My wife is feeling a little under the weather today. Send her some get-well-soon happy thoughts.

I love you sweetie.

On three separate occasions during our visit to the San Diego Zoo we saw animals urinating. (on one occasion we saw a Hippopotamus urinate onto another Hippopotamus.) This bird was the only animal we saw during the trip who had to go #2. Good thing he had his owner’s back available at the time.

(Flickr currently lists this as my 13th most interesting photo. I think it should rank slightly higher… like #2! Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress.)

Have I posted any Panda Bear pictures yet?

We spent so much time on our honeymoon looking at cloudy skies that I sometimes forget we did actually have a few moments of perfectly clear blue skies. This was taken while we were visiting the San Diego Zoo.

I enjoy taking silly pictures of sunlight reflecting off of water. That doesn’t make me a bad guy, does it?

It’s raining again. Not all that hard, but steady. A tad heavier than a drizzle.

This. Sucks.

The spring temperatures stayed around the 60’s. A few sunny days, a few warm days, but generally some combination of cold, gloomy, and rainy. Now that summer is here we are getting… exactly the same thing. We didn’t really have a spring this year and now it looks like we’re not getting a summer either.

This. Sucks.

I need something to cheer me up.

How about this… the American League East Standings as of June 24, 2009 (today):

The Red Sox in first place, five games up on the Yankees makes me happy.

This makes me happy too… two Hubble images of everyone’s favorite Dwarf Planet (anyone who says anything other than Pluto gets slapped in the face) and her three moons.

Really though, when I want to be cheered up all I have to do is think of Jen. Yeah, that works every time.

Sure the rain really sucks, but it’s okay.

Ed McMahon died. Lowell’s own. Bummer. The man who made “Herrrrrrrrre’s Johnny!” a household catch phrase is gone. The man Phil Hartman impersonated so well is gone. You are correct, Sir! Good luck Ed. I hope they have blooper reels in the great beyond.

Last week Jen wanted to pick up a season of the show “How I Met Your Mother.” We went to Best Buy looking for it and all they had was season three. We, obviously, wanted season one. So we wandered around the DVD and Blu Ray aisles looking for an alternative. Jen suggested “Scrubs” and grabbed the first two seasons.

I had never watched an episode all the way through, but I knew every character and how they all related to one another. How? Because Comedy Central ran (runs) the show 24/7 for months prior to me moving in with Jen. I would be home channel surfing, hoping maybe Comedy Central would have something funny to watch, and every time for months it would be “Scrubs.” I got completely sick of the damn show without ever actually sitting through an episode.

Of course that was well over a year ago so my disdain for the show I’d never watched was pretty much gone. I told Jen I would watch them with her. One week later we are 33% through with season two. We’re very much honeymoon-broke right now and are trying to eliminate our credit card debt before making any further big purchases, so there isn’t a lot of extra money laying around right now. So we might have to wait for season three. But… but… but… what are we going to do in the mean time? I don’t know!

Finally (for now) I some how managed to drive all the way to work this morning without turning on my windshield wipers. It’s been so long. New England is turning into some weird rain forest/arctic hybrid where we get soaked with rain every single day but the temperatures remain unseasonably cool. Maybe New England is morphing into Old England?

No rain yet today, but I think there is a 99.999% chance of getting some later.

Happy Summer.

This is from the San Diego Zoo. The Snow Leopards…

They were both staring right at me, weren’t they…

They were hoping to have Red Head Newlywed for lunch, weren’t they.