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It’s raining cats and millipedes!

Rainy season continues here, and it’s great.  I sometimes even turn the fan off in the house.  The rain, though, brings with it animals.

The giant millipedes come around more when it rains.  It seems to put them into “reproductive mode,” as I seem them in pairs far more often (and then I see baby millipedes not long after).  The kids think they’re gross and try to squash them.

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I’m still unsure what to name the cat, but that doesn’t stop him/her from coming inside when it rains and enjoying the dried fish I leave on the ground.

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Back on Track

My sunburn has been awful.  I actually took three days off  because it hurt so much.  On the third day, when I thought things were finally improving, I looked down and thought, “Why do I have the feet of a fat person?”  Yes, apparently sunburn can make your feet swell.  I have never suffered from swelling of any sort, and was always the kind of person that thought, “yeah right” whenever people would complain about it in airplanes, but now I can empathize.

Recovery has consisted of a lot of sitting at home with no shirt on, and in that time, surprisingly, I made a new friend:

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He likes to eat my garbage, which I’m OK with as long as he doesn’t rip the garbage bag.  He also likes to sit under my ceiling fan for the same reasons I do.  We make a pretty lazy pair.

While confined to the indoors (it hurt to walk in direct sunlight) I have also been playing with Linux a lot more in preparation for my as-yet-undefined “big idea,” but then I switched gears and spent more time tinkering with the floppy disk concept because working with Linux was literally giving me nightmares.  (For the nerds out there who will understand, I was having nonsense-anxiety dreams about binary portability and dependencies.)

In any case, the revisions to the floppy disk have been a hit, and the kids are more engaged than ever while learning on the computers.  Once I tire of changing it around every day, I’ll post the files on the blog for all to enjoy.

Lastly, today I “taught” volleyball after school, not that I have any qualification to do so.  I must say that playing volleyball with small children makes me feel very coordinated.  I was always one of the worst when it came to sports in general, but now, against five-year-olds, I dominate!  They don’t stand a chance.  My height and motor skills put them to shame, ha!

Oh right, I’m supposed to be teaching them… Anyway, I think playing sports outside demonstrates that I’m finally back to normal, hence the title of this blog post.