The most stressful night of the year (says the dog)
The dog is in high stress mode right now. Ever since the streetlights came on, several hours ago, she’s been trying to deal with visitors (invaders), and she’s not doing well. Barking, running from window to window, dealing with timeout in the crate and the imposition of a muzzle. Not fun, says she, and if she can’t repel boarders with her voice and demeanor, what’s left?
Actually, the muzzle caused one little bumblebee to ask why the dog had tape on her nose (the muzzle has been somewhat reinforced with a wrap of Duct Tape, for reasons that best go unexplained). Perspective is everything when you’re far below voting age. Right now, I have attached the dog to my wrist while awaiting the next knock at the door, and any moment now I’m going to have to rethink touch typing.
I like maps. Apart from the security of knowing where I am (before I get there), the folded world beyond my front yard offers vocabulary and history and a two-dimensional reduction. But, lest we forget, there are other kinds of maps out there. Tonight, I want to draw attention to the efforts of some anonymous blogger over at Strange Maps. With a heady dose of statistics thrown in, he has left a shopping list of interesting maps for the rest of us. Things like “France, reconstructed from apparently inadequate data”, or “The McFarthest Place” (not on my vacation trail).
Here, I was content that with my collection of folded maps and a loaded GPS, I’d never be totally lost. Now I know better.
