Santina and I attended a talk and slide show last night at the library. The speaker, Sy Montgomery, studys the 500 tigers that live on a preserve along the Bay of Bengal. Since they have no roads there the local people travel by water and the tigers consume an average of 300 of them a year; mostly the hungry tigers swim out into the Bay of Bengal and silently snatch unsuspecting passersby. As a result I'm sure they go through a lot of the guys who man the boats.

On days like today when everything I do goes wrong, braving the tigers doesn't seem such a bad option. If you also have days like this, and if you could come up with a paddle, we could maybe both explore this further.