tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post113417484758717219..comments2023-08-08T04:19:26.974-07:00Comments on THE CALLADUS BLOG: Scrape out the gecko and repaintCalladushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-66163645227135440362008-10-26T12:56:00.000-07:002008-10-26T12:56:00.000-07:00I live out Gate 2, around the Love Motels, and odd...I live out Gate 2, around the Love Motels, and oddly enough, I've just encountered the largest gecko I've ever seen. I heard a disturbance in my sink while surfing the net, but didn't think much of it...I went to grab some water, and this massive head rears out from a burner on my stove, and proceeds to scramble in the gap between the surface and the clock area. He's watching me right now, actually, he must appreciate net factoids as much as the next lizard.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484941665078888366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-82775686391836010502007-01-30T22:13:00.000-08:002007-01-30T22:13:00.000-08:00Wow, does this bring back memories. I too lived o...Wow, does this bring back memories. I too lived on Okinawa, for 18 months or so, but unlike you I was a teenage dependent of my Navy doc father. I spent a lot of time at the USO at Kadena....<br /><br />But when we finally were assigned on-base housing, at Kishaba I think it was called (the housing area that enclosed Kubasaki High School, and was directly across the street from Camp Butler -- and whose bright idea was it, anyway, to put the only High School at the time directly across from a Marine training base??? did they want a steady supply of fresh meat for the Gi-renes??? but I digress....) we had a situation similar to yours. My dad was mid-level officer, and so our assigned house was freshly cleaned and painted for us when we moved into it. In my parents' bedroom, we found a poor little gecko that been painted over by the clean-up-n-prepare crew, but this one managed to get itself off the wall before the paint dried... so we found a little stiffened half-painted corpse on the floor. Very sad. It was the only gecko we ever saw in our on base home, as opposed to the numerous ones we had ~off~ base. (I think the continuous painting and bug-spraying before and after every successive housing tenant killed them all off....)<br /><br />But painting over a living lizard whom the painter was too hurried, careless, or lazy to remove doesn't really fit into your metaphor... pity, ~some~ lesson should be learnable from such a tragedy, however tiny.<br /><br />However, I will definitely remember your analogy... heh... it's become fixed into my internal pictorial analogy-maker.AmberKatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18288659650941053065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-1134461029115677382005-12-13T00:03:00.000-08:002005-12-13T00:03:00.000-08:00"What a fantastic metaphor you've made out of it, ..."What a fantastic metaphor you've made out of it, too. I think I'm going to start using it as a catch-phrase (I'll credit you, of course). Unsettling, yet sensible. I like it."<BR/><BR/>Ah, the highest praise for an author! Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-1134413765954675192005-12-12T10:56:00.000-08:002005-12-12T10:56:00.000-08:00I had occasion to live in India for a year, so as ...I had occasion to live in India for a year, so as you described your puzzlement and discovery, I'd a clear mental movie illustrating the whole mess. What a weird situation; you really brought out the humor in it- it wasn't precisely evident from the start.<BR/><BR/>What a fantastic metaphor you've made out of it, too. I think I'm going to start using it as a catch-phrase (I'll credit you, of course). Unsettling, yet sensible. I like it.Scientiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254279030002819459noreply@blogger.com