Tony’s Journal

Hey, look! It’s a cartoon depicting a conversation between Billy and me in 2008, in which we are discussing the move to Centennial Campus.

Subtopic: Apparently, in the future, we will wear ties to work.

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Okay, now I’ve got it. I hide in my storage room with the door cracked and take photos of the hummingirds from there. They don’t seem to notice me there, and at a distance of about 6 feet, I can get some better photos. It’s not National Geographic, but it looks nice. Check the new photos.

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Yeah, not much to report. I often wonder if things are temporarily like this, or what, but at some point I’d like to have something to report. All I really do is go to work, go home, half-ass some housework or home improvement, get frustrated at my lack of progress, and go to sleep. My lack of excitement might have something to do with the fact that I am not taking any vacation this summer, not until September at least. I am looking forward to that, but it seems so far away right now.

Well, you asked for them, you got them: photos of the bathroom repainting project! Mandy did a ton of the work on it, actually. She motivated me by incessantly asking if I wanted help painting for about three months, which is what it took my dumb ass to get in gear. She likes painting the trim and I like painting walls, so that worked out well.

Also: it turns out that hummingbirds do visit my hummingbird feeder! I first noticed it before mowing the lawn the other day. I was tightening the wheels on the mower about 10 feet from the feeder, when i felt like I got a flyby from a large insect. I looked up, and there’s the bird, sucking down some sugar water. They only like to eat at dusk, it seems.

I guess they have to eat all day. They have to or their tiny hearts will fail. It takes a lot of energy to keep them little wings beating over 100 times a second. Maybe just don’t notice them eating during the day because I am at work. Yeah, the bulb is beginning to emit a flicker of dim light.

Anyway, the photos are pretty much Zapruder-quality because I took them at dusk, with a 2 megapixel camera, at 12x zoom, hand-held, from about 10 feet away, through a screen. But here they are. I am pretty sure that it’s a female ruby-throated hummingbird.

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