A Road Trip of Ferrety Proportions

For those of you that didn't know, Rob and I went on a road trip yesterday. We drove nearly 700 miles round-trip (an hour and a half past Cincinnati and back). Why, you may ask. We decided to help out with a huge ferret rescue. The quick and short of it is that a very large scale breeder in Ohio could no longer take care of his breeder stock due to old age and failing health. This month he surrendered his ferrets to Ferret's Dream House Shelter in Lynx, Oh; all told, somewhere between 600-800 ferrets. Though we could not adopt many, Rob and I drove down with a donation of Totally Ferret food and the intention of bringing home a new friend. We brought home two sables, a young female about 6 months old and a male about a year old. Donations are greatly appreciated, and if you can help in any way, please.

For more information about the rescue and how to donate, visit: www.ohioferretrescue.com.

If you'd like to see the original Peta video showing the conditions of the breeder go HERE.

HERE is a nice video from a Michigan ferret rescue that shows both the original video with the horrible conditions that the breeder ferrets were put through and some of the ferrets that they rescued.
















OMG! Ohio has hills!






















Yes, we were so far out in the middle of nowhere, we were in Amish country.


















Following Lori's truck back to the site where the ferrets were being housed.

















The big boy playing in his carrier on the way home.

















The little girl taking a nap. Road trips are exhausting!

















Finally! Civilization! And a Sonic where we stopped and had one of those drinks you always see advertised on TV (and can never get b/c the closest Sonic is in Cincinnati!)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr......

So, my DSLR is back from repair. I slapped a lens on it and took it for a test run yesterday at the zoo. Out of over 200 pictures, not a single one is sharp and in perfect focus, thus the original problem I sent it in for is not yet resolved. And on top of that, I now have dust on my sensor, which was not there before I sent it in for repair the first time. So, do I call the repair dept and tell them not only is it not fixed, they screwed it up worse, and they need to take care of the problem pronto? Or do I call and tell them to eff off b/c I'm not paying for a repair that not only didn't take, but they made worse, and no I don't want them to try to fix it b/c I'm going to put my money towards new equipment? Either way I'm out my good camera. However, when my $300 point and shoot is taking better pictures, there's a problem and I need a solution. I don't really have the money for new equipment. I really want the new Canon 40D, but that would mean starting a whole new system. I'd be using tax refund dollars to help fund it. But it's still a huge investment. Argh. What to do, what to do....

I'm in the wrong profession

So, according to careercruising.com, these are the jobs that I'm most suited for. Well, according to my likes and dislikes and all. Talent apparently has nothing to do with it b/c animator and cartoonist are on there and I can't draw worth a damn. Still, fun.

1.	Director of Photography
2.	Set Designer
3.	Costume Designer
4.	Special Effects Technician
5.	Animator
6.	Desktop Publisher
7.	Potter
8.	Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
9.	Craftsperson
10.	Fashion Designer

Beyond this list, Artist made it to #13, Jeweler to #34, and Lawyer all the way at the bottom at #40.

If you too are bored and would like to know where you'd be better suited in life than you are now (no where on the list was retail store manager/corporate slave!):

1. Go to www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.

Have fun. (stolen from Shannon)

Autumn overnight

Dang! It got cold out! I sitting her wearing a sweatshirt I'm so cold. Where did summer go?

Here's what's been going on:

* I got my camera back from repair. I'm still not 100% sure it's working right. Hmmmmmmm.....

* Still haven't found a way to go and see John Heffron perform in November. I'll live.

* I've consoled myself with the above issue by buying overpriced tickets to go and see the Lion King in Detroit. I bought tickets with the first presale. Now the second presale is going on and for some effed up reason if I had waited to buy my tickets until now I could get better seats for my money. Life conspires against me.

* Went to the Detroit Zoo last week. Got to see the polar bear swimming. It was way cool! (thus the cool picture over there to your left).

Now I am off to a managers meeting / T-Mobil training. Oh. The. Joy. Four looooong hours of T-Mobil training. Wow. I work for a camera company and I'm going to go learn to sell cell phones. We have a T-Mobil kiosk right outside our door. This is pointless.