yes, i agree... it's very silly

the garage. it is done. well not the window trim, and a few bits need to be touched up with brown (the underside of the eaves). it's a crappy garage ok?? it's lucky i didn't tie a chain around it and raze it with my truck! it's life is in my hands! i hope you like blue because we are about to be SURROUNDED BY BLUE. it looks nice with the green grass. and some day there will be flowers everywhere and you won't regret it then. no sir.

that being said it is the same color as this blog. well, it's supposed to be. alright calm down. that wasn't on purpose. it just so happens to be my favorite color in the entire world. AND i already chose that color before i made this blog. AND i wasn't even thinking about the house when i made the blog so please just calm down. take a slow silent inhalation. a slow silent exhalation.



our dog smells of grass. when he is sleeping i like to nuzzle my face into what i can only refer to as the doggie donut hole. NO NO NO! you are misunderstanding me! PLEASE! calm down... the doggie donut hole is the middle of the circle that a dog makes when he is snuggled in a little ball. his little face is tucked under his hind leg. IT"S CUTE damnit. nothing weird or inappropriate ok? sheesh. i like to nuzzle my face there because i can whisper little things to him and he is soft and warm and i can look into his big round eye and tell him sweet things that a dog might like to hear. SEE? innocent.

ok.



i listened to phillip roth's "indignation" on cd the past two days. man that is a good book. the reader was awesome. dick hill. he did every voice so well, from new jersey jewish and midwest anglo, to virginian twang. and the women too. this is my new favorite thing. books on cd from the library. I KNOW. everyone else already has been listening to books on tape for a hundred years and i am late on the wagon. can you please calm down. thank you. this book is about a young jewish boy from jersey who moves from his little town there to a little town in northern ohio to attend college. the family he has and the school he transfers to all make him feel crazy and a bit isolated - that he is nothing like any of them. he meets a great girl... with a whole slew of issues and then tragedy insues. this is a newer book of his that came out in 2008, but takes place in 1951. and the cover is perfect. very propoganda-esque and cool.



sometimes it feels as if max and i live on another planet. like we are little fugitives on a renegade planet or maybe it's a space station. no one is here, even though we have contact with earth and her people, we are on our own. we live off of rations and only go out when we have to get more supplies. we do everything here. and if we can't do it here it doesn't get done. well, mostly. sometimes we visit earth and hang out with friends and talk to them on the phone. but it's distant in a way. mostly everything is just the two of us. i am the leader of course and max is number one. he acts as security and he takes his job very seriously. he is a silly dog in the day time, but when the sun goes down you had better watch out. maxwell valentine is a BEAST. he will tear your face off! that's fine with me because i am in no mood to be invaded by space aliens coming to conquer our little lonely planet. we do not want what they are selling no sir. perhaps i should fashion a little helmet and suit of armor for mr. valentine. and for me a laser gun. NO! we are a peaceful planet. no guns and no helmets.

but i do have a sledge hammer in case any aliens stop by.