Critter’s Krib

It is almost 1am and I should feel tired, but I am feeling rather stoked! I was finally able to get
CFMX7 up and running on a flavor
of linux.

I had emailed Steven Erat
(Steven works for Adobe as a Senior Server Product Support Engineer. Don’t let that title fool you, the man is uber cool and always takes the time
to answer questions from us little people ) and asked him if he had any experience getting CFMX7 running
on Kubuntu. He replied, saying, the only non-supported version he had installed it on was Fedora. He also asked
me why I was partial to Kubuntu? I replied that I wasn’t, it was just one of the first version I cam across. Yesterday, I downloaded and installed
Fedora 4 on my laptop. I had Eclipse running on it, but it seems after the install
of CFMX7, it no longer works. Not a big deal, I will get that sorted out sooner or later. It looks to be a JVM issue of some sort.

Weather permitting, I am picking Talon up first thing in the morning so that we can go kayaking. The weather is only supposed to be in the 40’s, but as
long as the wind is not blowing, it shouldn’t be too bad. I hope it’s not that bad. I really want to get him out on the kayak with me!

Anyway, I should get back to cleaning the house. wh00t!

Ok now, you can laugh all you want, but you have to be told. We have all seen the commercials on television. Whether you were just flipping
through the channels, or up late through the night watching the home shopping network. It is the
belt that shocks your abs into shape. It is Slendertone. Seriously, stop laughing.

They offer a $14.95 30-day trial offer. So what do you have to lose, right? I think I have had the belt for about two weeks. I wear it twice
a day. All I can say is it works. I imagine my diet has a lot to do with it too, but I have a 6-pack now. I haven’t done anything
for my abs in the last two weeks except use the belt. Like I said, it has only been a couple weeks. I still have a small bit that I want to shed,
but I am getting there. I’ll have to snap up a few pictures and post them.

Anyway, the belt works. You should give it a try.

My son’s school describes an unexcused absence as the following:

Their seven reasons for an excused absence are:

• Illness or Injury
• Quarantine
• Death in the Immediate Family
• Medical or Dental Appointments
• Court or Administrative Proceedings
• Religious Observance
• Educational Opportunity

Nothing too serious with all that. And being that Talon is only in kindergarten, I am not too worried about him not being at school without his mother
or myself knowing about it.

This afternoon I received an email from the school that stated:

The consequences for tardies will be as follows:

• Parents will be charged $25 for 3 unexcused tardies for first period of the morning.
  **Lower school students will be fined without detention.
• Students will serve after-school detention for 3 unexcused tardies for all other periods.

I have to be honest, I am quite shocked and extremely upset at the first point. It’s not that I have to worry about this myself, as
Talon and I get to school with plenty of time to spare. But who do they think they are to “discipline” the parents by charging them
money for tardiness?

I can see giving kids detention (the older ones) for being tardy to class, but charging a parent money! Absolutely absurd. If they do this,
I wonder what they will start charging for next?

I have actually just completed and sent in Talon’s registration for next year, but after receiving this I am not 100% certain I want him to continue
there. I am not so much worried about the money, but it is the principle.

Corona downed a nice sized rat the other day. Not before I had to scent it with chicken blood, though. He is such a picky eater. Sometimes, he will gobble up the rats without any hesitation. Other times, I have to thaw out a chick along with the rat so that I can put a small bit of chick blood on the rat. He goes mad for that.

In the pictures above, you can see Smirnoff sitting on top of Corona

Sage advice from singer Jim Croce. He also says we shouldn’t
tug on superman’s cape or pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger.

I am going to add something to that list. Don’t stop taking your antibiotics before they are finished.
And now, I shall learn from my mistakes. I quit taking my month’s supply of antibiotics after only a week (at most).
What can I say? I was feeling better, and just did not think of it much. Last night I noticed my sinuses were
feeling a bit off, and I continued to experience pain from a headache pounding in my sinuses from earlier in the day.
This morning when I awoke, my head felt like someone had kicked me several times in the head with a large
jungle camo Marine Corp boot. I know, right?

