Not a good day for the animal kingdom today

Today hasn't been a good day for God's creatures. In Cheshire on my way to work, I saw a dead kitten laying in the road. It looked like it was about 6-8 months old. It was a female with very nice black, white and tan spots. I hate seeing dead cats in the road, but this was the first time I've seen a youngin'. This bothered me. I would have preferred to see the cat's owner dead in the road. Maybe next time this prick either won't get another cat, or will at least be smart enough to leave the goddamned thing in the house.

About 5 minutes later I hit a chipmunk. The stupid bastard ran halfway across the road, but upon seeing the car in front of me, he turned around. Well that only lasted until the car went by, then he shot out right in front of me. THUMP THUMP. I've been fairly proud of my ability not to hit anything. I think my total amount of creatures killed in all my years of driving was one squirrel and one pigeon. Now add a chipmunk.

Maybe I can hit Bambi on the way home.

Wow, I'm finally back!

Not that anybody is reading this anymore. My busy streak has come to an end, and I'm very glad. I travelled from kristin's grandmother's on the NY/NJ border, then to North Reading MA for a week of Teradyne training. I got back from that, thrashed on the cars to bring them to a friday night cruise, then caught up on yard work. I immediately started thrashing on the GTA to get it ready for Carlisle, but doing brake work turned into a 3 day process as I kept needing more stuff and the half-whits at Advance Auto didn't order the right stuff. I finished the car on Wednesday, then on Thursday departed for my 500 mile journey to Carlisle PA via Syracuse NY. Amazingly, the car did great, and Lance and I had yet another memorable Carlisle show under our belt.



I got home from Carlisle at around 10:00 Sunday night. I dumped my clothes out of my bag, and filled it for my 2nd trip to North Reading at 5:00 AM Monday morning. I got back from that on Friday afternoon, and on Saturday made another day trip to kristin's grandmother's on the NY/NJ border for a surprise birthday party. A lot of travelling, and I'm glad it's done.

Shifting gears here, one of the yard projects I did last week was to fertalize and re-seed the hill in the back yard. Since there's virtually no soil up there, the grass growth has been rather dismal. I'm very happy to say that last night I took a stroll up there and my thin yellow grass has quickly turned into a lush dark green thanks to all the recent rain finally allowing the fertalizer to soak into the ground. The difference is so profound that it looks like a mini football field up there now... the spots I missed with the fertalizer are still light yellow. It looks like somebody striped the lawn!!

Anyway, as long as work doesn't keep me too busy, look for more frequent updates.