You probably know someone who has lost a pet. In fact, if you are reading this, you can be sure you do. But this isn’t about me losing a pet, or you losing a pet. This is about how funny the events that power the world collide in serendipitous ways to make me giggle.

Yesterday, my girlfriend’s sister had a parrot get out of its cage. Not usually calamitous, I know. However, her sister also owns two dogs, and a cat or two, as well as another bird (actually bird-sitting my girlfriend’s bird). One might make a note, however, of a tidbit of info concerning the other furry denizens of the house: the dogs are bird dogs.

One brief thing lead to another, and in no time at all, one could say the household suddenly had a spare cuttlefish bone.

I got online just now, and flicked open my customized Google home page with a slew of RSS feeds, and yesterday’s HowTo of the Day was the following:

How the internet and the world conspire against my poker face.

Tee-hee.