Friday, September 30, 2005

A Pig Of Beauty Is A Joy Forever.
No, it's not a phrase spied on a t-shirt in Tokyo, or something that emerged from babelfish. It is the sign introducing you to a Red River Hog at the San Diego Zoo. And it may have to become my .sig file.

The Red River Hog has hairy ears like my grandfather had. I suspect that when he's old and wrinkly, SNG will have them, too. But for now his ears are super-cute. And an SNG of beauty is a joy forever.

This week I went open water swimming with a colleague who's really into boating but had never tried kayaking before. So I let him use one of our 'yaks to shadow me and keep the powerboats from plowing over me. It was quite a symbiotic thing we had going-- I was slow enough that he was under no pressure to pick up Mad paddling skilz in a hurry, and I needed a human shield. I swam for 90 minutes, with about 15 of them hanging onto the bow of the boat watching the clear blue sky fade into a purple-and-orange sunset. Did I ever tell you how nice it is in NC in the fall?

No trips for a couple of weeks. Instead I'm supposed to be writing a course for a customer that is contingent on their signing some legal document, which was due last Monday, but is still not yet signed, so I can't start the work yet. And if they wait much longer, I will be on the road again and their course will have to wait until next year. So in the meantime, I'm catching up on all the nifty programming projects I had put off for the last few months.

OK, that was seriously boring to most of you so I'm going to exit stage left. Have a great weekend! It's a PERFECT 10 on the weather channel's Fitness Forecast for this afternoon, so by the time you read this, I'll be cavorting with the birds and the trees!

3 comments:

SNG said...

Perfect 10? It's much more like "overcast" than "partly cloudy" but it's still better than 90-something and humid.
I'm still looking forward to leaving the office to go ride my bike!!!

alphagal said...

Hey, who am I to criticise TWC's rating system? It sure feels nice outside to me! It's overcast but fairly dry, about 71 degrees, calm winds. Aaaaaah. Days like this I can't decide whether I like having a window in my office or not- it's a bit like living upstairs from a bakery. Looks so good, but tempts so bad...

PartnerInCrime said...

Not really related weather news: I got super excited this weekend because we actually had some thunder & lightning, which we almost never have. We get a lot of drizzle in the NW, but it hardly ever really rains, and I miss the drama of thunderstorms. I wanted to go outside & dance around in the puddles to celebrate, but LeBon thought it might not be a good idea. Party pooper. :)
Love the "pig of beauty" line. Very random.