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So last week I am coming home from work, and I see a rabbit in our front yard. No big deal rabbits are pest in my area. I get out of my car, and it isn't a rabbit it is a chihauhua. Crap. I gather her up, and she is really friendly. Thank goodness she has her tags. I take her inside the house, and the lab, Buddy is pretty excited. I whisk the chihuahua into my room, and leave her there. I am afraid of what Buddy and the husky, Juno may accidentally do to her.

So, I call the number on the tag, and tell the lady on the other end I have her dog. she comes by quickly and picks her dog up. It ends up being my next door neighbor. I've seen their beagle running around (also named Buddy), but I had no idea they had a chihuahua. She and her kids take their dog home, and I go about my business.


5 minutes later Juno is going crazy in the backyard. I go out there, climb the fence, and the chihuahua is out again! This time I just grab, her knock on the door, hand it to the kid who answers, and just walk off without saying anything.



As for the title of the post, I just used whatever popped up in my "Track Me Not" program

I don't know, waddya you wanna do?

This weekend I am taking care of my Dad's house and dogs while he and his fiancee are in San Antonio. Before I accepted this gig I should have realized how boring it was going to be. Since my Dad moved into his new house he no longer has cable. So no random sports to occupy me. Or any of the other things I could watch. I don't need pay channels, just basic cable would be fine.

I can use his computer, but it isn't mine with all of the stuff loaded on it that I like to do. I did grab a handful of CDs to listen to while I am on his computer, but I forgot my ipod for the other times...sigh. I am glad I brought plenty of things to read. Books, TPBs and such. That is one of the activities I really enjoy when I house sit for someone. I get to catch up a little bit on my reading.

Another point of contention for me is that I don't know this neighborhood that well, so I am not as familiar with places to grab a bite at that aren't fast food or chain joints. Not that I don't go to those places, its just I have them near me.

Bit I just know that I will be pretty bored...

Take cover...

For the second time in less than two weeks last night we had really bad weather here and the tornado sirens were going off.

The first time it happened there was light out, and that was actually kind of scary. As I was leaving work I looked to the west and saw the clouds I knew were tornadic in nature. It was either the remnants of one or the beginnings of one. Once I got home I turned on the TV and learned it was actually the beginnings of a tornado that didn't come together. The sirens were wailing. 10 minutes later the sirens stopped, and it was bright and sunny. That is one of the funny things about tornado producing weather is that it usually blows over pretty quick.

Early this morning (around 4AM) I heard the sirens going off again. I woke up for a bit, and just decided that if a tornado was going to get me, I would be asleep when it happened. When I did get up, a local radio station had one of their antennas knocked out, and power was out to over 160,000 people. The city just a few miles north got winds of over 80MPH. Luckily nothing much really happened here. This storm was also gone in about 10 minutes.

Drumming machines

This is an awesome video of Buddy Rich and Ed Shaughnessy having a little drum off on the Tonight Show. It is just simply amazing to me just how freaking fast they are. Enjoy.

Switch!

Now I have never claimed to be the smartest person around. Maybe the smartest person currently in my office, but that is about it. One thing I have latched onto is this: My boss is wanting to stay open more during some holidays. Like he wanted to be open for Good Friday this year. He gave me an offer: I can work Friday, and then take Monday off. He had done this before, and I always take it. Why? Because I know that more than likely he will send me home early anyway, who said you can't teach and old dog new tricks?


UPDATE: I was right, at 11:45 my boss said I could leave when I finished up what I was doing. I was gone before 12:30.

Dr. Curt Connors would be proud

Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?: Scientific American

A fascinating article on studying how salamanders regrow their limbs and using that information to eventually allow humans to regrow body parts.

You're Having I'm Arby's

Just some quick notes, kind of a free form post:

1. How sad is it that I was really excited that I saw an Arby's going being built close to me in the great city of Frisco? I was so happy I almost peed myself (well not quite). In my defense I haven't been in over 2 years. As much crap is around me the closest Arby's is 25-30 min away.
   
2. Sunday I had 2 dreams I remembered. The first one I was a lacrosse goalie. I thought I did pretty well considering I've never played the sport before. I didn't stop everything, but I made a good showing of myself. The second was more surreal. I was protecting a girl I went to grade school with from a stalker, and was hiding her at my uncle's house in west Texas. Plus, a cousin on the other side of my family was helping me out.
3. The funniest/most disturbing thing I've heard at the comic shop in a while, the owner to a customer, "No, comics about cannibalism isn't a big genre right now, but you never know." Different strokes I guess.
4. My dad is getting re-married in May, more on this later.
5. Pat Summerall is on the radio right now, man I do miss him announcing NFL games.