Pet People

It is my pleasure to announce the arrival of our new baby girl! Okay, not a human baby but my wife and I find great joy in the new addition to our family. We got a 4 week old bunny named Beesley. She's about 7 inches long, grey, and the apple of my eye. I much rather prefer this bunny to a child, a cat, or even a small breed of dog. It doesn't bark nor need to be let outside. However she does need to have her pen cleaned, she does bite (not so much anymore), she does require some attention but probably not as much as we give her, and she does leave presents on the carpet that are easy to vacuum up. All in all she is the ideal pet for us. (Pictures are coming soon).

I wish I had a super power that would help me do my job better. This is a list of the super powers that might help me work better. Telekenesis would help me move lumber from here to there without a forklift. Super speed would help me get from one side of the warehouse to the other in a fraction of a second thus being able to get a pen, some paper, or a calculator whenever I had forgotten one. If I could see into the future I wouldn't do anything that would get in the way of what someone will have to do later and keep me from feeling stupid.
Now for some less impressive powers that would help me do well at my job... Remember what it is that I am doing at any given time of day, not being colorblind would be a super power for me and then I would be able to distinguish species of lumber much better. In reality I would be better at work if I could just focus on one thing at a time... Oh well. Maybe my special power is that I can change if I want to. It seems like a lot of work though... Only time will tell whether or not I will refine my abilities and achieve my highest potential... Blah, blah, blah. Bye.

Zoo Day

A day at the zoo for the wife and I was a refreshing difference from the typical weekend of sitting around doing laundry. Refreshing like falling off a crab boat in the Bering Sea. It was supposed to be relatively warm but the Oregon Zoo sits a couple hundred feet above the rest of the city and the wind was howling. For most of the animals; the polar bears, the penquins, the sea otters, but the strange exhibits were the rhinos, giraffes, and zebras because it was 40 degrees and the savanna isn't exactly just a stones throw away. How is it possible for these animals to survive in our Pacific northwest climate when their natural home is so much warmer? Anyway, I kinda felt bad for the poor creatures, the only way I can really justify keeping the animals in such a small habitat is the conservation work that zoos do. I do enjoy seeing the animals but that is outweighed by the sadness of an 11 foot elephant walking in circles in a room only three times its own length. That's all I have to say about that.

Quarter of a Century Old

My wife recently purchased some books with her Barnes & Noble gift card, of which there is a book entitled An owners manual to the Brain. I don't know if this was some kind of humorous dig at my apparent absentmindedness sometimes or some interesting academic literature. Anyway, it makes a good bathroom read. I was reading this book today and there was a section about personality changes over time and how age plays a role in personality. There are significant marks in one's lifetime that help to change their personality such as working full time, getting married, living alone, having children, etc... I've reached a place in my life where I am pretty adult and I feel it every time I go to bed at 8:30, every time I feel like soaking my feet after work, and when the television and the music is getting too loud. This last point is what has me reeling. I like loud music, but for some reason there are times when it is just too loud for this grumpy old man. I would like to clarify that I am not complaining, I am just thinking introspectively about my youth in contrast with life as it is now. Imagine what life will be like in 30 years...