I FAILED A BREATHYLYSER test just 49 minutes ago...
My score, aparently, ought to be 50 to be respectable. It was 65.
Oh but I had such fun drag-racing until the police stopped me. (And if you believe that you'll believe anything.)
My robos are hidden from Dr Evilstein my landlord beneath a stack of cardboard boxes in a far corner of my "garret". Bear in mind that as burrow-dwelling nocturnal rodents they don't exactly appreciate a "view" and are actually MORE active when stashed away than when self-consciously presented pride of place in the middle of the room!
I am very worried about Yingyang the Chinese hamster. Living in the robo-gite as he does I can now SEE him. And can confirm he is now suffering from severe depression. Spends all day in bed, eyes open, looking forlorn (even a mouse-like hamster can look forlorn...) I don't know what to do with him. He will be handled, but doesn't particularly like it any more. If he thinks I'm going to trouble him he hides in the nibbled out old toothpaste tube in the corner...
I am very depressed about this. I hate keeping animals in misery. What am I supposed to do? Short of dissolving Prozac in his water and hoping my miscalculation of the dose doesn't kill him..?
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On another note, I am ploughing through Teach Yourself Japanese yet again.
From a "Martian perspective" it's no harder to learn the spoken language than French or German... in fact I'd say it's probably easier as there's hardly any irregular verbs or dodgy tables of "declensions" or owt like that. What is complicated, of course is the fiendishly complexicated system of writing. Having attempted to tackle kana (the syllableries) and kanji (Chinese characters) before though I can confirm they are much more fun to write than the boring old Roman alphabet we're stuck with... the act of writing turns into something far more akin to doodling. So I'm not surprised the Japanese lead the world in sales of fancy paper, novelty pens, glowing and sparkly inks and all that... plus unlike Chinese with its 5000 basic characters you need "only" learn just under 2000 in Japanese. Unfortunately, however, the characters do not correspond to syllables, as they do in Chinese, so unless you really know them there's very little help at hand... also I'd love to see a full-on Japanese to Japanese dictionary... characters are categorized by the number of brushstrokes it takes to doodle them and are further broken down into subtypes, e.g. ones with house-shaped rooves come under one category, ones that look like an explosion of matchsticks (ie about half of them, in my opinion) come under another... Well I won't bore you with any more... Gotta go eat some fried chicken.
(The breathalizer wasn't done by the police btw; it was some jobsworth at the drugs service who insisted on testing me...)
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Video of the day:
Baby Jessica McClure: 20 years later...
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Here are some really funny robo-pictures...
They look far more like my robos than a lot of the other shots I've seen out there (no idea why)... the "blue" hammy is a Campbell's "condensed" dwarf...
'Your personality type is dominant, driven, poised, and self-aware.
ReplyDeleteOnly about 5% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 6% of all men
You are Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving.'
I guess that fits.
Well, I'm glad it wasn't the police!
ReplyDeleteA depressed hamster. Oh dear. What to do? A mate? A bit of Leonard Cohen?
Chocolate always helps me but it might be bad for hammies.
Im very sorry about your hamster. I too dislike it when animals are sad.
ReplyDeleteOn a lighter note though, it is always good to learn japanese.
the squamer is officially back!!
Ingsoc: Everybody on earth has a rare personality then!
ReplyDeleteLiz: The more stuffy "authorities" prohibit the feeding of chocolate to pet rodents (even though wild ones eat not only chocolate but candle wax and even soap when they get hold of it)... rodents' teeth grow constantly which means that they cannot get tooth decay because their teeth will just grow out. They can only eat about 1g of chocolate a day though if that - poor hammies ;->...
Hang on Squamer how did you manage to post that while I ... didn't know anyone else was online and didn't see it... hang on I shall come chez vous maintenant
ReplyDeleteHello agian.
ReplyDeleteYes, I liked your picture.
very cute=)
The last post at my blogpage, was an msn conversation between me and a friend. This is mostly norwegian slang.
Regine
no wonder I didn't understand a word (o! if you'd only written in dictionary Norwegian I'd have followed every word. Not ;->...)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog and leaving your congratulations!
ReplyDeleteI gather you didn't drive to said 'jobsworth' then? I would have had higher than that if I got pulled over by the cops driving the mile home this evening. *shame on you vi!*
ReplyDeleteAnd getting rarer by the hour! The account of the news points to you having had one hell of a day. And the first steps to Japanese orthography has me wondering how it will look 20 years on, hoping that you'll have mastered it.
ReplyDeleteI've just answered you at "The Flames of Eden" blogspot etc.
Hmmm, glad it wasn't the coppers, but you had me going there for a bit.
ReplyDeleteLiked the self portrait, but you're hairier than I imagined...
I've nearly finished catching up on everyone's posts. It's been a marathon session after a week of missing them.
Talk soon.
well, hello there, glad to have dropped in on you here. I came across you at Scraps.
ReplyDeletegreetings from across the pond.
And yes, I remember Baby Jessica very well, when the whole world learned more than they ever wanted to know about our topography!
cute hamsters!
Stephanie: ;->...
ReplyDeleteVi vi Voom: u gotta be careful with that... attitudes have changed. I remember in my youth being in a car with drunk (otherwise respectable) driver weaving all over wrong side of road...
Icarus: how what will look 20 years on?
Puss in Boots: o no it was just some silly person at the drugs clinic who thought I had drunk too much; and aparently I had ...
ReplyDeleteMighty Mom: I never heard about her at the time, but found out the other day reading on a blog...
I have a very skiddish kitty who is afraid of everything--including me sometimes--and I hate it. I hate that I can not provide her with a more secure feeling but every now and then she does get really comfy and rub up against me and acts as if she is at peace at last. Then I will re-arrange the furniture or have a friend in and she will freak out again and revert back to her psychotic state. Sad.
ReplyDeleteMy other kitty is very normal and not at all complicated.
Eh! That's where that expression comes from "Scaredy Cat"!!
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