Today I head back to Chicago for about five days before heading to Vancouver for the INR5 meetings, which I’m really looking forward to. Those people really know how to run a meeting: good speakers, schedule not too heavy, a great audience of interested and secular folks, and, last but not least, great noms! After that I’ll be speaking in Toronto for the Centre for Inquiry, and soon thereafter starting the Big Road Trip. It will be a busy summer. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is making a virtue of necessity about her role as a top predator in ecology and evolution (her latest weight is 4.8 kg, about the same as last year):
Hili: I’m a responsible agent of natural selection.
A: Do not overdo it, think of your figure.
In Polish:
Hili: Jestem odpowiedzialnym agentem doboru naturalnego.
Ja: Nie przesadź, myśl trochę o swojej linii.
nice blog..nice informations..
You may not think it the place or the time,but remember your stretching and back exercises……strange beds,airplane rides etc,etc……load up in the old lumbo sacral area……..just sayin from one getting an epidural next Thursday……safe travels ….until we meet again. MOTO
It looks as if Hili just has a well-developed primordial pouch, as do many cats. Barn Cat aka La Reina has a largish primordial pouch, which I really noticed when I had the occasion to pick her up earlier this week. She had jumped into the open trunk of my car, meowing impatiently for noms, when I was taking my muck boots off, and I decided to try removing her physically. Although she’s sat in my lap many times, I’d never actually picked her up until then, and I wasn’t sure what would happen. She was perfectly relaxed and floppy, like any cat who enjoys being picked up and held gently.
My d*gs are all small, and I pick them up and carry them frequently – d*g tummies are of course quite taut compared to cat tummies, so the experience is noticeably different.
In my experience the cats with the most invitingly smooshy tummies are the most averse to having their bellies rubbed. So stingy!
Don’t see 10.5 lbs. as anything to worry about. Both of our cats are more than than.
Telling a girls weight…really.
Are you coming to Portland, OR on your book tour?
Not to sound too formalistic, but we are all agents of natural selection…responsible or not; we do not have a choice.
Since Canadian (I think) locations have been mentioned, the Rush line that “even if you don’t decide/ you still have made a choice” bears remembering.
If you have the time, check out Vij’s for fantastic Indian food in Vancouver. The lamb “lollipops” are to die for.
Great aquarium in Stanley Park, too.
So…Hili dialogues seem an appropriate place for weather reports…and it’s definitely summer here. Triple digits today and, honestly, every day from now until maybe September. I spent the morning with Mom and Dad preparing some spots in the garden to re-plant some turf sod…and I actually got a bit overheated. Recovered quickly and was back outside to finish it in time for lunch (Dim Sum!), but only because I recognized that I was getting hot and did something about it immediately.
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Oooh, Chubbikins.