Meme continued

4. I trained as a small engine mechanic at Camosun College on Vancouver Island, although I never had a job as one. So I know how cars work.

5. I own the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series on DVD.

6. I’ve never been comfortable with my name. But I never did anything to change it, not even get a nickname.

7. I worked at the CIL explosives factory on James Island in BC. We were taken to work by boat and hoisted up a gull-shrieking cliff in a rickety cage. Then we walked across the island to the factory. No fires or guns were allowed there. We even wore boots with the metal grommets removed. There was a ghost town on the island, and deer were everywhere. The ghost town had a bowling alley.

(When I was writing this, it seemed so unlikely that I googled it to check my memory. Here’s the Wikipedia entry for James Island. It says the factory closed in 1962, but that can’t be right. I’m guessing it should be 1972. The rest is correct. Nowadays the island is a resort with a golf course.)

There! I finished the meme. Here’s part 1 if you missed it.

That wasn’t so bad. Thanks for tagging me zoom. Regularly-scheduled blogging will resume as soon as something happens.

The meme

Because I’m a good sport and I always play well with others, I’m going to do the meme. It might take awhile. I’m not going to tag anybody though. I don’t think there is anybody left in my small world of Ottawa blogs.

Here are seven random facts about me, part 1:

1. When I was about 4, I climbed up on the railing of our front porch and hurled myself into a thorn bush. There I hung upside down, squawling, until my mother rescued me. It seemed like hours but was probably seconds.

2. The first girl I ever kissed lived in Como Lake and I lived in North Burnaby. Those are both suburbs of Vancouver. We were about 17. We’d meet on the bus on Sunday and ride around all day. We didn’t kiss on the bus, we kissed in Stanley Park. I hope she never reads this.

3. I had a job as a chicken catcher, but my chicken catching career only lasted for one day.

(In case you’ve never caught chickens, here’s the deal: you catch them by the leg and let them dangle upside down. (Look, a theme.) They go all quiet when they’re upside down. You can hold several in each hand that way. Then you carry them outside and load them into the death trucks.)

Click here for Meme, part 2

Lost cow

Lost cat

This is a real poster. When people draw a picture of their lost cat for the poster, I find it charming and sad and hopeless. Do they really think it will help identify the cat? Most likely they do it for the kids who love the lost cat, so they will think everything that can be done is being done.

You should take a picture of your cat right now, in case you need it for a poster someday.

My favourite picture of a lost cat is still Dexter. Dexter first appeared in this blog on June 21, 2007.

I hope somebody helped Dexter home.

Feist on SNL

Look! Feist is on Saturday Night Live singing that 1-2-3 song from the iPod commercials. She’s got a girl chorus and 3 cute boys with banjos. Most of the backup crew seem to be wearing raccoon masks. Oh Feist you’re so feisty!

I like Feist. Here’s a video of her SNL show.

That’s all for now.