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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

RIP Oot the Sugar Glider

I found Oot the Sugar Glider lying dead in his food tray this morning. Kalypso got Oot as a pet in August of 2004. She wrote about that in her blog. She named him "Oot" because it rhymed with "cute." When I left our New Orleans house due to the 2005 flood, Bart and I returned two weeks later in September with my primary objective of rescuing Oot. Bart captures the recapturing of Oot in his Episode 93 of his Rox show. I wrote about it here. Kalypso was very happy to see him when I brought Oot to Omaha where we lived for several months after the flood. At one point Oot seemed dead in Omaha, but it turned out he was hibernating or having some sort of reaction to the cold weather. Oot, like me, preferred to live in New Orleans. There were times when Gil, Kalypso, and Therese advocating selling Oot because nobody played with him. But I could never agree to that. I have a profound and perhaps inexplicable attachment to pets that experienced Hurricane Katrina with me, such as Oot, as well as my dogs Mosey and Kochise. So rest in peace Oot. You perhaps bit people a bit too often, and peed in their hair on occasion, but all of that is to be expected. You were a good sugar glider. I will miss you.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:57 AM

    Mr. Homan....
    followed your comments for last years
    at Bart's b.rox.com...
    I earned big-mouth "moderation" there,
    so, westerners are not so couth, debonair
    as y'all.
    I hope, Mr. H., that you might
    appreciate a bit of Bible-related-slash-
    chicken-little commentary.
    Ready?
    3600 year roughly cycle. Time of Moses,
    before that Sumerian lore. Z. Sitchen...
    All that stuff, and Von Daniken before that.
    I stumbled into Immanuel Velikovsky's
    work-"Worlds in Collision".
    He was blacklisted for too much Truth.
    "He holds Seven Stars in His right hand"...
    Mr. Michael, are clued into
    Nibiru/Planet X/Nemesis/Wormwood?
    This approaching system is said
    to be comprised of the dense Brown Dwarf,
    around which orbit Seven planets, the
    Sixth of which is the Big One (Nibiru?).
    OK, running out of Space, we are.
    both literally on this Blog, and Literally,
    in our Solar (turns out to be Binary) System!
    More coming, I hope you're interested.

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  2. Thanks, I am admittedly a fan of Erich von Daniken but mostly because I found comedy in how ridiculous his theories were. Ridiculous to me anyway. Swiss cheese. Then the Discovery channel hasn't helped, because they too present binary solutions: On the one hand, scholars say reason... But there is some controversial guy on an island who thinks the only answer is aliens....Haven't heard of the rest of your references. I have no idea when Moses lived and I'm an expert. I think, like most, that seven shows up a lot in ancient texts because of the sun, moon, and five visible planets. They tried to mirror the cosmos in their superstitious writings. I do love science fiction though, and much of what you write reminds me of Prometheus. It's hard for me to believe the world will end in the lifetime of myself or my children. I did enjoy the movie Melancholia (sp?) though.

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  3. Anonymous2:13 PM

    So, a genuinely interested intellect
    gets squelched both by Churchy-types,
    and by
    Bart-y types.
    So, Mr. Homan
    Let us together, as you read, Invoke
    our Lord and Savior, Jesus, and
    ask for a blessing of Discernment. Amen.
    -----
    Here's what I posted, but won't show, at
    Bart's blog.
    :
    If you didn't now,
    The Macondo/Deepwater Horizon Blowout started a Severe Cascade,
    or emphasized that which was already underway,
    the unstable salt-dome reality of your area is just now
    being revealed by catastrophe.
    Did you Know:
    Salt domes are officially allowed to be pumped full of, and
    maintained, with liquid butane, under pressure?
    Also Propane?...and that these fields, domes, networks of
    pipes and pumping stations all lie within close proximity?
    Did you know that they used an experimental Nuke
    in a Mississippi Salt-dome in 1962?
    Did you know that Oil Tanker ships routinely return from
    overseas, full of toxic fluids, chemicals, which are then
    pumped down into expired salt-domes under your land,
    and under the Gulf?
    Did you know that signs of Gas Bubbles are being seen
    well up the river?
    I know y'all are Bizzy.
    Maybe Too Bizzy to raise yore Haid up, and see th'
    DEE-Zaster about to happen!
    Bart!
    Please commit your Blog Archives, to the Present, to Durable
    Hard Copy, for the possible-but-not-likely-future.
    It is clear our electricity will be Gone. WebNet, Gone....
    and most folks have been trained to rely on this tech,
    for their very survival.
    Please Run to the Rockies, Bart.
    ------
    Michael...?
    The question stands, are we to place our
    minds for struggle-to-survive on this
    Prophetically-guaranteed-to-Suffer-World?
    Like, as in, for example, maybe,
    You would want to Flee from Dee-Zaster?
    OR...I say, OR,
    Are we to Faithfully Accept our End
    on the Physical plane, in humility?
    The interplanetary forces cause increased
    Stress on all these vulnerable deadly systems
    which exist all around You-All in NOLA.
    If you look beyond the Peasant-screen level
    of news coverage, enenews.com is It.
    Thank You for your Patience, and Work
    for His Word and Mission.
    By His stripes we are Healed.
    HalleluYah!
    Jon. S.
    Please Run to the Rockies.

