Cordless phone saves trouble.

A couple of days ago a guy came into my place of work and asked to use the phone. He said he had been rudely treated at a store down the street; asked to get his nigger ass out. Well, ok we’re not going to ask why that happend, sure you can use our phone. We gave him our cordless phone and he sat at the counter and made two calls and left. Not before asking if we knew what time the other store down the stree closed up, I said I don’t know, about 5-5:30. Whatever.

Well, a few minutes go by and the store owner from down the street came in and started asking if we’d seen a rude black man. We said we had, but he wasn’t exactly rude to us. We heard her story about how they let him use thier office phone, and he sat there for 45 minutes making calls, interrupted a sale of thiers apparently, and when asked to leave he got very abusive. It probably got a lot worse from there.

Anyway, it suddenly hit me a while ago that we had a much better experience with the guy for 2 reasons. We didn’t LET him take advantage of our kindness, and the soul reason; you can stay behind that counter and use our cordless phone from in the back.
We didn’t invite him to use a phone behind the counter and potentially interrupt the running of our business.

Now, would the situation have been different if he came into our store first ? yeah, it probably would. He would have sat at our counter with a cordless phone making calls for 45 minutes, probably pretty annoying, but it wouldn’t have impacted our buisiness much. He was pretty quiet for the 2 calls he made from our phone.

Technology. It saves a lot of f*cking hassle. Love it.

Crazy birds.

So, for my birthday a bunch of us went to Rooster Cogburns Ostrich Ranch. It was a great laugh and I recommend that eveybody go, oh, and definately take the monster truck tour of thier ranch grounds; WELL worth it, especially for the Ostrich Fishin’!

Feeding Frenzy!

I recommend feeding the Rainbow Lorikeets also. But beware, they will land on your head, and help themselves to the little tubs of nectar you can buy; they have become incredibly adept at opening the things themselves.

Bathtime.

If you can't get the cap off the nectar you're in trouble!

Operation Northwoods

Google it. Read the history. Be afraid, be pretty damn afraid of all governments.

Goodbye girl.

Brook, as Megan affectionately named her, was with us from May 15th to May 31st. Today we made the tough decision to let her pass on. (or as we tearfully refer to it: Set her free)

This little dog with a big heart didn’t have a chance. My theory is that she was bred for breeding, cute as a puppy, used as a momma dog and then kicked to the kurb to turn up unwashed, uncollared and unloved at animal control. Where she most likely contracted the distemper that almost 95% of cases, are fatal.

Docile, and enjoying a good petting

When the end came, she couldn’t stand and when she did manage, she fell and had uncontrollable tremours. What hurt the most though is that she was fully concious, she knew we where there, her tail would wag and she would look directly at us. Thats why we prefer to refer to euthenasia as setting a dog free. Thier mind knows thier body has almost all but given up.

Thats the tough part, how do you know when ? when is the right time ? In cases of distemper, as I am now painfully aware, pretty much any time is the right time.
As soon as the syringe was empty, her little body finally stopped convulsing; we knew she was finally at peace.

I look at my other dogs and feel such luck and thanks and only wish that Brook could have joined us all and shared in our love.
I feel such sorrow; I actually apologised to her; let down by almost everybody she came into contact with. Even I feel personally responsible; she came to our house and we tried to help, did we do all the right things ? when she refused food, should we have just tried harder ? It tears you up inside.
Goodbye Brook, I am so sorry you had to leave us this way.