Feb. 21st, 2017

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27 days until the vernal equinox
It would seem that I am mistaken. Tiffany told me that One-Eye was released and coracoid fracture didn't make it because he wasn't getting vertical lift, which would make sense. Also, I love how autocorrect insists on capitalizing coracoid. Whoops. Or perhaps I've been reality-hopping again. Let's call them Reality-κ, because there's no C in Greek, and Reality-ε for ena-mati, Greek for One-Eye. Yes, I had to look that up. There aren't one-sided polygons in Euclidian space and don't say circles because circles have infinitely many sides. Although if you had a spherical surface or an Asteroids-type surface that wraps around, a single straight line can bound an area.

There are subtler difference between the realities, as the snow seems to be taking a longer time to melt than it should, and the socialist candidate in Ecuador's election supports Julian Assange. I always think that Google Translate introduced a new language even when they haven't.

Kate said the salamander has gone to a better place. Primrose said that everything spotted is dying. I was going to ask a question about whether or not Jack would take a picture in the next 80 days but I guess it's too late now. We think maybe its tail was injured and it became necrotic.

We should be releasing the swan soon.

We have more rodos than we have rodo cages, so we had one of them in one of those lightweight carriers. Kate said we should release all the rodos at once like a wedding, and she says when she gets married, she's having ordinary ugly rodos released, none of those fancy white ones. A rodo had white splotches and Tiffany's like "Sorry, you're only a six. But I think you're an eight."

We had a bobwhite that someone thought was a baby grouse.

We have an opossum who was snarling in a photograph with him, who has lead poisoning and trauma. They're pretty badass; they can live with rabies, they can live with lead poisoning.

A Chinese Owl is a breed of pigeon.

We have a goose who is suffering from organophosphate poisoning, which is a lot like sarin poisoning and it's not a pleasant way to go. He has some bullets in him, but we're going to ignore those unless they impair his wing movement or ability to walk, and he was banded so they're going to send us a certificate and perhaps tell us some interesting things about the goose. Primrose is doing some detective work.
We treat organophosphate poisoning with atropine and 2-PAM chloride which has a longass chemical name, 2-pyridine aldoxime methyle chloride or 1-methylpyridine-6-carbaldehyde-oxime, which work in synergy with one another. The symptoms are a lot like nerve toxins and tea plantation workers in India have children with learning disabilities. That's what happens when there's no EPA to regulate that shit. It blocks acetylcholinesterase so all the acetylcholine builds up in the body and overloads the nervous system so they have seizures and shakes and diarrhea.

In reptiles, the drugs can be metabolized by the liver before they circulate throughout the body, reducing their efficacy.

Jack is getting into Thai food, specifically some kind of crispy chicken and something with pineapples, and we're cleaning his office and his phone was on the desk so I told him I'm going to have Ashley mess with it so it will send calls to last week as a lesson in not leaving it laying around.
Mice are annoying and shit everywhere while rats are cute and smart.

A woman with bright orange hair brought a guinea pig.

Gerald, alternatively TJ although I don't know why, I don't see a T in G-E-R-A-L-D, asks who shoots at geese and Emily says people who want to be seen as manly shoot them and Kate says that it's even manlier when they chase the goose down unarmed, and she wonders who shoots crows, and Gerald AKA TJ says that maybe it stole something shiny that belonged to him.

Primrose made some chili and it was someone's birthday so there was cake.
Burning Question: who puts zip-ties on spoons? Gerald, AKA TJ, says that maybe it would keep people from stealing them, but they weren't zip-tied to anything, they were just tied there.

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