A couple xtranormal videos I made on a slow work day...

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Zinc Oxide works in sunscreen because the nano flakes physically block light rays ( Read more... )

Last night we managed to catch the mouse. It turns out that the sticky tape was the winner of the four types of mouse traps that we used. We put him outside in a bucket and in the morning, he was dead. I felt a little bad, but you can't just let these guys go or they find their way back into the house ( Read more... )

My mom and her siblings spent the day preparing for the pseudo-wedding reception party they were hosting for my brother and his new wife (they got married in Hawaii and eschewed that sort of thing, which is cool and all but which left the two families un-introduced to each other).

( Meanwhile, I was preoccupied with the mouse (video) )

There was a scratching noise in the closet, or perhaps in the wall between the closet doors. At first, I thought it was my imagination, or maybe a plastic bag that was un-bunching. But every time we shut out the lights, the sound returned, and every time we turned the lights back on and looked at the closet, the noise stopped. Eventually, the truth ( Read more... )

I woke up early, full of energy and in good spirits, like it was Christmas: we were going to the Lewis & Clark Caverns today! I hadn't been there since I was a kid.

( There are very few things in the world cooler than hiking through a mile of caves. )

The check engine light on my car went on. After consulting the manual and flashing back to my last fill-up, I realized that it was probably a result of using the low grade stuff. In California, low grade means 87 or so. In Montana, it's more like 85. The manual says never to fill up with less than 87, so hopefully that's all it is. I'll have to try ( Read more... )

I met my nephew for the first time. He's three months old. This is the first time I've seen any children from any of my siblings (my other sister had a baby boy a few months earlier than this one, but she's stuck in Alaska). Very surreal. He smiled at me. Apparently he doesn't do that very much. He seemed to think I was funny looking. Jerk. What ( Read more... )

My number 30 tooth (1st molar/"6-year molar," bottom right) cracked and then chipped off when I was chewing gum. I can't remember if that was one of the teeth my dentist worked on over the last year. I think so ( Read more... )

Though we were starting in Nevada, we made it our goal to end the day in Montana.

We achieved this goal. We even had time to briefly stop at the Potato Museum in Blackfoot, Idaho.


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