Eric and Cricket
I learned something new about my camera today. It has filters
on it. This morning, I noticed the button and wondering what
it was for, I pushed it. (what, read the manual?) Looking
at the display, I saw that it had changed the picture, similar
to some of the stuff you do with PhotoShop or something. So,
I pushed the button again and the picture went to a negative
image.
Cool, I thought . .something to play with. But, I wasn't in
the mood to play at the moment because I didn't want to miss
my window of opportunity with Cricket and Eric and good lighting
so I pressed it again and it went back to normal . .or so I
thought. Was I ever surprised to find half of my photos were
not in color!
Eric was up this morning before
I was. The first thing I noticed was that the cartoons were
on in stereo, one TV in his room and the other in the living
room. The second thing I noticed was that he had decided to have
a pickle sandwich for breakfast -- there was a package of
hamburger buns and a jar of pickles open. Eric, however,
was not visible.
After grabbing my coffee and a cigarette, I went out back
for my morning sit and there he was, playing squeak-bone
throw with Cricket. They
were both having a swell time, but I must admit, I felt a
few pangs of jealousy when Cricket didn't even acknowledge
my presence.
You see, Cricket is my love dog. When I'm out there
he (used to) completely ignore everyone else. It didn't matter
how much Daniel or even
Tom called to him, he would
come to me. If they threw his squeak toys for him to retrieve,
he would bring them right back to ME. I was the only
one he would play tug of war with.
But, today, he was completely ignoring me, giving me his
best doggy cold shoulder. Eric was KING and my
love dog wouldn't even look my way when I called him.
Sniff, sniff.
Another thing I like about it is that you can toggle on
line numbers, a handy feature with any HTML checking thing
you might use. I'd been using my old mainframe editor so
I could get the line numbers.
But it doesn't bark at me when I start it up like HotDog
did. I suppose one can't have everything.
