Critter’s Krib

That can’t be right, can it? More often than not, I stare at the screen. There are a ton of things I would like to tell you. Maybe just to get it off my chest, but I never do. I stare at the screen for a few minutes, and then I just shut down the program.

Have I ever told you how much I hate the mornings? That’s not to say I am not a morning person. When I wake up, I am up. I enjoy my coffee, but it’s not always needed to get me going.

There is that one brief, moment, even before I open my eyes, where everything is peaceful and content. In a flash, though, the peace is gone and the reality of life slams into play.

and with that… I really can’t squeeze out anything else this morning.. I’ll leave you with a pictures of Talon and Phoenix… those always make me smile.

I will let you know in advance that this post does not have a happy ending. I have been AWOL from the reptile forums that I visit for some time. I just haven’t had it in me to visit them lately. Hell, I have even thought of getting rid of most of my snakes. Lately, with the amount of stress that I have had to deal with, I have found it slightly relaxing to browse the forums, read posts and look at some of the pictures that are posted.

I stopped by a popular Red-Tail Boa forum this evening and one of the first posts I came across was from a friend of mine named Rick. I met Rick online about a year and a half to two years ago, when I purchased Razz (pictured below) from him.

She is a beautiful snake with a great disposition. Her mother was an F3 Albino named Aurora owned by Rick. Aurora ran into a bit of trouble within the last couple years. I believe she formed a cyst or something on her side and had to go through a couple surgeries before getting back to her normal self

You can see her scar in the picture above. Rick went through a very long recovery period with her. That scar was pretty much an open wound for the longest time, but he mended her back to health.

(This is the most recent photo of her with her last batch of babies)

Well, long story short.. apparently Rick was on his way to the vets with her in a duffel bag. He had run into a store to grab some coffee and when he came out she was gone. Somebody had reached in the open window and stolen the duffel bag. He spent several days papering the town with reward posters and scanning a ton of online ads hoping she would show up.

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This is quite funny. The kid’s reaction is key.

I have decided to lock all of my stuff down from here on out. If you are a regular reader and would like to continue reading my blog, leave a comment or shoot me an email, and I will send you the password for all future blog posts.

My flickr account and youtube will be locked down as well.

Getting my hair cut into a mohawk was the only reason I was growing my hair out. I figured it was about time to get it started.

Yesterday while running a few errands, I turned around to look at Phoenix and he his fingers in his ears (like when you don’t want to hear something). At first I thought something was wrong, but he just sat there with a smile on his face. Then he would take one finger out of his ear and sit there for a second… almost as if he was listening to the difference it made. I scrambled to grab my phone to snap a picture, but by the time I had grabbed it, he was down to one ear. The picture is still cute, though.

This one just made me laugh (even more so after I saw the picture). His “shorts” look like full length trousers on him. This picture looks like he’s taking a leak.

This morning was a brilliant morning on Seesmic. @Sizemore, @giagia, and @danlight were able to set it up so that the cast of the latest Indiana Jones flick would be interviewed on Seesmic.

• Steven Spielberg
• George Lucas
• Harrison Ford
• Cate Blanchett
• Karen Allen
• Shia LaBeouf

Update: Loic Lemeur (founder of Seesmic (and my boss)) has very informative blog post on it all.

Well, it wasn’t really a mountain, but I still got beat.

Today, George, Bovis, Mike, and myself awoke early (somewhat) and headed down to White’s on George Street for a lovely breakfast.

After that we headed to BedgeBury for some mountain biking. I used a rental bike, which pretty much turned out to be a piece of crap. I basically had to do the trails in one gear. It was rough. The bike was such a piece of shit, I ended up dropping out close to the end and taking a different path back to the lake. I crashed out for a bit by the lake while waiting for them to arrive. When they got back we all had lunch by the lake. It was nice. Between the crap bike and us being out late the night before… it was a rough day… but it was still fun.

… more later..