Trying to be nearly normal. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

Is it just me or is this guy insane?

The really scary part is that this guy is also about 6'2"

Cripes!

That's a unaltered photo of a guy that stood stock still as the female moose sniffed him and decided he wasn't a threat. She was doing this because she had her two babies with her!

I would have wet my pants, had it been me. It really blows my mind when I see the size of these things!

People have them routinely coming into their yards like squirrels do here! They also are a serious driving liability, in Anchorage after dark! Why, you might ask? Because they come into the city to lick the salt off the roads!!

I'm not kidding either. Can you even imagine coming up the street and finding a couple of those in your way? I mean, when I first got to Alaska, my friends were telling me that people die all the time from hitting them!

I can see why.

Can you imagine hitting a moose that size if you're driving a Toyota or a car that size? I saw F150 & one F250 that were barely drivable after hitting a moose. Nope... I'll take my chances any day with a scrawny little whitetail thank you very much!

So, getting back to normality returning around here. (Yeah, yeah!) I've got the first load of clothes in the washer, and performed the "favorite" chore of my day, scooping poop.

Yes, I know it's been awhile since I got home but the jet lag was killing me. I had to try to move past it. It was difficult but I managed to overcome it.

Well... that and the fact that jet lag is only an issue for something along the lines of about the first 24 hours or so after you get to your destination. So it was time to drop that particular excuse!

I got my kitchen back in order. That translates into, "I'm too fricking uninterested in sorting through all this stuff (paperwork of one sort or another) so I'm putting it in a bag on my desk.

Works for me!

As a distraction from all the mental anguish of my trip home, (you can get up off the floor and stop laughing!) I rented the new Bond movie, yes... Bond movies are a guilty pleasure, I must admit.

I wasn't sure about this one, I know there's been a whole mess of press and public scorn about the choice for Bond but I loved it because it was the first Bond movie I've seen in a long time that really mirrored and stayed true to the book. I think Ian Fleming would be proud. I now think the choice they made was outstanding!

It was a sort of prequel (but not a weird George Lucas prequel thing) as to Bond's beginnings, when he first qualified for his "double-O" status. I liked it a lot. And coming from someone that would eat bees for either Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan... that's saying a lot.

Okay, where the hell was I going with this? Oh yeah, wasting tim... I mean, trying to get back to normal.

Next on my hit parade is my garbage. My rolling garbage can hadn't gone to the curb in many weeks. Mostly because with all the snow, I couldn't (or more to the point, wouldn't bother) to get it to the street.

Then of course we got just enough warm weather to melt the snow. Which created puddles. Puddles that were two inches deep and subsequently froze solid. There was no way I was jack-hammering the wheels out of that!

Well, we hit the 50's a couple of times this past week so the ice is gone and the garbage smells so tonight it goes to the curb! Yay! (humor me, it's a big issue!)

The rest of the weekend and early part of this next week is going to be trying to get back into my routine. The migraine really threw me for a loop, there went three days!

I guess I should sign off and stop wasting time... yeah, I admit it! But while it's really sunny outside it's cold and I'm not thrilled with the idea of going out and about. Therefore... the remaining house chores need to move forward.

Or at the very least, it's Sunday so I could go back into the living room to watch the special features of the Bond flick!

Hmmm... I wonder if I've got any microwave popcorn left?