Jill and I have finally done it. Just like all of you, we purchased a brand new Toyota Prius, joining the proud, smug world of hybrid ownership. What's that? You...you don't HAVE a Prius? Why, how sad for you. It must be terrible to know that you are polluting our environment in a completely preventable way, each and every time you fire up your outdated, inefficient planet killer. Don't worry, I won't judge.
I took this image on my new Palm Centro. That's a SMART phone. I'm insufferable, lately.
So exactly four days after taking possession of this amazing technological wonder, I managed to scrape it against a pylon in a parking garage. I've driven large pickup trucks, moving vans, SUVs, a Mercury land yacht, and, most recently, a Ford Taurus, but I have never before managed this particular maneuvre. I uttered quite the stream of expletives (actually the same one, over and over (begins with "f", and it's not "floozy")) before my friend Kathy talked me down, and helped me to safely back the car out and find a different parking space. Thankfully, the damage was only $250, and now THAT'S out of the way.
Jonathan and Emile were recently in town. Although their presence was captured on our camcorder, I somehow managed to not take any pictures of them, so I submit the following:
Anyhow, Jonathan had asked me what they could do to help out, what with Jill's cancer and my crippling depression. I looked him in the eye and said, "Guest blog." He looked puzzled. I pressed on. "Jon, I need you to write a guest blog entry, chronicling your Seattle misadventures, with some nice pictures". Tears welling in his eyes, he swore that he would do this thing. I think that he recognized that this is bigger than all of us; yet without all of us, it's actually not that big at all. Meaning that with all of us, one can rise to the challenge and be the eye of the tiger when the final countdown begins. I'm sure that if you look within -- I mean really look within -- you'll find a misadventure or two that you could guest blog about, too.
More soon, OR NOT!
