Everyone is out to get me! Well, as of leaving work yesterday evening this is how it seems...
Exciting situation number one (thankfully not really aimed at me):
I went for a drink with friends, I was standing outside looking in the window at them, one was making threatening gestures at me out the window with a candle so I leaned over and pretended to be kissing the window where she was seated. She leaned over and did the same thing, forgetting that she'd just put the candle down... This girl is very proud of her appearance and spends a lot of time on her hair and makeup...and had hairspray/something in her hair, it went up in flames! I was outside banging on the window and she didn't even realise that a chunk of her hair was on fire. Thankfully when she did it went out quickly but there was a lot of burnt charred hair and when I went back inside the place stank of it! The poor girl had to go home and shower to get rid of the smell :(
Exciting situation number two:
I was waiting at the bus stop, a bus had just arrived and I was letting other people on while I finished a cigarette. I threw the butt away and started getting on the bus, turning as I did to blow the last of the smoke out the doors (because I wouldn't want to be a bus driver and have people blowing smoke in my face all day long). It was only because I was doing this that I realised that the bus doors were closing, on me! Now, this does happen accidentally a lot of the time, but what had happened in this incident was that the bus driver had *purposefully* closed the doors on me because he didn't want smoke on his bus! He then gave out to me that I should have stayed on the side of the road because he didn't want any smoke on the bus. Arsehole! He refused to give me his name but I took down the license plate number and I'm very tempted to go into CIE and complain about him for reckless endangerment. Accidents happen, but closing the bus doors on someone is dangerous and I could have been hurt while he was protecting his clean air!
Exciting situation number three:
I was walking down a narrow street this morning which is generally littered with lorries making deliveries. Due to it being so narrow, they have to park on the footpath to let other traffic by. I was on the footpath when one driver decided to do just that, except he didn't seem to notice that I was walking along beside him. He put his first bumper over the kerb and just kept going, getting closer and closer to me without seeming to have any intention of stopping until he was right beside the wall (and most of them do park right against the wall). I had to jump forward and thump on the passenger door so that I wouldn't be crushed! He hadn't been checking his mirrors and hadn't even seen me, my head barely cleared the passenger door into his line of sight. If it had been a small child they'd have been crushed and he probably wouldn't have even noticed.
So now I have returned to the sanctuary of my office, I don't think I should have left last night :(
-d
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Identity Crisis
I have an 11 month old bearded dragon named Gir. He's my pride and joy, I think he's fantastic, though he can be a bit moody at times (like his master) and doesn't like being outside.. He's always been a good eater, he eats and eats and eats. However, every now and then, he'd go off his food for a few days, then perk back up and gobble down a load of it. So I wasn't too worried two weeks ago when he only ate half of what I put in front of him. I did get worried though when this continued to happen, he's been barely eating at all now. He hasn't lost any weight but he did pick up a couple of new traits.
1) He was now depositing all of his "material" on the opposite side of the tank than he usually does.
2) The now clean side of the tank he was ripping to shreds. He was spending ages clawing at that side of the tank, trying to rip through it.
3) Every time that I took him out he would go galloping off exploring, now this isn't unusual in itself, beardies are very curious, but generally he'd explore, then settle down and go to sleep somewhere out of the way, now he was racing back and forward searching for something.
I had my suspicions as to what might cause this, but wasn't at all sure, so I brought him into the petshop I bought him from on Sunday to have my suspicions confirmed. He is a she.
It's very hard to tell the difference in lizards until they're older, so I had thought that he was a he all of this time. Even looking at photos on the web didn't help much because, unless you know beardies well (and this was my first one), you couldn't tell the difference in the size of the head, width of the tails, beard colour or behaviour (she is *not* passive, she actually enjoys displaying at herself when she thinks that no one is looking). The one certainty is bumps under their tails, two with a dimple in between == male, one == female. Gir had none, so I couldn't tell. Anyhews, bringing her in they were able to discern the eggs under her skin and tell me that she should have laid already, hence the clawing at her tank.
