Anyone trying to call me after 6 PM, please be advised that I will no longer be answering my phone. Leave a message. Because if I answer every time it rings, I end up with mind numbing robo calls from politicians who annoy me enough when I read about them, let alone when I hear their voice. Or I get asked to take a “poll” which rapidly disintegrates into a thinly veiled push poll trying to insinuate that the other candidate screws swans while torturing baby birds. So leave a message and I’ll get back to you next fall when
Bird TLC and Amazon
AmazonSmile – Amazon has a new donation program, called AmazonSmile. Everytime you shop with Amazon using this link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/92-0130037, Amazon will donate a portion of the sales to the organization you choose. Bird TLC is an AmazonSmile organization! This program will not expire, but there is currently a special offer that will expire Monday, March 31st!
Shop at AmazonSmile before the end of the day on Monday and Amazon will donate an extra $5 to Bird TLC. Thank you!
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Fair warning
I leave for Vegas tomorrow. Should I finally hit the million dollar penny slot jackpot – and in my head, there is always a million dollar penny slot jackpot – I will no longer be keeping this blog. I will be spending my days in front of a fire built by someone else, eating food cooked by someone else and stroking the firm hard abs of the best looking man I can find who will do it with an old lady for money. Ah dreams.
He’s holding me back!
If he didn’t have that stupid loyalty to the human who feeds us, I’d be in Florida by now… warm, cozy and NOT freezing my now non-existent balls off.
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Cosmos
I don’t know about you but I am absolutely hooked on the new Cosmos series with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Sometimes we get so bogged down in the minutiae of daily life that we forget to look up in amazement at the glory of which we are but one tiny bit of cosmic dust. This show takes our minds out of the mundane and into the amazing.
Part of what happens when watching this show is the dawning realization that this earth and the humanity on it are neither the center of the universe nor of any particular impact on it.
That’s it. I’m outta here until this damn white stuff melts
Don’t try to stop me. I will keep walking until I get to Aunt Judy’s where the house is cold but outside is warm. I am not meant to be a friggin’ sled dog!
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Ukraine and Iraq have something in common
In both cases, the people of the invading country were/are being treated to a propaganda war that justifies everything being done. Putin and Cheney are not all that different.
Why I feel sorry for Abdul
He’s my African Gray parrot and he loves to imitate me. He loves to sing and whistle even more. I try whistling the tune to the Andy Griffith theme and he cocks his head and listens so intently trying to catch the rhythm and notes. And then a totally puzzled look comes over the intensity of his gaze and I realize how hard it is for him to try and imitate me since I can’t carry a note or a tune, even with help from music, backup singers and a wheelbarrow. Then he tries to imitate what he thought he
I don’t mind
I don’t mind them staring at me while I’m in the shower. I don’t mind them staring at me while I’m on the toilet. I do mind waking up in the morning to a dog standing on my chest and staring straight down at me. That is simply freaky.
The shower crowd
This is the scene right outside my bathroom door as I take a shower. They are ever vigilant lest a door suddenly open up on the other side of the shower and I slip away without them knowing. In case there is any doubt, this has less to do with their loyalty to me than with the fact that they don’t get breakfast until after my shower and they want to be very sure I don’t try to get out of it.
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