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July 31, 2007
Summer's almost done
Well, I haven't been taking any online classes for the summer and I do not have any school until September. It's been relaxing. We've had a great vacation for the past two weeks visiting the mountains of Western North Carolina, visiting family near Raleigh, and wishing my dad a happy birthday in Maryland.
We got a little family of gerbils, which most New Yorkers would avoid. I believe it was last year that we bought the gerbil cage for our kids, promising to buy them a couple of gerbils as pets. The problem is that it is rare to find a couple of young gerbils in a pet store in New York. I think they too closely resemble rats or people fear that they'll draw more rats into an already rat infested city. We got the gerbils in Maryland where they are abundant! The pet store we went to said that they had four baby gerbils that were born the day prior. We would have to take the mother if we wanted them. Also, we were told that if we didn't take the baby gerbils, they would become snake food. What a way to coerce my empathetic wife. So far, they're healthy except for one of the babies. This morning, we found one dead baby gerbil - natural selection, I guess.
As far as the rest of the summer, I had plans on writing more and doing more personal reading. Neither has really happened yet. The only personal reading I've done is very sporadic and interrupted by children. I go back to work tomorrow and I hope that I'll be disciplined enough to start some writing for the rest of the summer. Maybe this blog entry is a start. Man, looking at my last post I see it has been way too many months to even expect anyone to still be checking this blog. Somehow, there's always been somebody reading it.
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