Musings by Miso

I saw the movie The Blind Side last night.  It is based on a true story and stars Sandra Bullock.  It is funny and heartwarming.  It is about a high school student from the wrong side on town who attends a private school and has had a rough life.  At the end of the movie I got chills - the good kind.  I give it two thumbs up.

Who are you dying to see in concert?

I want to see The Cure.  I bought The Cure tickets from Ticketmaster one year and they canceled the show.  Ticketmaster kept the fees.  Another time I was given a free pair of tickets, but I went to a work conference out of town and I couldn't make the concer.  It was the only time I have ever gone out of town overnight for work. 

What have you been putting off doing?
Submitted by BeautifullyBroken.

Cleaning my room.

The Cove

Last night I saw the movie The Cove.  It is a documentary about dolphins

in Taiji Japan by the dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry who made the bottle-nose

dolphins popular in the TV series Flipper.  In a cove in Taiji Japan, you can

photograph fisherman rounding up female dolphins to sell for 150K to

aquariums like SeaWorld and other swim with dolphin captivity programs

around the world.  In an adjacent cove, there are no photographs allowed and

men are hired to keep the public and their cameras out.  A group of surfers

learn about this cove and surf out there with a brief cameo by Hayden

Panettiere, but they are taken away.

Ric selects a team who sets out to discover what really happens in the

cove.  His team makes fake rocks and places cameras in them.  Their cars are followed

 by the police.  They sneak in at night before the fisherman arrive.  The

footage shows men in boats with spears

indiscriminately slaughtering hundreds of dolphins.  The water turns red. 

The dolphin meat is sold to unassuming consumers masked

as whale meat even though it is highly toxic with Mercury.  

Two Japanese councilman said there were discussions of providing the

dolphin meat free to children in school lunch programs. It was disturbing.  The 

fishing begins in September. 

http://www.savejapandolphins.org/covelearnmore.php   

I took the grey kitten to the vet yesterday.  The cat had ooze from it's eyes and bottom and kind of just sat around while it's sister kitten BB ran around in circles.  The vet took a vial of yellow fluid from his stomach.  She said he had feline immune virus and that there is nothing that they can do for it.  I took it back to the Humane Society and they will most likely put it down since it is suffering.  The black kitten no longer has a playmate and is home alone during the day.  Poor kittens.

Smoky

What do you tend to worry about in the middle of the night?

In the middle of the night, my stealth black cat might claw me in my sleep.

On Saturday, I went to the San Diego Humane Society.  I sat in the kitten room with about a dozen kittens chasing each other.  I spotted a grey kitten that was relaxed and sitting on a volunteers lap.  I decided to get that one.  Since I am gone during the day, I wanted to get another kitten as a playmate for the grey one.  I saw another grey kitten, but it was not related.  The volunteer said that he has a sister from the same litter who is black.  She is hyper and curious.  I ended up getting both of them.  They like to chase a feather on a string for about 20 minutes until the black kitten is panting.  The grey one just sits there and occassionally gets up and only goes one direction.

I named the grey one Smoky.

What should I name the Black kitten?  I was thinking Ashley and Ash for short but I want to change it to something else.

Kittens

Yesterday, there was a police chase in San Diego on the interstate.  The drug suspects threw cash out the window and the freeway was littered with $20 and $100 bills.  Motorists stopped traffic and ran on the freeway to collect the $20 and $100 bills.  There are videos of drivers running around the freeway picking up the bills.  Wow, what a way to get motorist to stop and pick up "litter".  The authorities are saying that the money was most likely obtained illegally and that the money is crime evidence.  DEA has over 17K and some citizens have turned in the cash to the police  .

Would you keep the money?

Also, "freeway" is the biggest oxymoron in the English language.

BBC Video of Money Litter

What's a little thing you do every day that brightens the lives of those around you?
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I do silly things and make people laugh.  

 

I am friendly to my neighbors, whether they are 75 with a13 year old dog and they say their computer doesn't work and nothing is wrong with it when I check it, but I just say it is "fixed" or if they are a 7 year old who asks if I am older than the lightbulb, I just say they had electricity when I was younger.

 

 

If a random stranger asks to shake my hand, I pretend I am the President and I shake their hand.

 

I smile and listen. 

I am thinking of getting a cat at a pound.  In December my roommate with her fiance moved out, so the place is quiet on the weekends.  I would like a kitten, so I can train the furball to be an attack kitten with stealth moves.  Cats go in heat only certain times of year, so right now there are no newborn kittens.  I am also contemplating whether I should get one cat or two cats.  On one hand it will be double the litter.  On the other hand two is better than one.