Monday, October 16, 2006
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My addition to Safetyfork & Interrobang's Great (MeFi) Bookmark Mail Swap.
...that might eventually occupy this space when people finally catch up, and that spawned itself here and here.
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10/16/2006 12:24:00 AM
9/1
I don't like mousetraps.
This little baby wasn't much bigger than the last digit of my thumb.
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Yeah, his foot is on backwards. And terribly swollen and infected. Maybe it wasn't a mousetrap. It might have been a towmotor.
I saw him in the warehouse at work but couldn't catch him and later Mike, who's a cool guy, brought him to me in a box lid.
(No matter how much of a weird "animal guy" or "creative person" you are, there's one person in every cubicle farm who "gets" you. I guess Mike gets me. I told Mike about the mouse and he said, "If someone else sees him they'll squish him." Then later I was sitting in my cube and someone reached over my shoulder and put a Box-O-Mouse on the desk in front of me. Thank God for people like Mike. He'd seen the extra trips I was making through the warehouse and figured I was obsessing over the poor thing.)
The mouse died just as I got him to my wildlife rehabber friend Janine. We don't think he could have been fixed anyway. He was emaciated and, even after he died, his foot didn't want to swing around the right way, meaning it had possibly partially healed... backwards.
He probably went through a lot of pain before he died, but he's free of it now.
On the funny side, people at work are now probably sure I'm nuts. I had sat in my cubicle for a while reassuring the wee fellow before I realized my coworkers must have thought I was talking to myself after a rough day: "It's okay, little guy... You'll make it... You'll be okay."
And on the bright side, at the grocery store tonight I bought a plastic measured medicine syringe and some Pedialite (that needs to be watered down.) The cashier asked me if I had a sick baby at home and I said, "No, I'm ready to become a wildlife rehabber. Sick or orphaned animals are usually dehydrated when you get them." She just looked at me like I'm crazy. That's okay--at least Mike gets me. If he didn't, none of this would have happened today.
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8/31
If the suspiciously elusive Osama bin Ladin had been caught early on and so the U.S. public had someone to blame and hang for 9/11, would Geo W have been able to invade Iraq?
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8/24/06
Specklet says "Captions Please":
Okay!:
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8/22/06
"Fail"
Specklet posted this:
...over on MetaChat. I guess it's part of a stroller manual or somesuch, like one of those warnings you see on a bottle of Drano that say "Not for internal consumption: DO NOT DRINK THIS," like the caveats on to-go coffee cups these days that tell us "Hot beverages spilled in your lap may excite you in ways that are not necessarilly positive and may indeed result in genital burns; NOW DON'T BOTHER SUING US."
Such is Modern Life.
The picture begged for captions.
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10/16/2006 12:23:00 AM
