacuuming and changing the sheets on the futon.  HORRORS!

So, let's see.  What's new?  Um, the garden is going gangbusters.  It's been hot, so my tomatoes are finally ripening, but they have a fair amount of blossom end rot on the first few 'maters, so they're getting chucked over the fence into the neighbor's Swath Of Debris.  The peppers are doing great this year:  we've been freezing dozens of jalapenos, whole, waiting for Salsa Party 2008.  I've also got Serrano peppers and tabasco peppers and some cayenne, oh, and the hungarian wax.  It's a good pepper year.   The tomatillos are finally setting fruit... they take a while longer to get going, but they add a really delicious sweetness to salsa that is hard to replicate with anything else.   The beans are all done, and I need to harvest the last batch and pull the plants and replant more edamame beans, but that'll wait until it's not 100F out.

Smitty the Kitten went home to his new house.  Three kids, two boys and a little girl, so that makes, what, like 5 cats/kittens in a row that I've sent home with kids?  Kitten Whisperer strikes again.  Smitty was a little overwhelmed with all those kids, but I think once he realizes that he hit the Fun Times Jackpot, he'll be rip-roaring around there.  He's going to have a blast, and I'm excited for him.  He is a super great little kitty, he scored himself a sweet ride with a really awesome family.  Go Smitty!

Everything else is about the same.  Allen and I are still doing well.  He's still in the studio a couple nights a week.  tonight's that night, so I'm going to try to clean up the bathroom (where Smitty was staying), and watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang while eating popsicles in my underpants.  You know how I roll.  Rufus and Bunny are still kickin' it.   Zsazsa's going to miss Smitty, because they were becoming BFFs, but Eva the Dumptruck is glad that tiny motherfucker is gone----Eva can't stand change, and she is on a personal mission to DESTROY ALL KITTENS!

Oh, and we finally saw WANTED.  Man, it was awesome.  There's this one scene where... well, I won't ruin it for you, but we've got a new phrase in our lexicon, and it's the title of this post.

I hope you are well, friends!  If I haven't responded to an email, it's just because, well, I probably haven't had time.  I have been picking up the phone and calling people more often.  OH, so THAT's what that little ringy box is for in my pocket!  It is a TELEPHONE, and you use it to COMMUNICATE with OTHER HUMANS.    WILD.

Surf the corpse, dudes.