The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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why wouldn't you be able to warm a woman's heart?
you're funny, intelligent and nice.

now about my heart it is already taken.

when i said 'our men' i meant it in a friendship way, i hope that counts for something too?
(i noticed that 'normal' men not easily can have a friendship with a woman without actually wanting her in some way, no idea how this is for aspie men)
best relations with men seems to be collegues.

Lack of passion. I can explain the game theoretic reason why people want to see signs of passion, but the explanation doesn't seem to be an adequate substitute for the thing itself.


It does. I was just messing around. I hadn't planned on being serious on a Saturday.


I can't speak for others, especially not for the young guys. The people I counted as friends have more often been women than men, and the men have usually been my female friends' boyfriends or husbands or brothers. They all seemed to have excellent taste in men.

It does. I was just messing around. I hadn't planned on being serious on a Saturday.

ow, and i gave such a boring answer ...


and i'm still not in my exeptionally funny mood, i'm going to be voted away, i can feel it ...

Not boring, just serious. And quite right, too. Sunday is an inherently much more serious day than Saturday. But not, of course, as serious as Thursday. That's why people wish each other a very happy Thursday, and why seriousity is optional on Sundays.


It is day 42 on Celebrity Island. Lemon has paraglided across the Crater of Doom, her umbrella carrying her aloft on the hot gases from the volcanic eruption. But can her exploits compete with Gromit's daring descent down the playground slide?

ooooh, funnnnggguuuuuuus!

Hey, I had a kid who did just what that panda did.

i did what the panda did, when i was little. looked off the top of "the big kids' slide" and took a header straight over the side onto the concrete. (who the hell puts concrete in a kiddie playyard???).

hmmmm, that would explain a lot, right there.

Only for those of you that care that I have been trying to establish school libraries in Rwanda:

http://www.newtimes.co.rw/print.php?iss ... icle=16482

My books finally got to where they were supposed to go.

That's great.

Oh, that's great! Nothing like a book...

spike has a brother or sister as of about 4 hours ago. it's not an egg any longer, but it's pink and damned ugly!

Nan!
Congratulations Grandma!

Thenk yew.

Had been tending an abandoned diamond dove egg for the last two weeks in the hope it would still be able to hatch, but gave up last night and checked (opened the end of the shell). Someone had been there early on, but didn't make it. It's been in here with an oven thermometer on a washcloth under my gooseneck lamp. At least I'll get better sleep now, as it's tough to sleep with a light on in the room.

SO, anyway, grandma and grandpa Zebra finch (our oldest birds) hatched out a surprise instead. Didn't think they still had it in 'em. There's only one in there, instead of four or five, but it seems to be holding its own. Has a lot more fluff on it than Spike did at that age. Doesn't look so much like a pink bug as it does a pink...uh, thing with white fluff on it.

Have the diamond dove mom and pop on two eggs right now, another 10 days or so to go on those. It will be Chickenette's first brood, so we'll see how she does. If she ignores them, we'll end up hand-feeding them. Which isn't so bad with them, as you just have to hold the spoon and they suck up the formula. And become very tame. And can bring about $40 each.

Spike, the poor guy, on the other hand, is having some egg problems. Has been sitting fluffed up complaining about having no mate for the last week. Can't go near to pick him up or anything without hearing about that, loudly. (sigh).

Anyway, last night he wanted to snuggle a bit, so I had him out of the cage while listening to the radio and he stayed really quiet, just snuggling up to my neck. This morning I found Spike on the bottom of the cage looking miserable, and the remains of what should have been an egg in the cage as well. The shell was only barely calcified, very weird. He's got plenty of cuttlebone in the cage, so the only thing I can think of is that he's got a vitamin D deficiency - we've had a lot of cloudy days here lately so he's had almost no sun. Have added D3 drops to his water dish (which he now won't go near) and put a full-spectrum bulb in a work lamp and clamped it so it shines in part of his cage (he won't go near THAT either). Figure I'll have it on two hours a day and hope. The other alternative is to pry his stubborn little beak open and put a drop of meds in him that way....

But I bet the next time he takes a bath and is cold and soggy that sunlamp will feel a lot better.

Chickenette

Nan, here are a few Peanuts comics on being a grandparent to birds: http://news.yahoo.com/comics/090601/cx_peanuts_umedia/20090106. Gor forward from there.

Way to go lelia!
I hope that everyone is well. I haven't had time to catch up on the posts, but will just as soon as I get the chance. My life should slow down in about a month, and I'll rejoin you all then. Best wishes to all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vohyM7rc3xc