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Some various thoughts, for those of you who are curious about our new living arrangements…
We moved into a house in Garwood, NJ on Monday. Garwood is a tiny town between Cranford and Westfield, and before a few weeks ago, I’d heard of none of those towns.  We’re about 25 minutes from Newark, though it’s more [...]


…during our packing spree.

We move tomorrow.
(Thanks to Heather for the amazing photo.)


Gizmo is our youngest ferret. He’s all of 18 months old.
Whereas Peanut is an old man who dodders to and fro, Gizmo is an explosion of energy. Anyone who’s ever seen a young ferret at play knows what I’m talking about.  Gizmo literally bounces to and fro, pouncing on inanimate objects and wreaking havoc wherever [...]


This is our ferret Peanut.
We’re not exactly sure how old the little guy is.  We think he’s about 7.
In October of 2006, we were in a good enough financial position to have a second ferret, and we thought it would be nice for our then-current ferret Tardy to have a friend.
It turned out that a [...]


Current earworm:
Godzilla.
Raaaar.
Sepultura, “Biotech is Godzilla”
 
And now, our cat Zoe.

Heather got Zoe in the summer of 2001, about a week after we lost my first ferret, Adric, to insulinoma and a broken hip. She’d been asking about getting a cat, and that day she called me at work and simply said, “Meow.”
It turns out that Zoe [...]