I had to put my cat of sixteen years to sleep this week. Her name was Olympus, a beautiful amalgamation of orange and white fur, run on solar power. She has been an outdoor kitty all her life because when I got her I still lived with my mom and she has always said she is allergic to all animal hair. This doesn’t mean I didn’t sneak her into my ( Read more... )

I was reading Smithsonian Magazine the other day when I came across an article about a cargo cult. I had no idea what a cargo cult was so I read on. Apparently during WWII when American troops poured through the South Pacific they can in contact with many islands with natives that were easily impressed. When the American’s left they promised to ( Read more... )

We got the new Encyclopedia of Exotic Tropical Fish in at work the other day and I was once again disappointed that I didn’t make the cut. I put forth extra effort this year adding style and color with this damn uncomfortable implanted iridescent tail ridge but I remain painfully absent from those glossy pages after which I yearn for. It’s all ( Read more... )

I like lost things. People lose things when they come to the library. From time to time I love to go through our lost and found at work. I did so yesterday while I was looking for someone’s lost computer disk. I didn’t find the disk but there was a wallet there, or something like a wallet. I especially like lost wallets. People carry little ( Read more... )

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A large part of my life involves pretending to be someone else. It takes great preparation, immense amounts of effort, and a practiced concentration. When I choose an alternate persona it cannot be taken lightly. It is a serious operation. I start out thinking about how realistically I can meld myself into this other person. It’s not a ( Read more... )

Most people are either cat or dog oriented. I have always been a cat person. I’m just too moody, elitist, and fickle to be anything but a cat person. That being said I have always had a cat in my life, not always in my house, but in my life. Dear old ma is allergic to all animal hair, or so she says, and so my childhood pets had to be snuck ( Read more... )

I’ve been told my entries are too long and without periodic interruptions. I’ve been told there is something called a paragraph but since I’ve never been one to believe in mythic animals I choose to ignore such nonsense. Here is my attempt to be accommodating ( Read more... )

I had another crappy day at work, however I thought I might try talking about the positive things in my life for a change, see if that makes me feel any better than the standard rant. On the plus side I’ve gotten to hike more this summer than I have in the last several years combined, mostly due to the fact that my friend Random_Sounds is in ( Read more... )

I’m not inherently as grumpy and negative as I come off in these rant fests but I do have a tendency to take it personal when people take advantage of me. I genuinely try to give people the benefit of the doubt but I have very high standards for behavior and protocol and if you don’t meet those standards I will not be your favorite person. In ( Read more... )