Rain Gryphon

I got the old bird bath repaired, in a half-assed sort of way. It does hold water now. Interestingly, it looks to me like I have more birds in the back yard than usual, even though no-one is currently using the bath. I wonder if that standardized "bird bath" shape is something birds see enough to have happy associations with?

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The Starlings are taking turns in the bird bath. One bird at a time gets in and splashes, and the others keep watch from the tree. The submissive birds get their turns cut short (a dominant bird flutters down and lands on the brim of the bowl to show that it's his turn now), but everyone does get a turn, and the submissive ones' don't seem that much shorter.

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I've discovered that if I'm logged into my bank app, then my card gets declined. Were I smarter, that would tell me something about potential avenues of attack that the bank fears. Or perhaps that only one routine at a time can perform an action to the account, and that the mobile app probably didn't exist when the back-end was written.

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Disasteroid! For the past five or six years, I've held the conviction that I will die in September*. This dovetails nicely with that.

* If nothing else, an appropriate month for a Cubs fan.

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Florida man steals car, kills dog, chases man with ax, found naked in chicken coop. Ah, Florida...