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  4. Anonymous2:40 PM

    Hey, Thank You for your response,
    my second overlapped your first,
    so I sorry for any mis-comm...
    -btw-
    Andrew Gabriel Roth....
    tremendous scholar.
    He is Hebrew Roots movement,
    and
    Has produced the AENT
    Aramaic-English New Testament.
    I took pages of notes during his last
    series The Moses of History, and
    The Moses of Legend.
    You will appreciate His work.
    GLC Tv network is on Dish Network
    in our NM area.
    There is a Big Cover-up revealed in
    careful tracing of Egyptian Records of
    the Time.
    Amenhotep II is the Pharaoh who
    lost his firstborn to the plague, and
    chased Moses, and Died or was Lost
    in the Sea of Reeds.
    This caused huge political uproar,
    and the Powers of Egypt quickly realized
    they needed a fake Pharaoh, because
    he's supposed to be Divine and
    Perfect and all that. So...an Impostor
    was placed in the Throne, and...
    So, I Hope you appreciate some
    Brazen, trail-dusted Westerner blabbin'
    at ya.
    There is The High Chronology and Low,
    in this Egyptian Record...
    The Hyksos treated Joseph as they did,
    but The New Kingdom was in place,
    who knew not Joseph, by 1570 BCE,
    the year they decided to enslave Israelites.
    1 Kings 6:1--Exodus was 123 years later.
    that's 1447 BCE.
    Egyptians feared "the Chaos at the End
    of the Age"...Omens in the SKY (he Screamed)!
    The Rise of Sothis (Sirius)...signalled the time.
    Moses born 1526 BCE
    Moses Dies 1406 BCE
    Moses 80 (almost 81) at Exodus.
    Sighting of the Rise of Sothis at Memphis,
    not at Thebes.
    Year of the Exodus, in Fact, Passover, on
    March 22, 1447 BCE, a Friday, a Full Moon.
    A.G. Roth...
    He does emphasize the disagreement
    of scholars. Very fascinating stuff.
    OK, you are a serious Family Man.
    The Time is Upon Us. We Live in a
    World of Lies. The Prince of the Powers
    of the Air . Steve Winwood-Season of the
    Witch. I don't want to Pick Up their Stitch.
    The Sinkhole is Primary concern Now...?
    Are you Painfully Aware of the Falsehood
    Games y'all live UNDER? You're a Lawyer.
    I've had Lazy-ass time to Study a little.
    Hope this may be of some Value to you.

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  5. Anonymous3:04 PM

    Mr. Michael,
    Sorry you need this link,
    unless you already went to enenews.com.
    It is a False World. False Prophets.
    Some of us don't have a Nice Job,
    because we pursue Truth...and are lazy.
    tee hee!
    :
    :
    http://enenews.com/paper-cavern-of-butane-1600-feet-from-sinkhole-propane-cavern-also-in-vacinity-combined-capacity-over-3-million-barrels-officials-a-lot-of-dynamic-things-happening-nearby
    :
    :http://enenews.com/official-reports-that-butane-release-from-salt-cavern-could-be-like-h-bomb-explosion-are-a-little-bit-over-the-top-company-plan-may-do-damage-out-two-thirds-of-a-mile
    ----
    They Lie every minute to you, Mr. Michael.
    Righteous Exalteth a Nation.
    Thank You.
    Jesus Rules

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  6. Anonymous9:36 PM

    dear holman family. i am writting this to pay our respects to oot.

    seems like oot lived a charmed life with yall.

    i hope yall decided on a burial and / or a shrine in the back yard.

    oot is dead , long live oot.

    our love to you and your family in this time of sadness.

    rickntrishngentilly.

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