july 15, 2006 - 9:58 p.m.

what's up mother fuckers? tonight's, um, what's the word, missive i guess, is brought to you by the good folks at the kenwood vineyards ... just in case yer wondering.

so, this was the week of the possums so to speak. saved one small possum teenager, from the l.a. county animal control department and let him go to find somewhere else to play and hunt for food besides under the equipment at work. sadly, and i can't express how completely sad this made me feel, one of his distant relatives didn't fare so well i believe. the very next day after the heroic possum capture and rescue of 2006 i was driving into work and about to leave my little complex when i came across another possum. this time it was definitely a mommy old enough to breed and she had at least three little youngin's on her back. after almost getting hit my one of my fellow neighbors she kept wandering around,  only to show me, to my ultimate sadness and grief, that she had already been hit or injured on the side of her little possum face.

so like, i'm not a total peta freak, and while baby seals, whales and dolphins and other helpless species are on my list of things that shouldn't be systematically killed, i have to admit i'm not the total friend of the possum. they are scary after all, heh.  but for some stupid reason, or not so stupid reason maybe, that poor suffering possum made be feel really really bad. i kind of wish i'd done something to help, but even after thinking it over i don't know what i could of done. my only escape now is that her injuries didn't seem life threatening and if she survived and found some place to rest hopefully the little possum family is alive and kicking today.

needless to say it kind of put a damper on my morning. and sad to say it didn't stop me from getting a hot dog at work that afternoon, even after discussing vegetarianism with another coworker. 

as for the rest of life .... got a good clean bill of health from the wonderful doctor at kaiser. i also found out, much to my amazement that green tea has caffeine in it. go figure. for some stupid reason or another i thought that it was naturally free of it. WRONG. and so after dumping soda pop for even greater amounts of green tea my heart starts doing little loop-de-loops. heh. so now i've cut way way back on the ice tea and green tea and am having more crystal light crap than i ever thought i'd like to. and actually i don't. so now i'm off to find another beverage i can drink with abandon that isn't called water. the one good thing that came out of the doc's office is that i'm now free to fly. so washington here i come. if not permanently than at least for a visit to my bumbershoot babe. heh heh.

speaking of which, i've had more mother fucking free time on my hands than i know what to do with these past few weekends. want to get out and do something, but there's no real company to be had right now, and then again there's the overbearing heat these last few weeks. i'd like to know which dumbass on this planet still believes we're not heating up. it can be man made, it can be natural, it can be a fuckin' act of god, but we are getting warmer and warmer and warmer. screw 1984 i guess, we're headed for soylent green.

aside from that not much is new i guess. finally go the cam's working, so that addiction is gone for the time being. like god i made them work and on the last day i rested and forgot about what i hath wrought. did i mention i'm reading the bible? heh. and lest you think i've found some "religion" you're wrong. although i wonder sometimes. i've had a hankering for the last few months to read the bible again, and since i couldn't find the one i had, i made a sojourn down to the local borders and picked one up along with a new sue foley cd and some other classic literature, including the tibetan book of the dead. so i'm set bookwise for the next few weeks at least. hee hee.

and i'm also jonesing big time for a show. missed nina hagen, much to my overworked asses dismay. got a few tickets for later in the month and then there's gary numan, and then KMFDM, which i hope to miss via washington. lol. and god damn son of a bitch, how sad am i? i didn't even know the supersuckers were playing the morongo casino, or some other indian place, lol, and i didn't even know about it. know who told me? my b'babe. groan. she doesn't even like them and i'm finding out from her. god where did my old life go???? 

anyway, it's hot in here and i'm tired. so i'm off to bed. seems to me nobody is coming online tonight anyway.

ciao.

snuff