We (the Cactus, Carole, and myself) went to the Virginia Safari Park on the weekend. We’ve been there before, but it’s been over a year and we wanted to go again and see what’s new. We loaded up the Behemoth, and off we went.

The bestest part: They had a TON of little baby rheas running around. OMG. Looky here:

Baby Rheas!
More Baby Rheas!
TONS of Baby Rheas!

There were also ostriches, llamas, yaks, wildebeasts, bison, emus, deer, other deer, and watusi.

You can see the rest of the photos from this trip at http://www.birdbrained.org/wordpress/albums/safari2006

This site is now hosted on my very own machine, and I’m a lot happier.  The other machine was in an office I didn’t have keys to, the machine was poorly maintained (needs new fans) and kept going down.  Now that we’re on our own shiny new machine (and on a MUCH faster connection, I might add) things should be much better.

Woo!

I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. This year’s pumpkin photos are available in the gallery.

http://www.birdbrained.org/wordpress/halloween/2005/

Just bought a pool table. Awwwww, yeah.

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Last night I was shot in the back and killed.

Perhaps I should back up and explain. Last night we were doing simulated traffic stops at the citizen police academy. I pulled over a pickup truck for doing 45 mph in a 25 mph zone. Got his license and registration, and when I went to go run it through the computer, he shot me in the back with a Glock 27.

The sad thing is that I had a sneaky suspicion they were going to try something like that with me; I was looking for a weapon, and I was very aware of what was going on while he was getting the registration out of the glove box. Too bad I didn’t see the gun he had tucked under his knee.

I had a conversation with my wife, The Cactus, via text message:

Me: I died.
Her: I cried.
Me: Did you remarry?
Her: No, I just slept around a lot.
Me: Harlot!!
Her: Corpse!

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