So, I had my mom over for dinner tonight – for tacos – and it was nice to have someone to talk to for a while. It can get lonely with just the bunny to keep me company. <\/p>\n
However, I made a startling discovery tonight – Gussy is a BOY<\/strong>!<\/p>\n Here’s how I found it out: I was lying on the floor, trying to get Gussy – or Gus – to come out & play, when I noticed something… and I think everyone knows what it was I saw. A closer inspection proved my point – Gussy is most definitely a boy bunny! Which explains the territorial behavior – the peeing on the bed & so forth. Yikes!<\/p>\n (I would like to point out at this point that it was the vet who told us Gus was a girl. Amanda originally thought he was a boy; hence the “Gus” part of her\/his name.) <\/p>\n So our naughty bunny is a naughty boy <\/em>bunny… who knew!<\/p>\n Another discovery, although not made tonight, is that it wasn’t that crappy DVD player I bought that was defective – it’s something else in the “tower of power.” The other night I went to put a DVD in my Playstation 2 (a region 1 DVD, of course) and the same symptom occurred that made me return the other one – the picture went from being very bright to very dim, over the course of about 10 seconds. I can’t figure out what’s causing the problem, but the only thing I can think of is our old, broken VCR player. We only have it because our TV has only a coaxial input – and everything else uses component video (the red, white, & yellow cables for right, left, and video signals). 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