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Winter downpour -
even the monkey
needs a raincoat.
- Matsuo Basho

I thought I’d give myself a break from writing long posts. Yes, a break for you (10?) dear readers. Photos of toy simians - still life. A blurb and a mouseover ALT text here and there. Nothing more, nothing less. Uh-huh.

Below, more variations of simian group hugs and one solitary mini monkey sitting on a backup hard drive. The hard drive contains a goldmine of illegal software, movies, porn, music, e-books, food recipes, plans for total world domination and confidential corporate trade secrets on how to make the best coffee - always fresh. Yes, I AM kidding. About the food recipes.

Click on a thumbnail image to enlarge photo. To cycle through all 3 photos, click on the first image on the left to enlarge, move the mouse cursor to the top-right corner and click on NEXT to advance to the next photo. Hover over the top-left corner to click on PREV. To close an image, click on CLOSE X in the bottom-right corner. If the screen freezes or if the photo takes a long time to load, CLOSE the image or click your browser’s “back” or “refresh” button.

Lastly, a barrel of monkeys stuffed inside a Tim Hortons “The Big Tim” 59 oz coffee pot. The container was designed as a coffee carrier and NOT a beverage bottle. Sadly, I probably do drink that much coffee in a day. I got the pot and the CASE excavator toy from 2 past client projects. Yeah, you break your back and all you get is a lousy pot (with no coffee to boot) and a silly metal toy as rewards. I used to have a mini-sized version of the multi-coloured simian on the top-left (yellow, purple with orange face) but I gave it away to a cute little boy named Ryan because he pointed at it and said, “Monkey!” I didn’t have the heart to tell him that it wasn’t a monkey but an orangutan. Also, that mini one was given to me by a crazy person whom I wrote about here and wanted to forget at the time I gave the toy away. I replaced it with a bigger one 2 years ago.

Oh, the meaning of the haiku? Well, in Japanese haiku poetry:

winter = “sorrow, death, loss, fear, discontent, pain”
monkey = “man or soul of man”
raincoat = “something with which you protect yourself”

Question: What’s your raincoat?

Oops, word count - still too many words. I lied. Yawn. End here.

Adieu,

Hamster running in fruity loops