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Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Unexpected houseguest

This is a cedar waxwing that I found injured in our fenced area we made for the cats. It was starting to rain and I went out to make sure everyone was inside before closing the door, and this little guy was laying upside down and unconscious in a pile of feathers. I don’t think [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Wild Things by Chris

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Well, that sucked.

The Lunesta experiment ended after two days. The first day I slept mostly through the night… I woke up a few times but always got back to sleep. I did wake up with a terrible bitter taste in my mouth and a headache throughout the next day, and to be honest it might have been [...]

6 Comments » - Posted in Day-to-day ramblings by Chris

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Living in interesting times

So… I had to go to K-Mart to fill a prescription yesterday, and noticed things were a bit… odd, compared to past visits. Granted, I avoid big chain stores like the plague if I can, so hadn’t been in there in a while, but considering it’s 10 days before Christmas the store was freakishly empty. [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Camp TEOTWAWKI by Chris

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Return of the zombie

It might have been noticed that the blog posts have tapered off again recently.  My work schedule has been pretty heavy this past month but mostly it’s because I have been battling the insomnia monster worse than usual. Since I like to try for at least the illusion of coherence in my blog posts, I’ve [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Day-to-day ramblings by Chris

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Video: cat vs. printer

Funny, this isn’t even the first clip like this we’ve seen. Apparently there’s something about printers that some cats just can’t resist trying to kill. Our cats lack the initiative to attack any of the household technology.

1 Comment » - Posted in Day-to-day ramblings by Chris

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Lord of the bubble wrap


No Comments » - Posted in Cats, Simon by Chris

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Little old lady in the sun


No Comments » - Posted in Cricket, Dogs by Chris