clickies

I got up about an hour and a half ago (11:30 PDT) which i hate doing, and it's dreary, and I'm making myself go out because i know that'll make me feel better. And, well, they're screwing with the elevator tomorrow, not that it matters, because the kid has the day off school again (why all of these days off? This plus President's day week off and the week of March 31-April 4 off ... why? this is ridiculous.)

It's a blah enough day that my favorite jam tastes uninspired. i will go out and take some photos for the picpost I planned for tomorrow.

birthday maillove so far: card (and gift certificate, eee!) from cutie_patutti65, card from arhh (a popup one! with cats!) and a package from hannahrorlove containing some lovely cherry blossom bath stuffs and the cutest coin purse in the world. pictures forthcoming tomorrow. i have been told there will be more, and I'm still smiling at it - I'm so lucky to have such amazing friends.

clickies are brought to you today by lizardling, who is wonderful and lives locally and who I need to hang out with more often than I do. <3

help enter migratory bird data. i know there's a lot of people reading this who are into birds and wildlife. this looks pretty neat.

wordweaverlynn asked her flist to post poems. Last night's dailyrumi was excellent: a star without a name.

more reasons to love Neil Gaiman (as if there needed to be more reasons). there's a lovely paragraph here about religion and dolphins. I liked it. <3

supersolid! science is awesome.

kiwis solve global warming riddle drilling into rock BELOW the antarctic ice. fascinating. oh, humanity.

today's antarctic pic of the day is lovely. i think joedecker recently did a photo workshop on sunsets - i know some of my friends attended - kightp and kwalton at least, anyway. this one is great.

now i'm going out. back soon.

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these clickies are brought to you by brewsternorth (who i would like to know better) and lana_ftw (who I would also like to know better, and soon will be able to because she's moving to seattle and that's FABULOUS.)

I heard this on As It Happens last night and just about exploded: mother lets her son walk to soccer practice, neighbors call 911. To be clear, we are talking about a small town, the boy is familiar with the route, it's almost entirely residential.)

just- WHAT. god i hate other parents sometimes.

scientists create laser gun to kill mosquitoes

ivestigation of murder in Antarctica.

new gluten free baking mixes from betty crocker. this is fantastic - the more gluten free stuff that goes mainstream, the better. there are also passover-safe cake mixes at our local store, also by betty crocker. just, you know, if anyone's looking. <3

baby tuatara (rare reptile) found in New Zealand. eee, it is descended from DINOSAURS and it is WEE AND CUTE! in a reptilian sort of way.

arctic diary: explorers' ice quest. this is the trip that went off recently - i think they're still there - to chart the pack ice up north? one of the guys has the same birthday as me. i find that squeeful in a kind of silly way. <3 it takes very little to amuse me.

have nonstandard headache that may be morphing into nonstandard migrane. great. good times. also joint pain. went to the library and the grocery store. came home. that's about it.

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