Good riddance to 2011, and happily, Luci Ferret has made it into 2012. Though I didn't know their birthdates for sure, at this point I can pretty much say the fudge factor couldn't be that large; Luci's now the oldest ferret I've ever had, passing Hershey and hitting the 8 year mark. I could never have asked for her to live this long, and I could ( Read more... )

Doing what I forgot to do last year on this day, watch Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas. It's such a beautiful story, and so beautifully Muppetized ( Read more... )

I got the best possible gift. Luci and Ayame are still both alive and doing OK for now.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US (and happy Nov. 24 to everyone else ( Read more... )

Ten years ago I was sleeping a bit late, waiting to go to an off-site seminar on real-time quantitative PCR. (The seminar wasn't even a mile from my home, much closer than work was at the time, so no need to get up too far ahead of it.) My roommate woke me up and told me a plane had hit one of the towers. I wasn't really concerned, a B-25 had ( Read more... )

Which My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic pony are you?


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Saw the new Harry Potter movie tonight. Wow, it was great. Especially ( the ending (spoiler alert) )

As usual I didn't announce I was going to be gone, but I was in Washington DC the past couple days. 100% business, and I didn't really want to go, but it was a nice enough trip considering. Ferrets were well taken care of and are fine, about as happy I'm back with them as I am ( Read more... )

I got Aradia's ashes back from the vet yesterday. After putting her with the other ferrets, I started looking through their vet files as I thought about them. When I adopted Astro, Moose, and Luci, their previous owners gave me a folder of records. I never went through it all, just made sure they were up to date on shots and checkups. I knew ( Read more... )

Early this morning, Aradia died. The only thing at all unusual before was she actually wanted to sleep in her cage last night. But her last night she was happy and playful, active, well-behaved, enjoyed her treats. I'd just trimmed her claws last night even. Her vet checkup was only a month ago, and she seemed fine except she needed her teeth ( Read more... )