At your service.

It would seem as if I've come into my own as a petsitter, or if you will- to echo the title of the above Tokuhiro Kawai painting, an 'animal whisperer'.

Having said that, if anyone would like my services, now that I'm back from this gig, my rates are reasonable and my schedule is wide open.

Less than a week ago I playing house with this brood;

The schedule for the first few days I was there started with riding for a few hours in the morning;

-Coming home to eat food, or taking myself to lunch at the same place that once fed The Queen;

Then I'd head back to HQ to take a quick nap, followed by a dog walk, and then watch some stuff on television, but the biblical rains tracked me down and as near as I can tell, began flooding all of Southern California, so I was back to being locked inside by the weather.

However, while I was in LA, I did get to see my old friend Carly who besides being the product manager at Cervélo, is absolutely living her fiercest, truest, and best life, and I couldn't be prouder of her. I ended up with some new old stock women's Swobo jerseys, one of which I gave to her, because she deserves it the most. I didn't think to get a photo, but if you know her, you can imagine her beaming with some spanking new wool.

I also got to see my old BIKE Magazine compatriot, Morgan Meredith, in our natural environment;

Though the low light photos remind me I really have to start traveling with my big boy camera again.

From there, we went to places and saw some stuff;

And I wrapped it all up with the most expensive, worst haircut in history, but at least I got to scratch this lady;

To be fair, I was half in the bag and didn't really tell the barber what I wanted and may have fallen asleep a couple of times in the process, so I take all of the blame. People like me is why God invented hats.

Then, if all of that weren't enough, once my people came home, I got treated to a trip to see the ET house;

It pretty much looks the same;

I mean except for no plastic sheeting or baby Drew Barrymore.

Also, and this will only matter to a couple people here, it was via this video that I JUST LEARNED THE DAY AFTER MY RETURN that the ditch in the Bones Brigade Video show;

- was literally three miles from where I'd been staying all week;

Due to an article I read some 35 years ago, I'd always understood the location in question was somewhere in the Hawaiian islands, and only now am finding that it was an exercise in misdirection.

I'm absolutely losing my goddamned mind right now.

The church has locked down the front entrance, but I messaged Lance immediately and let him know of another way to access the goods, which I too will be doing upon my return to the region. Good lord, man. Maybe the internet can occasionally be used for good.

So, having covered all of that, I'd like to present the slightly overdue 211th episode of Revolting;

Not only can I functionally walk and talk with the animals, but sometimes with Robot as well.