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If our economy is still in the tank yet gas is still $2.75/gallon - what does that portend when the economy recovers?

I guess you could say he didn’t see it coming….

I am constantly amazed at what diverse interests exist on the internet…

A am planning some spring trips and wondered what the temperature averages are for select destinations. I am a weather.com junkie but beyond “next month” the information I needed isnt’ there - or at least I cannot find it. Turning to Google I found Weatherbase which lets me find the normal mix of data […]

Are apparently the new pit bull of NYC’s east end. I’ve seen a Beagle considerably more vicious than any dog I’ve ever seen. But she was probably just covering her embarrassment of having been bred to a Pug….

So I’m sitting at my desk this afternoon moving data around on a SAN when I get this robo-call asking if I’d like to lower my interest rate on my credit card. “If you’d like to lower your interest rate on your credit card account press 1 to talk to a representative”. Well who […]

I don’t know why I’m bothering with such a mundane topic. But it was quite obvious Leno didn’t want to move but NBC had a deal with Conan so the forced it. Now their shinanigans are backfiring on them as they try to have retain their talent and ratings too. I have never […]

Spazy was our first pet after the Missus and I married and got our house. A close friend found her under the hood of his truck where she’d crawled one cold night to stay warm and for some reason he thought we ought to have her. That was late winter in 1992 and she […]

A woman was up visiting friends in our town and happened to see the ad in the paper for Scout while there. It was spur of the moment but since they were already right here they called at almost 10PM.
Naturally my being eager to find the fellow a home I agreed to the […]

Or so goes the saying in Hollywood when they’re trying to justify their latest tricks. But a recent study shows that sex really doesn’t help box office receipts. What I find even more interesting is how do teens rebel against parents of the “sex, drugs, rock’n’roll” generation? By abstaining, staying married and saying no to […]

Over the last few weeks we’ve noticed the girls getting all worked up and barking at something several times an evening. But there’s nothing going on…. I think I may finally have figured it out though, thanks to the game of musical rawhides currently underway in our living room….
Sophie is barking at the front door, […]

You can read the whole medical jargony thing if you like - but know the headline pretty well says it all….

There is nothing like 3 dogs and 3 different rawhides to make an evening of fine entertainment. It’s barely 7pm and already they’ve each “stolen” one from another on no less than 3 occasions. Each.
I’ve also discovered there is a rawhide my girls can’t shred in 15 minutes flat… never thought I’d […]

Look who showed back up… Scout’s recent adoptive family returned him to us on Sunday morning. I won’t go into why they brought him back other than to say they let him think he was pack leader and acted as such…
Not that I wanted him back, I was getting used to only 2 dogs! […]

Little Miss Sophie Hogatha, at 8-ish months, is tipping the scales at 61 pounds.

She likes her Christmas presents. She likes Ginger’s presents, too.

The night she got them she played until she went to sleep with her head on one.

I like keeping her teeth busy

And the girl has some teeth!

Ginger is not impressed - […]

James Cameron’s long awaited movie Avatar opened today and as a huge fan of the sci-fi genre we made it a point to hit the last matinee.
It has been said that Cameron’s big challenge with this film will be getting movie goers to sympathize with blue aliens. Much more difficult, at least for […]

Most know I’ve been trying to find Scout a home for some time. I’ve posted to several online classifieds and emailed rescues all to no avail.

Scout
On a whim late this past week I emailed an ad to the local newspaper and received 3 calls the first day and the 4th call this morning came to […]

As much online buying as I do I’m really surprised I’ve not discovered RetailMeNot.com before now.

Scout desperately needs a home!
He is about 18 months old male black lab mix with a white blaze on this chest. I would guess him to be around 60-65 pounds.
He is a generally calm fellow who can be playful and loves attention. He gets along well with Ginger, my rather dominant female Shepherd mix, […]

Sophie had her big trip to the V-E-T yesterday. After shots, chipping and spaying she has pretty much slept since picking her up. Until an hour or so ago. I think she woke up and realized the pain reliever she’d been given had faded away and wants to take it out on Ginger. And me. […]

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If you want to help me rectify that situation, meaning pay me to write fluff reviews, my email is to […]

They must have been pit bull raccoons….

I’ve now been twice told Sophie’s nose is too long. In those first pictures she was days without food or water and gaunt and dehydrated Then the poor camera angle, because she wouldn’t stop wiggling! gives her a longer looking nose that what it actually is.
Poor Sophie, everyone thinks […]

If “the Holocaust” didn’t happen as some would have you believe then how could Netanyahu be presented with some of the planning documents from Auschwitz?
German journalists handed the Israeli leader, in Berlin for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, a portfolio of 29 plans from the Auschwitz death camp discovered last year.
Hm…

I am continuing to work with Sophie on the leash and on her recognizing her “kennel” as her safe place. She goes to bed now and no longer whines when I close the door and leave the room unless she needs to go outside. On those occasions when she does wake me at 0-dark-30 […]