that damn q-tip
I am watching Blade Runner. For the second time tonight. Yay! Sci Fi Channel! People have called and I have said, "Are you watching Blade Runner?" They have all said no. They don't have cable. Now I know why cable is so expensive in Seattle. No one has it. I am the only one.
They are crazed bizarro at my cable company too. Maybe that has something to do with it. There is as far as I know only one cable company in Seattle. And I know more people than me must have it because I am always getting stuck behind cable vans that park in ways that block traffic for miles each way. Seriously. I was in South Seattle trying to negotiate what are already narrow streets and this cable company van parked in the middle of the street. Just parked there. Blocking both lanes. So I had to back up, turn around, and go find another route. That is just aberrant to me.
Also, it took my cable company two months and visits from six technicians to fix my cable when it stopped working -- which I have never forgiven them for and am still bitter about. And the cable box, which is a horrid fake wood plastic box dating back to circa the Jetsons, changes channels on its own. If anybody out there is thinking about branching out into cable, Seattle is really the city to do it in. All you need are nice boxes that actualy work with current day technology so people can use their fancy 100 channel cable ready TVs and you are in like Flynn.
Meanwhile --
I just dropped seven pounds by accident which usually means I am working too hard AND my face broke out. Now I am skinny and broken out. That is so wrong. I imagine being eighty making sojourns to a dermatologist and the dermatologist saying "Miss Adams this was supposed to stop when you were sixteen." And me then having to beat the dermatologist senseless with my brolly (when you are eighty you can call them brollies) on general principal because well at eighty everyone knows THAT. But before I am jailed for assaulting overly factual Seattle dermatologists it is time for thoughts and this episode of thoughts is --
THAT DAMN Q-TIP
The dogs and I walk to the corner store every day. This is because Webvan went out of business so now I am forced to carry my own Diet Cokes back and forth between purveyors of Diet Cokes and the condo. So every day the dogs and I make a little walk to the corner store and get Diet Cokes and every day I see --
The Q-Tip.
The Q-Tip is lying under the fourth tree from the corner store. It has been lying under the fourth tree from the corner store for days. Weeks. A month at least.
I do not know how The Q-Tip got there.
I do not know how The Q-Tip stays there.
There is no logic to The Q-Tip.
There is a nice man the condo association pays to go outside every day and clean up around the trees. And he does. I see him do it. He pets the dogs too. He likes dogs.
Each tree has a little square of earth under it in the sidewalk next to parking meters that run too fast. Sometimes I put change in the meters that go too fast just to foil the parking police who hide around corners waiting for the too fast parking meters to run out so they can trundle up in parking police mobiles and give people tickets. Which is all high drama for them I guess but unfortunate for people who do not know the parking meters run too fast. And. In the middle of parking meters that run too fast and high drama parking meter police and men who clean up around trees and like dogs and Diet Coke purveying there is --
The Q-Tip.
How can that Q-Tip can be there every day? The man who likes dogs must pick it up and take it away. Which means --
It is a different Q-Tip. Every day. For days. Weeks. A month at least.
One Q-Tip would be weird. I do not even know how that happens. Someone is just walking down a city block and suddenly thinks this would be a good moment for a Q-tip? And has a Q-tip? Just whips it out of his or her jeans pocket to do ear restoration right there on the street?? AND DROPS THE Q-TIP UNDER A TREE??? MORE THAN ONCE? LIKE ON A DAILY BASIS??? IS THAT SANITARY????
Okay. Is this a Seattle thing? Do Seattle natives carry Q-tips like Cary Grant carried kerchiefs and this is just something I do not know about?
I am totally confused by The Q-Tip. I am thinking of staking it out. Me, the dogs, a tent, some see in the dark goggles. We have to get to the bottom of this. We have to have answers. We cannot have unexplained Q-Tips loitering under trees. We need charts. We need graphs. We need croissants. And we need answers.
Oh. And also Diet Cokes.
Excuse me now I have to check on the stealth goggles.
Love
and Kisses,
Your
Adams Girl
PS:
Seemaxrun has just moved servers and everything should be working but
if it is not write me I do not always know when things are not working.
PPS: The new message board has changed servers too (and addresses wow it is even on seemaxrun now) go see.
