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So what's shakin, kids? Man, things are bouncing and rebounding over here.
Dig it y'all, I'm a godfather! My godson, William Andrews Mathers, was born this morning to JB and Buffy Mathers. I work with JB at Dogwood. He is the man of reliability, GoLive Boy and a sneaky (but talented) bastard at Quake. William is their second child, although the first boy. They have a girl named Kathleen, four or five years old, who last I heard was very excited about having a baby brother.
So I'm excited. Haven't seen any pictures yet, but if JB doesn't have some up by tonight or tomorrow I'll be amazed.
This is just too cool, y'all... I saw video of the kid when he was still chillin' in the womb. JB and I musta watched that tape for half an hour. 'Course, John and LouAnn just had their boy not too long ago, and I predict these two will be side by side at keyboards and game controllers before long.
Congratulations, JB and Buffy! Good job, kids!
In other news:
I got an email from William Reeder, the webmaster at the Birmingham Zoo. Seems like found had a Mac Classic in a storeroom, and wanted to know if I could give it a good home.
Uh... can you say... yes?
Ok, so I giggled a lot, jumped around a little, and Tanya and I headed for the Zoo. Got off the interstate at the Zoo exit, and were suddenly deep in overhanging trees. Very cool. They made a tunnel overhead all the way to the Zoo parking lot. We went up, let the guard know we were there to see Wiliam, and he let us in, pointed us towards William's office. As we walked up, William walked out.
"Mr. Reader?" I said, holding my hand out.
"William!" he stated. He apparently thought me calling him Mr. Reader was the most amusing thing he'd heard that day. So I introduced myself and Tanya, and he invited us in.
And look what he had! Mac Classic with 4 megs or ram, a 40 meg hardrive, keyboard, mouse and even some PhoneTalk boxes and cables so I could network it to the Macs at home. All in In spotless condition. Oh, and an Apple mouspad! Simple grey with the word "Apple" in black, and the slick surface that I like.
So I giggled and bounced around for a few minutes and generally acted really happy, which I was, and then William offered us a tour of the Zoo.
When's the last time you went to a zoo? Here we go, watch us now!
The zoo's fair to middlin' sized, but man, they had a lot of cool critters. Lions, elephants, cheetahs, red-tailed hawks, swans, peacocks (that roamed freely around the zoo), great horned owls, barn owls, Japanese snow monkees (the baby snow monkey came over to check me out, got scared and ran to mom. His mom put her arms around him, glared at me and chewed me out quite thoroughly!) They had spider monkees and gibbons and baboons and marmosets and a couple of orangutans and two big fucking gorillas.
I have never seen an animal look more serious or more powerful, not even a lion.They weren't frightening, exactly... they weren't threatening at all. They would sit very calmly, looking at you, and suddenly just get up and move - inside my head I'm going "Holy SHIT" - they were graceful and powerful, carrying a huge amount of weight with no apparent effort.
Let's see, what else? There were snakes and lizards, some llamas, a coati or two, three rhinos, two hippopotamus' (hippopotami? Hippos, dammit) two camels, a big ole groundhog, and a beautiful bobcat that just paced back and forth in her cage complaining about the heat... "Mrow! Mrow! Mrow! Mrow!"
That's only some of the stuff... we didn't go through the entire zoo cause I'm a weak and frail being, and it also happened to be somewhere near two thousand degrees outside. But what we saw was great, and I think we're going back. Mom wanted to go. Besides, I wanna talk to William some more. He was into Amigas, man, can you dig it? Hehehehe a long lost brotherman.
So thankyou, Mr Wm, for our tour and the Mac! You rock. I've got the new Mac (new Mac? Old Mac? uh...) anyway, it runs great, it's set up next to my big Mac and I'm fixing to set it up so it can get on the Net.
Peace y'all!
Salaam.