Neanderpundit

you annoying bitch. I am gonna do what I can to make it through today without beating someone, but I’m not making any promises. Plus, big pile of shit going on at home and at work, so not amused. But I’ll get through it, I always do. bedtime cannot come too soon.

Little by little. Roof on the house should be coming around mid next month. yesterday I finally got someone to come out and clean up the backyard, so it’s no longer a bunch of downed trees. Daughter’s car within striking distance, I hope. And the insurance and 401k at work about to kick in.

Never been busier. Surrounded by a few people who really know their jobs, and a lot of kids that are playing engineer for the first time in their lives. Oy. Deliver me from fools.

A mesa is a flat piece of land surrounded by gulleys. Mesa means “Table”, and they look like that, like big stone and dirt tables. In some areas of the American southwest the flat spot on top of the mesa is good grazing land, and it’s not uncommon to find a herd of sheep grazing away.

Nearby is a similar mesa, with goats on it. There are also wolves, and the wolves sometimes kill and eat a goat. The goats will at least try to defend themselves, if cornered, and many a wolf retains cracked ribs as a result of a goat encounter.

A bridge is built between these mesas. it’s all good, right? the goats will come eat the weeds where the sheep graze, and the sheep will come and graze on the grass the goats leave behind (Lots of goats prefer weeds and brush to grass)

Also, the wolves cross over.

“What’s the big deal? The wolves eat goats now. it’s already bad if a wolf eats a sheep, the bridge didn’t make it more bad”

Predators are going to be predators. Why would we facilitate predation?