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Nothing to see here folks. Please move along to tomorrow.

Five minutes left! That’s when I noticed that it was almost midnight and that I didn’t blog yet. I had just walked in the door and had some fruit pastries in my hand. So put two and two together and what do you get? Something meaningless to blog about.

Ya!

Anyhow, Angel says that the microwave is ready for me now. I’ll be sure to try and think of something more meaningful to post about tomorrow.

Update

So I nuked the four pastries for two and a half minutes. In the end, I got to lay on the icing. Once the icing started to melt, creepy thoughts started to go through my head just looking at it. It reminded me of a scene from Van Wilder where a few “special” pastries were delivered to Richards fraternity. My wife and sister in-law had there heads in the sink gagging and laughing at the same time for a half hour.

I got over it and dug in. Yum. Just look at that picture of the box. Those pastries are just full of strawberry “stuff” and loads of cream cheese. The icing is a bright solid white. These things are hollow inside. It looks like someone sprayed a little bit of strawberry jelly on the inside.

It was good, but now it is gone.

My wife agreed with her friend to help foster five sick kittens who had not yet had there eyes open. A vet who saw them gave us some antibiotics to help with there respiratory problems. One by one, the kittens died and caused much heart ache. We were down to the last kitten, Bandit.

I haven’t spoken much about him. We didn’t know if he was going to pull through. It took a long time before his breathing got better. As his health improved, I began to wonder if he would have any problems because he was so young when he got sick. I wasn’t sure if he would purr either since it seemed to cause him so much pain to do so before.

Today, bandit is a purr box. He is very active and very much an alpha male in our small commune of cats. The last thing that I see before I go to sleep is him. When I wake up, he is rite there beside me. I also let him lay on my lap when I am at my computer. He doesn’t stay put for long and is interested in everything around him. Angel says that he probably bonds with men much easier.
Watch a video of Bandit and Prince having fun.

He is in that phase of chewing on wires. It’s a nasty habit, but it is probably mostly due to his teething. I’m trying to teach him not to bite me so often. They are playful bites, but it won’t help if he is nibbling peoples fingers when we try to get him adopted.

Last Thursday, I had found a missing lens to my glasses while hunting for my lost employee badge. Today I did something about it. I went to the mall and found a shop that sells glasses.

I had thought it was just a screw that was missing, but the woman fixing the glasses also noted that they were a bit bent as well. I had forgotten about that. My niece grabbed them over a year ago when we were playing. The bent up part was the main reason I didn’t get them fixed. I had thought I would need to buy a new pair of frames.

After five minutes, the woman had fixed up my glasses the best that she could. Looking closely at them, she pointed out the problem to me. I would have to buy new frames soon, but for now - I had a temporary solution. I put them on and was a little amazed at how clearly everything was that was very far away. I smile brushed past my lips.

I asked the woman how much the repairs would cost me. She replied that there was no charge. I walked around the mall for a little bit just amazed at how clearly everything was in the distance.

Today I was looking over at Kareena’s Grimoire. Not only does she have a blog, but she also has a few spells, recipees, and a little collection of herbal lore.

I like reading about spells and such, but I don’t like speaking things out loud. I would feel goofy, that someone may be watching, that I would just do it all wrong, or that I don’t have the rite to do it. I’m just not cut out for spell weaving. So as for spells, it is fun just to study them rather then carry them out. Besides, I never have the large collection of spices that are needed for so many different spells. Someone should just make a book that has spells composed of common household spices like salt, pepper, thyme, mustard, Old Bay® Seasoning, A.1.® Steak Sauce, and Texas Pete® Hot Sauce.

My favorite hobby in the occult is to mostly stick with the tarot cards. It is a system of possible events. There are so many patterns and logical relationships between the cards. I like that. I am a very logical person. I don’t look to them to predict fortunes and such, but more to present multiple possibilities that I hadn’t thought of. I also love the artwork. I have so many tarot card decks that I stumble upon one every now and then that I had forgotten about.

