I've always been interested in polar exploration and recently my interest has taken another upswing, so I've been reading things online. I got tired of googling both "arctic exploration" and "antarctic exploration" and got to thinking there must be an encompassing term for both ends of the earth. So I open google again and begin to type " ( Read more... )

On April 3, my best friend and I flew out to Las Vegas; on April 4 I picked up my rented truck and hired three guys to pack it for me. They made quick work - five hours all together, and that included an hour in which we went to the truck rental place, got all the paperwork together, and drove back to the storage unit. It also included about half ( Read more... )

That's what the vet told us yesterday. This is a new vet that we found when we adopted Shadow and needed to have him neutered. (All our cats are adopted strays - Spike was born in the desert and his mother had died, Bonnie was abandoned at our apartment complex in Las Vegas, and Shadow - another abandoned pet, we believe - was wandering the ( Read more... )