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02:08 pm
[Link] | I have just returned from the vet to have Trillian, one of our pet rats, checked out, and I'm sad to say that she's been put to sleep. She seemed to have been losing control over her rear end over the past weeks, and getting difficulty keeping her balance. More recently, her appetite withered away and her fur started to look less well kept. Just before I took her to the vet, I noticed crusts of porphyrin (a reddish substance secreted at the eyes) around her eyes. The secretion itself is quite normal, but not in these amounts and not without the rat cleaning her eyes. Seeing how fast she had worsened over the past few days, I had to agree with the vet that this was not going anywhere good, so he put her to sleep. Tric (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wyldirishtric) already told me before she went to school that if the vet didn't see any chance of improvement and adviced putting the rat to sleep, I should go ahead. I'm sure she would have preferred to accompany me though, but that's how things go.
Sleep sweet, Trillian.
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05:44 pm
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On tailgating and warnings
A while ago, while I was driving to a job interview, I overtook a few trucks on the highway. While doing so, I was tailgated by a woman that came so close, that I couldn't even see her headlights in my rear view mirror anymore. ( Read more... )
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01:02 am
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05:01 pm
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What Common Breed of Dog Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
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05:46 pm
[Link] | Well, one of our ratties, Trillian, had surgery today. She had to have a lump removed (most likely benign, but still better to get it out). When we got her back, she seemed rather drugged, falling over a lot, but it was not stopping her trying to scurry everywhere. At the moment, she keeps doing laps in her cage. Her hind body is still dragged a little bit, but we think it is slowly wearing off. She gave us quite a scare when she tried to reach out to the cage and fell out of Tric's arms, and again a while later, when she tried to lean out of the cage, and fell out. It doesn't seem to have hurt her though. She was just sitting there looking like she was saying: "how the hell did I get here? Wasn't I up there before?" We'll be leaving shortly to visit my parents for father's day, and the rats will be coming with us in their travel cage - we'll be keeping an eye on her. Hopefully she'll be a little less drugged tomorrow.
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02:23 pm
[Link] | Since last night, I am a sorta-uncle - we've just heard Tric's (wyldirishtric) sister Alice gave birth to a healthy, 7 pound boy named Doug :)
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06:54 pm
[Link] | Stolen from Hairy (kokopellinelli)
I'm a Droid!
  
Famous fellow members of my species:
R2-D2, C-3PO
My species' special abilities:
Memory holding, programmability, ability to use various tools and perform an incredible variety of tasks
My species' general role:
Assisting carbon-based lifeforms
Movies my species is in:
Episodes I-VI
What Star Wars species would you be?
"Memory holding"? Me? I think the quiz is slightly off there...
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07:12 pm
[Link] | ( See my comment statistics )
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06:44 pm
[Link] | Did some doodling on Tric's laptop:
Turned out quite reasonable, if I do say so myself.
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07:44 pm
[Link] | Snatched from Nelli:
<td bgcolor="#000000">I Am Coyote</td></tr>| Coyote is a fun-loving goofball and that fits you to a T. Playfully silly, you appear somewhat bumbling at times, and your goofy exterior sometimes makes people forget what a quick mind and razor wit hides behind that amiable grin. In the mythos of the Plains tribes, Coyote is also a Creator, and stole fire as a gift for mankind. Your gift to the world is the creative fire of your quick, capable mind. | Which Trickster Are You?
Take the Trickster Test at www.isleofdreams.net.
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04:10 pm
[Link] | Found on the internet - quite hilarious:
http://users.belgacom.net/bn764009/boys.mov
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02:48 am
[Link] | As I was planning for a while now, I have finally managed to animate my user icon. Hopefully people will now be able to see a little better what it's supposed to be - and not get too annoyed by the constant animation...
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11:10 pm
[Link] | I've actually been productive this week... Done some coding of a new module for my program - I can now do adaptive grids, for those interested. Exciting, no? Oh, and I'm not yet convinced all bugs are out, but that's another story. It is at a state where is *should* work now. More dreaded words were never spoken: "it *should* work". So, in the meantime, to liven up this already lively update, a little thing I stole from Eve (tali_taur):
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WARNING | | Beowulff is radioactive. Wear protective clothing at all times. |
From Go-Quiz.com
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09:48 pm
[Link] | Stolen from Tric (and with a little of her help to track down a *working* link):
( Read more... )
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01:02 am
[Link] | Well, Tric told me to update my journal, or change the colors, or *anything* at all... And as we all know I can't refuse her anything, here it is - updated and re-spiffified ;)
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12:55 pm
[Link] | (Stolen from Hairy)
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05:19 pm
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year from the Low Lands to all who reads this :)
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05:30 pm
[Link] | Finally! Christmas cards are on their way. It took a bit longer, since the printing company lost my order >.< But they found them again, at least. So me and wyldirishtric spent most of the afternoon writing cards and hopefully they'll still arrive on time. For those of you we promised a card and that live overseas, don't despair, they *are* on the way, even though it might get tight for them to be in before Christmas, but at least they should be there before new year.
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11:56 am
[Link] | Good news, yesterday afternoon our ADSL was reconnected and everything seems to work well again. They haven't told us yet who is now providing the connection between the phone network and the university, but that should be announced soon. And they also still have to decide how moch of a rebate we'll get on this month's fee.
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12:36 pm
[Link] | Yesterday the phone company just decided they didn't like the internet provider that my university uses to offer ADSL anymore, so they cut off all ADSL lines without warning. So no more internet at home. At least I can still read my mail at the office, but wyldirishtric will not be able to read hers at all, or her LJ for that matter. Hopefully the university will find a solution quickly.
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