Rus and I were driving down to the lumber yard in the Dodge. “You seem like the kind of guy who should have a dog,” he said to me. We were heading into Redwood City, down by the salt evaporators.
“Really? Why’s that?” I asked.
“So you can step in its shit, then get in your car and smear it all over the brake pedal. Then you turn on the heat and get the smell everywhere.”
“Oh. I hadn’t thought of that…”
It’s tough working with Rus sometimes.
In other work news, I’ve noticed that you get on a horse and tractor the same side you get in a car. Mount from the left hand side. There are different reasons for each one. The tractor has a large arm that operates the bucket on the right hand side, (since most people are right handed), that makes it awkward to climb on from that side. Can someone remind me why we get on horses from the left hand side? And cars?
In non-work news, this superbowl sunday I am meeting with a man who has tons of home recorded records from the 1930′s and 40′s. While researching these acetate 78′s, this site came up. It is a great collection of strange records/cassettes found in thrift stores, with quicktime samples, like I tried to post yesterday, but couldn’t…