Hey kids.
Sorry to geek out on you for a bit here, but it looks like there will be a very good lunar eclipse happening early tomorrow morning. It seems that the weather will cooperate, and the time to check in our area is shown very nicely in this little NASA graphic:
That’s tad early, but I might toddle out in my jammies if I wake up on time. So there you go. Wilson, I expect some pictures of this event.
Oh lordy.
Apparently the wife of a NY detective wasn’t too kicked about his choice of profession, so she spiked his meatballs with marijuana before his drug test. He rather predictably failed the test. He was then kicked out of the force, and I guess she owned up to doing it.
That should make for some nice friendly dinner conversations now, eh?
Seriously, there’s no point in going anywhere but the Weird News section of the Canoe.ca site for this kind of stuff, it seems that’s my primary source of blog stuff lately.
See, I scan the news and look for weird stuff and strange coincidences so you don’t have to. This time it was easy, but it isn’t always, people.
First we have a 73 year old lady who dropped a spoon in her kitchen. Then her house blew up. Turns out dropping the spoon probably saved her life since she was bent down behind her sink and counter which prevented debris from hitting her. She kept the spoon.
Then, a 90 year old woman was partying it up, celebrating her birthday with some friends and family. After the party she went to bed, but was awakened by the smoke alarm in the night. She then proceeded to run barefoot out of the house over to her daughter’s house, without her cane and escaped the fire. That is one sprightly 90 year old. I can hardly make it to one of the kids rooms in the middle of the night, let alone get my rickety body out the door in an emergency.
Finally, a not so old lady was arrested for beating on people with a hammer while she was naked. I didn’t make it up, go and look for yourself. No word on who she was trying to nail.
So there you go. Some days it’s easy, like yesterday when those three stories came through on Canoe’s Weird news feed almost at the same time.  No sir, sometimes I have to read a lot of stuff to find stupid things to bring you. You should appreciate it more. Really.
First off, I’d like to say, “Thanks Honey!” to Court for my birthday blog. You my love, are as always… too sweet. I love you too, completely.
As for the rest of you who may drop in here on the blog, let me just say a blanket and heartfelt “THANK YOU” to everyone who remembered, called, and spoiled me rotten. I’ve felt very loved since Friday of last week.
Just when you start to think that another birthday doesn’t matter, you find yourself surrounded by friends and family who make you realize that, yeah, it kinda does, and isn’t it great really? I don’t feel a day older and it is all of you that i have to thank for it.
Hugs and kisses to all,
Nik
PS – Also, I’d like to just make public here that Robbi Wilson got away unscathed from tiaras, leas, wands and silly string on this particular birthday. Enjoy it Wilson, your day will come where the tables will be turned and I will sit and laugh in the shadows whilst you shine in the limelight. Happy birthday though! It’s always a riot sharing a birthday with you…especially when Lockrey gets in on the scene! I’m sure pictures will follow… including the ones where I kick some royal Wilson butt 😉
Say what you will about Canada, stuff like this just doesn’t seem to happen all that often here.
The police in Florida were running a “Guns for Kicks” program where anyone can exchange a gun for $50 towards a pair of running shoes. Apparently some guy walked in with a surface-to-air missile launcher (!) and exchanged it for $50 towards shoes for his daughter. The “no questions asked” policy was definitely being pushed to the limit, I would say.
Not too surprisingly I have a soft spot for dogs. There’s nothing quite like the loyalty and love you get from a dog. So, I saw a couple of articles today about dogs and thought I would share them. First is an animal cruelty officer in Toronto who apparently saw a Rottweiler locked in a car on a hot day and arrested the animal’s owner. He handcuffed the guy to his car, and I guess the bystanders got a little out of hand and started to lay a beating on the jerk. This is not a problem, as far as I can see. The problem is that the animal cruelty officer is suspended because of the incident. Fittingly enough, he has been spending his free time visiting the Rottweiler at the vet’s office to see how he is recovering. Personally, I think the guy deserved to get roughed up a little bit for leaving his dog in the car to the point that the dog may have brain damage.
Then I read an article about the dog soldiers in Iraq, it’s inspiring and had me almost choked up here at work (I’m such a frigging softy). There are a lot of dogs in service there, 2000 in the entire forces, with demand for more all of the time. They obviously are excellent at non-lethal crowd control, but of course they are most prized for their sniffers and bomb detection. Naturally since they are leading patrols, they get hurt a lot, but are given first-rate medical care.
“They are cared for as well as any soldier,” insists Senior Airman Ronald A. Harden, a dog handler in Iraq.
A good read, sniff, sniff.
And, finally since I can’t bear to leave things on even a slightly sad note, here’s a nice puppy chaser from Wilson. Have a look at this video and tell me that isn’t the frigging best puppy, hands down.