In lizards, this is a potentially fatal problem. Without a proper place to lay, the lizard will become eggbound and that's not good. Anyways, to cut things short, I now have a laying area in her tank for her to use, and put lots of greens (with a *load* of calcium supplement) in for her. Hopefully she'll have gotten rid of some of those eggs by the time I get home.
Oh, and the petshop were also very impressed with her, they said that she was "perfect" and "the best beardie I've seen in here" and "I'm not just saying that" and they were thrilled that she was one of their own, and a little disappointed that I wasn't selling her as she'd be perfect for breeding. She's also gone up in worth by aboot 100euro. So I'm well chuffed in all, I've raised a fine healthy lizard :D It's her birthday next month, can anyone think of any good presents to get her?
This nature lesson is ended.
-d
1) He was now depositing all of his "material" on the opposite side of the tank than he usually does.
2) The now clean side of the tank he was ripping to shreds. He was spending ages clawing at that side of the tank, trying to rip through it.
3) Every time that I took him out he would go galloping off exploring, now this isn't unusual in itself, beardies are very curious, but generally he'd explore, then settle down and go to sleep somewhere out of the way, now he was racing back and forward searching for something.
I had my suspicions as to what might cause this, but wasn't at all sure, so I brought him into the petshop I bought him from on Sunday to have my suspicions confirmed. He is a she.
It's very hard to tell the difference in lizards until they're older, so I had thought that he was a he all of this time. Even looking at photos on the web didn't help much because, unless you know beardies well (and this was my first one), you couldn't tell the difference in the size of the head, width of the tails, beard colour or behaviour (she is *not* passive, she actually enjoys displaying at herself when she thinks that no one is looking). The one certainty is bumps under their tails, two with a dimple in between == male, one == female. Gir had none, so I couldn't tell. Anyhews, bringing her in they were able to discern the eggs under her skin and tell me that she should have laid already, hence the clawing at her tank.
In lizards, this is a potentially fatal problem. Without a proper place to lay, the lizard will become eggbound and that's not good. Anyways, to cut things short, I now have a laying area in her tank for her to use, and put lots of greens (with a *load* of calcium supplement) in for her. Hopefully she'll have gotten rid of some of those eggs by the time I get home.
Oh, and the petshop were also very impressed with her, they said that she was "perfect" and "the best beardie I've seen in here" and "I'm not just saying that" and they were thrilled that she was one of their own, and a little disappointed that I wasn't selling her as she'd be perfect for breeding. She's also gone up in worth by aboot 100euro. So I'm well chuffed in all, I've raised a fine healthy lizard :D It's her birthday next month, can anyone think of any good presents to get her?
This nature lesson is ended.
-d
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
A note to the young Tyrion
My dear dear boy...
A) I did *not* poison you, if you'd been properly drinking with me you'd *still* feel sick!
B) You *will* be coming properly drinking with me again and we'll see how you square up to non-medicated Reilly-ness
C) You wanted me to get you drunk and, in all honesty, you were doing a fairly good job yourself...
D) I still owe you
E) You'd better get your drinking up to par boyo cos you don't get any toilet breaks next time
....
F) Sorry Sith!! In my defence, he was getting ossified all by himself! Plus I think that I came out of that night worse off than anyone bar the boy himself! :(
-d
Oh, and congratulations to the happy couple! :D
Thanks for inviting me, it was a lovely wedding, many happy returns and such and things :D
A) I did *not* poison you, if you'd been properly drinking with me you'd *still* feel sick!
B) You *will* be coming properly drinking with me again and we'll see how you square up to non-medicated Reilly-ness
C) You wanted me to get you drunk and, in all honesty, you were doing a fairly good job yourself...
D) I still owe you
E) You'd better get your drinking up to par boyo cos you don't get any toilet breaks next time
....
F) Sorry Sith!! In my defence, he was getting ossified all by himself! Plus I think that I came out of that night worse off than anyone bar the boy himself! :(
-d
Oh, and congratulations to the happy couple! :D
Thanks for inviting me, it was a lovely wedding, many happy returns and such and things :D
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