Will do, hope your test goes great! Is it for work too?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
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Will do, hope your test goes great! Is it for work too?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
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Originally Posted by Queen
I am keeping my fingers crossed for you! When will you find out the results?
They said it'd take a week or so, I guess I better try to be patient. *heavysigh*Quote:
Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
Edit - Thanks for being so supportive. :D
Nanci - so sorry to hear about Barbaro.... :(
Queen - hope you did better than you think - that's what usually happens.
OTG - a wonderful first date story. Maybe you're going to be "lise2" Keep us posted with the future dates. :) :)
you know what i can't believe is that i forgot to tell you i lost my "moose virginity"!
we were driving back from dinner the last night i was in anchorage and i actually saw a real moose on the side of the road. in the middle of anchorage! it was an amazing sight.
I read the first line and thought
"That hadda hurt..."
Chica, sometimes you scare me... :rolleyes:
sometimes you scare me with your imagination. :p
Yeah, really. congrats on seeing a moose. I've seen a lot of elk, but never a moose.Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
Well there's a certain avenue it always goes down.
...well maybe less 'avenue' and more 'dirty back alley'... :p
i can't say i've ever seen an elk.
i'll go with the second one of those two kit.
if you come down here, you'll see Elk!Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
no elk here.....no moose.....but we have bunnies....and deer (the deer are so accommodating - they jump right out in the middle of the road so you can see them :eek: :eek: ) and possums.....and worms (read the bike washing thread, mimi!) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
eyewwwwwwwwwwwwww! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by IFjane
here's an article on driving and moose: http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildl...-8490013c.html
(i am so bored at work today i have resorted to reading the news!)
here are some moose pictures: http://www.adn.com/photos/wildlife/m...oto_gallery_0/
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Originally Posted by Queen
Yep, it's called the DSTAT, about 3 hours long. If I pass this would qualify me to bid on technical jobs at Big Mega Telco Corp.
They are so cute! But I wouldn't want to hit one with my car....or my BIKE. :eek: That could seriously ruin my day!Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
You *know* how much I love moose. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
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Originally Posted by Trek420
Trek,
I will be sending you positive test vibes. Remind my old brain, when do you take ity again? On the 23rd?
Rocky & bullwinkle!
Umm yes, running into a Moose would ruin your day.However if you just hit the moose a bit, it would mozy on and tell it's moose friends "oh, that bruise..just a car.." something like that.
Possums are evil. Pest in NZ but protected species in Australia...:mad:
Hey are there such things as Moose bars on cars & trucks? Most 4WD's & utes in Australia have Bull Bars. Bull bars protect your car from when the suicidal kangaroos decide to jump onto the road just as you're passing.:eek:
Moose, Kangaroos-same damage..
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i heard about those suicidal kangaroos. worked with a guy from down there. he told me all about them.
i was told that armadillos will jump up right before a car goes by if they are on the road. i think they are suicidal too.
