And hopefully it won’t get slammed in the door. Got contacted yesterday about possible doing some freelance work with a business that “might be doing some work for corporation this fall.” Sounds interesting. Bad thing is that I have let my portfolio get woefully out of date. So, I get to spend the next few days whipping it back into shape. Will be good to focus on something other than the pissy mood I have been in.

Been listening to Thom Yorke’s solo album “The Eraser” since I bought it last Saturday. Been listening too it a little too much … maybe.

Heh. Reed sent this through to me …

Take a wild guess what I ran into this past weekend …

And I am not talking about the really cool cartoon either.

I started housesitting for my bosses last evening. Generally I like housesitting for them … middle of nowhere house, satellite, big screen television … but now things are a little different. It’s summer and their dog has become a total tick magnet. They have this yard that surround by a field that got lots of tall grass. It’s the perfect place to come in contact with ticks. Needless to say, they have been treating him with Frontline® or Advantage® or something like that, but that doesn’t stop him from being a transporter of ticks. Last night, I crawled into bed and not a minute later felt something crawling on my leg. Yup. It was a tick and eneded up being the first of four that I pulled off of my body last night. Fortunately they were just crawling and not “latching and feeding.” Today has been awful so far. Not nearly enough sleep and I have the added bonus of feeling like ticks are crawling all over me.

Now, I am generally not freaked out by bugs … but (goddamn) if those little fuckers (ticks, that is) don’t give me the willies with their feeding and engorging and disease and sucking of my blood.