Oh right

The cat has been given a clean bill of health, by the way, despite a shaky weekend.

Why hello there!

Found this little dude eating bugs on my bedroom window when I got home from work last night.

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In which I go outdoors on purpose

The Internet was down, meaning there was no TV either (we get everything through Hulu or Netflix), so we decided to go outside and somehow ended up at the 4-H fair.  A few random observations that really ought to have pictures with them but somehow don’t:

  • There was a giraffe.  At the petting zoo.  There should always always always be giraffes. Everywhere.  Especially at petting zoos.
  • After a while, though, watching the giraffe became less fun than watching the people walking by who were consistently surprised by the giraffe.  I heard “Is that a giraffe?” probably ten times from people who knew damn well what a giraffe looks like but couldn’t process the fact that there was one right the hell in front of them.
  • There were tigers doing tricks, but they were really not in the mood for them and so it was kind of sad and slightly embarrassing.  As far as I know, no one was eaten, though.
  • The boy really really really likes merry-go-rounds.  I like merry-go-rounds less than I thought I would; turns out that when you’re standing next to your toddler they make you crazily dizzy.
  • Saw no less than 12 students.  Luckily, only four of the twelve saw me, and all four seemed happy to do so.  Considering that the last time I saw one of them I was hollering for our resource officer to put him in handcuffs that percentage is probably a good thing.
  • I bought no food, which means that the gyro I had for lunch is the grossest thing I ate today, which is probably as it should be.
  • I had no idea that rabbits could even get that big, holy shit.
  • Pissed-off pigs are scary.  Pissed-off goats are hilarious.

All in all whee fun would pay $8 again.

Awwww, buppins

photoContemplation Dog thinks I should clean my carpet.

 

Really crappy pictures of a really cool thing

I stopped at Subway (heh) for lunch on my way in to OtherJob.  The particular Subway I stopped at has two blind turns as you circle the restaurant from the drive-thru microphone to the actual window where you pay and get your food.

I made the first turn and had to slam on my brakes, because there was an honest-to-God red-tailed hawk just chilling in the parking lot two feet in front of my car.  I almost hit him.  That close.  Scrabbling for my phone ensued, but the beautiful bastard flew away just as I was pulling up the camera app…

…to join his mate on the roof of another nearby fast-food installation.  Two of them.

I spent a good ten minutes chasing them around the parking lot trying to get either a) a crappy picture of both of them together or b) a good picture of one of them and failed.  Nonetheless, enjoy crappy long-distance taken-from-inside-the-car-through-the-windshield iPhone pictures of two really cool birds:

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