1. Watching old Doctor Who reruns. And new Doctor Who reruns. And realizing that Doctor Who is totally Barty Crouch Jr. That last one kinda sucks, really. Cuz Doctor Who is awesome, and Barty Crouch Jr. was a complete asshole.
2. Watching Eagle Cam. Up in Decorah Iowa there is a fish hatchery. Right near the fish hatchery, there is a bald eagle nest. Some people who might be bigger nerds than I am (I say that with the utmost of love and respect... I adore nerds) have put two webcams up watching this eagle nest. It streams, live, 24 hours a day (one of the cameras is infrared equipped for when the sun goes down) at http://www.raptorresource.org/ and there are a whole bunch of us dorks with nothing better to do than watch these eagles try to make a comfy nest in the middle of the ice and snow.
Apparently it's still freaking cold in Decorah Iowa.
When the nest is covered in snow, it kind of looks like a powdered sugar topped funnel cake. NOW I WANT A FUNNEL CAKE, DAMMIT! It looked like that this morning, but mama and daddy eagle have been working on the nest and now it mostly looks like a nest again. This is halfway through the re-nesting. It's even more cozy now.
Speaking of nest, that thing weighs 1.5 tons. TONS! It's 6 feet in diameter. And it's actually kind of a smallish, newer nest. They just started this nest in 2007... the previous nest fell out of the tree when a branch broke in a windstorm. Don't stand under it in a wind storm.
Speaking of things to not stand under... today daddy eagle brought mama eagle a dove for lunch. After mama had her fill, well, don't stand under the eagle!
not shown: eagle poop
One of the cameras is fixed, the other can be manually operated. The operator can pan around (i.e. the poop image above) and he can zoom in. At one point I'm pretty sure daddy eagle looked me square in the eyes and saw all the way through to my heathen unpatriotic soul.
At the peak of nest-building and camera-operating, the viewer count climbed over 1200.
Meanwhile, I sit here watching it and the size of my ass also goes over 1200... or something like that. I should get up and do something productive with my day, especially now that the eagles are off doing something with their day.
*All images are screengrabs I took while watching the video. Credit goes to http://www.raptorresource.org/ go and give them advertising dollars or something.
P.S. I didn't turn the computer off in time. They both just showed up for some more nest building. They're getting close to egg-laying time! Oooh and daddy brought lunch! Which led to a fight. C'mon daddy, let mama eat... she's gotta make eggs.
P.S.again if you do go watch eagle cam, be prepared for bloody lunch. The circle of life is shown. And eagle poop.
I need a hobby. Or a job. Or a life.
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