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Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2007-11-02 10:33 pm

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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.

[identity profile] pamola.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
I really like the Carolina Panther story. I work at a power plant and people are called in/leave at all hours. Being rural, they see a lot of wild life. Deer are common, Bobcats are rare but seen atleast once a year. A sys admin before me saw a black panther once. So I have hope for the animals living in the fringes. I fear for them now since we have a huge building boom due to swamps suddenly perking due to the drought. Lots of habitat is disappearing.