Wallybee's parents have just let us know their visa has been approved, so they'll be out here in about a week or so.

yay!

Man, I would love to get laid off.

for bt: Rare dolphin spits to catch its prey, scientists find

A rare species of Australian dolphin has been found to catch its fish prey by spitting water, according to research by WWF. The small snubfin dolphins hunt in groups and use their spitting technique to round up fish they have chased to the surface by firing jets of water from their mouths.

The unusual behaviour has only been observed in one other dolphin species, the Irrawaddy dolphin, which lives throughout south and south-east Asia.

"This is incredibly unusual behaviour, first seen in Australia off the Kimberley Coast," said WWF Australia's marine and coasts manager, Lydia Gibson. "It also confirms the snubfin dolphin is a fascinating animal, one which we know so little about."

The snubfin dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni) was discovered in 2005 and is Australia's only endemic dolphin species, meaning that it is unique to northern Australia. Virtually nothing is known about its behaviour or habits.

I fucking hate my employer. Right now their goddamned website is standing between me and a mortgage. SERIOUSLY.

I fucking hate my employer. Right now their goddamned website is standing between me and a mortgage. SERIOUSLY.

That sucks.

Should we sic spitting dolphins on them?

Rare dolphin spits to catch its prey, scientists find

See, possible career options are already suggesting themselves!

So soon we'll be seeing the following headline?

Rare actuary spits to catch its prey, scientists find

OK, sorted out. Arcane password rule that they don't tell you anywhere. SERIOUSLY.

So, after all of that morning-routine talk, I went to bed earlish, but still slept through my alarm until 7:20! Am now late for work.

I forgot one part of my "routine" which is usually having to get up sometime in the night (about 5 this morning) to take the dog out and then going back to sleep. He'd actually been sleeping through the night pretty well recently but I THOUGHT about that good luck too much I guess and jinxed it. Anyway, I fell asleep again, only hit the snooze alarm once and was actually here a 1/2 hour early today. A miracle. Of course nobody else was here for another hour so my miracle went unwitnessed.

bt, sorry for the layoff but it sounds like it actually might be a a positive thing for you. More time with baby! Awesome.

Grrr. Apparently my DVD recorder decided that no, I really didn't need to see Due East yesterday after all. Weird that it wasn't due to a power surge knocking out the date/time or anything like that - there was just a little exlamation point telling me the program hadn't recorded.

For as many complaints as I have about Comcast, I'll have to say that I've had relatively few problems with my dvr.

I just took a break from my work and filed my state taxes, since I couldn't get into the system to file last night. It really sucks to own money--I'm thinking about upping my withholding by about $20 per paycheck to make up most of it.