After a previous entry regarding wildlife in NJ and mentioning a bear running loose in NJ backyards, I came across this photo (also taken in NJ). We seem to have quite the bear population here. But it seems the best defense is a good offense so we all should be adopting cats from our local shelters.

In other related news, I’ve spotted that rooster twice since the previous entry. I was on the way to work and saw it one day, then saw it on the way home another. I stopped (there is a parking lot for the state park there) and tried to capture it on my cameraphone, but it ran into the woods. (?!) Yes, the woods. This, apparently, is a rooster gone wild. Since I’ve now seen this thing 3 times in 2 weeks, I’ve decided he will be my reminder to blog. If I haven’t made an entry in a while, at least I’ll have a rooster to talk about. And you’ll get a fun little icon to indicate this.

Finally, a couple of friends got married last weekend and a few of us from work were honored to be invited to attend the day. It was a lovely ceremony (Mass, as it was a Catholic wedding), cocktail hour, and reception. Other than the lavish reception, the other notable tidbit is that all of the day’s activities were in Polish. As J pointed out towards the end of the evening: it’s like we weren’t even in the US anymore. Granted we can’t say for the reception hall, if there would be anything like that in Poland, but the point was that if we walked out of that building and were in the middle of Europe, it really wouldn’t have been too much of a shock.