Glossary
Asana: A Sanskrit word meaning “seat”
The Boys: Two sugar gliders, named Sonar and Max
The Commute: 1. A mile and a half to work by bus 2. A mile and a half home on foot
The Condo: A sort of artificial tree, with a rope swing, built by our friend Pet, for sugar gliders to climb on
Cornstick (a.k.a. Vitakraft® Popcorn Kräcker® Stick): Sonar’s and Max’s favorite food
Fallingwater (the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence): 1. A house in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. 2. The most popular search engine phrase that leads to this blog, which has nothing to do with Fallingwater.
Geocaching: A sport or game in which global positioning satellites are used to locate things hidden under other things
GPSr: An acronym for “Global Positioning Satellite receiver”
Max: A sugar glider who immigrated from Sultan to Seattle on 10 March, 2007
Muggle: (n) 1. In the world of the popular Harry Potter novels, a non-magical person 2. In the world of the popular game or sport of geocaching, a person who does not geocache (v) The destruction, accidental or otherwise, of a geocache by a muggle (meaning 2)
The Original Three: The three sugar gliders who lived with Paul and Phillip before Sonar and Max: Gladden T Hart, Gladys Night, and Gladys Night’s Little Pip, Squeak
Paul: 1. A worker employed by a state government to work at a county hospital 2. Blog author with an ecological footprint of 9 acres
Phillip: Married Paul on 1 April, 1998
Rush Hour: A term with no meaning (see Commute)
Snake Dance: Our term for the way sugar gliders react to unfamilar things (in other words, things that might be dangerous, or might not). A sugar glider stands absolutely still, except for their tail, which is held more or less vertically. The tail is waved in a curving motion very much like a snake. Maybe it makes a suger glider appear larger than it is, or maybe it makes them look like a snake.
Sonar: A sugar glider who immigrated to Seattle from Sultan on 16 December, 2006
Sugar Glider: An Australian gliding possum with four opposable thumbs and advanced intelligence
Sugar Glider Sweatshop: A geocaching team headquartered in Seattle, Washington
The Tower: A 52 inch high garment bag, suspended from the ceiling over our futon, bought for sugar gliders to climb on
Writers’ Group: A group which meets on one Sunday each month to spend 5% of the time reading to each other, and 95% of the time socializing
Yoga: A Sanskrit word meaning “to yoke”
2 responses so far ↓
Ben // Monday, 28 July, 2008 at 7:24 am |
Hi Paul…..
When you look at your site stats you might not know where they come from. Randon People that you do know are reading your things. Last summer I did a random google search about feeding squirrels since my kids and I toss peanuts to the squirrels in our back yard. Your site came up.
I check on it once in awhile.
Thanks to you we started geocaching. We bought a $300 garmin and have 7 finds. Pretty cheap investment for a family hobby. we’ll probably join the premium membership at geocaching.com.
We are always asking why we live where we live since there is seemingly no reason to be here. now we have something to do here. and my kids love the excitement of the hunt.
So thank you….and keep on writting. You never know who is watching, and how your simple blogging can introduce new things to people and maybe change thier relationships with those that they love.
thanks!
Have a great day.
Paul // Monday, 28 July, 2008 at 8:39 pm |
Thank you for visiting, and for your kind words, Ben. I hope your family enjoys geocaching.
Keep feeding those squirrels.