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May. 6th, 2011 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuYayyyy my laptop was shipped back to me! ;0; Considering it was shipped from a three-hour drive away, it should be here tomorrow! Ahhhhhh I've missed you so much, laptop!
Today was a long day! Not in a bad way, but just long. I went to work for a few hours, helped a sweet adopter pick up her four new hens, and then I took Hunter the rooster down to Sacramento! I met David from Animal Place's Vacaville facility at IKEA in Sacramento and traded Hunter, who is going to a home down in Vacaville, for sixty hens. (We have most of the six hundred hens in right now at Vacaville, but we periodically need to transfer hens to Grass Valley for adopters up here.) Then I went to the Placer SPCA to pick up 80 lbs of chicken food that had been donated to them. Free chicken food for Animal Place, yeah! Placer SPCA had no use for it. There was no air conditioning in the Animal Place truck so it was a warm ride. Hunter was panting the whole way down. I ended up rolling down the windows and my hair blew everywhere, but at least that made it tolerably cool.
When I got back to work, I helped unload the sixty hens and then raced straight to the Wildlife Rehab Intake Center. I was only an hour and a half late for my shift, heh. Luckily not much was going on so Linda didn't care. I talked chickens with one of the volunteers, and then of course a baby bird came in right as we were closing. It was a nesting house sparrow, probably around five days old. I hydrated him, fed him, and then found a rehabber for him to go with. (I know how to care for baby house sparrows, but there's no way I have the time to feed one every fifteen minutes/half-hour!)
Then I finally got home, phew. Another serama chick is working on hatching! That'll be fifteen serama chicks in total, phew. I took pictures of all the chicks and ducklings, now just to upload them! My new camera is awesome, I love it! Alas, there are no extra working USB ports on this computer to upload the pictures, so...uhhhh. May need to wait 'til tomorrow when I have my laptop back.
I'm working again tomorrow, and then I have four days off! And then I'm working Wednesday, have Thursday off, working Friday and Saturday, and then a break again. XD With six hundred hens to adopt out, there are lots of adoptions to deal with, so my schedule varies depending on when adopters are coming.
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On an arbitrary note, because the Animal Place truck has no CD player, I listened to the radio on the way down. I am amused by how little American (mainstream, anyway, the sort of things on the radio) pop I like. I love pop in other languages, pretty much any other language, so why not American pop? And it's not a matter of the lyrics or anything, I don't even care about lyrics unless they're awesome or REALLY bad. I'm not sure what it is I don't like about it. In the two or so hours of radio, there were maybe two songs that I could say I enjoyed on any level above "Whatever, this is background noise." There were a number of them that made me go, "Ugh, no, not this song!" I have a fairly high tolerance for music and get into music of most kinds pretty easily (I'm someone who feels music strongly) so it was a little surprising. I'm not saying that to sound cool or anything, I just think it's amusing.
On the other hand, I was listening to Pandora last night while drawing (no laptop = no music on a computer to listen to) and it suggested some great songs. :D
Today was a long day! Not in a bad way, but just long. I went to work for a few hours, helped a sweet adopter pick up her four new hens, and then I took Hunter the rooster down to Sacramento! I met David from Animal Place's Vacaville facility at IKEA in Sacramento and traded Hunter, who is going to a home down in Vacaville, for sixty hens. (We have most of the six hundred hens in right now at Vacaville, but we periodically need to transfer hens to Grass Valley for adopters up here.) Then I went to the Placer SPCA to pick up 80 lbs of chicken food that had been donated to them. Free chicken food for Animal Place, yeah! Placer SPCA had no use for it. There was no air conditioning in the Animal Place truck so it was a warm ride. Hunter was panting the whole way down. I ended up rolling down the windows and my hair blew everywhere, but at least that made it tolerably cool.
When I got back to work, I helped unload the sixty hens and then raced straight to the Wildlife Rehab Intake Center. I was only an hour and a half late for my shift, heh. Luckily not much was going on so Linda didn't care. I talked chickens with one of the volunteers, and then of course a baby bird came in right as we were closing. It was a nesting house sparrow, probably around five days old. I hydrated him, fed him, and then found a rehabber for him to go with. (I know how to care for baby house sparrows, but there's no way I have the time to feed one every fifteen minutes/half-hour!)
Then I finally got home, phew. Another serama chick is working on hatching! That'll be fifteen serama chicks in total, phew. I took pictures of all the chicks and ducklings, now just to upload them! My new camera is awesome, I love it! Alas, there are no extra working USB ports on this computer to upload the pictures, so...uhhhh. May need to wait 'til tomorrow when I have my laptop back.
I'm working again tomorrow, and then I have four days off! And then I'm working Wednesday, have Thursday off, working Friday and Saturday, and then a break again. XD With six hundred hens to adopt out, there are lots of adoptions to deal with, so my schedule varies depending on when adopters are coming.
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On an arbitrary note, because the Animal Place truck has no CD player, I listened to the radio on the way down. I am amused by how little American (mainstream, anyway, the sort of things on the radio) pop I like. I love pop in other languages, pretty much any other language, so why not American pop? And it's not a matter of the lyrics or anything, I don't even care about lyrics unless they're awesome or REALLY bad. I'm not sure what it is I don't like about it. In the two or so hours of radio, there were maybe two songs that I could say I enjoyed on any level above "Whatever, this is background noise." There were a number of them that made me go, "Ugh, no, not this song!" I have a fairly high tolerance for music and get into music of most kinds pretty easily (I'm someone who feels music strongly) so it was a little surprising. I'm not saying that to sound cool or anything, I just think it's amusing.
On the other hand, I was listening to Pandora last night while drawing (no laptop = no music on a computer to listen to) and it suggested some great songs. :D
