What Struck Me

Nick’s hamster died this afternoon. Friday she was huddled in the corner of her cage, breathing hard, and most of the fur on her underside had rubbed off. I took her to the small animal clinic and the vet diagnosed pneumonia, probably from a too dusty bag of bedding.

He gave her a shot of antibiotics and sent me home with a vial of more and instructions to give her 2ml by mouth twice a day. At first she took the med fine, but she crawled into a little house thing in her cage and slept. Yesterday she never came out, and we were able to get her to take her med and some water via the syringe, but she barely moved and didn’t open her eyes. This morning she was barely breathing, and she died by noon.

Poor Nick, this is his first really close dealing with death. He really loved that little squirrel.

We buried her in the backyard.

Andy brought back exactly one picture of himself among the 100 or so he took on his trip. Luckily there was a recognizable landmark behind him.

I have so much else I should be doing right now. I spent yesterday battling Flash, enough to figure out that it’s hard! I need to take a class I guess. So after wasting away yesterday, I got some cleaning and bill paying done today, after bowling suckily this morning once again. We’re in last place and lost all three games, and that’s after we’d been riding as high as third place earlier in the season. Ugh.

So, bored, I figured I’d blog, but having not much to blog, I dug out a meme to play with.

1. Your internet connection: DSL or dialup?
Cable. So I guess my answer is DSL. Except it’s really cable.

2. Daily: How much time do you spend on your computer working?
How much time do you spend on the internet?
Working. Heh. I call it work when the kids are bugging me (not now, I’m working!) I want it to be work. I spend about an hour or so a day trying to figure out how I can make money by working at my computer. For real.
Time on the internet? At least three hours a day, steady, with more time grabbed here and there. It’s my hobby .

3. Have you met someone on the internet? And if so, have you met in person?
As in to date? Uh, no, but my sister did and she married the guy. My love life was settled before the web was imagined. But I have met lots of friends, and quite a few in person over the years. Hope to meet many more of them.

4. Emails: When you receive a humorous or pointless email from a friend, do you pass it on or “the emails dies at my inbox”?
Dies here unless it’s really really really good, and even then I’m careful about who I send it to. Because the ones I pass on are usually not something my mom would enjoy.

5. Pop-up ads: Annoying or “I ignore them so it doesn’t bother me.”?
Pop-up blockers were a great invention.

And may I say how appropriate I think it is that my first meme is internet themed

Orisinal

Some gorgeous artwork and great Flash effects here.

I need to move “learn Flash” higher on my todo list!

Valentines Day Weekend, San Francisco CA

I don’t know if this is the proper way to do this, and I hope that these happy people realize that they’re probably in for some pain as this works through the court system. Pessimist I am, I expect these marriages will be voided at some point on technicalities.

But look at these faces and try to convince me that this is wrong.

Andy got two pieces of mail from colleges today. One from St. Mary’s in CA and another from Champlain in VT. He’s been getting emails from schools for awhile but these are the first pieces of snail mail.

I think I’ll set up a box to toss them into as they arrive. This next 1.5 year window he has to choose a school is going to be very interesting…

(I’m only a little jealous that I’m not the one going away to college!)

Heh. I just realized there’s no street number on the envelopes of either one. I guess this is going to drive our mail carrier crazy, since probably a couple hundred of these are going to arrive off that same mailing list. I’ll have to make him some cookies or something.

Polaroid warns users that they’ll just make ugly blobs if they follow OutKast’s advice.

Believe them. I’ve done it. Still love the song, though.