I’ve been having a confusing morning. I left my bag lunch at home. Then I left my phone on the metro. Then while thinking of that I left my coffee on the counter at the shop.
But I called the phone and some good person had left it with the Metro worker 2 stops down. My coffee was still on the counter when I went back. Now If I can just make my lunch magically appear in front of me the day will be back in order.
I wasn’t sure about these new headphones for the first week. It felt like I needed to clean my ears out every time I listened to music. It’s not like my ears are the cleanest things ever, but I don’t need headphones having uncomfortable ear sex with me every day. Then I realized that I must have small ear canals or something because once I switched to the smaller ear buds everything felt a lot better. Now I can rock out with the black and white goodness of some sweet sweet Smokin Buds.
Well pseudo scientific anyway. I leaned a ruler up against a cup of iced tea while Frankie was sitting in the laboratory (aka: on the coffee table). But it does bring some scale into the picture. I’m not sure he’s the “Worlds Tallest Cat” but he is the Yao Ming of cats.
Back in my petsmart days when I was crazy about pets I thought a lot about exotic animals. I went as far as buying a semi-exotic one… the dreaded Chinchilla. What I learned from that chinchilla is that there’s a reason that most people don’t own them. They’re cute and fluffy and make great pets for other people, but they’re pains in the ass. They chew up anything within 2 feet of the cage and can somehow escape when one bar of their cage is welded a sixteenth of an inch off. But they’re fluffy, so that’s supposed to make up for it all.
I still love guinea pigs and will recommend them to any family looking to get a pet for the kids. They’re like the fish of rodents. If you get a big enough cage and lots of food they’re really easy to take care of. When I had them I was looking for the next cool pet and I found out that in South America there are guinea pig like rodents that can be 3 feet tall and weigh over 100 lbs. It seems to me that you would pretty much have to turn your house into a giant cage to keep them as pets. On top of that I’d never seen them outside of a zoo. Until now!
I just found an article about a couple that keeps one in Texas. They even have a blog dedicated to it and plenty of great pictures. They seem like pretty awesome people and the pet “Caplin Rous” seems well behaved and freindly. If I ever get a house with a fenced in yard I’ll have to have this discussion with Laurel and keeping the worlds largest rodent as a pet.
article – Life with a 100lb rodent
Capybara Madness
I’m sure we’re going to see some flood of “Never Forget” type posts and stickers and patches and graphics because of the Metro rail crash yesterday. But I would just like to be honest, there are thousands of people who are going to try really hard to forget that it ever happened.
They’re called “People who ride the Metro every day”.
The victims family and friends will never forget them, but me, a total stranger… will just hope that it never happens to me. I feel for them, but I can’t be thinking about crashing into a parked train at 50mph when I take the Metro twice a day 5 days a week… and I’m sleeping most of the time.
Sorry about all the death.
Mark
I just pulled out a nose hair that most people would be happy to have growing on their heads. This is happening a little more frequently than I’d like. Every once in a while I get “Lumberjack Hairs” on my eyebrows, they’re twice as thick and long as normal hairs. Now they’ve moved south into my nose. Is there something about growing older that you need these giant hairs to protect you? Does evolution know that there are giant germs out there looking for me and that these are the last line of defense? It’s only a matter of time before they start coming out of my ears.
We need to stop this great migration!
Is there some kind of fence or border patrol that can keep these hairs out?? They’re taking jobs from all the regular hairs on my face and making my look like a young Andy Rooney.