Who is Ada Blackjack, well she is a survivor. Ada Blackjack survived on Wrangler Island in the Arctic for 2 years with poor weather conditions, poor food supply and for most of the time a man who was dying of scurvy as her only companion. She had to learn how to hunt, trap, shoot and face her fears. She was a tiny woman, an Eskimo (Inuit). And she was the only woman in this pack of adventurers and explorers. The men who went to Wrangler island were young healthy stout of heart men. They were adventurers and they were so young. The youngest was 19 when he left on the expedition. The oldest I think was 28. Ada was 23 or 25. I have been reading the book Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic. I am almost to the end. I enjoyed this book and would like to read The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk and the Miraculous Rescue of her Survivors by the same author Jennifer Niven. This is actually a story about the same island but years earlier with some of the same people and their tale of survival. The story has been interesting and terrifying and sad. I like how Niven tells the story however. You may want to pick up these books to read sometime.
Photo-A-Day #615 12/14/06
I am in Erlanger Kentucky today. I gave a demonstration this morning. Also this morning my new electric razor ran out of power. No problem, I’ll just plug it in. Nope, I didn’t bring the power cord for it and I don’t think I charged it since the first time I had charged it upon purchase. Yeah, the razor cut out at the exact midpoint of my shaving. I had half a face shaved and half all scruffy. Luckily I just shut the razor off for a minute, turned it back on and used it furiously till it shut off again. I was able to do this enough times to get my whole face smooth. That could have been very inconvenient.
Let’s see, I found out that One of my stocks dropped 15 points in one day the other day because they failed on a clinical trial. This stock has been nothing but misery since I bought it. Well, now I can sell it and take the loss as a tax deduction. The stock is called NUVELO INC. Here is the story about the drug failure.
Today’s photo is is of how awesome the sky looked.
The other photo of a water tower in Florence, KY. I thought it was kind of fun.
And the other photo is of the wall at Hoggy’s.
Hoggy’s is a BBQ place in KY. The food was very good and so were all the sauces. They also kept bringing us more and more cornbread, my weakness. I learned about the New England BBQ Championships. I think they would be a lot of fun to go to.
On iTunes I found a very funny video podcast called Don’t Be That Guy Films. I downloaded and watched all eight of the episodes. They were very funny. The guys have some good ideas and each episode ends with a picture of a guy that you don’t want to be. You can subscribe to their podcast, I’d recommend that you do so.