This past weekend we took Tyler to the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla to mock enjoy the fishes.
Some kids enjoy Legos. Others find solace in crayons. Tyler is fascinated by animals. It’s great to see how big his eyes get when he spies a dog or a cat, or in this case huge fish that could swallow him up whole. He was so excited about the wildlife that we just barely saved him from taking a purposeful header into the outdoor tidal pool exhibit to get a better look at the Sea Anemones.
At the end of an eventful day full of animals, running around (geez, this kid is fast!), and fresh air he was down for the count on the drive home.
Man, this kid’s got the life
I've heard of throwing dollar coins into the wishing well, but this is ridiculous
I’m going to be taking the next two days off, so for all of my North American friends: Happy Thanksgiving!
For everybody else: Happy Thursday!
Tonight Karin and I are going to make a dessert (Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake) to take over to the parents for Thanksgiving dinner Thursday eve, where I hope to avoid my sister who now considers herself an “artist” and can’t stop going on about her run down apartment-turned-studio where the next door neighbor hasn’t bothered to take down the crime scene tape from last month’s “incident”. Oh, she’s a pip, that one.
Regardless, on Thursday night I plan to do much of the following after stuffing my face:
Will be back to posting Monday morning after the tryptophan wears off.
Hope everyone is able to ease into the holidays unscathed. See you next week!
It’s currently 8pm and I’m doing my best to complete a program before it goes up for code review with the developers tomorrow morning. The last time I ate was at lunch, and the only thing getting me through these late, long hours are the extra cans of Big Red I brought into work earlier this week.
…and to think that coding isn’t in my job description. Let’s hear it for self-preservation in the workplace!
In lieu of what would normally be an insightful, thought provoking, and sharp-witted post, please enjoy a picture of our evil cat as she skulked about in the dining room last week:
I’m still not sure what she was up to, but it entailed a fair amount of hissing, unnatural guttural growling, and an addictive little sea shanty.
As always, thanks for stopping by and I’ll see you next week!
I was sitting my cubicle at work coding a project when my phone rang. This was the strange conversation I had:
Me: “This is HermanTurnip”
Voice: “You really should roll up your windows.”
Me: “Excuse me?”
Voice: “I see your car every day in the parking lot with its windows rolled down a crack. You should roll them up.”
Me: “Why?”
Voice: “Snakes.”
Me: “Snakes?”
Voice: “Yes. Snakes like to crawl through open car windows. It’s a known fact.”
Me: “It is? Who is this?”
Voice: *click*
Not only do I not know who I just had this strange conversation with, I had never heard that snakes have a penchant for cars with open windows. I’ve lived in Southern California my entire life and am well aware of the snake population (and am on a first name basis with a few), but at no point has anyone ever warned me about this “snakes like cars” phenomena.
Am I missing something, or has this mystery person been sniffing too many office highlighters?
