Bleah.

What a sucky week. This time of year is hard on many of my readers. I think we're all trying to spare one another by dancing around that giant white elephant in the room, the big empty space left by our missing family member. That's right Brendan, I called you a giant white elephant, what're you going to do about it??? =)

Anyway, it sucks. Natalie and Dan and Jim & I are going to bake Brendan a birthday cake tonight, and then eat it for him. Like the Priests do for Buddha I guess, someone eats those offerings and it isn't the Buddha statue. Well, maybe the Hindu statues do: click here. Natalie proposed we ought to also buy presents and then keep them for ourselves, but I'm afraid my emergency gift supply doesn't have anything in it I fancy or I would already have kept it. Maybe we'll watch Rat Race, or XXX with Vin Diesel, or the Boondock Saints (yuck), all movies Brendan particularly enjoyed. And almost certainly, we will gripe about the way we all had something precious cruelly stolen from us, and we're all pretty bitter about it. Damn it.

In more positive news, look how cute these babies are!!!
They arrived this morning to distract me from my doldrums, adorable as anything and very hungry and thirsty, and I had to go out after these photos were taken to get another set of food/water holders so I could separate out the teeny tiny banty chicks. into the second tank I think I got some chicks that are going to have the crazy feather hats I was hoping for, I'll post a good pic of those a little later. That green stuff is "grow gel" a vitamin supplement to offer after they get out of the shipping container.