A miscellany for a cloudy day

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First of all, considering the situation in Haiti, I can't urge you strongly enough to go to thehungersite.com and click on the "click to give" box, and then do the same at The Animal Rescue Site (use the tab at the top of the Hunger Site page, or click on the icon to the right of this page).  Your clicks produce funds for both causes -- the advertisers' money goes directly to help.  It's free, but if you can afford to make a donation you'll find all the information you need to do so.

When I was looking for information to help Tony fight his cancer, I missed a terrific resource, and I'm sort of appalled at myself, since it's part of Dogtime.  Go to http://dogtime.com/canine-cancer.html for a wealth of information on all kinds of canine cancer.  They also have articles on canine diabetes.

Yesterday was my first day back to work after the semester break, and I was very surprised when a colleague asked me if I had gotten a new dog yet.  In fact, I think my jaw dropped for a moment.  I've already decided that I want to wait until I'm in a better financial position.  It's going to take a while to recover from the costs of Tony's last year. 

Speaking of which, every time my four-year-old niece has visited since Tony died she has asked where he is.  Each time this has happened, I've explained things to her.  However, she was over the day before yesterday, and I finally realized what was going on.  This time she asked in front of her father, who asked her, "Where do you think he is, Caroline?"  She thought for a moment, then she said that Tony was with Bogie and Grandpa, meaning that he was in heaven.  Alex said, "that's right."  She seemed satisfied; what she was trying to do, I guess, was to get confirmation of this idea.  We'll see if she asks again next time she's over.