test run

This is a test run.  A short video I made with my macbook to see how they post to my blog.  I might make some videos while in Japan, so I thought I should figure out how before I board the plane.  The drippy-faucet noise in the background?  Yeah, that my drippy faucet that really does exist.  It's been dripping for months.  Need to get that fixed.  And my walls aren't white - they are yellow.  But in the video they look white and I was nervous.  

 

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Today I sold my canary.  I was sad and my heart hurt when I had to finagle him into a brown lunch sack and staple it shut.  I did poke holes for ventilation.  Sometimes I make quick/definitive decisions.  Going to Japan being one of them.  Selling my bird, another, which I concretely decided this morning when I woke.  My life as it is right now is not conducive to owning a pet, even a low-maintenance bird.  I leave town sometimes.  Or the country.  Also, I am anti-apartment-smelling-like-animal.  He didn't make my place always smell like pet - but enough that sometimes when I came home that was the first thing I noticed.   Which really was my fault and not his.  I didn't have (or take, whatever) the time to make sure he had his daily bath and to change the paper tray one to two times a day.  The timing just wasn't right for us, I guess.

He's going to a home where there are other canaries.  A young man bought it for his mom for her birthday.  They came together to pick him up with some small kiddos in the back seat.  I met them out on the street.  I could tell she would love this bird, and that she would be around during the day to be more attentive than I was.  I will miss him - but I hope he's happier at his new home.