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December 28, 2005
Let's define "animal cruelty"....
...as "not this".
Okay. So Biscuit was sitting on the coffee table in front of me, and I had a chip clip in my hand. So what do I do? Duh. I put it on the cat's tail. Not on the boney spiney part, just sorta clipped it to the fluffy hairy part.
Biscuit tried to play it off. "Whatever. I see that thing on my tail, but I don't care about it. I'm a cat, and you're stupid." Then he stood up, the clip whacked into the side of the table, and
Biscuit.
Flipped.
Out.
BANG goes the chip clip into the closet, PSHOOM goes the cat out the door, and GUFFAW go Barb and me.
That wasn't cruel, was it? Nah.
Well, OK, a little. He came back into the room a little shaky-lookin', and cuddled with B for a minute. He was lookin' a mite piqued.
Speaking of animals, check out CuteOverload. The name tells you everything you need to know. You will be overloaded, with cute.
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December 26, 2005
The vegetarians around here are STRICT.
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December 24, 2005
For those of you who were interested...
Merry Christmas!
B's fam came over for dinner tonight. We had rib roast, and I introduced everybody to Yorkshire pudding. I think we have some more believers in English cuisine.
We've done just about all the cleaning we're prepared to do, and we're watchin' a bad movie. Yay Christmas!
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December 18, 2005
IT'S SNOWING!!!!!
YAAAAAAAY!
It's snowing! Snowing snowing snowing! SNOW!
W00000t!
Snow!
YAY!
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December 13, 2005
I've figured out something important about myself.
I am in a co-dependent relationship.
No, not with B, silly. She's a smart and together woman, and she and I take very good care of one another.
I am in a co-dependent relationship with the three Star Wars prequels. I know that, no matter how many times I watch them, they're never going to give me what I need. I keep wanting to go back, but I know George Lucas just isn't going to treat me right, no matter how many chances I give him.
Maybe next time. Movies can change, right? This time, it'll be different. I know it will!
Yes, the DVDs are on my Christmas list. I don't quite understand why, but they are.
B's turned into a Lego Star Wars fiend. I played through quickly on Saturday, but B's been being thorough, and is working through almost as fast as I am. It's a platform game, with all the foibles of that genre, but it's really a lot of fun. Check out the demo. You can pick the game up pretty cheap.
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December 06, 2005
Merry Christmas!
I know that it's gauche in some circles, but I really love the Christmas season. Right now, I'm sitting on my back porch with the ol' laptop, enjoying the cool weather and watching a turkey fry. (Yes, that's number three this year, and so far the house has completely not burned down. Go me.) Inside, I've got a pot of chili on the stove, a nine foot Christmas tree, a bunch of lights to untangle, a box of ornaments from my grandparents, two cats and a fiancee.
Oh yeah, and hot buttered rum. That's the quality action, yo.
This weekend, B and I went with my cow-orker and his wife to hunt the elusive Christmas tree. After doing a lil dead reckoning around Cornelius, OR, we found our way to this house on the top of a little hill. Out behind the house were trees, which the owner happily sold to us. (Nine foot noble fir. $25. It is not possible to beat that.) I brought my nifty little battery-operated chainsaw, and we cut ourselves a couple trees. Strapped 'em to the roof of the wagon, and Bob's your uncle. (Actually, he's my boss, but that's another story). And now the house smells like pine. Yum. The cats were pretty weirded out by the Big Green Thing in the front room, but they'll get over it.
My Thermometer of Infinite Power says the bird's almost done, so that'll be it for now. Oh yeah! Check out my friend Erin's pictures from her Peace Corps posting in Lesotho. (Geography lesson: Lesotho is a tiny mountainous country landlocked by South Africa. Now you know.)
Edit:
Well, that sucks. My pot o' chili burned. Now it tastes like a really good chili served in a really dirty ash tray. I'm seriously annoyed.
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