Isaac Sinnett

a slight detour

Every now and again, you can be going straight ahead at warp speed and not realizing a lot that is happening or just existing around you.  There comes a time when one has to carefully, or radically take a bit of a detour from the speeding train, heading towards derailment.  This was happening to me, and I couldn’t control the forward motion.  It was unable to stop until today, when I was slapped into a reality paced with a slight detour.  Thank you Michael Jordan.  Ok, so maybe the above was a bit dramatic. But I did drive by Michael Jordan’s house today.  Well, I am assuming that his house is back there.  For all I know, he bought a gate, slapped the number 23 on there and paved a bit of driveway back to nowhere.  I even left the picture un-cropped so that you could gather the full since of being in the car.

All of that aside, life and work have been really busy for me lately.  But that’s alright, I never have to worry about being bored.  I always have something to do.  This past Sunday I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo with David to take a look at the Takin.  Much to our surprise, this curious creature had morphed into 5 Takin’s!  Incredible.  The last time(with Paul and David at LPZ) , which happened to be the first ever experience of this Takin, there was 1 and now this!

Now the Takin is something that should be experienced.  For me, it is a cross between a rodent and an ox.  Let me lend a helping hand for you to make your own decision.

Now the wonderful people at wikipedia, have said that this is a “goat-antelope”.  I am willing to accept the goat part into my description of the Takin after really examining the back legs.  However, I am unwilling  to give up my rodent addition to that.  Therefore, I can only conclude that the description of the Takin is that it is a rodent-goat-antelope-oxy type thing.