Stublemma

I have an ethical dilemma on my hands, and for the life of me (and Stubby), I can't figure out what's the right thing to do. I am on the verge of a bonified catnap. And I'm not talking about a nice afternoon siesta. We've befriended a neighborhood cat by the name of Stubby, and there's a chance we may not be able to resist the temptation to abduct him and bring him with us when we move at the end of this month. On the surface, this definitely would seem like an evil thing to do. After all, he must have a family, right? Certainly they would miss him...probably assume he's been killed. And he'd probably miss them too. Not to mention the point my mom made a few weeks ago, that supposedly cats are more attached to a location than to people. He does have a pretty good little area to roam - not too close to any busy streets, plenty of birds to eat, and tall grass to sleep in during the day.
On the other hand, we don't know for sure that he even has an owner. He's very friendly and seems accustomed to people, but what if his family moved away and left him behind? What if they beat him or lock him in cabinets? There's no way to tell. All we know is that ever since we let him into our apartment, he never looked back. He's here all the time. He waits for us by our door when we're gone, he sleeps in our room every night, and he begs us for food. He licks us more than we want him to. I'm pretty sure if he could talk (in English, mind you, he certainly can talk in his own language), he'd tell you that our place is his home.
The problem is, we're subletting this apartment, and we have to be outta here at the end of the month. So what do we do? Say goodbye to our new friend and constant companion, not knowing where he'll sleep or who will feed him or what will become of him? Or take him with us and make him adapt to a new environment, but also insure he'll be fed and petted and cared for?
I don't know. What do you think?

apartment tour

I don't know why I swallowed a fly

Ok, I didn't really swallow one yet...I hope. But holy crap, bugs are dumb. And now I have proof. Almost every night, before I go to bed, I get a glass of water, have a few sips, and put it beside my bed lest I wake up thirsty in the middle of the night. It really is a great practice. Before I started this, I don't know how many times I woke up parched at 4am, couldnt drag myself out of my comfy bed to get water, then spent the next 6 hours tossing and turning and sleeping horribly because I was so thirsty. (This same thing can happen when you wake up and have to pee, but hey, you can't win em all.)
Anyway, about the bugs: I've noticed that at least 2 times a week or so, I'll go to take a sip from my glass of water, only to find that there's a dead bug floating in it. "Wtf", I'll exclaim as I grudgingly go to get a new glass. Now, if this happened once or twice, you might just think to yourself "huh, poor bug must have just gotten unlucky and crashed in my water", and go on with your life. But this happens ALL THE TIME. If I leave an unattended glass of water in my room for long enough, a bug will fly in and drown himself WITHOUT FAIL. I don't even know where they come from. I don't think I've ever seen one of these bugs alive in my room, only dead in my water glasses. But assuming they are there, even if they were flying around completely at random, the odds of flying into my glass of half drinked water has got to be pretty small. I know my room doesn't get a lot of sun, but it's not nearly depressing enough for these guys to constantly seek out my water as a way to end their pain.

Most people are aware that bugs aren't the smartest things ever, but scientifically speaking I honestly don't know how a species can survive if the mere presence of water, even in small quantities, is enough to put its life at risk. Last I checked, a decent amount of water can be found in nature, am I right? So what gives? Are they doing this just to spite me?

Right handed Frederick by andyaaaaaaaa at Garmin Connect - Details

Whoa...Garmins are cool. My brother sprang for a new 310XT, and handed his old Forerunner 305 down to me :D These things are freakin awesome...maybe it'll motivate me to get out more. This is my first test ride with it:

Right handed Frederick by andyaaaaaaaa at Garmin Connect - Details

Blog #1

Ok, so I decided to start a blog. The problem is, that was about 5 months ago, and look how far I've come... I'm still not sure what I think of the idea, and I have no clue what I might write about. I'm not too concerned though, cause it's not my idea, it's Brooke's. So if things don't work out, at least I have someone else to blame.
I imagine blogging is much more doable when you have a particular subject in mind for it. I guess that's true of writing in general. Remember fretting constantly in school about what
you're going to pick for your paper topic? Those people with exciting lives or babies or narrow interests have it easy, man, their topic is a given. Unfortunately I have none of those things, so this blog is probably going to be totally random and inconsistent. I'll try to come up with things to put on here, but I'm not making any promises.
I really don't have much interesting stuff going on right now, which is another reason why this blog is probably doomed. Sometimes I avoid even hanging out and talking with people I haven't seen for a while, because that way I won't have to confront the inevitable "So what have you been up to?" question. That's a hard one when you haven't been up to anything, or don't feel that great about what you have been up to. Ironically, that problem is also a great reason to start a blog. I figure if I just let it be known right here that I don't have a job yet, I'm not up to anything at all, and my life is boring right now, then when I see people in real life we can skip that question and just start playing Carcassonne or something.
That being said, besides not being up to anything, I have been up to a few things in my [plentiful] free time. I'll let you know about those later.