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Many years ago I had a pet hamster.  I named him Meatball.  I bought him for an experiment in my introduction to psychology class.  I kept a record of how I taught him to do something. I forgot what it was. He was very smart and figured out how to unlock his cage and explore the house.  He never bit me. Here's a video from Disneyland I found it on the Mashable website (  Mashable  )

I never knew about this: "Man-Spreading, or man-sitting, is the practice of sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat."  ~Wikipedia  I found out about it from an article on the web. I'm not sure what the site was. Then I searched for more images. It's not new: They even have signs  about it: But women can do it with her bags: Is she pregnant?

Carl Gustav Jung July 26, 1875 - June 6, 1961 Did you ever notice how some coincidences seem to be more complicated than pure chance?  They have a meaning which coincidences do not have.  The event just makes sense even though there is no physical link.   In an earlier post I mentioned how my daughter took a bus to come visit us. On that bus was a man who offered her some orange flavored Tic Tacs.  She did not accept any.  The man looked a little strange to her. When we met her at the bus station I offered her some orange Tic Tacs!  Now  I usually don't eat orange flavored Tic Tacs but that day I had some.  Was it pure luck or did it mean something?  Was it some force or intelligence somehow preparing for her visit? I read that Carl Jung created the concept of synchronicity to explain these types of events.  I decided to do a little more research. I found this quote: "Jung believed in  the “compl...

Lynette noticed a toad in one of our flower pots at night.  During the day it was gone but came back again at night. I thought it must go somewhere during the day, maybe to look for food, then return to the flower pot at night. But I was wrong.  The toad dug a hole in the dirt and buried himself during the day and came out at night. The toad must eat the insects that come near the pot and take in water from the moist soil.  Digging into the dirt protects him from the heat of the day and with its camouflaged skin he's impossible to see. One night I watched him wipe the dirt off his back with his feet, first one foot then the other. It's like having a pet just outside the back door.  I hope he stays for a while.