Catching up with Dirtbunny

1. Because I haven't felt like blogging. That's why.

2. Well, I do think Italian soccer players are interesting.

3. That's between me and ADP.

4. FC Dirtbunny is not about the looks.

Hotness is not the reason for loving Gio. He's got charisma, but not beauty.

Gigi isn't exactly beautiful either, and I cannot condone that jacket unless he is poor and got it from a charity drive, which seems unlikely, somehow.

And beauty is not enough to get Marco Borriello a call-up. Did you know that doing a Google Image search on Borri is likely to turn up nekkid or half-nekkid photos of him and various females that are NSFW? Keep it clean, and do it at home.

5. Speaking of did you know, Did you know that pretty much all futbollers bear the unmistakable mark of the ancient broken nose? Go back and look for yourself. Even Borri. I guess they've all gotten smashed in the face with the ball at some point.

6. Yes, we did have weather last week.

Rather a lot of it.

But it was 75 degrees yesterday, and so it's all gone now.

7. Did you know that Yarn Bandit would much rather not go out in the snow. If you don't mind, he'd rather just pee on the rug, thank you very much.

8. On the other hand, Bunny's Special Sweetheart likes the snow. It's one of those few things that provokes actual frolicking. He has a little problem with the whole en fuego yeast infection again. He likes to lick his paws, and they're itchy because of the allergies, so he licks them a lot, which makes for a nice warm, damp home for little beasties to grow. So we thought it was gone, but then he licked new holes in his paws. So we put him in a donut, because he hates the satellite dish:

That was comfy enough, and it pushed his ears forward and made him even cuter than usual. But he could still reach the tops of his feet, if not the bottoms, and so the bottoms got better but he licked a new hole in the top of his foot.

Now he has a new and improved satellite dish that's padded and a little flexible, but keeps him from reaching his paws. He's OK with it, but he doesn't love it.

When we're around to watch him, we'll take it off him unless/until he starts up with the licking.

He can sleep in it even. And we have figured out how to get the medicine between his toes without traumatizing him or getting bitten. Ugh. This is a long-term issue for which the dish is not a very good solution, but first we still have to do the cancer thing.

He's totally worth it.

[I love him so much. *sobs*]

9. This week on The Amazing Race, it was a descent to the lowest common denominator as the contestants went to Siberia. First stop was a huge hydroelectric dam that appears on one of the ruble notes. Built during the Soviet era, it bore one of those giant propaganda posters so popular with the communists back then. Perhaps you recognize this guy:

His image provoked confusion on some teams. One team took a vote and decided that he must have been the guy who built the dam. Okay then.

Next, they had to unscramble a whopping six letters to reveal the name of a Russian playwright. I can name a bunch of Russian authors off the top of my head, but only one playwright. How about you?

Anyway, these are the letters: H V E K H C O

How to solve? How to solve? [muses, wonders]

I get stuck with those letters and I say, "Neato! I only know one Russian playwright and those are his letters." If you are The Man listening from the other room and you don't know what the letters are, you can guess the playwright's name by hollering out "It's Chekhov, isn't it?"

One team solved the puzzle by looking at the letters and saying "Chekhov. Everyone knows Chekhov."

One team solved the puzzle by thinking, "I hope it's Chekhov because that's the only Russian playwright I know."

One team solved the puzzle by thinking, OK Russian names end in sounds like "ski" and "ov." Seeing no letter combination that ended in "ski," they went with "ov" and worked backwards from there.

Every other team solved the puzzle by randomly guessing and trying for letter combinations that might make actual sounds.

The deaf guy had it rough because he didn't learn to read the way we all did (by associating the letters with sounds) and he strung together some fairly discordant letter combinations, but he still got it faster than some of the other teams.

This show used to be smart. sigh

10. Futbol = suffering (mostly)

[do you see the little broken nose bump up there?]

Champions League tomorrow. Don't call me. I'll be drunk-slash-busy.