Tightening the spam screw

Sorry, until further notice I'm theoretically screening all comments. Rest assured I will unscreen any legitimate comments (even if you call me a filthy cat-eating novelty music fan) as soon as I can. Supposedly my settings already screened any anonymous comments, but that was clearly not the case. Hopefully this idiotic micromanaging will be over soon.

Welcome to my brain

This is playing over and over and over agaiun in my head.

Check that off

So, remember that I said one of my goals for the year was to get one of my photographs from work published? It happened today, completely by accident, with two blurry pictures of the baby gorilla procedure. See them here. It was dark in there, and I didn't want to use the flash, so these pics are taken at about an eighth of a second. Dan, the with the curly hair and headband holding the baby, was trying to make be crack up by looking all sexy like at the camera. I took a bunch of much more interesting photos, but they can't be used because they look like we are torturing the baby--seven zookeepers holding her down while the vet tries to get blood out of her. (The baby gorilla is amazingly strong, and needed to be completely immobilized to safely draw blood.)