saddle the one-eyed dog
 Rachel and I found this old dog lying in a CVS drivethrough in Tampa today. He was lying in such an odd place, in such a slack and flattened position that we both thought he was surely dead.
But to our surprise, when we approached him he stirred, lifted his head and looked around.
We went into the CVS and Rachel bought a can of Alpo dogfood for the old fella. He kind of shied away from us at first and didn't realize we here offering him food. So Rachel opened up the Alpo and poured it on the sidewalk. (It actually looked pretty tasty--sort of like chunks of Gyro meat, smothered in Gravy.
Pretty soon the old dog lumbered over and began scarfing it all up. Rachel said the dog was blind in one eye, but I didn't get close enough to look. She named the mutt Saddle, by virtue of the brown patch on his back.
With his blind eye and his penchant for sleeping in dangerous places, I doubt Saddle is long for this world. But at least today he got to chow down on some tasty looking dog food.
Rachel and I went to a couple of CVSs today, trying to use of their self-serve photo machines--the kind where you can plug in your digital camera and make prints and enlargements in a matter of seconds. We have this photo project we're doing involving dozens of pictures of Rachel in all sorts of sexy poses and situations: drinking, smoking, lounging in lingerie, showering etc. I was pretty thrilled with the quality of the prints we got from the CVS machine last night, so we tried to do another series today (the shower series).
Unfortuantely, the first CVS we went to didn't really have a self-serve machine. It required some sort of photo expert to print the pictures behind the counter, and I guess that photo expert wasn't working today. So we just fed Saddle his Alpo and went to the next CVS up the street.
The next CVS had the right kind of machine, but there was this little Puerto Rican lady printing out over a hundred pictures when we got there. For some reason the pale, bespectacled, bearded CVS photo dude knew exactly how many photos the little Puerto Rican lady was printing and he told us it would take about twenty minutes for the job to finish.
At this point we were starting to get pretty exasperated. We thought about driving to yet another CVS, but then we imagined that there would be some strange problem there as well. So we decided to kill twenty minutes in the store just browsing. Eventually, we couldn't pretend to be looking at boxes of soap and bags of snacks anymore and we just stood and glared at the Puerto Rican lady and watched her photos plop out one by one in a miserable slow motion.
Finally, Rachel asked the Puerto Rican lady what her massive photo shoot was about.
"It's for a lawsuit against my friend," the Puerto Rican lady said. She further explained that she was getting Section 8 money from the government to house her low income "friend." But her friend has this penchant for leaving lots of garbage around the property, and once it became a public nuisance, the Puerto Rican lady lost her government money. So the 100 plus photographs that were plopping out of the machine were all pictures of her friends garbage. I'm not exactly how the lawsuit is going to work, like whether she's suing to get her friend evicted, or suing to get her government money back.
All I know is that the 100 photos of her friends garbage took a goddamn long time to print.
8:27:21 PM 
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