I guess that a fortune teller would probably sit through a reading with you and tell you a few things. My activities would be similar to attending three or four consecutive sessions asking the same question. I would probably get a weird look from the person laying out the cards. Almost every spread of tarot cards would apply directly to you and your question. That’s just how the tarot seems to be setup. It’s up to you to open your mind to interpret how the information applies to your question. Every question has more then one answer. Even the same spread of cards coming up could always be interpreted differently as well. To me, the tarot is simply a method to help you think in different ways that you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.

As far as real fortune telling goes - I leave that up to the professionals. I haven’t had any luck in it and it would be a little foolish for me to believe that I could pull something off like that.

I saw that a friend went ahead and took a few quizzes over at Blogthings. I went ahead and took one as well. The quizzes were so simple over there and easy to find more that I did a ton of them. Anyhow, these are my results from a few of the ones that I saw there.

How You Life Your Life

You have a good sense of self control and hate to show weakness. You tend to avoid confrontation and stay away from sticky situations. You prefer a variety of friends and tend to change friends quickly. You have one big dream in your life, and you never lose sight of it.

Your Sexy Brazilian Name is:

Antônio Cabral

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored. You’d like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future… one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage something you’ve always wanted… though you haven’t really thought about it. In this moment, you think of love as something you can get or discard anytime. You’re feeling self centered.

You Are 50% Weird

Normal enough to know that you’re weird… But too damn weird to do anything about it!

Your Fortune Is

Baby conceived on back seat of car with automatic transmission grow up to be shiftless bastard.

Your Brain’s Pattern

You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy. You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts. People may say you’re hard to read, but that’s because you’re so internally focused. But when you do share what you’re thinking, people are impressed with your imagination.

Your Pimp Name Is…

Long Dong Love

B-

Your senses are pretty sharp (okay, most of the time) And it takes something big to distract you!

Your Superhero Profile

Your Superhero Name is The Shadow Inferno Your Superpower is Super Speed Your Weakness is Toilet Paper Your Weapon is Your Caustic Sling Your Mode of Transportation is Convertible

Arty Kid

Whether you were a drama freak or an emo poet, you definitely were expressive and unique. You’re probably a little less weird these days - but even more talented!

Pepperoni Pizza

Robust and dominant. When you go for something, you go full force. You tend to take control of situations easily. And in return, you get a ton of respect.

You Are a Losing Lottery Ticket!

Full of hope and promise. But in the end, a cheap letdown.

Today I finished listening to an audio book called The Wee Free Men. It is about a little girl who is on the path to becoming a witch. She goes into a dream-like world of fairy tales to go and rescue her brother that an evil elf queen has stolen. She has the help of many blue pixies with red hair to help her on her adventure.

It is a good listening and I am sure that it is a good read as well. It is cute. Perhaps one day I will be able to read it to my niece. It is interesting to see that the boys are the ones who need rescuing for a change.

The batteries in my trackball have died. For an odd reason, we always seem to have the batteries that we don’t need on hand. I needed some AA batteries, but all I had on hand were AAA batteries. It was time to do some shopping.

So there I was standing in Wal-Mart looking at batteries. I was reminiscing on the times when you could choose to buy a pack of two or four batteries. All I needed were two batteries, but the only option available was to buy in bulk of at least eight batteries.

I choose Duracell because there is this ingrained advertisement all throughout childhood that it is a tough battery that lasts longer then any other. It’s probably a load of BS, but even the colors shout out, “dependability”. All the name-brand batteries were the same price. There was a generic set that was a dollar cheaper, but those seem to run out so quickly that they aren’t worth the trouble.

As I picked up the Duracell batteries, I noticed a set below it advertising free wal-mart music downloads. The whole shelf was full of them. I get home and open the little fold out and the first thing that I notice is the expiration date June 30th, 2005. I’m a little annoyed and start looking at front of the battery package. Sure enough in small print is the phrase, “Offer expires 6/30/05″.

I went ahead and tried the website http://www.walmart.com/musicdownloads/gillete and entered my code K3AG-KTAJ-E99W-AAX4. It complained that the code was no longer valid. Has this happened to you before? You may have bought something only because of a special promotion, but to your dismay, it is no longer valid or does not apply to you. It seems like the offer is still running since the website is still up and running.

What rite do I have to complain? It was a free offer anyway. Any other pack of batteries would have still costed the same without it. The lesson of the story is that I should have payed more closer attention before I made my choice to purchase the item.