Goose, Goose, Duck

There's a small pond in back of the office building where I work. It attracts ducks and geese. This time of year there aren't many to be found. There is this one duck that has remained. It has odd coloring, a splotchy irredescent green and brown over a white base.

In the mornings it will fly down to the parking lot to meet cars as they drive in, then waddle behind the person going in to the building. Sometimes if you're walking too fast for it, it will take wing to catch up with you. As amusing as ducks can seem when they're waddling on the ground, they can be a little scary when flying straight at your head. But it always stops just in time, and drops straight down to the parking lot like a helicopter.

I'd always assumed some people had fed it, and now it was expecting food from everyone. Now, I'm not so sure that's the case. I think it may just be lonely. The only other waterfowl there are two geese, and they pretty much keep to themselves. It's as if they think they're better than the duck.

I decided to test my theory one afternoon and sat and talked to it for a minute. It seemed to enjoy it. Though it's kind of hard to tell with a duck. It did get the cutest, perplexed look on its face when I got in my car and closed the door. As if it was thinking, How'd he do that? There just aren't any doors in a ducks world. I think they have a hard time wrapping their brains around the concept.

She will be missed

SB's mother-in-law, W's mother, passed away last night.

She was ready.

She will be missed.

OK, now I get it

... and speaking of cats

For a long time I've thought Garfield should be funnier than it is. Like most strips, I long ago finally gave up on reading it. It's not easy to give up on a comic strip, by the way. They're so easy. And you can't help but think, Maybe this time, this time it will be funny. Except, maybe, the for the Quigmans which is so not funny that it's anti-funny and even just seeing it puts me in a bad mood. But, at last, I'm down to just two or three comic strips per newspaper. I may be able to reinstate Garfield strips, now that I now how to read them.

Brilliant.

Eeewwwww!!!

You know, it's pretty much safe to assume that the actors and actresses playing high school students on TV are older than their characters. So I didn't give it a second thought when I said to myself, Johnny, come on, as much as I like Marissa, Kaitlin really is kind of hotter. That is until I discovered that Willa Holland really is 14 years old.

Excuse me while I go bleach my brain.