Current mood:	grateful
Current music:	Under The Disco Ball - Jill Sobule
Entry tags:	life, philosophy

Daschund races and a major realization
My church held its annual daschund races today morning. I had no idea how prevalent those wiener-doogs were! In total there were 36 dogs entered into the event. There were a surprising number of long-haired daschunds too; something I'd never actually seen before. Not all of them were specimens of athletic prowess, however. During the initial 3-way heats many of the participants didn't appear to take the contest seriously, veering off course part-way through or stopping short of the finish line. In one of the races 2 dogs began fighting each other while the other one sailed to the finish line!

Yesterday afternoon my friend DJ called to see if I wanted to go see the Jays playing the A's today afternoon. He was given really good seats and thought I might be interested since I'm also from TO. While I would very much have liked to watch the game, there's no way I could have made it back from there in time for the Berkeley Hart concert tonight to which I've been looking forward for weeks. I briefly toyed with the idea of renting a car for the day but eventually I realized that being unable to drive to the game is part of my decision to not own a car in a small attempt to reduce the disproportionate resource-consumption of the industrialized world and the pollution generated by automobiles. Only about 8% of the world's population owns a car and the US, which comprises 6% of the global population, accounts for around 40% of annual resource consumption. This serves to remind me that I'm actually quite fortunate to have access to clean drinking water, sufficient nutrition and a safe home, not to mention reliable electricity and communication networks. I can handle missing a ball game.