Leia, one of two ratties Kristy & I got over three years ago, died on Tuesday. She had lived extremely long for a rat, and though a bit loopy from a recent stroke, she was still a sweetie. Specifically, apparently her mobility functions had become scrambled such that she could only turn right and moved forward by rotating in a corkscrew ( Read more... )

   Today Kristy, Tobin, and a cousin (third cousin) from Germany arrived at the Orange County Airport (John Wayne Airport). Today, incidently, nutty fundamentalists in England decided to try to blow up several airplanes and so airport security went apeshit worldwide. Good times. At John Wayne the check-in lines filled the terminal and spilled ( Read more... )