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email thisThis weekend I got a strange, accusatory email. He was obviously confused by one of my entries and the knee jerk reaction was to call me on it. I can understand that, even empathize with him a bit. I took care of Mapblast feedback for two years and have seen people get really bent at some seemingly minor things. But what really got to me was the line:
If you are half as smart as Saddam Hussein you will...
Huh? I'm not sure how to read this. Is Saddam Hussein the new metric for smartness? Does comparing me to Saddam reinforce that I am an evil dude? Is there an un-stated threat that this guy will go George Bush on me?
Well, I started to write a silly psychological email about invincible foes and people who like to instigate fights and all that. But, I decided it was a waste of time.
But I am now curious about Saddam's education background. Maybe he's taken IQ tests. I mean, he did get biological agents MAILED TO HIM by companies in the United States (during the Iran/Iraq War) and now we're worried about him using those weapons on us. Hmmmmmm.....
It has been raining quite a bit lately, which seems to have both spurred on the fall colors and hastened the leaves to the ground...and the ponds. It's that time of year when I have to figure out what to do with the fish in our little decorative pond. The first year they wintered in a ten-gallon tank and last winter it was a twenty gallon model. Unfortunately Whitey, as Faith has named the huge white Koi, is growing faster than our tank selection. This weekend I lucked out and found a used forty gallon tank through ItsClassified. Cleaned it, set it up, and transported the fish indoors (netting Whitey is something of a challenge as you can imagine). If this keeps up I'll be buying a wall-sized tank or one of those fish-filled waterbeds James Bond and Tiffany used in Diamonds are Forever.
If you happened to drive our roads the past few, soggy days you would have seen Zeke and I out slogging through the rain. Now that I have a full time job again it's been an effort to remember to go outside, and somehow the breaks coincide with foul weather. Yesterday's perpetual drizzle almost cancelled our long walk, but the trees offered some shelter, the sound of rain on leaves was relaxing, and the woods were chock full of fresh mushrooms. I photographed dozens of cool mushroom varieties and will be posting a scrapbook sometime this week.
Millions of dead leaves!!!! Must be an ecological disaster!
We have emergency teams canvassing the forests, glueing the leaves on as fast as they can. IV drips have been put in place for those that are fading, in some cases utilizing the very same taps used by the "Maple Gang" during their destructive rampage this past Spring.