Wait, it's Thursday. Shit. I spent all day thinking it was Weds. The days are blurring together.

I somehow accidentally blocked megan walker

That's what they all say...

I somehow accidentally blocked megan walker-- how do I unbla=ock her?

At the top of her post, there should be an "unblock" link.

Could someone tell the kitten not to hang out in the litterbox??! I think I need to get him a cat house.

Thanks Hil- I didn't even notice that!

I'm all caught up on Friday Night Lights.

I'm working my way through Season 1 right now! So good!!! Even though I have to fast forward through some of the straight up football game shots. I have been bugging my dad so hard to watch it since it started. He played football in small town Texas. His dad was a high school football coach & principal. He would love it.

Or drive out to Frederick. That's what I was doing when I had a close encounter with a deer at 70+mph.

Stupid having a cute niece out there!!! I have to go out there Sunday. It's not really deer season though. I'm just glad I don't have to drive back and forth to Columbia every day. Fall & Spring you'd see dead deer on the offramps practically every day. I've seen deer here in the city, too, actually. And foxes and hawks. Very exciting.

If you think hitting a deer is bad... hit a moose. They weigh a whole lot more, AND they're so tall that they'll go through your windshield.

Plus, in their hearts they don't believe cars can hurt them. There were no cars around during the last Ice Age, so they haven't caught up in evolutionary terms yet....

Heavy rain for LA. Kind of comforting.

lisah, though I haven't seen them recently, there are the redshouldered hawks that nest in the ravine behind my work. Back when there was a parking lot south of us, I came up the steps to be halted by one of them with a squirrel he'd just caught, perched on the top landing with his wings spread . We had to wait until he'd hopped away from the landing far enough he could take off. And you can here their screes INSIDE the building . It's really cool.

I've got foxes around me. Hell, I probably have bears, since the railway is a conduit they use to get into town.

But yeah, anyone carping about raises right now in any position is really not grasping the real world, methinks.

I agree with this in principle, but not getting even a COLA this year IS going to hurt - food prices and utilities will going up whether my salary does or not. (And it's rare that the COLA ever matches the actual increase in COL, but it does help. Not getting one this year is an effective pay cut. By how much, it's too soon to tell.)

The worst car accident I ever saw involved three cars and two deer. We passed it on the road long after the ambulances had gone, but it was obvious how nasty it had been.