Good weekend. Ate at the Chinese Buffet with my daughter and wife. Did a ton of yard work sans shirt. Am now covered in Poison Ivy. Good times. Good times.
Oh, I also won one of the contests I mentioned last week. I won the laptop skin over at FreeAndFlawed. Here’s the one I chose:
Pretty cool, huh? The funny thing is the skin has a big HP logo on it and my laptop is a Toshiba. 
Something else cool happened last week. I read a post on Pretty Good On Paper about cardinals (the bird) and commented that I have a male cardinal that visits a tree in my backyard most mornings. This led me to Google, where I looked up what the song of a cardinal sounds like. That led me to this nice site that has a recording of a cardinal singing.
Wouldn’t you know, that very evening, as I was leaving my parking lot at work with the windows down (because it was a flesh-melting 90 degrees in the car), I heard that very cardinal song. I slowed the car and looked around, for the slight chance to see one of them. Amazingly, the little guy was sitting in a nearby tree. I was so happy, as this was the first time I ever identified a bird from its song. I felt smart for once.
Anyhow, how was your weekend?
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I really wish the HP wasn’t on it. This was one of two favorites of mine. I have a mac that is much smaller so I wouldn’t be able to use it anyway, but it will be funny knowing a HP isn’t under it.
Congrats on winning! I hope to have these shipped out some time this week – once I figure out how to ship them without crushing them.
Congratulations! You seem to be on a winning streak – buy a lottery ticket quick
Sorry about Poison Ivy, I’m so glad we don’t get that here in the UK….
Did you get to see Doctor Who yet?!
Congratulations, a deserved win!
That is smart – I’m impressed! The only birds I can identify by sound is seagulls and that’s only because the pesky things delight in singing loudly outside my window every morning at dawn…
freeandflawed – thanks again and no rush I when you send it.
Diane – I’ve only been winning stuff based on creativity. My “luck” still sucks.
axnewxhorizonx – thanks
I am awakened by crows every morning outside my window.
Cool computer cover, congrats!
Well at least I had the sense not to weed shirtless
I have never identified a bird by hearing its song, consider me jealous. (oh wait horizons is right, I can with seagulls and crows!)
Well done on the contest – looks really good, that.
I have blackbirds in my garden – they nested in the clematis and have since flown the nest but come back to sing now and then.
I hope the poison ivy clears swiftly…
Mell D
– the poison ivy is much worse today. Argh!
taffiny – Yeah, that might’ve raised a few eyebrows!
I hope you are faring better than I in the itchiness department.
Okay, last person on the face of the earth to know or understand what a “skin” for a laptop is.
Explain please.
cardiogirl – it’s basically a sticker for the laptop, a second skin if you will to spruce the outside of the laptop.