I live in a relatively new community, where another phase is undergoing construction farther up the hill. All day, I hear intermittent beeps as trucks back up. But it wasn’t until this morning that I realized what else I was hearing.
Every time a dump truck makes the back-up beeps, there is a pigeon roosting outside my office window who answers it.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Coo coo coo coo
I wonder about this forlorn pigeon, cooing to a far away bird that he will never meet.
As part of my Community Emergency Response Team thing, I am also getting equipped for emergency communication with a GMRS radio. It requires an FCC license, but I’m so utterly confused by the licensing forms that [more...]
Time for another one of those hyper-accurate Internet quizzes, this one via Terry Kevin. So, let’s see just what wacky psychological conditions I’ve got today: Disorder Rating Paranoid: Moderate Schizoid: [more...]
Today I downloaded a little Mac OS program called Diet Sleuth. I’m horrified beyond belief at the enormously bad diet we all eat. I can understand why, even though I rarely eat more than one meal a day, I am [more...]
