Why is it that people say “I’ll be here if you need me” just before they get up and leave…? Odd

I’m thinking I should probably return those movies that were due at blockbuster 11 hours ago…

Its Fade’s birthday! (On the east coast, anyway)

Happy Birthday Fade!

When did I become the protector of all moth-kind…?

A couple years ago, we started getting a few moths coming in the back door. I caught them, and carried them outside to set them free. Since then I’ve been swamped with the little guys. Its especially bad since I’ve been leaving the screen off my window.

This afternoon was really sad… a moth was in the kitchen… He was flying around completely lost, so I tried to catch the little dude. Unfortunately in his flight he smacked into the ceiling fan… It knocked him silly, but he looked all right. I carried him outside and let him go. Poor dude.

Its been a rough day on animals.

After bathing E/Irwin, gobbing on some neosporin and sticking him in an empty critter carrier on top of my tv, which would serve nicely as a heating pad, I covered him up with a towel and wandered off with James to see “Almost Famous”, Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical flick about his days writing for Rolling Stone. It is absolutely a must see flick. For those who don’t know, his other big movies are Jerry McGuire and Say Anything. All must see’s.

So, I got back home to find E/Irwin’s carrier upside down on the floor, blocking the door to my room. The fall is over four feet, so as you can imagine I was freaked. He’s totally mobile, and didn’t seem at all sensitive. His bites are invisible to my eye, but I gobbed on some more neosporin in what I figure is approximately the right spots. E/Irwin refused to let go of my hand as I tried to put him back in the carrier, so he’s back home in his terrarium with his nice fresh sand, bowl of water, two hiding huts, toy ladder and heat lamp… I hope he recovers quickly, he had way too stressful a day, and I can’t help but think that its at least partially my fault. Kai says it happens, not to worry, but I am my mother’s son… I worry.

OK, been a bit frantic since the last post. I ran out and returned the mouse. Picked up an antibacterial powder and some new repti-sand. Hosed out e/irwin’s tank and gave him fresh water. Talked to Kai and am going to be bathing e/irwin and putting him in an empty carrier overnight with some neosporin on the wounds. Have a bath cooling for him right now. sigh

On the plus side, the wounds are hard to see now… I figure that’s a good sign. They seem to be healing, so there shouldn’t be much of a bacterial problem. I’m going to watch out just in case and make sure to keep him swathed in antibacterial goop.

E/Irwin got bit! Fuckin’ mouse… Man, I feel bad. They don’t look bad, just little red nips. He’s not bleeding, but I’m worried. Shit, that sucks. I’m tempted to feed the mouse to Nike, so it gets some payback.

I hope E/Irwin’s cage is clean enough that he doesn’t get an infection. Then I’d just feel awful.

Here’s part of my target from yesterday. There is actually a few inches of target to the left of this. Nineteen out of twenty shots are visible. The other shot that went wild is just right of where the image got cut (was too big to fit in my scanner). Its less than half a centemeter from his head, level with the bottom of his cap.

I just can’t hack. I tried exploiting wu-ftpd on james’ system while it is still here, but no go. I even upgraded it and tried exploits for THAT version. (I patched it once I’d given up)

The really bad thing is that my inspiration for trying (again) was this lamerz guide to skript kiddie behavior (he didn’t present it that way) over at packetstorm… The guy used the same exploit against the same version running on the same OS, and it worked.

James says I’m enchanted… Exploits don’t work around me. Well, that’d be pretty cool, but I’d still like to be able to accomplish something that hundreds of 14 year olds straight out of windows can do… Bah!

My house is a strangely lit environment lately… My room has a constant red glow, thanks to E/Irwin’s heat lamp. Of course there are also the little power lights, the glow from a monitor gone black, digital readouts from my VCR, alarm clock/radio and the cable unit. There’s also a red light on my answering machine, but that’s pretty much hidden from view, so I don’t notice it (had a couple messages there for days before I noticed). Little yellow power lights on the speakers, on the monitors, on the keyboard, on the GoldCam. Glowing lights from the hubs, the NICs and the power strips. My room is constantly humming with electronics… I just know one of these days my testicles are going to swell up like grapefruits and my children will have antlers. But damn they’ll be some kickass quake players!

I was also gonna mention my half-lit bathroom because of a blown ballast, whatever that is… but I wandered off on that electronics tangent and my bathroom just isn’t that exciting. Oh, my ear isn’t ringing right now… First time since Monday morning… Maybe I won’t need to go see the doc for it, after all.