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Filler: Yaris looks terribly comfortable

The end is nigh. Soon I will not have to live in hotels full time. Actually, I’m not sure if I ever mentioned that. While the house was under repair from all the water damage, we’ve been living in a hotel. This is on top of the hotelling I do during the week for work.

But soon. Soon.

So anyway, that’s what I was doing all weekend instead of writing a post. I was prepping the house for habitation again. Yaris, I think, will be both pleased and displeased with the move back into the house. She’ll like to be around familiar surroundings again and the ability to go in and out as she pleases. But she’ll probably miss the comforts of a hotel bed. She can’t reach mine at home and thus can’t squish down like she has here.

I think I took this one morning after I got up for work. Yaris has this thing where she watching me get up and get ready for work, then hunkers down in bed and grunts, and then goes back to sleep. She is very supportive in the morning.

I think I took this one morning after I got up for work. Yaris has this thing where she watching me get up and get ready for work, then hunkers down in bed and grunts, and then goes back to sleep. She is very supportive in the morning.

Filler: Octopus

Um…yes. It’s a filler. Here’s an octopus I drew for a Draw Something game. Actually, I think the word was “sushi” and not octopus. But I thought the drawing would be better if it had an octopus in it.

What else?  Oh, how about this?  The plural of “octopus” is not “octopi” as many people think.  Pluralizing a “-us” word with an “-i” is a Latin thing.  That’s why you have words like “radii” and “foci” and for some reason not “campi” instead of “campusus” as campus is a word with Latin roots.

So anyway, “octopus” is derived from Greek.  The proper pluralization would be “octopodes.”  Hardly anyone uses that, of course.  The most common correct plural form would probably be “octopuses.”  “Octopi” is definitely incorrect because THE WORD “OCTOPUS” DOES NOT HAVE LATIN ROOTS.  So stop it.
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