Starting this recollection with a blank mind! Ah well.
What do I recall? I made pasta for dinner yesterday, watched some TV, goofed with the kids, did I do anything else? I went for a walk with the ten year old and we told a bit of our story, I think I already wrote about that yesterday. I just had coffee and a power nap now thinking I could use the alertness boost and if this is alertness then lord deliver me from confusion, yowza.One thing I recall, not sure it was yesterday though, is goofing with the ten year old and her suggesting there should be a superhero called Spider Plant Man and another called Anatomically Correct Spider Man. ACSM would shoot webs from an orifice near his butt, which cracks me up. She also said there could be lots of different Spider People since there are so many spiders with such different behaviors and anatomy. A Spider Man bit by a jumping spider, for instance, would be very different than one bit by a species where mating involves eating the mate. She also talked about how ACSM would tie up bad guys in webs and then inject them with enzymes that dissolve their insides into becoming drinkable which is so gross but also kind of funny. Anatomically Correct Spider Man all like “it’s slurrying time!” and offering a straw to his super hero teammates, to their great disgust. Spider Plant Man would grow long finger nails which when clipped and put in water become miniature copies of Spider Plant Man, which I think is also very funny.
Spider Plant Man was prompted by me watering my spider plant. I have it hanging on a curtain rod, and I have a little rubber plant - err, an actual plant called a rubber plant I mean, not a fake plant made of rubber - that I forget to water and occasionally remember to water. I’m told they like to dry out so that’s good, they’re not doing great but at least it’s not catastrophic. The spider plant I have is just green, I want to get one of the green and white stripey ones, variegated is the word I think. I want to become an indoor plant guy, that’s a good kind of guy to be, I feel. I also feel like it’s both harder and easier to become a kind of guy now. All kinds of guy are readily available online with reduced barriers to entry, but it’s harder to muster the energy between various obligations. One day perhaps with more time and energy I will be able to get guyed with greater impunity, I will become all the guys! This has just reminded me I intended to go for a run today, must look up when the sun is setting and do that within the available window.
Spider Plant Man would also be able to sort of shoot out spider plant leaves from his sleeves in a large quantity and volume, basically pushing a lot of leaves in someone’s face unpleasantly, not especially powerful but kinda uniquely unpleasant I think. Heh, that could be the comic title, The Uniquely Unpleasant Spider Plant Man.