Now that the snow is deep, we're likely to wind up walking alongside moose on the classic Sunday hike route (up to a cabin in the woods for hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls). They use the wide, trampled trail to get from woodsy patch to woodsy patch for grazing, rather than struggle through belly-deep snow. They seem totally unfazed by hords of people hiking up the trail and kids on sleds racing down. Not quite 2 years ago I had a PhD student visiting from Brazil. I took her on a hike up there after work one day (trailhead is right behind the campus) and said we might see a moose, although the snow was gone by then. We got up to the cabin -- no moose. Back down past the parking lot -- still no moose. Then right in somebody's front yard on the way back to the main road, there was a moose grazing calmly. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
As in a menu item? Our neighbor hunts moose. It's deLICious!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
Hitting a moose does serious damage to car and moose. Bad all around. And this thing about the moose using trampled routes when the snow gets deep creates big problems for the railway. Dave Barry had a hilarious column back in the Lillehammer olympics days about how those "crazy Norwegians" -- you know, the ones crazy enough to do ski jumps carrying a torch with the Olympic flame, and when the one guy falls and breaks his collar bone at dress rehearsal they've actually got another guy crazy enough to step in and sub. Anyway, those crazy Norwegians were using wolf urine to keep the moose away from the railroad tracks. He wondered how they went about collecting wolf urine ... until someone filled him in on the secret (psssst. don't tell anyone, but it's synthetic).Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Oh not to eat (well I never tried it), I think moose are lovely creatures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duck on Wheels
you know i actually have never had moose. though i hear you get a TON of meat off of one and its a lot of work!Quote:
Originally Posted by Duck on Wheels
I think quite literally a ton of work. They don't exactly fold up and fit in your pocket. Our neighbor and his brothers stay close to the family's old homestead when they hunt, so they don't have far to haul. They shot one from the kitchen window once. This may all seem callous, but since Norwegians pretty much exterminated their wolves and bears a century or so ago, they have to hunt some quota worth of moose and deer or the poor things starve and sicken, even after eating the forests to nubbins. But you can't just grab a gun and go out and shoot. You have to pass tests for accuracy every year as well as written tests on good hunting practices. And you have to have a tracker dog along so you can quickly catch up with any animal you injure but don't kill on the spot. Not that "good ol' boys" don't ever drink-and-hunt, but they do risk losing their licenses for it.
they need to have stricter hunting regulations like that here. i think its a great idea!
DoW- in WI we had quotas like that, too, for the same reason (and with all the corn and alfalfa fields, the things would breed like rats....) Deer seem so much easier. Nothing like pulling one over your shoulders to carry to camp :eek: if you've forgotten your drag bag. Fun, fun. I was the type to caaaaarrrefully check out all the innards, too (where else do you get an opportunity like that??!) oh and venison. mmmmm venison. God I MISS venison. *sigh*
and hunting out here is *nothing* like hunting in WI. I don't know *what* kind of deer they have out here but they're *not* the white tails I know (shorter tails, yes white, yes the same basic antler branching to the beams, but the build and coloration is different...) and there are just *nowhere near* as many out here. *huff* *sigh*
And here I move just when I was getting good... I knew how to still-hunt, how to lay scent trails, make mock scrapes, call, rattle, breathe, shoot... all that knowledge; wasted. *sigh*
they have Mule Deer out here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
I've heard kangaroo meat tastes quite nice. I've not had it yet though.
It's also a staple in pet food..blecuchhh..
Running into a kangaroo is not a good thing for you nor your car. Not something you want to try at home. Now running into a roo whilst mtn biking would be rather exciting. I've heard stories but never had that experience.
Passing kangaroos & emus whilst biking is just fine with me. THey're so freakin quick..I wish i was like that!
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i second that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
Well, I just got back from my interview and it was AWESOME!!!! The interviewer wants me for the lead position and was aware that I have another job possibility in the works so spent some time trying to sell me the job...it's so nice to be sought after! :D
If I accept it they'll fly me to San Francisco for the initial training, then I would be working digitizing parts of the local universities archives.
I might just have to give the position some serious consideration. It's a weird feeling to be walking away from my career and into something so new!
woo hoo!!!! http://www.smileycons.com/img/emotions/90.gif so happy for you queen!
Congratulations Queen!!! you go!
Queen-Can I have your job? That's what I want to do..:(
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speaking of jobs. is it time to go home yet?
No...I just started my work day..It's 8am..
NOt fair..:mad: Then again, it's nice & sunny here..:)
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normally i would think that is mean, but its sunny and low winds here today. :p
it just isn't good because i still can't go out and enjoy it. :( roads are clear enough and dry enough that i could take my bike out or run, but no.... i had to have foot surgery.
Hooray Queen!!!:cool:
Yay, Queen!
Can I have your job, too? Only managing research publications and in a science library?
(edit: the majority of library tech jobs around here are filled by Masters Librarians who don't want to leave Seattle. If I get my Masters, I'm headin' south. BTW, you know Trek is down there in SF, right? Maybe you two can connect while you're down for training.)