📅 September 2011

Saw this next to Ulrich's today and thought it would make a good addition to my roadkill photos although this looks like a distinctly feline creation.

At least they are not fighting.

The location is awesome. There are three stories of dancefloors. One in giant theater with a massive vinyl dance floor. It is so perfectly slippery. Then they have an outdoor stage.

Sadly, although I am dancing I am wildly preoccupied with several other issues. Sometimes I wish I had the constitution to be a heroin junkie so I could just escape.

I wonder what happened. Even more so I winder what will go there. I hope another restaurant. I love having restaurants close to work and home.

I am so exited to go dancing close to home in a large space tonight

The vet spent an hour picking wood chips out of the tortoises butt. An xray made apparent the woodchips ate impacted throughout the entire intestines.

Now we just have to wait and see if the cavity created by the removal if some chips will let the other chips out. If not they are going to have to try tubes which sounds very expensive. Poor Guy.

The reading selection at the vet has a
lot of info about worms.

For hookworms it says,

People most often get infected when they are lying on the ground at the beach and the larvae penetrate the skin. Yes, the larvae can penetrate through a beach blanket

For tapeworms of type Echinococcus multilocularos

Treat these tapeworm infections aggressively in pets, because if humans get infected, approximately half die.

Call me cruel, but if my pet had those I would definately consider wrapping it in a plastic bag and throwing it out.

So the new tortoise has been straining to poop for three days. It's so sad to see it trying so hard. Today I tried to give it a mini tortoise enema with a pop bottle and was able to fish out a bunch of wood chips and a plastic plant material but I could tell he was totally impacted.

The poor guy must have had nothing to eat but the wood chips that lined the cage.

The vet just brought out an entire bowl if wood chips. She is going to xray and see what's left. Luckily he isn't bleeding at all.

So my rapid response urinalysis test strips finally came in. I am fascinated with medical tests. Anyhow these fairly sophisticated test strips show I have no abnormalities in my urine although as the previous Ph strips indicated its slightly acidic.

I used to love the coop. I have shopped there since the 90s and have been a member owner since. I still shop there all the time because its convenient and because they have a lot of tasty things. It was always kind of expensive and I was ok with it.

Somehow they really crossed a line for me recently. I cannot believe the prices anymore. I mean it was always expensive but now its absolufricking ridiculously expensive.

Vegetables should not be overpriced at harvest. If anything they should be local and cheaper. I could not believe this mini cauliflower cost $4.59. And berries? At the height of Berry season they are almost $5.00 a pint!

I overheard someone say they hope the coop keeps getting more expensive and expands because it will finally attract the attention of a Whole Foods and bring them to Buffalo. I am starting to agree.