Creative Juices

Thanks to Dave and Kevin for passing this one on to me.



Get your creative juices flowing?

ANGRIEST POODLE IN THE WORLD

ANGRIEST POODLE IN THE WORLD

Along with last week's bucket full of puppies the little pet store in the Pueblos de Dominicana had this charming little critter.

While it seems to be indeed the angriest poodle in the world, it was in fact a very sweet little dog having a bad hair day.

Bucket full of puppies

Bucket full of puppies

While traveling to South America I went to the Pueblos de Dominicana in Santiago, Chile.

They have everything.

Wood carvers, jewelry stores, t-shirt shops, and a ton of local craft-type shops.

They also have a pet shop. The pet shop had a bucket full of puppies.

Also - now I have a story that starts, "So I was on this plane full of Argentinian Super Models." The story doesn't really get any better than that, but it sure starts great.

Technology Impaired

Apparently I'm technology impaired. It took me a an hour to figure this one out. The bellboy in my hotel (Montevideo, Uruguay) didn't give me the heads up. That's fine, I'm usually a pretty smart guy. Not today.



The light switches in the hotel don't work!






What's this salad?









ohhhh.... you put your room key in here and then all the light switches work. Nice.


Yeah, I totally want that for my apartment now. That's just too brilliant! It saves so much energy that the US will clearly never adopt such a thing.

Phone cards on a leash

Phone cards on a leash

I spent 10 hours in the Miami Airport today on my way to Montevideo, Uruguay to speak. I'm excited about the trip, but not the 5 hours on this side of security, and then 5 hours on the other side. Fortunately, I was able to work from a lounge next to the luggage shrink-wrapper.

Am I naive to think that I don't need my luggage ensconced in blue glad-wrap to survive the trip? These guys do a bustling business, so I must be crazy.

Meanwhile - there are international phone card machines everywhere. This guy lead his along by a leash. We definitely don't want that phone card machine out running amok!

Curses to the Miami Airport for removing the stamp machines so I couldn't mail cards and letters. They did leave the mail boxes out though. Really? Yes, apparently 9/11 created a state of fear, not about what people might put into letter boxes, but that they might do legitimate mailing.

I blame the Amish - who, by the way, were in the Miami Airport in droves. How does that work?

Boxing Cat

From the YouTube member's description:
This is what my cat does every time we watch boxing...



Thanks to Tara, who sent it to Sylvia, who sent it to me.