Today has been pretty uneventful.
I got up. I sat around. I read the comics I bought on Wednesday. I went for a walk. I got back. I sat around. I read the Left Behind Friday post at Slacktivist. I applied for a job.
I got a call this morning from the other recruiter who’d been submitting my résumé to the company that the recruiter that called yesterday said wasn’t interested in me. He was looking for some additional information to provide said company with. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that the company had already said they weren’t interested in me.
I’m not 100% sure, but there may be yet another squirrel in the attic.
It’s hard to say for sure, as it’s windy today, and the noise I heard might have just been the branches of the tree out front brushing against the house.
Sound travels and echoes in an odd fashion in the house. Sometimes when I’m sitting downstairs watching TV, someone out on the street will slam a car door or something and it will sound like someone walking heavily upstairs.
In any case, I haven’t set the trap up again yet, though I was thinking about setting it up in the backyard, as the squirrels seem to pass through there (if only via the fence) on their way to whatever ingress there is to my attic.
(I also considered mounting squirrel number two’s head on a pike and sticking that on the fence as a warning to other squirrels, but I couldn’t do that, as doing so would mean that I killed the squirrel, and of course that just can’t be the case.)
I’ve walked around the house a few times craning my neck skyward, but so far I haven’t been able to spot any sort of opening, except one that seems too small (and awkward) even for a squirrel to get in through (I realize it doesn’t take much), and it may not even be an opening. Not sure what it is. There’s no easy way to get to whatever corresponding opening there may (or may not) be on the inside, either, so I can’t really check it out from the attic.
Speaking of Slacktivist (well, a couple of paragraphs ago), in the characteristically interesting comments on one of the characteristically entertaining posts, someone posted a link to a blog entry and a photo gallery detailing a visit to the Creation Museum.
It was far too entertaining to not pass along, so check out the blog entry here.
The entry itself has a link to the photo gallery. There are a lot of pictures in the gallery, but the accompanying captions and comments make going through them all time well-spent. My favorite captions: “Diormageddon!” and “When You Gaze Into the Abyss, It Gazes Back, and Looks Like an Ape.”
What makes the whole thing even more entertaining is that the author of the blog – writer John Scalzi – essentially went to the museum on a dare. In exchange for readers of his blog donating $250 to Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, he agreed that he would visit this monument to what I hesitate to even call pseudo-science. The total donations received actually reached $5,118.36. His response to this largess, in addition to eventually going to the museum, was to a post a picture of himself holding up a sign with a message for his readers: I hate you all.
Now, if any of you would like to make donations to Americans United for Preventing the Separation of Jon from His House, click on the PayPal link over on the right. In exchange, I probably won’t go to any museum, but I will happily pose for a similar picture, though with a different message (probably something like, “I hate you all…but thanks for the money.”).
Anyway, if you’re as amused/horrified by the agenda of fundamentalists who view the Bible as a science textbook as I am, check out the blog entry and gallery for a good laugh, or, if you’re the type who does view the Bible as a science textbook, check it out to keep your moral outrage and feelings of persecution by the evil, sinful secularists at their maximum levels.
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