Along with character, looks do count
@Larisa . It's kind of a vulgar amalgamation in all creatures,
@Smart Red. Looks good in a suit,
@Nyboy .
The cat is something of a mystery. It has too many lives, perhaps. A vicious predator, it is conjectured that it would kill and eat its human companions, if there wasn't such a size difference.
However ... only the very smallest of adult cats weigh less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg). And yet, the predatory Great Horned Owl is smaller, seldom reaching that weigh. Cats usually weigh 9 or 10 pounds.
I have heard the stories too often not to believe them. A friend opened the door one morning and her cat walked out on the deck and sat down. An owl swooped in, grabbed the cat and carried it off, disappearing behind the barn. It was the last she saw of her cat ...
Owl, of the Hundred Acre Woods (home also to Winnie the Pooh), was thought to be very intelligent. He was always ready to give advice. He was known as Owl in the books but understood himself to be a "Wol." I'm not sure why the correction was never made by Mr. A. A. Milne. Perhaps, he just never found the time.
Personally, I've discovered something about myself, that is related, anyway to my digital self. When I set my mind on a problem and my digitS' on correcting it -- I have about a 40% chance of success, the first time out the gate. My second attempt is usually met with about a 60% success rate.
One naively might think that this would lead to fixing the problem 100% of the time. Of course, this isn't how higher math works.
No, I'm often back with a third attempt, even a .. .. forth try! These are less likely to achieve anything. My guess is a third try works about 20% of the time and it's downhill from there!
Sometimes, I wish I could simply race through a hands-free existence and that any sort of engineered solutions were unnecessary.
Steve
