02 in 30 - Sweet Lips

   Today I'm leaving at 6am to go do beekeeping up by Redding so this will have to be short and simple.

   I bring you, the top ten most awesome pets of US Presidents! (This is not a complete list of presidential pets or of all the pets of the named presidents, just the awesome ones!)

10 Calvin Coolidge: An antelope?!

9 Jimmy Carter: A siamese cat named "Misty Malarky Ying Yang"

8 George W Bush: A Longhorned Cow named "Ofelia"

7 Abraham Lincoln: Actually had a dog named "Fido"

6 Theodore Roosevelt: A one legged rooster. Also a badger among other things.

5 John Adams: Dog named "Satan"

4 James Garfield: Dog named "Veto"

3 George Washington: Dogs named "Sweet Lips" (!?) "Drunkard," and "Tipsy"

2 McKinley: Parrot named "Washington Post"

and the winner...

1 Benjamin Harrison (there was such a president?!): two possums named "Mr Reciprocity" and "Mr Protection".


(Hey possums are currently winning in the poll on what I should blog about (= )

Complete list here. So many early presidents had things like alligators, donkeys and roosters I didn't incldue them in my list!
   Recall also that I had mentioned that Socks the famous Clinton cat has been discarded by the Clintons ... because they're insenstive monsters!!




Picture of the Day

My pet chicken.

02 of 30 - Poll Time!

( POLL ON WHAT I SHOULD BLOG ABOUT THIS MONTH!!! )

   I'm leaving in half an hour to drive across the state to do some beekeeping, so this entry is going to be short. Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow -- I better be because I have a job interview with the state department on Wednesday!!

   Also Trillian's been not loading for days and I'm not sure if its a recoverable situation. It keeps telling me "ERROR: [null] at line 2" and something about a parsing error when I try to load it up. I've been using regular AIM in the mean time but it fills me with loathing.
   Also I'm not sure why, I mean I haven't put anything much new on my computer lately but its been giving me constant "not enough free space" errors. In particular itunes stops and gives me a "itunes music library file cannot be saved, the disk you are attempting to us is full." It however proceeds as normal after I click "okay" so I'm not sure what the consequences of this is.


Picture of the Day

Some of the few remaining orange groves in Orange County can be seen beyond the power pylons.
In the foreground a huge thistle (an invasive species) grows in the middle of an old abandoned road.


Also, DO THE POLL!!! (=