[m i a o w] the cat

I have post-travel post-birthday slump. It’s a lovely warm day, I’ve been listening to the Pixies first reformation gig - a fantastic recording from the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis on the 13th of last month - but I still have a black labrador draped over my much maligned, but genetically unavoidable, non-existent shoulders. To that end I have cleaned the shower of two weeks of mudcrab grime, washed the dishes, wiped down the benches and have searched the internet for Queensland deck-building regulations. Snuffle, says the dog. So I put on some mascara - a surefire way not to let the labrador have total domination. Although I have been wanting to use the line:

[Boy looking at girl with mascara streaked face]
Boy - What’s the matter with you?
Girl - Nothing, my mother was a panda.

The post came. A lovely birthday card from my mate in Iowa containing a CD with (among other equally spectacular things) the exact same Pixies gig that I spent last night labouring over typing the track listing…if I’d just waited twelve hours… Of course, just to balance out my glee, the other letter was from the insurance company telling me that I have to give them $700 in less than two weeks. With amazing alacrity I was able to quickly locate last years amount, which was exactly half of what they are now asking. So I called them. Apparently when I was given my original quote the ‘computers were down’ and so it came in way too cheap, but they honoured it regardless, and I unknowingly saved fifty percent. Too bad that they never told me so I had no idea I would ever have to cough up more than $350 or so. If they hadn’t been so accomodating about getting me a new laptop when mine was fried by lightning (after it was stolen, but before the police took it…make sense?) I would take my my business elsewhere (which I’m sure they would find completely demoralising).

Hmmm. I do remember being told a story about a guy who insured his car by calling a different insurance company every two weeks for a year, and so survived for free on covernotes. [Looks thoughtful]

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[…] my excitement, but just think of loud squealing… that should do it. And proof of my love? Here where I snaffled a fantastic recording of their first reformation show in Minneapolis April 2004, […]

GIGANTICALLY EXCITED! « [m i a o w] the cat typed this on Mar 27 07 at 3:46 pm

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