Year of the Dog!

Peever was interesting. Dairy farm turned dog breeding operation had me freaked out at first. When we pulled up, I could see about 20 kennels outside, and I would say about 30 dogs in those runs. We were just sure that she was going to be a puppy miller. If that had been the case, we would have bolted right there and driven back to Brookings to drown our sorrows with a trip "around the world". (Cyan said he would wait for us). As it turns out, it was a fairly tight operation. She knew the dogs just by their faces. All of the dogs were in good health and seemed happy. She let 12 at a time out of their kennels so that we could play with them and pick one out. In the second bunch of wild and crazy canines, one walked up to Adrienne and wanted to be picked up. It knew what it was doing. Ade was hooked from the get go. I had my eye on this sporty little black number, but she didn’t stand a chance against the powers of cute spewing forth from Honey. Honey… not a very tough name, I know. Enough already. Here is a pic of our newest family member. We are going to Denver on vacation on the 16th, so she won’t come home to us until the 21st.

We're going to Peever tomorrow.

Not the Captain's, but the town in the middle of nowhere SD.
Probably the most important 300 miles I'll drive this decade.
Life changing stuff, all around.



more to come.

You must whip it!

I just had a dream about Devo. It was all..."And now ladies and gentlemen. Devo's hit from the 1930's about agriculture." They kept on singing "irrigation bad".

Top Ten Random Fire

1. Une Annee Sans Lumiere~The Arcade Fire
2. Headlights look like diamonds~The Arcade Fire
3. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)~The Arcade Fire
4. Mighty Mighty~Earth Wind & Fire
5. Uncle Mountain~The Fire Theft
6. Firelight~Snow Patrol
7. Woodlands National Anthem~The Arcade Fire
8. Wishing For Contentment~Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire
9. Reptilia~The Strokes *Room On Fire
10. Light / Fireworks~The Fall

Final score:
Band Names - 7
Song Titles -2
Album - 1

Coming soon the Eye Battle!

A pirates tale from the eyes of a land lubber, or oh to be bludgeoned to death.

The high seas. The Caribbean high seas to be exact. The Caribbean high seas on the Carnival Cruise Line VICTORY to be utterly precise (and our main goal here at Wumpus Central is precision and factuality. Two! Our two main goals here at Wumpus Central are precision and factuality and those roundish hats with the propellers that go whhhr).

Aye! The Caribbean high seas on the Carnival Cruise Line VICTORY are or is no place for a man without guts and however you spell hootspa! For if ye be not careful and on yer guard all yer worldly belongings might as well be a memory of old, long lost to the senses of yer time tattered mind. And if ye be so lucky to be granted passage aaarrrrgggggh ye might want to aaaarrrrrggghhh!

First things first I had a great time. On about the fourth day, I was laying on the deck and I felt my entire skull downshift. At that point I had given up hope of ever seeing my luggage again (which I have in my possession now) and gave in to the fact that, despite the overwhelming efforts of the Canival Cruise Line corporation, I was surrounded by the most singularly awe inspiring thing (besides outer space itself) that I can imagine. An Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean to be ....blah blah blah. The ocean and the islands were the high points. The Las Vegas air and fuck you pooey pooey attitude of Carnival Cruise Line corporation of planet we sure would like to give Mickey a rim job were the bum notes. "We've already got your fucking money, go ahead and swim home if it'll make you happy."

The islands:
1. San Juan, Puerto Rico
A pretty cool place in a garbage stacked on the curbs sort of way. I give it 2 out of 4 coastlines.

2. St. Martin or Sint Maarten
A beautiful island. We took a bus tour that went all the way around the island and stopped at the Marigot Butterfly Farm where we fed butterflies rum and juice off our fingers and drank rum and juice ourselves. We picked up some rum and hot sauce from St. Martin which is part of the US Virgin Islands. I give it 3 out of 4 coastlines.

3. St. Thomas (also a US Virgin Island)
The most beautiful island of the three we saw. Here we went snorkeling and took lots of pictures of the local flavor. Snorkeling with Sidney was probably the best part of the whole experience. I give St. Thomas a perfect 4 out of 4 coastlines.

New Years Eve on a big ship was fairly interesting. I smoked a Cuban cigar and watched a reggae band from one of the upper decks.

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HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP HAP....

Happy Birthday, I'm an Asshole!