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There is probably no direct connection between the almost discovery of the God Particle and my mother’s 104th birthday. Anyway it has been an eventful week. I’m not sure my mother would really care about the Higgs boson but she still loves her Diet Dr. Pepper. What changes she has seen in the world. I keep telling her she needs a  computer and a large screen 3D tv and she just smiles and sometimes laughs. What I really appreciate is that she had put up with me all these years. And after reading that pets and dirt in your first year make you healthier, we had dogs, cats, cows, pigs, rabbits and probably they tracked in lots of healthy stuff. It didn’t kill us so maybe it made us stronger.

Just saw Spiderman and wonder how different the story may have been if Peter Parker had been bitten by a dung beetle. Can you picture the lizard man being stopped by a giant  ball of dung? And I heard that in Australia there is an overage of foxes and feral cats and there was a suggestion that the Tasmanian Devil be reintroduced to the mainland. Though I have read that there is a real decline of the creatures on Tasmania.  On the weird animal section of I think the Huffington Post there was a fish found in a northern US lake  that reportedly bites off part of the male anatomy that most males don’t want bitten off. Experts in the US say it isn’t true.  And the Great White sited in New York and in Santa  Cruz. That one bite off part of a kayak Maybe all this is related to the Higgs boson, global warming or the political polarization in the nation.

On the brighter side, three of the house finches that were hatched  on our back balcony left the nest and flew into the trees around our house. One little one was less developed and was fed by his father for a few more days but tried to leave the nest but couldn’t fly. My daughter found it it the back yard and put it back in the nest. It left a bit later and we did not see it in the yard. I hope it survived. Well,  we are getting ready to go to Costco to buy a few things and eat the $1.50 hot dog with a drink. These are the things that make America great. And may your day be great.

Just had a new idea for a semi-horror semi-hero. Our main character is attacked by a pack of radiated coyotes as he takes out his trash in his foothills community of Southern California. Later when he is driven by emotions to aid someone in distress he morphs into a wereote. As everybody knows not even a silver bullet can kill a wereote. The only downside is that he occasionally wakes up in the morning with cat hair in his mouth. A wereote could wonder the streets and never cause the panic that a were wolf or a vampire would. I can see a whole series of made for cable episodes. Now for a few hints about a safe 4th. Don’t use illegal fireworks purchased in Mexico or eat way too much and never do both at the same time. Oh, another thing. I just read another article about Brown Widow Spiders. Apparently they are everywhere outside and love to dangle from the bottoms of chairs and table and even barbeques. This article says that their venom is less toxic than a Black Widow’s. And don’t worry the Brown Widow is not replacing the Black Widow.