I Got Ripped Off

So, I found a site that's supposed to encourage you to write by rewarding you with a picture of a kitten every time you type 100 words.  You can set it higher if you like.  I did not.  I typed and typed.  It felt like forever to get to 100 words.  I finally did it, and this is what I got:

What the shit?  I did all that work and get a kitten with NO ears?  Also, I happen to know that sand cats have extra cute ears.  They cropped them out.  Here is what the sand cat is supposed to look like.

Hemingway had a shit ton of cats so he probably had real kittens romping about the whole time he wrote.  

Today I Learned:  Use real cats for writing.

Walkin' Around the Internets

I found this picture here.  I like it.  That's all.

Lunchtime! (for Barney)

This is the kill Barney brought us yesterday- his most challenging one yet.  I figured I'd post while someone I know is on vacation and hopefully won't see this and freak out.  Not namin' names- she knows who she is (the sap).

Nothingvember

I know it's Wednesday, and I know I haven't blogged since last Friday, but nothing happens in November.  If something is happening in your November and it's keeping pace with other months, something is wrong.  

Anyway, one thing did happen on Friday.  I went to put Monster out.  There are two buckets filled with rain water on the back deck.  My mister emptied the big rain barrels and put them away for the season but saved some for backyard fires.  As I was hooking Monster to his lead, a movement in one of the buckets caught my eye.  Holy shit, a fish!  Apparently one of our tiny rain barrel koi went out the spout and into a bucket unnoticed.  This fish is less than an inch long so you can imagine how easy it'd be for him to go unnoticed and ultimately freeze to death in the bucket.  Instead, we saved him.

First we had to acclimate him to indoor temperatures.  The following morning, my mister moved him to his winter home with his friends.

The end.

November

I do not like November, but what I like even less is the people who can't handle November and so start pretending that it's December/ Christmas time already.  This video is dedicated to those weak-hearted people.  We are still in November, okay?  And summer isn't over yet.

PS:  I know some of you watch every video I post.  Some of you watch none of them.  Kudos to anyone who makes it to the end of this.

Lunchtime!

Goat cheese pie at the Lebanese restaurant.

More Kurt!

"A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly the lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness.  Science has nothing to do with it, friends."

--from "Address to Graduating Class at Bennington College, 1970," from Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

(Granfalloons, not blue balloons.  But still, it is his birthday.)