Fake Mustaches

So, it is a common knowledge that mustaches are funny. Fake mustaches are hilarious.

My husband has a drawer of fake mustaches you buy from 25 cent vending machines in grocery store entrances because "you never know when you might need one." I know this sounds very very creepy but remember when you were a kid and you wanted a quarter so so bad so you could buy that piece of candy, cheap ring or huge sticker from the vending machine. That is what I think these fake mustaches are to him. He has yet to actually use one.

On a trip away from my family, I was talking to him via Skype. This is the year of growing facial hair because he feels it makes him look older. I was staying at a friends house where the resident five year old wanted to talk too. This five year old was very interested in the idea of buying mustaches for 25 cents. Then he pointed at my husband on the computer screen and excitedly asked "is that a fake mustache?"

Are fake mustaches on robots funny? Well, here is a picture. If the mustache is part of the robot's design, is it fake?

Adventure!

Hello Lonely Blog,

I had an adventure today, well as much as I can have one. Though it did not have to due with Robots, I assure you they were in my thoughts...completely.

I started the day at 6am getting dropped off at the Seattle Piers and rode the clipper in a state of half awake. I pretty sure I bought food and tasted the most disgusting coffee EVER made.

I had two goals as I walked off the vessel onto the streets of downtown Victoria for the first time (alone): Find an obscure French comic and get to the Observatory on my own. So I have been to Victoria many times but this was the first time I pushed aside my many illogical fears and just started walking.

Recently I have become obsessed with a comic called "Clues" by a French cartoonist, Mara, I found on deviant art. here is the link

http://kyla79.deviantart.com/

Apparently she got her comics published in France a few years ago and it is a series. However, you can not get them in the US but you can through Amazon Canada....Although, I hoped that since her last post was in 2008, this had changed. Maybe the comic had made it to the New World. It was still in French but I would just make my husband translate them. I wandered the streets for 2 hours, going to 5 books stores. No one had heard of it. This kind of made me sad but I can still order it from Amazon.

I ended up at a great "hole-in-the-wall" Chinese place with free wifi and recorded some thoughts for a robot book...why not?

I took 2 buses (which was way way easier then I thought) to an obscure college and then to the bottom of a small mountain. I walked the 1.5 miles up hill avoiding crazy drivers coming down a winding road. I hate listening to my own thoughts but this time it wasn't so bad. A lot of Robot book thinking.

Next time...maybe a drawing of a robot.