More than half of these’ll just get you funny looks when spoken in Guanatos, but if you’re heading Madrid way check out these 12 phrases to get by with in the Spanish capital… ¡Qué guay, tio! Son de puta madre… Aah, the Españolitos and their funny ways…

New Flickr toys from Dumpr include this museumr one. Vanity publishing:

cos it’s a huge waste of time. But it was that or Pacman and we got our taxes done today and had the dog innoculated against every plague going around so I don’t feel too bad… Anyroad, it led me to this page of winning entries for a “Make up a Jack Handey Deep Thought” compo and for that I thank it… almost as good as the old-as-the-hills originals. My faves?

Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money.

Once, I wept for I had no shoes. Then I came upon a man who had no feet. So I took his shoes. I mean, it’s not like he really needed them, right?

your one-stop-shop for schipperke animated gifs and other delights…

Click the lovingly rendered graphic below to go there:

don’t forget to sign their guestbook and web design like it’s 1999…
in other news, Atticus met his “cousin” today and is now knackered. 7 days to “Schipperkes on a Plane!” insaniddy.

and caught up with lots of old friends from Santa Cruz in the Biltmore Hotel slap bang in the centre of L.A. All expenses paid by USC and a stretch from the usual Hotel Universo (with its Bar Galaxia…). Waking up the next day I looked out the window and saw a complex sprinkler system I wasn’t sure what it was until I remembered we were in LAlalandia and they were filming some scene for a pilot tv episode which required rain and lots of extras with umbrellas… We got the dog transport cage, located last year’s tax forms, and have more or less arranged Thursday’s trip north…

Plans for the next week: a fair bit of painting / decorating and at some point I want to fit in a trip to the cinema to see 300.