In my now two weeks here in Playa Coronado, I've met and made a few friends. Mostly of a non-human nature, but that's seemingly how I roll, anyway. Human interaction is hard, what with expectations, posturing, beliefs, egos and baggage all contributing to the overall difficulty. It's like having to roll a pair of twenties to save your Dungeons and Dragons Chaotic Good Barbarian while she is trapped in a stainless steel room with no doors, because the Dungeon Master got tired and pissy. Rare, very rare, to get the perfect, or even good roll. In a game, no biggie. Pack up the Skittles and Henry Weinhard's and see where things are thirty or forty years on.
Unfortunately, when things go south in real human interactions, as they do both in person or via bits over the Interwebz, the failure carries with it a bit more damage than a long-ago dice roll, and packed-away gaming gear. And for good or ill, I automatically assume I hold the lion's share of the inhibiting elements; failure is on me. It gets tiresome, and the cost to benefit ratio of the effort rises to unsurmountable heights.
However difficult human interaction may be, animal interaction is easy -- a hand out for a dog to sniff, or a cat to rub on, and wild critter encounters are the easiest of all -- spot the critter and try to snap a photo before the beast scampers/scuttles/wings away. It's in that third category I present the results of my interactions this weekend.
Unfortunately, when things go south in real human interactions, as they do both in person or via bits over the Interwebz, the failure carries with it a bit more damage than a long-ago dice roll, and packed-away gaming gear. And for good or ill, I automatically assume I hold the lion's share of the inhibiting elements; failure is on me. It gets tiresome, and the cost to benefit ratio of the effort rises to unsurmountable heights.
However difficult human interaction may be, animal interaction is easy -- a hand out for a dog to sniff, or a cat to rub on, and wild critter encounters are the easiest of all -- spot the critter and try to snap a photo before the beast scampers/scuttles/wings away. It's in that third category I present the results of my interactions this weekend.
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