Hey! How was your day?

Oh yeah? That's good. Mine was pretty cool, maybe I'll tell you about it if you have time. Whatcha doin right now? Yeah, same here, just kinda chillin after work. OK fine fine, I'll tell you. I dunno why work was so cool today, but I woke up pretty early like usual and after showering I didn't just feel like sitting down, so I looked up the location of Oceanside Photo & Telescope because I was going to head there on one of my days off to buy a tripod adapter for my new Bushnell binoculars which are cool but nearly impossible to look at anything in the sky with due to instability.

So, I debated with myself for a moment on whether I had enough time to make the drive out there and then to work and, throwing caution to the wind, I decided to go! I had a hard time finding the place when I got to Oceanside since I suspected that with a big long name like that and supposedly being really bad ass, they'd have a big place. I was wrong and after going in the wrong direction looking for a big sign, I just happened to see their Radioshack-sized camp-out in a strip mall. Yeah.

I was originally going for the bigger and niftier adapter that's on their website for $2 more than the $20 "bent piece of metal with screw" adapter, but when I got there it was marked for $10 more so I went for the bent piece of metal.

While driving down there I listened to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis for the first time and I have to say that is the best album I have ever heard. Ever. Just brilliant stuff. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging kicks all sorts of ass to me and I don't know why. I'm going to burn a copy for Bill Murray at work since he's never heard it and used to listen to Genesis (post-Gabriel) when he was in Highschool.

Then I hauled ass down the coast to Rancho Sante Fe where I realized my previously absent hunger had reappeared, so I went to a Burger King down there where all the employees were obviously working at Burger King because their were no strawberries to pick in the fields. Not to be racist but these were the rudest most nasty Mexicans I've ever encountered in a fast food place. They were all men needless to say and they were all assholes to every customer. I wanted to jump the counter and... train them in customer service.

Then I went to work. I brought a bucket of Red Vines for everyone and people were happy. I can't remember how the day began and how it ended was pretty inconsequential but a lot of Doctors were grabbing me to assist them and such so that makes me feel important. I'm beginning to think Dr. Richter (who no one likes) is beginning to grab me on purpose because we have the same cynical and bitter sense of humor. I was called the "Freezer King" by Naomi today when one of the interns needed to get a dog out of the cooler so she could do a Necropsy on it.

Later, coming back to the cooler to put another dead dog in there, the Necropsy was in progress, and it was on a dog I had worked with. I didn't get the name when we were taking it out. They were removing it's head and had already opened it up. I didn't want to see but after me and the other girl put the dog in the cooler we went over to take a looksie. They had the head off and the other doctor was using a scalpel to (I assume) severe the nerves/membranes/whatever that hold the skin to the skull. She was literally de-gloving the dogs head, so the skin was rolled forward and you could see the dog's skull but with the flap of skin and it's muzzle right under. It was pretty ghastly.

They had the other half of the dog all opened up and the other doctor was showing the kidney's to the girl I was with, apparently there was a lot of stuff wrong with this dog that they didn't know anything about so it was really good that they euthanized it or it would have just gotten worse. She opened up the chest a bit more to look at the lungs and there was a big mass of crap in there was well that they didn't know anything about, much less what it was at the time.

Then, I took my lunch. An hour later, I clocked out and left. I drove around the block to a school field that girls soccer teams play on sometimes and set up my tripod with my binoculars. The adapter works great and it's wonderful to be able to see something. The moon had already gone down so I focused on Pleadies for the first time and that was really great to look at. I looked at some other stuff too until I realized that my hands were frozen and I should leave.

So, uhm... sorry I talked your ear off. What'd you do today?