Pointy Birds Attack Local Mouse
7/25/1

Target had some kind of Grand Opening, but not really since the real Grand Opening is Sunday, and I went last night. It was invitation only and, though it was fun for a while, Aisai and her mom shop for entirely too long.

Oh, and we got a 10% discount too.

I did buy some junk: an extension cord for my headphones [so I can play Gran Turismo 3 on Sunday afternoons while Aisai naps], and a very small cool looking phone with an ear bud earpiece with a little stick that comes down to your mouth for the receiver. It also has a base unit about the size of seven half dollars stacked on top of each other.

Oh, good example. Who knows how big half dollars are? [I’m guessing they are about 3 cm diameter]

After that I got home and had to test my headphones. Well, I didn’t like them, but then I raced my new Cybergreen Metallic Beetle in the Beetle Challenge in GT3. It took forever. Oh, well, really I had to get up around 70k to upgrade that lame little car. When I entered the first race I noticed that everyone had race-modified beetles but me.

Enough GT3. Sheesh, I’m a freak.

Remember on Sunday how I stopped in the middle of the road for a rat? Well, this time it was different.

Leafy and I are cruising in the van on a fairly middle of nowhere road and there is some bird attacking something in the way. I slow to a stop and the mocking bird flies away revealing a mouse.

He’s sitting there, no doubt stunned by the whole incident. I hop out of the van, now stopped and in park.

The little mouse, who is quite small, runs from me, unfortunately, under the van.

Well, there is only so far I’ll go to rescue a little wildlife person, and running under the van crosses that line.

I get back in the van and start off slowly.

No squish. In fact, I get to see him frolicking and playing in the street as I speed off.

Ok, he didn’t frolic, but he did run to the side of the road like a little kangaroo rat. And I didn’t speed off, I was sleepy and needed food, so I merely had the van lumber off.

I put a link to the poem, which Aisai thought was by Steve Martin, called Oh Pointybirds, in the Stuffoblog.

TC finished his list of CDs. He has 1539. Ooh, and me with a CD writer.

[mind boggles]

Since I had to go out in the field today [and thank goodness, I’ve felt absolutely cooped up since the toady took over my fieldwork], I had four Grandma’s cookies for lunch. They are 50% fat, 25% sugar, and 25% stuff that isn’t fat or sugar. They have 200 calories each, so I had 800 calories for lunch.

Pig!

I care about nutrition [no curse word here, officer]! I’m on a new thing, man. I’m a’changin’. No more caffeine [which I used to shoot like heroin as I lay on my vomit-covered mattress in the slums. Oh, not really.]. No more Sugar.

I’m on the Postwood’s Modified Sugarbuster’s Diet. Here is what it is: I don’t read anything about the real Sugarbuster’s Diet, but avoid sugar and make sure you get approximately 2000 calories a day. Hoo-ah. Oh, and drink lots of Diet Mountain Dew.

Which is now Caffeine Free Diet Mountain Dew, which, honestly, is too sweet.

Yeah, life is rough.