Random Thoughts

---Dolphins might have better memories than elephants. I think this means we have to change that old saying.

---Hawaii is moving towards Japan at a rate of about four inches a year. Those thieves!

---Quint: to deliberately insult someone who is fishing for a compliment. And my new favorite thing.

---An animal control officer was found with 850 snakes in his apartment. I’m thinking he doesn’t understand the purpose of his job.

---Wait…pasty is a food? I only knew it as…something else.

---I’m surprised there aren’t more sci-fi works with titles that start with a Q. The letter just naturally lends itself to sci-fi, like X and Z.

---“Man fails trying to cross Atlantic via balloon cluster”. No! Really?

---Whenever I get to hoping for humanity, I remember that there are still people out there who think Onion stories are real.

---“For each person, there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.” Screw quint. THIS is my new favorite thing.

---“Scientists run dinosaur wind-tunnel tests”. They had dinosaurs and didn’t tell us?!!

---“Jon Gosslin threatens photog with gun”. Oh no! I scrolled down too far in my news feed and accidentally got into Entertainment “news”.

---I read a game review that claimed GTA V was ruined by “stubborn violence and sexism”. While the violence and sexism part is completely true, what did this guy expect the game to be about? If you’re going to protest the violence and sexism in GTA, go ahead and do it, but don’t act like that’s not what every GTA game ever has been full of.

---James Blunt was a captain in the British Army. Yes, that James Blunt.

---A guy actually computed what the difference is between a geek and a nerd. Apparently, a geek is someone who likes movies, television shows, and comics while a nerd is someone with interests in science and mathematics. I’m assuming this means the guy who made said computation is a total nerd.

Love it or shove it

Like the new picture of me? Much better than the books. That tan ball of fur in my hands is not a hamster but a not-quite-two-week-old kitten. My mom's friend's husband noticed the cats at work and saw the mother leave with one kitten but unfortunately, she didn't come back for the other. Maybe she was spooked, but the kitten couldn't survive on his own and he took him home.

Well, the kitten couldn't survive there, either. He has two small children. My mother happened to go over and knew she could dump the baby cat on me, so she took him home. Yes, that's us giving him bottles. That went on for about a month. Every time he cried, someone was there to jump up and feed him, the spoiled little baby. But who could replace his mother for bathing and taking care of him?

That would be Blinky. We just got her from the pound a month before (funny aside: we thought she was a boy until the vet lifted up her tail and went nope). She was about four months old, mostly a kitten herself but the maternal instincts were still there. She even tried to pick him up and carry him away! When she stopped having to clean him up, they remained best friends, like littermates.

Tell me that's not the cutest thing you've ever seen. And eventually, that little kitten turned into this:

We named him Roly, because he is so roly-poly. Every time he comes in the house, he yells at the top of his lungs until someone comes out to greet him. Seriously. Last night, no one was around and he was yelling his head off. He's also quite chub, as you can see. But so cute!