Your Inner Rhino feels We should iterate a longheld Rhino Truism: It doesn’t matter as much where you are, as it matters who you are.

It’s a concept that is sometimes overlooked.

Tantrums are often associated with youngsters, who find frustration hard to bear. And those dramas are Aggravating for one and all.

Most Adult Rhinos find other methods of letting off steam, but We admit, some of Us cling to old patterns of behavior.

And for everyone else, it is still Aggravating.

Imagine our surprise when the Staff of YIR found this image on our desktop. How it got there, We don’t know. We are told that it is a Flowchart. It shows sequences and consequences of some sort of plan. What it is for is beyond Rhino Insight.

It is intended to create efficient processings, whatever those are.

Far as We can see, it creates more problems than it answers. Still, it looks like fun.

Rhinos do not do much planning. Our approach is more casual, often celebrating the day after the Event, having missed it when the calendar said.

The fact that We Rhinos are not good at planning does not mean We don’t care. We do not recommend following our example.

This might (?) be a good time to get the stuff from the attic. or not.

Well, on behalf of ‘Your Inner Rhino’, We had a fruitful September. The Staff is of sound wind and limb and as sensible as ever.

We welcome October, which is breathing down our necks, even as We post…

Jeepers.

In 1066 William the Conqueror came to England from France and took over the reigns of government at the Battle of Hastings. Rhinos have nothing to say about that, other than, We were not there.

But for Us and all the other people who were not there, there is a record of the events, namely the Bayeux Tapestry, an elaborate pictorial record which measures 270 feet, end to end. It can still be seen in France. Much of history comes and goes without a trace, but this artifact is invaluable in its detail and clarity of narration.

An astonishing accomplishment.

Hypnagogia is the transitional phase between deciding to sleep and actually achieving sleep. Some Rhinos just conk out, lucky devils. But others find it tough to settle down.

Rhinos have been told that counting sheep is a sure-fire way to get over the awake/asleep hump. We Rhinos have found it less dependable as a system.

But We can only count to three.

Rhinos are always surprised when zoo visitors comment that We look indifferent as they stroll by. It isn’t upsetting to Us in any real sense, but it does make Us Rhinos wonder what these visitors expect, not so much from Rhinos, but from Life.

The normal condition of Life is mostly neutral, each of Us tending to business, then relaxing between efforts. Happiness is not guaranteed by Nature, nor is it a goal, as We understand it. Our Rhino Goal is to make the most of what We are allotted. We are not on the planet to court favor from any critter, zoo visitors included.

Rhinos intend to be content with ourselves and all of Nature.

Now and again a Rhino will decide to go visit another time, to see what’s what. One such project is the Oligocene Project. We would dig a hole down until We got to the Oligocene Age, and then get busy.

In this case, ‘there’ would be roughly 30 million years worth of dirt. Lesser critters might be daunted by the challenge, but not We Rhinos. We plan ahead. We believe in preparation.

We are going to use Big Shovels.

Good for Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Yup!