It Takes Less Than A Minute
The Animal Rescue Site
i wasn't going to blog today. i need to tear myself away from the blogosphere and attend to some chores around here. get more wood from the woodshed and start a fire so i can turn off this bloody expensive electric heater. have the BMW towed to Napa because the breaks seemed to have gone south. (gave the make, year & model number to the AAA lady & she asked: "now is 74 the model number?" "no" i answered, "74 is the year - 2002 is the model number") take a bath, which means moving the radiator from room 16 (the computer room) to the bathroom to warm it up. finding somebody to come and haul away the old wood-stove which is staining the deck with rust from the rain. & most important of all: loading the back-up files from my firewire drive to kays "new" G3 powerbook that a friend gave her because some asshole broke into her office & stole her iBook. i promised her last night i would get it done today.
so while i'm "holding" for AAA on the cell phone someone calls and i push the OFF button instead of the ON button and lose both calls. the cell phone says that jessie has called so i call her at the gallery and the machine picks up instead so i call her cell phone & leave a message. i don't want to use any phones or go on line & the house is cold so i put on a jacket and start emptying the ashes and then jessie calls back. she wanted to let me know that she was forwarding a group mail, which she hates doing, but a friend has sent it to her and it helps abandoned animals and all you have to do is click on the link and when you get to the site you hit the purple button. "it takes less than a minute" she says. "no problem" i tell her.
so after calling AAA and cingular (because yesterday i hit the ON button instead of the OFF button after i finished a call and when i went back to get the phone, a long time later, it was still ON. "there's not much we can do about this" the cingular lady said. "how long was it on?" i asked. "113 minutes" she said, "but you have 600 minutes left on your 1.000 anytime minutes plan so you should be ok". good grief— what next ? well one thing after another and i finally got back to room 16 &; jessies e-mail and hit the link and hit the purple button and 113 minutes later i got up and staggered out of the room.
so during that time, i went to the animal rescue site and gave 6 bowls of food to a rescued animal in a shelter or sanctuary. i did something or other about u.s. wilderness & i saved some wildlife habitat. i went to the hunger site and gave 1.1 cups of staple food. i went to a site that has a cow with a balloon coming out of her mouth that says: "what's a blog ?" where i met up with some "strong women". i went to the ranger rick site (i love ranger rick !) i didn't go to the camel vaccination site or the mercy corps water kits site because i was afraid. i did spend a good deal of time looking at sox with cats on them as possible xmas presents for friends with whom i have sworn oaths NOT to exchange xmas presents. (i can tuck them away for birthdays, i told myself.) i didn't feed a rescued horse & i didn't help save the jaguars for which i shall burn in hell but i did save 11.4 square feet of an endangered rain-forest & i didn't buy any socks.
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now you try it: The Animal Rescue Site
so while i'm "holding" for AAA on the cell phone someone calls and i push the OFF button instead of the ON button and lose both calls. the cell phone says that jessie has called so i call her at the gallery and the machine picks up instead so i call her cell phone & leave a message. i don't want to use any phones or go on line & the house is cold so i put on a jacket and start emptying the ashes and then jessie calls back. she wanted to let me know that she was forwarding a group mail, which she hates doing, but a friend has sent it to her and it helps abandoned animals and all you have to do is click on the link and when you get to the site you hit the purple button. "it takes less than a minute" she says. "no problem" i tell her.
so after calling AAA and cingular (because yesterday i hit the ON button instead of the OFF button after i finished a call and when i went back to get the phone, a long time later, it was still ON. "there's not much we can do about this" the cingular lady said. "how long was it on?" i asked. "113 minutes" she said, "but you have 600 minutes left on your 1.000 anytime minutes plan so you should be ok". good grief— what next ? well one thing after another and i finally got back to room 16 &; jessies e-mail and hit the link and hit the purple button and 113 minutes later i got up and staggered out of the room.
so during that time, i went to the animal rescue site and gave 6 bowls of food to a rescued animal in a shelter or sanctuary. i did something or other about u.s. wilderness & i saved some wildlife habitat. i went to the hunger site and gave 1.1 cups of staple food. i went to a site that has a cow with a balloon coming out of her mouth that says: "what's a blog ?" where i met up with some "strong women". i went to the ranger rick site (i love ranger rick !) i didn't go to the camel vaccination site or the mercy corps water kits site because i was afraid. i did spend a good deal of time looking at sox with cats on them as possible xmas presents for friends with whom i have sworn oaths NOT to exchange xmas presents. (i can tuck them away for birthdays, i told myself.) i didn't feed a rescued horse & i didn't help save the jaguars for which i shall burn in hell but i did save 11.4 square feet of an endangered rain-forest & i didn't buy any socks.
now you try it:
posted by leonard at Tuesday, December 07, 2004 
1 Comments:
This is great blog. Thank you for posting it. Thanks to everyone else who takes the time (hopefully less than a minute!) to go to the Animal Rescue Site.
xxoo,
Jessie
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