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Pet Deer

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"You want adventure. Every fiber of your being is screaming for it. Where do you find it? You find it in the voluntary adoption of responsibility." -- Jordan Peterson And some additional context to add is that the priorities for responsibility start with and for yourself. The deer in the neighborhood have become tame, quite tame. I think we are at the point where I can train them to eat from my hand. I dont feed them, but it is clear others in the neighborhood are feeding them. I am questioning whether it is right or wrong. It is not as simple as what you might initially think, running through loops of listening to the mezmoring voice David Attenborough anthropomorphising wildlife. Or what you learned as you slammed into a deer with your car. It's not that clear. The deer are not running out in front of cars in the neighborhood. They act more like the neighborhood geese, having full reign of the lawns, driveways and streets. We had a goose that demanded sovereignt...
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Some pics for last week in Upstate NY and one of DTW airport Detroit. Click here for the DTW airport diagram.
I have been in NY state and Kansas in the last week. My main computer had a fatal HD0 failure. I just took it to the shop, got a new hard drive, all the data loaded/transferred and everything is good. I hardly noticed the failure. What a difference from years gone by where I would fight getting things back the way they needed to be. It helps living in Atlanta. Services, even computer services, are easy to get and there is sufficient competition to keep prices reasonable. I have enrolled in formal Portuguese classes that start next week.