Well the kittens are doing awesome so far! They are using the litter box, and eating solid food. Plus that and they are so playful, and full of energy. Unfortunately though momma, went nuts yesterday and we had to take her into the humane society. She was attacking the kittens and was quite sick all over the spare bedroom that the 4 of them were sharing.

Well today was an interesting day. Trish found a mother cat and her 3 babies inside of a trailer that was being loaded at her work. The babies are approx 4-6 weeks old and so cute and cuddly! We have homes for most of them, but now the mother is being mean to the babies and refusing to feed them. Hopefully she comes around before much longer and helps out. In the meanwhile the kittens are eating their wet food and milk.

I finally managed to get a day off on the weekend! So we went to the Calgary Zoo with the new camera and had a blast photographing all of the animals. Take a look at some of the pictures!

Well it seems my streak is still intact. I’ve gone and won the draw again at a training event at work. This time I won an almost top of the line eVGA GTX 260 SSC Edition video card. The neat thing with this type of card is that it allows you to use Nvidia’s CUDA technology to run folding@home (a science experiment for learning about how proteins fold/ cancer research) way faster then if you ran it on a traditional CPU. Also there is a new version of Adobe Photoshop coming out that supports these cards for performing video editing. Also there is a program called badaboom that allows you to transcode video up to 19 times faster than with a traditional CPU. All told a very sweet upgrade to the old rig.

Later

Finally, I managed to get an moon shot! This has been something I’ve been trying to get right for a while and finally I managed to get one. Check it out! Now I can’t wait for an eclipse to happen!

I came across this the other day at work. It seemed to me a very appropriate look at the work place environment that we deal with on a daily basis.

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2.SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
3.ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success, and advancement by kissing up to the boss, rather than working hard
4.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.
6.PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls, to see what’s going on.
7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
8.SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. That Yuppies get into when they have children, and one of them stops working to stay home, with the kids.
9.STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
10.SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies, from one’s workplace.
12.IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the admonisher are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
15. 404 : Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message ‘404 Not Found,’ meaning that the requested site, could not be located.
16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same, no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
17.OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize, that you’ve just made a BIG MISTAKE. (Like after hitting send on an email, by mistake).
18.WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.
19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas, while passing through a Cube Farm.

I was sitting in our backyard the other day on my day off and noticed all of these robin’s flying in and out of the yard. So, I took a few pictures of them. If anyone knows i’m curious as to why their bellies are speckled.

Andrew