Month: March 2017

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That’s a Lot of Squirrels  

I woke up early Monday morning. I had trouble getting back to sleep. I was thinking through some stuff relevant to a blog post I had been writing. I lay there and became aware of a distant sort of rumbling sound. I wondered if it might be construction far away or some trucks on the highway. My fog filled brain finally recognised the sound of distant thunder.

I would have preferred to have been asleep since I had to work in the morning. I wasn’t distraught because I had gone to be before ten the night before. I hadn’t really noticed the storm getting closer but all the sudden it was here. Crashing lightning right outside my window with rolling thunder shaking the place. Rain began to pound against the window and I fell almost immediately asleep. The sound of the rain was the last thing I remembered. About and hour later, the sound of a squirrel running along the roof woke me up. The sound multiplied until it sounded like an entire scurry of squirrels were running along the roof. I lay there and thought, “That’s a lot of squirrels.” That’s when I realised it was hail hitting the roof. It stopped after less than a minute and I rolled over and fell back asleep.

Hair Today Gone tomorrow

I need to really start putting some effort into these things.  I know early in the week there was something that happened that I wanted to write about but I cannot remember it at all.
Oh, wait now I remember what happened. It started the week before and only came to a conclusion last week. This is mostly another, that boy ain’t right story.  The previous Friday I came home and starting taking things out of my pockets. I put my headphones on the kitchen counter. I noticed that one of the soft plastic/rubber ear things was missing. I remember as clear as day reaching into my pocket, finding the ear thingy, and putting it back onto the headphones.  I went about my night as usual. When I woke up the next morning I went into the kitchen and noticed that the ear thingy was gone. I started looking around trying to find it. I thought maybe I hadn’t put it on right or it had rolled away. Then I started worrying that maybe Jobu had eaten it. He doesn’t go up on the counters but maybe it rolled of etc.  I looked everywhere. I even went outside and checked in the parking lot. So I spent the next several days watching Jobu to see any signs of blockage or problems. Nothing happened. Everything worked out in the end. I have become almost convinced that the whole memory of putting the earpiece back on the headphones is false and that I really just dropped it somewhere else.  I did an experiment and left a treat on the counter to see if it gets eaten. It didn’t.

Also, we had one final (hopefully) snow on Monday.

Happy start of spring everyone.

There comes a time every march here in Illinois. The temperature starts to rise. A few flowers begin to poke through the earth. I few hopeful trees begin to bud. People begin to smile. Spring is starting winter is over. And then BOOM SNOW COLD HAHAHAH The weather laughs at our pitiful hopes and thing jackets. I don’t mind. I love snow and it makes for pretty pictures.

Funny Cat Gif of the week: Taking the dog for a walk. 

Jobu story of the week

There is a little story on me getting this song on my blog. I’ve heard it a few times on one of the French radio stations I stream. I love it. It’s my favorite song since J’écoute du Miles Davis. I usually embed things from youtube, but I couldn’t find it there. I finally found it on vevo’s own site but there was not an embed link. What would I ever do.. Then I remembered that I am a web programmer.  duh. It takes a few seconds to load. In fact, by the time you’ve read this wall of text, it is probably auto playing.   I apologize for the autoplay

Since this post is so lame I give you a funny video of a cat with a flower on its head.