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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. [...]
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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.