2003-10-16 - 11:31 p.m.
Canadian Sighting a Hoax, Federal Investigators ConcludeTurns out, your humble narrator discovers, there may be something of a silence for Mirabile Visu in a couple of weeks. It will depend on internet accessibility, and on the relative quality of late-night hotel-room cable-TV viewing.
At work today, I learned that they're sending me to Big Spring, TX for two weeks at the start of November. Since it's business travel, it'll involve a lot of long hours of prep and work, prep and work, which is just as well, since by the sounds of things Big Spring is anything but a throbbing metropolis. I half-suspect the belt-buckle population well exceeds the human population in ol' Big Spring. If aliens were to arrive on earth now and theorize about what the dominant life-form was based on numbers alone, depending on whether they considered single- or multi-cellular nature relevant, they'd conclude it had to be either bacteria or insects, skipping all the bombastic, noisome naked apes altogether. Imagine aliens arriving in a small town in west Texas and imploring tarnished rodeo-buckles to take them to their leader.
That's what I should do when I arrive, now that I think of it. I'm Canadian, after all, and surely that's alien-life-form enough for them. I'm looking forward to the chance to puzzle the locals with tales of igloo-dwelling and looks of gawping astonishment at all the wondrous horseless carriages. "French fries? Wonders never cease."
