Oy, I'm here, just wandering elsewhere as well.

The gravitational pull of my bed this morning proved nearly impossible to escape. I need a vacation!

Geez, could I use one.

I got my laptop back! :D

YAH!!!! Neige

Had a good annual physical. :thumbs:

I stopped in at the county courthouse and voted today.

I'm working with a woman who runs cadaver dogs with the FBI and training a dog to do it! My lil Libby dog is doing very well. today was her third time to be exposed to a scent sample and she dragged me to it


yay Libby!

well my outer fried a while back and am having to use my daughters .Hope to be back next week for good

my dad noticed some vision problems today and made an emergency optometrist appointment. They tried to get him in today for surgery wound up gettin him in tomorrow for retina reattachment surgery. if its not successful he'll lose his job.

We'll keep him in our prayers BK! That's for sure. :wish:

Here's hoping Kyttn.

Just for gekkogecko,

A rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found nesting on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years.

Four leathery, white eggs from an indigenous tuatara were found by staff at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in the capital, Wellington, during routine maintenance work on Friday, conservation manager Raewyn Empson said.

"The nest was uncovered by accident and is the first concrete proof we have that our tuatara are breeding," Empson said.

"It suggests that there may be other nests in the sanctuary we don't know of."
Tuatara, dragon-like reptiles that grow to up to 80 centimetres, are the last descendants of a species that walked the earth with the dinosaurs 225 million years ago, zoologists say.

They have unique characteristics, such as two rows of top teeth closing over one row at the bottom.
They also have a pronounced parietal eye, a light-sensitive pineal gland on the top of the skull. This white patch of skin - called its "third eye" - slowly disappears as they mature.

A native species to New Zealand, tuatara were nearly extinct on the country's three main islands by the late 1700s due to the introduction of predators such as rats.

They still live in the wild on 32 small offshore islands cleared of predators.
A population of 70 tuatara was established at the Karori Sanctuary in 2005. Another 130 were released in the sanctuary in 2007.

The sanctuary, a 250 hectare wilderness minutes from downtown Wellington, was established to breed native birds, insects and other creatures securely behind a predator-proof fence.

Empson said that the four eggs - the size of ping-pong balls - were unearthed on Friday but that there were likely more because the average nest contains around ten eggs.

The eggs were immediately covered up again to avoid disturbing incubation.
If all goes well, juvenile tuatara could hatch any time between now and March, she said.

I got my hair cut today..went to a place in China town and I got a complete cut and dry for $18! it was awesome.

I'm hoping my Hawkeyes and Fighting Irish open up a big ol' can of whoop-ass on Illinois and Pittsburgh, respectively, today. :wish: