skygal3

Oh, I am used to the monitoring by now. It is so bad that one woman even monitors personal conversations in my office..I am sure she reads my internal emails too, just not sure if she can find out my personal passwords to Hotmail or my Outlook.

yup. ok, I just did a little investigating. It is a proxy server..can they see my private emails though or is it just like a big brother monitoring tool that tells them exactly what I am looking at?

What the heck does it mean.."connecting to mserv1" when I log onto the internet at work now? I know the office manager has been tinkering around with the IT guy..and I know she can see where I go because we receive lists. (yup)..She went into my Explorer and changed something the other day..and now it will say mserv1 instead of finding site blah blah blah. thanks. just curious.

PPG haiku! Sunshine so f*&king rocks too This I won't delete. My head is throbbing And the sun is shining bright must wear sunglasses More haiku tonight MK needs to eat her lunch So TTFN!

I'm so sorry about Charley. I know far too well about AIHA..and it is a horrible thing to go through knowing that there is nothing that you can do, and to watch their body basically kill itself. My heart goes out to you..please find comfort in knowing that Charley is playing with my little girl tonight.

yeah thats true. A lot more fun and nothing will get stuck to the baby oil.. Oh wait.

Hmm. Pretty cool website though. I laughed at the ads for viagra, and girls..she has a link to her toys. Free lube with a $25 purchase..whattabargain!

just be cautious. (or practice your british accent) Where in England?? If you are going to say, the countryside, I am sure you will be ok. How long are you going for?

ya know, I just brought a big greasy paper bag full of happy into the pub, and you weren't even there!

Why do they not sell their product in the United States? Can you buy it in say Canada and export it back into the states?

ya know, I was thinking the exact same thing..but you beat me to it!

Some birds are just plain dumb. Or bored. Like the birds that will actually fly crosswind low to the road while you are driving..and they actually get hit too! Come on, there is just no excuse for that..I want to shout at them "you have wings!! Get your little tail off of the ground and out of the road!" Geez...

I used to keep a garden where I used to live, and I kept a gigantic birdfeeder in the middle so the birds and the chipmunks would come over and play. Anyway, I had also planted catnip. So this meant that the neighborhood cats would come over and play as well. Well the bluejays loved the birdfeeder, and this one cat would sleep in the catnip. The bluejay would see the cat and incessently swoop the poor thing and scream at it until it left. It was pretty funny, I thought.

A blue jays call is horrible! And there is something around here that sounds like a little girl screaming..it scares the life out of me every morning.

not after they pecked it. It was pretty defenseless lying there. It's wings were fluttering but I don't think that would do the trick at that point.

Well it is true. I mean, beating the bird against the ice..pretty unique I thought. Heck, they could have dropped it from 50 ft up or something like an owl would. It actually reminded me of what my cat does when she has to "kill" her food. (she doesn't know the piece of chicken isn't already dead..shh.)

--> for Jan. I'd share mine, but you're kinda far away.

Oh, well that solves it. The robin must've beat up the crow when he was smaller and taken his lunch money, so the crow grew up and took revenge at the berry tree. Personally, I just don't like bully's in my neighborhood. I have no desire to harm the crows. Heck, I didn't bother the snapping turtle last year when he picked off the ducklings one by one either. It's all nature, but I have to admit, I have never witnessed it first hand so closely before this morning.

sounds like he's the life of a party!

maybe it was a racial slur. The robins around here have been known to be quite biggoted at times.

My issue finally arrived in my box today. I guess Harry the postmaster decided he was finished reading it.

lol. sure, point taken, but come on there is enough road kill around here, those damn mean things will never go hungry. I think they are just mean spirited. They are the "osamas" of birds..I think they enjoyed torturing the robin. I think I even heard a few laughing. Pick on the red squirrels. The rodent equivilent of a raven..leave my robins alone.

So anyway like I was saying... This morning was the typical morning here where I live..I woke up, showered, grabbed my coffee and opened my curtains that look out onto the bay. There, just like every morning, were the very well fed (fat!) robins that feed off of the fallen berries on the snow. (and I have to give those birds a good golf clap on their hibernation tactics. Goodness they are fat!) I go into my kitchen, feed my cats, and as I walk back through my living room, the robins had vanished. And there is a commotion on the bay. At first I thought it was an otter pup because we have otters here (beavers too)..but as I walked closer to the door I saw that it was actually 3 crows. And lying in front of them on the ice was a plump robin, and it's wings were flapping so helplessly. The crows nipped at the bird with their beaks and took turns beating it against the ice. The poor little birds wings were flapping but it could not move. And then one picked it up with it'e beak, and flew away with my robin. So then I went to my gym. I was pretty angry with this, I have never seen nature gone wild so up close and personal before, and the owner tells me it is crow season. As in crow hunting season. Why, I never even knew there was such a thing, but ok. He said they are fair game, one can shoot as many crow as they want to. So now I sit here in my bedroom and type this as I see over my balcony a whole gaggle of crow just kinda stalking the berry tree, waiting for my critters to return. Crow, anyone?

Can I get in on this?

GRRR..nope! Haven't received mine yet either.. I know the mailman reads it too..