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It's warm! It's warm! All rejoice, for we have survived the winter yet again!
Although pretty soon we shall have our May/June storms, probably a few tornado warnings; I will try not to dart down to the basement at the first sound of the siren and instead I will stand just at the top of the stairs where the door is, and if all else fails I can just fling myself down (not that we have ever, within the past several years, had a tornado in my town). Last year was really impressive, but it's probably better that we don't have massive flooding again this year.
Had the meeting for the Yellowstone trip last night! Sat next to Whitney and Adric. When Whitney, who is a snake fanatic, mentioned that she had been tempted to bring one of hers with her, I suggested that she should just have one permanently attached to her; one thing lead to another and soon enough I was suggesting that in order to prevent the transplanted snakes from being rejected by her body she would have to engineer some out of her own cells, perhaps even just re-write her own DNA, so that she could have head-snake-tentacles like those aliens in Star Wars with the two long appendages hanging from their skulls and draped over their shoulders. Only they would be snakes. And venomous.
I have much of the stuff necessary for the trip but there are a few things I do need yet, and while they aren't many in number some of them are rather expensive (hiking boots, I'm looking at you). I'm thinking that for a hat my Authentic Fake Mexican hat will work, I just picked up some leather gloves today (practically the only pair available in a small), and I scoped out tackle boxes for specimen storage (actually not that expensive) and even canteens (which I was unable to find in a suitable size or configuration; I might just rig up my own water-bottle carrier). Fairly happy with the gloves, which are cowhide and fit quite snugly, although I'm sure someone will one-up me on them and then I'll have glove-envy, but they should be fine. I'm still not sure I would trust them to keep me safe from rodent bites, though. I don't know how mice and their similarly-sized ilk are with their teeth, but I know that a leather glove wouldn't stop a determined rat; rats can chew through concrete and can even, for extra nastiness, split their bottom teeth into two separate spears for gouging through your skin.
Although pretty soon we shall have our May/June storms, probably a few tornado warnings; I will try not to dart down to the basement at the first sound of the siren and instead I will stand just at the top of the stairs where the door is, and if all else fails I can just fling myself down (not that we have ever, within the past several years, had a tornado in my town). Last year was really impressive, but it's probably better that we don't have massive flooding again this year.
Had the meeting for the Yellowstone trip last night! Sat next to Whitney and Adric. When Whitney, who is a snake fanatic, mentioned that she had been tempted to bring one of hers with her, I suggested that she should just have one permanently attached to her; one thing lead to another and soon enough I was suggesting that in order to prevent the transplanted snakes from being rejected by her body she would have to engineer some out of her own cells, perhaps even just re-write her own DNA, so that she could have head-snake-tentacles like those aliens in Star Wars with the two long appendages hanging from their skulls and draped over their shoulders. Only they would be snakes. And venomous.
I have much of the stuff necessary for the trip but there are a few things I do need yet, and while they aren't many in number some of them are rather expensive (hiking boots, I'm looking at you). I'm thinking that for a hat my Authentic Fake Mexican hat will work, I just picked up some leather gloves today (practically the only pair available in a small), and I scoped out tackle boxes for specimen storage (actually not that expensive) and even canteens (which I was unable to find in a suitable size or configuration; I might just rig up my own water-bottle carrier). Fairly happy with the gloves, which are cowhide and fit quite snugly, although I'm sure someone will one-up me on them and then I'll have glove-envy, but they should be fine. I'm still not sure I would trust them to keep me safe from rodent bites, though. I don't know how mice and their similarly-sized ilk are with their teeth, but I know that a leather glove wouldn't stop a determined rat; rats can chew through concrete and can even, for extra nastiness, split their bottom teeth into two separate spears for gouging through your skin.