Retrieving Thoughts from the White Board - March 8

As in Golden Retriever.  On the afternoon last as I betook myself to endeavor upon my mathematics studies (been reading The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis, thus the long-winded superciliousness - interesting stuff in this book, by the way), I got a call from my wife saying that she had been at the gas station and noticed a very pregnant and relatively "small" golden retriever wandering about.  She made inquiries and was told that it had been hanging around for a couple days and looked to be abandoned.  So instead of feeling sad for the poor animal and then driving away, she decided to bring it home.

I don't know.  I guess in her shoes (that'd be a sight!), I might have wanted to do something for the poor creature too.  The dog is, as I said, very pregnant, but also quite sweet.  She seems to have been in fights in the past, as her face has some small scarring.  She is likewise a bit timid, but just the same not overly skittish toward people.  And our dog Sadie took right to her, which is odd (and somewhat disquieting to me, due to previous circumstances in which Sadie freaked out at other large dogs she has been paired up with around our house for short periods).

Just the same, I hope and pray that this sad dog's owner simply has lost track of her, and she will be quickly returned to her rightful home.  My wife and daughter have aspirations of keeping her.  I was unable to adequately convince them in the short time I had for rebuttal that this dog will be hungry and we are hard enough off feeding ourselves right now.  Plus it, as a living animal, is just one more point of responsibility around the home.  And all this before the puppies that will inevitably come are factored in. 

 Anyway, we'll see how things go for the next few days.  It is stuff like this that makes a man just shake his head.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self. - Gao Xingjian

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. - Aldous Huxley  

The parting comment:

Source: LolSnaps.com

 I can't help but wonder if the person who made this gigantic snow sculpture had to keep lifting up their foot to look at their own boot and see if they were doing it right.  I can imagine the conversation (with them-self, that is) going like this: "Hmmm...  now if I jump two feet to the left and go three steps, I'll make the first part of this little diamond piece.  Boy, this is a lot more fun than studying for my Geography quiz!"