Trina Letter - Be Careful Up There, Twib.

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Hey, Navy:

Can’t believe you’ve been gone for two weeks. Damn. The "missing you" part is still pretty strong.

Not a particular cheery day in the Moore house: Danielle’s guinea pig got sick and went to play with the guinea pigs in the sky. Danielle said she was fine this morning, but she got sicker, so Danielle and I took her to the vet. The vet examined her, said it was a Vitamin C problem and gave her a shot. It didn’t help and Twibby passed on peacefully.

I’m doing my usual mulling when things like this happen; for example, thinking how much life is like John Irving novel or vice versa. He wrote The World According to Garp and the characters in his book go to great lengths to accomplish something in their lives, and just when they achieve happiness, they meet some untimely end or personal disaster. The reader is left with a feeling of "why should we even bother?", but the point Irving and other writers are trying to make is that sometimes the experience of the journey is the accomplishment, not the destination.

I get the blahs when things like this happen and I take them out on paper. Sorry if you’re bored.

Haven’t given you a local weather report for your area lately. By the time you read this, the nice days of 50 and 60 degree weather will have left Chicago, and the rain and cooler temps will move in to mess up the weekend. The wet stuff should pass on by the beginning of the week (11/7).

From the Best of Craig’s List:

I recently read a posting from a young lady who was wondering why it's so hard to find a date in NYC when there are so many eligible bachelors, her estimate was 2 million. She then went on to describe what she was looking for, the typical tall, dark and handsome, athletic and successful father of her future children.

Here is the breakdown: 2,000,000 available men of whom 20% are taller than 6', average height for men is 5"9. So now we are at 400,000 available tall men. Of those about half have an athletic build, work-out on a regular basis. So we have 200,000 tall, fit men left. Of those men, about 60% are heterosexual, leaving 120,000 available. Of the 120,000 tall, fit, straight guys left only 20% could be considered handsome by the very discerning group of women posting on [Craig’s List], leaving us with 42,000 tall, fit, straight and handsome available men. Of those men only 10% are succe$$ful enough to attract the alpha-[Craig’s List] female leaving 4,200 available. Of those 4,200 only about 5% (conservatively) are reading these postings by the lovely ladies of [Craig’s List], which means only a few hundred men of this type are potentially going to read your posting. Of those only a few brave souls will respond with a picture.

I hope this has been helpful. Good luck. -- Charles Darwin

All my love,
Air Force