So today I heard a weird noise coming from the attic, like something was up there. Generally things sound HUGE when they are in the attic, but this sounded small. I went up to investigate, and apparently the hot water filter was just making some noise because Zhenya had taken a bath. I took a careful look around and it looks like a squirrel has ( Read more... )

So I noticed a praying mantis was chilling out on my light on the deck... so I go out to take some pictures of him. They turned out pretty well. Apparently hanging out on the deck is all the rage for them, as I found his buddy chilling out about 6 feet away on the bricks


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Some style adjustments made to BCI, let me know what you guys think.

Some more wildlife I found enjoying my back yard:

Some huge butterfly:


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I haven't posted the cats in a while, so here they are:


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Here's a couple minutes of the lightning storm we had today... It lasted over 2 hours. My cam sucks for movies, so you only see the brightest flashes. It was lit up like a warzone though with flashes going off every second. (Click to play the video, if you're slow)

Apparently time warner has increased my bandwidth

From last month:

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Last night Matt and I played Toe Jam and Earl over the net through a genesis emulator. Talk about old school... but that game is still totally awesome. Matt had never played, but after a couple stages he was getting into the flow. He's a ballin tornado dodger. We need to figure out how to get save states to work with netplay, but other than ( Read more... )