yamamanama | trespassing in love's furrows

It's actually a squirrel pignick.

Guinea pig!!! His feet are getting soaked in epsom salts.

This is George. There were little white bits that were a mouse once upon a time, so I guess box turtles are omnivorse.

Okay, so, the goose had a low blood glucose content (138) and the herring gull was limping and had a high blood glucose content (up in the 400s), which might be due to stress.
Birds have higher blood glucose level than mammals. I'm not sure why; I don't remember this stuff from high school biology or middle school Life Science, as they called it there. In fact, I don't remember much at all. One day I'll write an entry about what I do remember from middle school, and I'll call it Minotaur Blues, and I'll post it when I'm nice and bored and have nothing else to talk about, but today is not that day.

Later on, the goose was wandering the corridor, where he poked the window with his beak repeatedly and right after I stopped filming him, unfurled his wings to either attack his reflection or fly out the window.

I later took a picture of him standing there, poised, preparing something. What he did was this: he walked up to the window, pecked his reflection for a few seconds, and then strutted away. Then he hissed at Bling and leapt past him.

The worst Itsy-Bitsy does is occasionally makes cleaning the reptile room extra-challenging. There's not much you can do with this situation aside from waiting for her to get through. They're evolved for that, though I feel they should be able to back up if it turns out the gap is too narrow for them.

A few people have worked with penguins. Her impression: Jackass (so named because they sound like a braying donkey) penguins (so named because they resembled the extinct Pinguinus impennis, or Great Auk, even if loons are closer on the evolutionary tree), rockhoppers, and little blue penguins are nice, but Emperors are assholes.

Somebody brought donuts and munchkins. There are red velvet munchkins but they have no right to be red colored. Wikipedia tells me they are dyed with beetroot or red food coloring, but let's be seriously
I'm not the kind of person who posts pictures of what I'm eating, so

here's Attack of the Protozoan Donuts. Yes, this book was legitimately published once, but they lost the rights for the cover I guess, so Amazon had their art team of third graders put something together. And I have a rant to go with this and a comment Dan Simmons made about truly competitive art markets: the midlist has ceased to exist and literature has been compartmentalized into a small and dwindling A-list, the former midlisters and novels too niche, elusive as the yellow hypergiant, scattered amongst a glut of really terrible self-published novels, and the occasional high-profile self-published novel. Think Wool. Think A Throne of Bones. I guess there's Baen too.

I can't help but think the free market cultists see this as a good thing. Bold words from somebody who was able to sell Flashback with name recognition alone.

The snow was gone by the time I got home.

I think Gina's masterpiece is finished. I'll find out next week.

burning question: Is there a term from finding it amusing when people make themselves look like utter cartoons and don't realise how ridiculous they're being?