Zoo and Cement and Dr Who

Ah the zoo. I dropped in on the zoo over the weekend for one of my yearly zoo visits. It’s right down the road and it does not cost much so it’s always fun to drop in on once in a while.

Now there are some animals I feel sorry for at the zoo. For example; all the cats. Whenever I see the cats at the zoo they are panting and pacing and simply have that look in their eye where they wish they could simply leap the fence and run for freedom. Either that or leap the fence and maul one of the little kids that scream at them day in and day out.

However some animals I believe are perfectly happy in the zoo. For instance most of the monkeys. Those guys are in monkey heaven. They have a nice safe cage they can lounge about in all day they get fed treats on a regular bases and have free healthcare to boot. They have all the time in the world to do important monkey business like groom and masturbate and fling poo. I think if you tossed one of those monkeys out of the zoo it would fight it’s way back in. Monkeys are the welfare recipients of the zoo world.

Another creature who I believe enjoys living in the zoo are sloths. Because well look at them. They do not do anything but hang from their freaky claws. They have nowhere to go. They have nothing to do. Sitting in a cage and amusing a set of fat tourists from Ohio is probably the highpoint of their existence.

I have to say the animal I was most amused by at the zoo were the rats. They were not on display but were some wild rats that sneaked in to steal some bird food from one of the giant freak birds display. I forgot what the bird was. It looked like some freaky toucan. But the bird is not important what was amusing was the little colony of rats that were making acrobatic leaps and stunts to eat some freak-toucan-chunchies and to slurp water out of it’s bowl. They reminded me of ‘Templeton’ the rat from charletts web.



"A Zoo is a smorgious board all around on the ground after the sun goes down!"

Eventually I got sick of all the screaming kids. Inside one building some little blond girl ran right up to me and rammed her eyeball into my elbow. She jumped back and rubbed her eye and looked at me accusingly. I was not about to apologize to her. If anything she deserved a nasty laugh that would probably keep her from running into strangers in the future.

Over the weekend I worked a little on my outdoor shower. I put down the concrete that will be the foundation. I need a lot more practice laying concrete. One of my problems is that I used an old bag that a friend had given me and it did not mix with water properly. Instead it just left a pile of wet rocks. Annoyed I had to fling a number of them away and lay down a fresh layer of concrete. It does not have to look really pretty because a small set of deck-like boards are going over it anyways so no one will see it but it still annoys me.

I managed to watch the new Doctor Who over the weekend as well. I was preparing for the worse but it was actually quite good. When they went five million years into the future and met the last human which was just skin stretched out on a tarp with it’s brain in a jar of fluid under it I knew I was going to enjoy the show.

No real plans this week. Just waiting for payday.






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