"Well, that went badly!"

I'm oddly saddened by the news that Stever Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, is dead.

I wasn't a fanatic of his show or anything, but I enjoyed it on television, and I admired the lengths to which he went to promote conservation.

It's not a surprising death, really, but it does go up there in the Annals of Weird Deaths: turns out he was stung by a sting ray during a film shoot, and the barb went right through his chest. He was 44.



Using my frog icon because it's the closest thing I have to a reptile. Amphibians count, right?

:::ETA:::

Holy cow! Everyone's talking about this today!

File under: "I love my cats, I love my cats, I love my cats..."

I love my cats. I love my cats. I will deeply regret skinning them alive and turning them into earmuffs. I will miss their company when they are gone. I love my cats.

It is very difficult to remember that I love my cats when I come home and find that they have knocked a potted plant (not Jan's, in case you were wondering) into the sink. There is dirt everywhere. Now, instead of going to bed, I must clean up the mess before I can make tuna salad for this week's lunch and wash the few dishes I have left over.

Argh!

Now they're all sitting around me and purring, as though they are not, in fact, the total badnesses they truly are. *shakes head*

*headdesk*

*sigh*

So. Here's how the last twenty minutes went.

1- Start cleaning dirt out of sink.

2- Remove cat from sink.

3- Continue cleaning dirt out of sink.

4- Remove cat from sink.

5- Finish cleaning dirt out of sink.

6- Remove cat from sink.

7- Open can of tuna.

8- Remove two cats from counter.

9- Trip over third cat.

10- Put small morsel of tuna in each cat bowl.

11- Trip over four cats.

12- Start preparing tuna salad.

13- Remove cat from counter.

14- Continue preparing tuna salad.

15- Remove cat from counter.

16- Remove cat from shoulders.

17- Continue preparing tuna salad.

18- Spray cat with "bad cat" bottle for umpteenth time.

19- Finish tuna salad.

20- Put away tuna salad.

21- Trip over cat.

22- Put empty mayonnaise jar filled with soapy water in sink.

23- Trip over cat.

24- Put empty cans in recycling.

25- Ignore cat yowling for more tuna.

26- Check email "one last time before bed."

27- Turn around to find cat drinking the soapy water out of the mayonnaise jar.

28- Give up in despair and post to LJ.