Sunday, February 7th, 2010
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2:17 pm - Bad Rescues
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Every so often I get a rescue so bad, the only thing I can do is get the animal to a vet for euthanasia asap.I had one today: a lady brought me a horribly injured turtle that had been run over by a car. It's rescues like this that cause our group to lose good people. They simply can't handle seeing an animal in this much pain.
ETA: Also, if you comment the photo will show up. Be warned.
( A photo not for the squeamish.Seriously! Contains blood! And an injured turtle )
The zoovet met me at the vet block. When she looked in the box she said quietly "Oh no." A few minutes later she'd pumped in enough lethobarb to kill a horse. I'm not speaking figuratively, literally or with hyperbole. She actually administered enough barb to kill a horse. Normally the animal is weighed and an appropriate about is administered and the animal is kept comfortable until it dies. The idea today was to shock the turtle to death to overcome slow reptile metabolisms.
There was no hope for the turtle - she was going to die with or without human help. It would be so easy to let Nature take its course.
But I'm not that cruel.
current mood:  sad
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
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10:11 pm
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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9:43 pm - Weather
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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9:25 pm - Urban dictionary.com meme
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8:31 pm - New Toy
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
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10:04 pm - Currently in care
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
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1:13 pm - Charlie Brooker Reports The News
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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10:30 am - Lost a bat
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
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5:43 pm - One more photo
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Red rumped parrot.
These small grass parrots are quite common. They're about twice the size of a budgerigah.
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
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10:17 pm
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6:49 pm - River Veiws
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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9:42 pm - sunset
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6:08 pm - Snakes in care!
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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10:44 pm - It's only Television.
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The HDD in my PVR is dead. It worked yesterday; it doesn't work today.
No more time-shift TV for me. All those unwatched episodes of Torchwood Season 2... gone. Dinner For One and Wallace & Gromit... gone.
bugger.
current mood:  annoyed
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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10:57 pm - 2009 In Review
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
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1:13 pm - HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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6:16 pm
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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6:17 pm - Rainfall
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
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1:50 pm - What cheeses me off
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STEAM!
I buy a game I want to play and I have to register on line. I'm okay with that. But When a game I want to play requires Steam, I can't play it without being connected. I don't play games online; the connection here is poor. It is slow, and it drops out occasionally, like when there is a really heavy summer thunderstorm.
Oh no! The internet has gone out again, I'll play a game instead. SORRY! The game you paid for and installed on your systems and you have the original disks for WON'T WORK because you need the bloody internet to play games on your pc.
So I buy Empire Total War. Oh goody! I'll install that. Oh,need to register it, no problem. Bugger, it's a Steam account. Right! Installed, Registered, Verified and now I'll... wait SIX FRIGGING HOURS while Steam decides the new game I bought needs to be updated. I didn't ask for updates. I don't want special services available to online users. I just want to play a game, dammit, and I want to play it on my PC at any time I bloody well want to play.
And the worst part is I'm installing it on my laptop. The laptop I will be using when I go to remote areas, so I'll have something to do.
You know, those remote areas with NO INTERNET.
Can't help feeling ripped off.
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
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2:42 pm - Rain.
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Still raining. If it hasn't been raining, it's been drizzling, and when it's not drizzling it's showering. The average December rainfall is 43mm; twice that has fallen since Christmas day. And yet there is still no run-off into the river. This is a soaking rain and it soaks right in as soon as it hits. It's the sort of rain we have needed for the last 3 years and never saw.
I blame ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) steve3. He and Sheena came out from England to get away from the cold, damp Christmas weather to enjoy our hot, dry Christmas.
I love the sound of rain on a tin roof. It's the sound I grew up with on the farm.
current mood:  happy
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amused
crappy
