Thu Aug 05 2004 21:04 Meow:
A litter of tiger cubs has been born at the National Zoo. They must have very good luck with breeding tigers. When we were there in 2000, there was also a litter of new cubs. It was an overcast, cool day --okay, it was cold!-- and the tigers were very active. The cubs were chasing each other all over the grotto, and me without my telephoto lens!
That's not such bad odds, really. I would still go ahead with it, even if the risk were higher. ![[Comments]](/nb//themes/Default/comments.png "1 comment")
(1) Thu Aug 05 2004 21:08 Beating the Odds:
This afternoon I went to my appointment with Dr. Manu. (The stomach doctor.) He said it was a miracle to see me come walking into his office. Why? Because, he said, the operation I had last week has a 10% fatality rate. I wonder if I knew that last week? I was so sick that even if he had told me, it wouldn't have sunk in.