hey aesop, my youngest daughter is just embarking also, on a Programme in 3D computer animation in Vancouver this month. She's done some classic animation and her first short placed second in B.C. at one of the major festivals a couple of years ago. Miss her so much, she's been across the pond from us over a year now and I don't get to see her as often as I would like, as the ferry costs are becoming a bit prohibative for frequent visits, so I've resorted to plastering her face all over my 'puter as wallpaper.

Senior daughter now has an apartment in town and returns all the time to do her laundry and partake in Sunday dinners. She's currently, after floundering around at university for a few years and dumping a promising chance for a career in opera, involved in courses in web design, java script, HTML and a bunch of other stuff I don't know much about,

Senior dog Old Wort, has the amazing ability to go downstairs on just his front feet with his hind feet tucked up, which I never considered out of the ordinary until a friend seemed to be blown away by it. What's really amazing I think, is his ability, at the ripe old age of 98 in dog years, to service our unspayed Westie, without the use of Viagra or his testicles.

Also have two hayburners in the front yard, without much to brag about recently, other than their ability to stow the stuff and create piles of sh*t. Just stacked a ton and a half of orchard grass single handed a few weeks ago and it always reminds me I'm getting old too. The animals and youngest daughter can be viewed on the Mudcat photo permathread. The animals don't mind, but I have a feeling my youngest daughter might object if she knew her picture was there.