Terrible Analogies

First we had fish that walked, dinosaurs that flew, and now we face that most terrible of nightmares…cats with thumbs.

My only hope is that I don’t live to see this day…

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!

I’m updating my blog from work.

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!

Now…back to work  

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?

Being members of the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Safari Park means we can be at either park within minutes, and don’t have to feel guilty about leaving after walking around for just an hour or two.  Heck, we can return the next day.

And Tyler really seems to enjoy the animals.  So much so that he’s getting good at imitating them.

“Tyler, what does a lion say?”

“Rawr!”

“Tyler, what does a monkey say?”

“Ooh!  Ooh!”

“Tyler, what does cow say?”

“Mooo!”

“Tyler, what does Admiral Ackbar say?”

…okay, we’re still working on that one.  I’m confident that someday he’ll correctly reply with, “It’s a trap!”  Heh…

Tyler gettin' down in the water fountain area

Taking a tour around the African Safari

Trying to hold Tyler back from swimming with the ducks

After a day at the zoo there's nothing like falling asleep covered in snacks