"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill

(He's Canadian)

This will be short. It's late by my standards, and I'll be up and at 'em early in the morning. Plus, we're watching Father Brown on PBS and that keeps distracting me. The absence of commercials doesn't help.

Yesterday I painted the inside of the truck bed, but that was straightforward because it's all the same color. Saturday I'll paint the outside, which gets a fairly complex two-tone scheme, and that has to be done in the driveway in order to have adequate space. That means it has to be done very, very early in the morning - as in starting at 5:30 a.m. - because it's gonna get hot. The forecast is for 105 by mid-afternoon. I can adjust for the heat to some degree (see what I did there?) by using a faster reducer (it gets mixed with the paint), but if the sun hits the metal and gets it too hot the paint will crackle as soon as it's applied. So the goal is to have all the painting done by 10 a.m. before the sun is too high in the sky. That means having everything ready to go as soon as the sun comes up, and that requires I set everything in place early tomorrow, before it gets to 102. Then I'll do the rest of my Sunday prep when it's time to be in an air conditioned space.

You gotta make these accommodations when you live in the desert. When you live in Oregon that's not really necessary.

I had lunch with Josh W. today at what I guess is called a fusion restaurant, in this case some strange combination of Mexican and Chinese. I had #7, which was something like sweet & sour chicken with the (hot!) spices of Mexican food. And brown rice.
Tasty.

If I watch the first 15 minutes of a TV show and get hooked, but decide I need to go to bed, I'll sometimes hit the record button. When I go back to watch the show it has done one of two things, either recorded from that point in the show or recorded the whole thing, including the part I'd already watched and was before I started recording.
How?
Why?
And how can I know which will happen?
'cause sometimes I didn't watch the first 15 minutes, didn't even know it was on, and then part way into the hour realize I should be recording it. Am I going to get that first segment? If I'm not I'll skip recording it because I'll never know what happened at the beginning of the show.
We have DirecTV, if that matters.