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Temptation beckoned, and I answered -- we stopped by Sam's Club on the way home from work so that I could pick up a 500 Gb hard drive for external storage and backup. Those 500-meg iTunes files clutter up a hard drive dang fast! And it's nice to have somewhere off the main drive to make a copy of all of my art files without feeling like I have to burn a new DVD every time I change something on a Kismet page.
Two days into National Novel Writing Month, I have ... lesse *checks* ... 4681 words. Not too bad! But the month is young, very young.
In other news, a wolf pack killed and ate a dog in North Pole a couple of days ago. (For the non-Alaskans reading this, North Pole is kind of a suburb of Fairbanks, about 20 miles from where we live, on the far side of town.) Um ... eek? Orion keeps trying to convince me that I ought to be more concerned about wolves when I go out hiking with the dogs. My stock response is that wolves don't attack healthy human beings. Then, just to make a liar out of me, last year a wolf attacked and bit a hiker up on the Dalton Highway. Oh, and did I mention the pack of, literally, RABID wolves that killed some sled dogs elsewhere in Alaska this past week? Suddenly I'm not feeling all that safe.
Two days into National Novel Writing Month, I have ... lesse *checks* ... 4681 words. Not too bad! But the month is young, very young.
In other news, a wolf pack killed and ate a dog in North Pole a couple of days ago. (For the non-Alaskans reading this, North Pole is kind of a suburb of Fairbanks, about 20 miles from where we live, on the far side of town.) Um ... eek? Orion keeps trying to convince me that I ought to be more concerned about wolves when I go out hiking with the dogs. My stock response is that wolves don't attack healthy human beings. Then, just to make a liar out of me, last year a wolf attacked and bit a hiker up on the Dalton Highway. Oh, and did I mention the pack of, literally, RABID wolves that killed some sled dogs elsewhere in Alaska this past week? Suddenly I'm not feeling all that safe.
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I would still think that wolves wouldn't choose to attack a whole little pack of healthy human + dogs, but... still. It doesn't sound very safe - for example, how far away does the dog have to be from its human to be seen as a walking meal? That's one of those things you just don't want to find out!
Do you own a gun? Or are there other wolf-repelling objects you could bring on your walks?
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I still really doubt if I would be attacked by wolves just out walking around. Going for long hikes after dark might not be the best idea, but I don't really do that anyway...