Wednesday, August 4, 2010 |
10:24 - Is there anybody out there?
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Wouldn't surprise me if not. Maybe one of these days I should go ahead and change the blog code to show a minimum of x posts if there are none from the past week, but a) I've always considered it a failure of the endless decade-and-counting blogmathon if I resort to such a solution, and b) how can I think of modifying this, the world's most perfect, feature-rich, and well-conceived blogging software that I wrote in about eight hours back in 2001?
What's to say, anyway? I hate making empty statements for the sake of keeping traffic flowing. But there's just not that much I can pontificate about these days. iPhone 4? iPad? Haven't yet had the pleasure. Cars? Nothing too photogenic or storyworthy to report. Life in the Big City™? It's still there. Politics? Um... what?
Oh, hey, I just got a 401 scam-spam with the subject line:
LETTER!!
Why yes... yes it is.
Hmm, anything else....
Oh wait! Here's something:
Dogs that bite are not ordinarily lavished with praise, but Jerry Douthett's little dog Kiko is being hailed as a lifesaver. Kiko apparently sensed an infection festering in his master's right big toe -- and chewed most of it off after Douthett passed out in a drunken stupor.
A trip to the hospital confirmed Douthett's digit required amputation, and Kiko is being heralded by his owner for helping him realize he has been suffering from Type 2 diabetes. Douthett had a dangerously high blood-sugar level of 560 when admitted -- many times the recommended 80 to 120.
"Jerry had had all these Margaritas, so I just let him sleep," said his wife, Rosee, a registered nurse. "But then I heard these screams coming from the bedroom, and he was yelling, 'My toe's gone, my toe's gone!'"
That's a hell of a way to wake up. But I love the writing style in this article:
In the meantime, he and friends are trotting out every pun they can think of to lighten the incident. That would include hosting a concert -- a "toe-jam" -- to recognize Kiko, and jokes about how Douthett should patronize eateries like Noto's.
Even before surgery, he said he asked a nurse, "Is there any chance I can get whatever's left of my toe, so I can give it to Kiko as a treat?"
He said she replied, "That's the sickest thing I ever heard."
Um... good dog!
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