dogs, cars, and cards

we're dogsitting Mario for a few days! it's been a lot of fun...Dustin brought him over thursday night...i wasn't looking forward to the waking up early to walk him part of it, but on friday it was actually real fun and a great walk...friday night we were going to go to a show for Ryan's band but then it turned out it was cancelled (murphy's double-booked it...now THAT doesn't sound familiar...) we ended up going to hastings just shortly before close and while only looking around a little i did pick up a couple things: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (both those newer fancier editions and discounted price...now i do already have two copies of The Odyssey (the second time i thought i was getting a different translation when it was the same translation with a different cover...doh! but i'd only paid $1 for it so i didn't feel too bad about not paying enough attention....) and as those books are a prose translation, i'd much rather have the verse translation anyway...and that one i just got's supposed to be good and all...)

yesterday was certainly a busy day...i took my car in to get an oil change and the routine maintenance junk checked out...while waiting i walked around a bunch...i went to spin street and they had a pretty good sale on some stuff and some pretty good used stuff so i got a bunch of stuff: Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um, James Brown: Sex Machine, The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope, The Clash: Super Black Market Clash (i've sure put off getting those a LONG time), Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain, Boredoms: Super Roots 7 (i have in a bootleg cdr from before they got reissued, so it's good to be replacing it with something more proper), Built to Spill: You in Reverse, Godflesh: Hymns, and Three Mile Pilot: s/t...more walking around a whole bunch...then my car was ready, hoorah...well i go pick Mary Beth up immediately and we go to eat at quick check and as soon as i get there i notice a horrible noise...i get worried and start to bring the car back in but it starts sounding worse...luckily Mary Beth has roadside assistance so we called to get it towed back and ate some tasty quick check in a car parked obstructively across the parking lot...at least when i brought it back they fixed it nigh immediately (as they'd better have) i belive when replacing a belt of some sort they didn't attach it right or screwed something up...i dunno...it works now anyway...we were gonna go to greek fest but when the fiasco went down with my car, well, we didn't...we did go to the library bookstore...i got some books: Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (another case of the newer fancier book with the newer acclaimed translation), Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, Kafka in Samadhi by Howling Wolf (this book's a bit puzzling...some very small publisher...obviously the name's not real...it's a collection of four stories...the cover is just a picture of Kafka...the back cover is just a picture of T.S. Eliot (which is obviously much more odd...though looking through it, one of the stories seems to be about T.S. Eliot so i guess that's where that comes from...) it looked pretty cheesy at first and i got it out of morbit curiosity and the cheapness of the books at the library, but the more i look at it the more it looks like it might actually be good(?)...anyway...), Rabbit Is Rich/Rabbit Redux/Rabbit, Run by John Updike, Medea and Other Plays by Euripides, Lust for Life by Irving Stone, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and Stevie Wonder by Sam Hasegawa (a beautiful oddity! a little, colorful "biography" for kids part of some Rock'n Pop Stars series and it's from '75 (Innversions is the most recent album mentioned in it!) and it's loaded with watercolor pictures in full-on 70's fashion...it's pretty awesome)...after that Ryan came over and we played cities and knights of catan...i won! (though mostly by luck...strategy-wise i played terribly, but i happened to get the victory point about every time the barbarians attacked...my actual settlement/city setup was pretty dire...just my knights brought in the points!)

in walked Mario today we came across this yard where some guy was doing work or something and his dog (this big, awesome fella) was running around unleashed and it was the coolest thing ever 'cuz he was playing with Mario and they were chasing each other all over the place...it was pretty awesome...i didn't wanna take Mario off the leash though...but it was exciting...ooh...and i just ordered my first two payment installment for a synthesizers.com modular synth! they have like this 12 month payment system...more excitement!