You know what “going commando” is, right? Of course, you do. Get this. It has been over a year since I have been to see my dermatologist.
Crappy insurance prevented me from going to him, but now that I am back on BCBS, I can start
going back. Yesterday I finally got around to getting into his office. I was sitting there chatting with the nurse for a bit before we got started
on everything. As she walked out of the office she said

“You know the routine, strip down to your underwear, and the doctor will be in here in a few minutes”

“That is not a routine I remember!?

She then explained I was having the full body inspection.

Honestly, a bit of panic set in. “I, uh, I don’t wear underwear”, I said.

“Oh, that’s alright, you can wrap up in that sheet on the table, over there”, she replied, as she left the room.

Sheet? What sheet? Oh, you mean this see through flimsy toilet-papered piece of material? The butcher paper they use
at Macaroni Grill is thicker than this!

The exam went off without a hitch, and I was able to stay covered up properly. Due to stress and a chilly temperature
in the doctor’s office, I cannot imagine it would have been one of my finer showing moments. ha!

They did take 4 biopsies of some spots. Two on my chest and two on my back. I am not too sure about the ones on my back, but I bet
the bottom one on my chest comes back positive. It’s just the way it looks where he has removed the biopsy. Most of them seem to come completely
off when biopsied, this one looks to go a bit deeper. Oh well, I am not too worried. I have lost count of how many I have had biopsied that
came back positive for Basal Cell Carcinoma.

You know, I do not even think about going out in the sun anymore without a boatload of protection on. Mainly because of my tattoos. I have a ton
of money invested in them so I really don’t want them fading too much. Mind you, it’s not like it matters much. The skin damage I suffer from
now is a result of over exposure to the sun from decades ago. (Wow, that is the first time I have ever used the word
decade. I feel old.)

Well, I should really go take my percocet, place my dentures in a glass of efferdent, and take out my hearing aids and retire for the night.
(since I am feeling old)

Just a few pictures of our slow growing tortoise, Jaeger.

Not quite sure what happened here, but this little shard of glass started to migrate it’s way out of the back of my hand. I have had a sore spot there for at least a few months. I have dug around it quite a bit, but could never figure out what was causing the bump. Today, it finally broke the skin.

I cannot for the life of me remember when my left hand has been in contact with broken glass. Back in my agro days, I always used my right. Very Odd

They do not mention it in the article, but I have to wonder if the gentleman that drank the liquid might have been slow. Then I can understand charging the cook, but if the elderly gentleman was not slow, and was of sound mind, I do not agree with it. It was a dare, nobody forced him to drink it.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/7127017/detail.html?subid=22105243&qs=1;bp=t

ATLANTA — A 19-year-old former Waffle House cook was indicted today after daring a man to drink a concoction that included industrial strength dishwashing liquid two months ago. Rex Leo, 50, took that dare, and was rushed to the hospital as a result.

A Henry County grand jury decided today to indict Quinton Wilson on a misdemeanor reckless conduct charge.

Rex Leo says Wilson offered him $5 to drink the liquid and when he did, “I started foaming at the mouth almost immediately.” He continued saying, “…it was extremely painful.”

Rex Leo has a badly damaged throat and internal organs as a result. He also has no health insurance.

Leo’s brother Bob Leo says, “I can’t even imagine treating someone that way.”

During an interview with Channel 2 in December, shortly after the incident, Quinton Wilson said, “I’m so sorry about what happened to Rex Leo. We were only kidding around. I did not mean for that to happen.”

The Leo family says they will pursue a civil lawsuit against Waffle House.

Wilson faces a maximum 12 months in jail.

And the sands have settled.

A change in weather? No, we just ran out of canvas. My sleeve has been completed, for the most part. All that we have left to finish is a bit of touching up.

It is always a weird feeling at the end of a piece. I am not sure how to describe it. It definitely feels like the end of some sort of chapter.

I wonder what will be next?