This is coming off as a restaurant review but it isn’t.

Today I went to a pho restaurant for dinner. If you didn’t know, pho is a Vietnamese soup with noodles and beef. It’s somewhat like ramen, but tastier. Equal amount of MSG, but it tastes better.

Anyway, the waiter I had wasn’t too great. I ordered food but he talked (mumbled, actually) in such a quiet and unintelligible manner that it was impossible to understand what he was saying, so I had to guess. I hope he didn’t ask me if I wanted monkey brains instead of noodles or something like that. And he shuffled around on his feet, which was  a bit distracting. Then he started eating right behind me. I don’t know if that’s annoying but I wanted to put it there.

So I docked the tip.

Well, no I didn’t do that. I didn’t pay for the food. My parents did. Which was good, because it meant that I could imagine giving him no tip whatsoever, and not even have to pay for the food.

Did that sound like a restaurant review? Because it wasn’t. You can tell because I didn’t even include the name of the restaurant anywhere in this post. What was it again?

What to do if your neighbors don’t like your chickens

I have chickens that live in my back yard. There are currently ten of them, so not too many. One of them is a rooster. And he crows. But that’s somewhat obvious.

I also have neighbors. One of them is not a fan of the crowing of roosters. She lives up the hill from me. And both our houses have views of the Cascade mountain range. My neighbor will call whenever one of our trees gets too tall, asking us to cut it down. Also, this same neighbor will call asking to get rid of the rooster. I’m not sure if she has ever called for any reason other than those two things. So here’s a few things you could do if, for some reason, you had a rooster and a neighbor like mine. (I am not necessarily saying these are good ideas, but I’m putting them up anyway.)

1. Ignore said neighbor. This works sometimes.

2. Call neighbor and ask them to get rid of their dog, as dogs, arguably, could make noise as unpleasant as the crowing of a rooster.

3. Move rooster closer to neighbor’s yard, causing the crowing to be louder for the neighbor.

4. Get rid of the rooster and get another one in his place. (Won’t work for me because the rooster I currently have is a good one.)

5. Decide that the neighbor’s lack of tolerance for roosters stems from their lack of time spent with such animals. Then, send your neighbor a rooster of their own, hopefully increasing their tolerance.

With luck, doing these things will make your neighbor angry at you, and as a result, cut off communications with you. Then, you will no longer hear requests to get rid of the rooster.

Until someone else calls.

Reason for this blog

I decided to put up the reason I have this blog, even though I doubt any of my non-existent readers would bother reading this.

Anyway, many ‘marketing experts’ say that blogging is an effective tool for marketing a business, service, or in my case, a book and comic strip. In case you didn’t read my about page, I draw a comic strip entitled Carl and Ben…and Beeky and recently published a collection of strips in a book called Welcome to Beeky Airlines. (Link goes to my comic strip’s website)

So then, that’s the reason I started this blog. Not sure if that was clear or anything, but oh well.

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