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Really, it’s uncreative pet owners who are to blame

Picture 2Stupid fascist Flickr. Won’t let me do my job properly. And by “properly” I mean “with pictures of hamsters.”

Categories: hamsters, work.

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It’s not an advancement, really

The Internet, and Facebook in particular, just lulls me into feeling connected to people to whom I am no longer actually connected.

Or to whom I was never connected at all.

Categories: friends, misc life, my sordid past.

Irony

The Dinosaur BBQ is looking to open a restaurant in Troy. Yay, I say!

My celebration politely ignores the fact that in decades of living in, then periodically visiting Syracuse, I have never visited the original Dinosaur. Details, details. I do have a lot of great t-shirts from there, though.

Categories: albany, syracuse.

Animal announcement

Lola the hamster is actually a boy. I don’t blame his previous human or even the pet store or distributor he came from. Hamsters are tiny, and robos are feisty. Hamster hind parts are about this big: .

You’re told a pet’s sex, assume it’s correct, and then don’t think about it since it’s generally not important.

So Lola is now Misha. Still just as cute.

Categories: hamsters, pets.

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Meet Lola

Meet Lola. I may rename her, but for now she’s Lola. She’s about a year old. She comes from a very nice home that just had too many animals in it. I saw her on Craigslist and decided that she needed to move to my bedroom.

I’ve really, really wanted a Roborovski dwarf hamster (robo, for short.) It’s kind of sad. I firmly maintain that robos are the cutest mammals on the face of the earth. Cuter than cocker spaniel puppies. Cuter than red pandas. Yes, even cuter than fennec foxes. Behaviorally, they’re not very cuddly, they’re incredibly fast, and they’re hyperactive. Picture any hamster you’ve met, then (metaphorically) give it a half-dozen Ritalin washed down with a liter of Mountain Dew. I’ve never owned one before, since they’re not very common and only recently started being a fixture at the big-box pet stores.

I was talking to Naomi about my plans to adopt a robo. “They’re very, very small hamsters,” I explained.

“You mean, compared to those giant hamsters you have now?”

“Well, yes,” I answered, before I even realized she was kidding. My current hamsters do seem giant to me. Perspective.

This started a few weeks ago. I walked into Petsmart looking for a Carefresh sale, and saw a big pile of robos curled up in one of the cages, being adorable. I thought that a pair of the critters would be nice, but decided to delay the adoption until after payday, and as a reward when I cleaned up the living room.

After making this decision, I had an animal lover’s crisis–should I adopt two robo sisters, which I’ve always wanted…from a chain pet store, thus supporting the raising and selling of animals in conditions I don’t approve of? Or should I wait until a regular Campbell’s dwarf hamster showed up on Petfinder or Craigslist? A robo showing up was so unlikely that it was out of the question.

I knew what I should do, but I also knew that I’d feel guilty one way and bratty the other, so I just didn’t adopt a hamster at all. Until Lola showed up on Craigslist!

So she’s here, next to my desk, and she even has her own uStream channel. You know you want to watch it.

She’s so cute, I can’t bear that she won’t let me pick her up and cuddle her. But I’ll manage.

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My frozen dairy beverage summons all the young men to the yard

AJ sent me this. It makes me smile.

milkshake

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8 bits of AWESOME

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Know what this is, kids? That’s right. It’s Super Mario Bros. 3 on my huge TV. Huge, at least, compared to the 12″ screen I grew up playing Nintendo on.

The NES I received for Christmas 1990 is still running beautifully.

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Strawberry harvest

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Today’s side yard strawberry harvest. They are delicious.

For once, I got there before the squirrels did. If I knew I’d be here next summer, I would put more plants in, but I’m not sure. I love my little strawberry patch and how it’s grown since I moved in.

Categories: bad housekeeping, food.

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Adopt a ham

Sitting up in wheelDreamsicle says: “Don’t you need a fuzzy friend?”

There are a lot of hamsters for adoption on Craigslist this week for whatever reason. Some are free; some have an adoption fee, some come with a cage.

Free Syrian hamster – needs love and taming.

Baby Syrian hamsters - not born yet, but sure to be utterly adorable.

Syrian hamster and guinea pig – both with their cages.

Sweet cinnamon hamster – with cage.

Roborovski hamster – with cage and toys.

Categories: animals, hamsters, pets.

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Appetizers, Potter’s Tavern, Raymertown, NY

Sweet potato fries and stuffed baked potatoes. Both were wonderful. You know you’re using some fantastic bacon when I can’t get enough of it–I usually pick bacon out of things or avoid it entirely. This, I might even eat a piece of on its own, and I haven’t eaten bacon by itself in about twenty years. Not exaggerating there.

Loved the plates, too. The indoor dining room has handmade salt and pepper shakers that go with the lovely handmade plates, but outside we were stuck with plastic ones where the salt had compressed itself into a solid cake.

Categories: albany, food, moblog, photography, project 365.

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