Re: More good stuff.
So, spent the afternoon and evening at the State Fair, with a woman who I'd really like to be dating...and it was her idea. After all the times I tried to invite her along to something over the summer and had plans fall through, I wasn't holding my breath for this one...
But, sure enough, it actually happened. And I got a chance to get a little more acquainted with her son (which is harder than it sounds...he's legally blind so it's been challenging for me to relate well to him. While I'm generally good with kids, a lot of time it is, I think, because I'm willing to clown with them a bit and make myself look a little foolish, and he doesn't see any of that, so my 'primary weapon' is rendered null-and-void. But he still seems to like me...)
And not only that, but a couple of other odd incidents that ended up being both totally unexpected and somewhat endearing happened while we were there. Another friend of mine, we discovered, was showing goats at the Fair...and her goats apparently think I'm awesome, one of them just stood there and let me scratch her head for the better part of ten minutes--very much like a dog, every time I stopped, she'd step forward and nuzzle my hand.
And the baby lemurs that my 'friend' was so eager for her son to touch? I don't know if it was because of scratching the goat, or what...but they decided that my hand tasted AWESOME. I've never had my right hand groomed by lemurs before...it was kind of an odd sensation (I'm glad they didn't decide to really bite down when they were mouthing my fingertips...they've got a lot of fairly sharp teeth...) And I think the guy handling the lemurs was impressed that I didn't freak out and jerk my hand back when they started mouthing me (these 'babies' were actually about five months old, so they looked a lot like the adults, just half-sized...)
So, all in all, three cool things that I didn't expect to happen. I like days like this.