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Fat Hobby

I went to a man-made wetland on Saturday to birdwatch.  It was nicely done, though a bit rough.  There were an awful lot of flies, biting flies, and spiders.  I do not dig spiders.  Oh, there were so many spiders.

The worst thing about it was that Saturday was a 112-degree day, and I was hiking around a marshy area.  I know the humidity there had to raise the sensitive temperature by a few degrees.  I didn't spend much time out there.  All of my photos show birds with open bills because they were hot, too.

Do check out the photos, though.  I got some cool shots of dragonflies and a muskrat.  Groovy.

I realized that every trip I take results in one half to one gigabyte of photos being added to my hard drive.  I hate to delete any of them, but I don't really have that much storage space.  It's a dilemma.  To sort of prolong the pain, I bought an external enclosure to hold my 40 GB hard drive.  I figure I can use that as a storage area--though, that isn't going to last very long.  I'm going to have to get a DVD burner.  The idea of storing about 4 GB at a time on a little plastic disc makes me nervous, too.  Then, you have to worry about the integrity of the disc.

Ugh.  I don't imagine there's any good way to handle that much data.

I have managed to get through another week of school.  I am getting an A, so far.  I don't imagine this week will be any different.  Yea.  Tomorrow is the first day of the last week of this class.  Finally.

I stayed up too late, watching the newest Blue Collar movie.  I came to the following conclusions: Bill Engvall is still a damn good-looking man; Ron White got fat, but he's still probably the funniest one of the bunch; Larry the Cable Guy is kind of a comedic one-trick pony, but he's cute enough to pull it off.  Of the four, he's got the quickest improvisational wit.

I didn't have any new impression of Jeff Foxworthy.  He's pretty much the same guy, all the time.  I can say that I'm not a redneck, though I do have some redneck family history.  I guess that's why I get the jokes.  I don't understand why they all hate Hillary Clinton so much.  I'm not politically inclined.

I was checking my site stats, and I'll say this, again:  some of the people who accidentally hit my site from search engines are twisted!  There are search phrases in my referrer list that are just not right.  Those people need a hobby.

And that brings us back to d'oh.