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I actually don't want to show off my bike:  I want to show off my hamster.

Could you post this picture?

http://www.dtashley.com/photos/2003/pics20031109/dcp02355.jpg

Thanks.

 David T. Ashley wrote:

Is it still alive?

 
Unfortunately, no.  Here are the rest of the pics.

http://www.dtashley.com/photos/2003/pics20031109/index2.php

Hamsters only live 2-3 years.

Without exaggeration, the week when he became ill and died was one of the
saddest weeks in my life.  I really liked the little guy.  He had a certain
purity to him.  It was funny to watch him on the wheel.  He would go for
many minutes at a time, and he went at it like he was on a mission.  My and
my girlfriend both made the observation that we wished we understood what he
was thinking while on the wheel.

It was good to observe a hamster for a couple years.  I understand now why
they are acceptable pets for kids, and I also understand now how kids lose
them (the hamster is very content staying away from people as long as it can
find food and water).

In my 30's, to some degree I tried the things I never got to try as a kid.
I actually got an ant farm (which my mom never let me have when I was a
kid).  The ants were rather interesting in terms of the genetically built-in
behaviors.  (I look at them a bit differently than a kid is likely to.)  The
tunneling and so on was amazing.  One of the most amazing behaviors was that
when I'd take the top off and breathe on them (gently blow a bit of breath
in), they would all get very combative and start reaching the pincers up and
biting stuff.  I can only assume that this was some evolutionary mechanism
because mammals breathing on the ants is usually bad news coming for the
ants.

Getting a pilot's license was just a money and time thing ... I was never
prohibited from doing this when I was a kid.

Motorcycling is another thing that my mom never approved of.  I'd always
wanted to learn to operate a motorcycle.  Very interesting experience.
Owning a Katana briefly was an eye-opener.  It didn't take me long to figure
out how and why teenagers get themselves killed.  The power, good brakes,
and sticky rubber are rather seductive.

I think in the next year or two I'll run a half marathon (don't have the
resolve to train for the full one at my age--it can be done but I ran
cross-country in high school and I know what it is to run 9 or 10 miles a
day).

The one thing I do NOT have the guts to do is skydive.  The skydive
instructors at the local airport are great people and good friends ... but I
don't have the guts.  They advised me that there are clear rules against
skydiving drunk; and frankly that is the only way I could do it for the
first time.

 David T. Ashley wrote:

I have never seen anyone pose and post pictures of a dead hamster
before. You certainly have your dark side.  :)

I asked because of the date on the pic and knew they don't last long. I
used to have Guinea pigs as a kid. Get into acting out now your'e in
your 30's....time speeds up.....go for a tandem jump, at least if it all
goes wrong, you will die in the knowledge that someone is going with
you. Not that I would ever jump from a perfectly serviceable plane, but
I'm not looking for any thrills beyond bikes.