Thanks be

And the the time comes, once again, for penance and attention to the things we're thankful for in this world, in the name of family and food, and death and depression.

Here come the holidays.

But first i'll thank Give to the Max Day for both fueling my spirit, with charity and giving, and forcing me, bitching and moaning, into a higher plane of data processing. survived and stronger though.

Barred Owl Rehab at the Raptor Center

University of Minnesota - The Raptor Center

Their bald eagle is named Max. Give to Max. Har. har. They received had a hefty matching grant, though. Way to go and awesome blog about all sorts of great rehabilitation, research and education programs.

i've known 2 other animals named max - a great dane. maximus. har. har. whom i hated and he hated me. and max  the indian ringneck who said "happy bird-day!! happy birthday max!"

This is actually Sydney, a ringneck who found a home through Parrot Rescue Services!

Parrot Rescue Services
i actually don't know much about this group, but they are local and doin things right from the looks of it. Sanctuary - Adoptions  Avalon Parrots: Supplies Store - Grooming

Macy and Simon

MAARS - Midwest Avian Adoptions and Rescue Services

"alflanafla! hiiiidnia murrrtina thana rhna .." -Peaches

no money to maars, but they get my eve more valuable gift: time. Maars has calendars and cards on sale right now! They glamour shot these drama queen birds: http://www.maars.org/store/calendar/index.php


And just to whine the requisite amount- A small poem about the darker side of GiveMN and my journey into a higher plane of Microsoft Excel.

draining my unsuspecting spirit into cross-eyed dispair spreadsheets data sorting update field update salutation crosscheck dates merge letters deduplicate records deduplicate spreadsheet upload updates update values update merge path print.


i bet you even got a little cross-eyed reading even just that much. We raised [a wonderful bunch] of bananas for the library, and i haven't entirely figured out our new software. :P

On a brighter note about work and the Friends, The Pen Pals lecture with Michael Ondaatje - prolific Canadian author of lots of novels and poetry including The English Patient - was pretty successful and he mentioned this movie:

The Arbor
which is streaming on Netflix right now! 


but with all these lectures n things, who has time to watch movies?
Even yet tonight is:

Nachito Herrera at the Dakota - with theoroi!

[Minimalist] cuban dance music? i'm not sure the Dakota will provide the tropical flora that i'll be longing for as a result, but these guys are so virtuosic that it sounds like they've got all the claves and guiros covered between the global 3 of them. dancing may be in order.