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I have been really shaky today from other stuff and in a poor mood so I decided to make myself feel better through lizard sex and terrible terrible video games. I am playing through Super Pitfall for the NES, a Pitfall game that tried too hard to be Mario while apparently never being successfully run through any kind of bug test ever. I hated the game as a kid and probably haven't touched it since I was 8 but the music (which is also terrible) pops into my head once in a while so I figured if I play it through one more time I can exorcise my mind of it, and I don't find it nearly as difficult as I remember.

Also, since Chimichanga laid some dud eggs later last year, I weighed her and found that she is well past appropriate breeding weight. I decided to pair her with Queso for a time just to see, since she's got a 55 gallon all to herself. Queso has HUGE eyes, and Chimi's eyes are rather small, so I'm hoping their offspring, if any, find a happy medium. Their markings are also fairly complementary. I was concerned that Queso would not know what to do, because of all my geckos he seems the least "aware" of other geckos, and I received him as an adult and not knowing how old he is or whether he's been bred, and there's always a chance they're sterile. So I put them together in a small container to watch them interact. It took him a minute to realize, "Oh hey, another gecko," and then...



-___- He apparently was a little overexcited.

But since he was showing willing, I put him in her enclosure, him on one end, her on another. An hour later I hear SQUEAK SQUEAK BANG BANG, and come in there, and it appears he was at least trying again. GROSS. Of course I took a picture!

He has his front left paw on Chimi's back, and his rear left on her tail. The left hemipene is everted in this instance for copulation. The first time I saw one of my males do this I thought he had hemmorhaged or something. It looks like a tiny lizard kidney ;__;


Look at that smug dang face.


Anyway it has been 60 degrees all day so the windows have been open. It's also been rainy with a little occasional thunder and two super-hard downpours.

And Jared forwarded me this story. It seems that the old Barnes & Noble, which I always thought was nice and homey-feeling inside, will be used for a library branch, with a coffee shop. I'm really glad they're hoping to re-use a building instead of letting it fall apart!