Animal Planet hates me

Why do I do it? The Animal Planet channel is trying to do me in with a broken heart. I had to block the channel a few years ago after surfing and settling on a show about an orphaned baby elephant trying to join another herd. The herd rejected him and kept shooing him away and would have nothing to do with him; the last scene was of the baby elephant walking into the sunset with his head and trunk down. Come on now...how is anyone supposed to recover from that?! I haven't blocked Animal Planet since I got DirecTV awhile back, but that may change soon. There's a new show called Meerkat Manor that I'm addicted to (narrated by Sean Astin for you LotR fans) and already on the second episode this little meerkat is bitten by a snake and he's struggling to survive. I'm warning you Animal Planet...I've got the DirecTV manual out and know how to block you, if little Shakespeare dies...you're gone too.

So other than desping Animal Planet, I'm officially on vacation until the 26th...what a wonderful feeling. I don't leave for TX until Sunday but I took a few extra days off just because I felt like it. Good thing too as I managed to break a toe (insert collective groan here, yes again, in fact it's one of the toes involved in the infamous ER visit of Christmas 2002) so I'm hobbling around a bit. Hasn't slown me down too much, but still a hassle to deal with.

Work is well, work. The visit with the East Coasters went smoothly which is good since they 're the ones paying me these days. Well, I think it went smoothly but they've invited me out to Wash D.C . this August so maybe they weren't all that impressed with my operation and are hoping to get rid of me through heatstroke. I'm sure August in D.C. will run a close second to the crappiest weather I'll deal with this year.

That's about it from here. I'll check back in after my trip. If anyone sees a blonde limping through LAX, Houston or Corpus Christi in the next week...stop and say hello!