Today is Jimlaaad's birthday! Woo! He took the day off so he can laze about all day! Hooray for birthdays!! Happy birthday Jimlaaad!

I offered the rat to Duchess again yesterday. No dice - she wouldn't even come out of the tree. I figured if I was going to keep the critter any longer I had to move it out of the 10 gallon tank so I put him in Duchess' old 20-long today. Now he has two hides, a wheel, and a wooden toy thingie for chewing. Geez. Pretty good for a feeder rat. The ( Read more... )

So I figured I'm gonna hang onto this rat for at least a good week (from when I got it), because I really don't think Duchess is hungry. I got used to her getting hungry in less than a week when I was feeding mice and figured on it being more like a week and a half with rats (she did take her second rat only a week after eating the first) but now ( Read more... )

On the station I listen to they play sound bites from various sources to introduce the DJs. Well they just played one from Darkwing Duck. Neat. :)

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"Easter is the day Jesus comes out of his cave, sees his shadow, and baseball season starts."

- Will Durst

So I brought a (live) rat home yesterday for Duchess. First of all, it turned out this is one sick rat. I guess it has an upper respiratory infection, because it just lies there and has coughing fits occasionally. Secondly, Duchess didn't want it. Or *something*. She didn't emerge from her tree until after I had turned the lights off, and then I ( Read more... )

The Easter Bunny just came through my office and gave everybody candy! Aw!

Apparently, the Easter Bunny works for ASAP Signing Services. Hm.

So I found out why Duchess has been spending so much time out of her tree...

(Cut for um...poopie)

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Somebody burned the damn coffee at work again. When I came in the burners were on on both sides of the machine and I had to clean both of the pots, each of which had a nasty layer of scorched coffee on the bottoms. Ugh. What's worse is I had to use up the last of the Blue Stuff, the cleaner we use for the pots. I hope we can get more soon. :P ( Read more... )