at Alice's Internet Restaurant.
I've been looking for a new dog bed for Spring. The vet says she might have hip dysplasia and that, aside from surgery, a new bed would be great for her.
So what kind of bed? An orthopedic bed, of course. Egg crate is good, he said, as it creates no pressure points. A water bed is good, too.
A water bed for the dogs! Ooooh, would they love it? I don't know. But I ordered one. Sort of.
I looked quite a lot to find what the doc was talking about. Finally I found this one. It's a canine cooler bed!
Spring gets really hot under her fur coat (and she won't take it off) and I've determined that if she weren't so hot, she might sit still and if she sat still on a bed that's good for her joints, too, well, then, hey. It might be a good thing.
I'm a little concerned about the fact that it isn't either a water bed or an egg crate foam thing. But I have much faith in this bed. I don't know why, but I do. Perhaps it's the weeping customer testimonial.
Nevertheless, I'm irritated that the internet promises that I can buy anything I want. Yet I couldn't find my doggie a waterbed. I looked at the other eggcrate foam beds, but figured Dr.Dad could get some eggcrate foam if he tried. I guess they throw it away at the hospital. He doesn't do surgery there anymore, but he's got friends. Oh yeah, he's got friends in all kinds of places. It might be time to cash in a favor.
Thus, in my irritation, I started thinking, "I could get anything I wanted at Alice's Restaurant. So why doesn't she open an internet cafe?"
Then I decided to look and see if she had. Well, I found it. But how disappointing!
It's a family friendly site.
Bah.
She says, "Note: Net links can disappear faster than kids at bath-time!"
Bah.
Then there's this notice, "Note: While a sincere effort has been made to ensure that every resource listed here is safe and family-friendly, there's no substitute for any child's Number One Friend - the grown-up in his/her life! Besides, Surfing the Web is never more fun than when you Surf together!"
Surf together? How does a person surf with another person? All kinds of random clicking takes place when people surf. At least when this people surfs. Which She doesn't do. Not really. Directed surfing. Surfing with a destination. It's not like I swim out and then randomly surf home. No. That's not how I do it.
Actually, I don't even care to know how a person surfs with another person. I'd rather remain an ignoramus.
cardinal sin
There is a cardinal who must be addicted to some wacky substance. It seems like every day he crashes into our windows while peeping or twee-ing constantly. He looks healthy, good color and all, but what the hell? Why's he doing this thing?
I've even stuck papers on the windows and hung our decorative hanging things, like ornaments and stained glass stuff. And he's still banging away into the windows. Repeatedly.
Oh! So happy. I think he went off to get drunk somewhere else. Poor addicted darling.
Oh! Another thing to be so happy about. Since I've said "addicted" and "drunk"
and "hell" I am officially not family-friendly. Yahoo!
And I just saw a hummingbird go by the window where the cardinal crashes. Hummingbirds must be smarter than cardinals. They must be drug-free.
Posted by dotty at August 1, 2003 01:57 PM