It’s 1:51AM and we’re standing out front of the hotel waiting for our bus to come around. It has stopped raining briefly but the radar last night looked like it was going to come and go.
Month: July 2011
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Florida again
I found the rain we haven’t been getting in Texas. We landed in downpour. The chance of favorable launch weather was 30% when I left this morning. It’s not looking too good.
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picture time
Daisy stuck under couch 
Sad Dex 
Iris close-up (click for awesome) 
A good showing from the roses this spring 
Onion flowers 
New curtain rods and curtains for the bedroom -
Judgement
It came to be in the early days that the Lord bestowed upon his charges the bounty of the Tree of Toys and lo there came to be great turmoil in the garden. For the larger dog took the greatest of the nasty-ass pig ear bits for herself leaving only the lesser for the smaller dog. The Lord looked upon this arrangement and saw that it was right and proper that the larger should to the larger and smaller to the smaller and continued his mighty Labors with the Python and the Oracle. Then came the smaller dog to the Lord and said, “I cannot hold my piece for it is shaped funny and so I cannot chew it.”
The Lord took then, from the larger dog, the greater pig ear and split from it a portion that the smaller dog could hold and returned what remained. The larger dog took her piece far from the sight of the Lord and devoured it entirely. Returning swiftly she took from her brother the piece given him as his. This displeased the Lord and he returned the piece to the smaller dog giving to the larger dog the smaller piece that had been her brother’s in the beginning. Again, the larger dog consumed the piece given her and returned to take the piece from the smaller dog.
Seeing this treachery the Lord stood between the larger and smaller dogs with a flaming sword that turned every way and kept safe the smaller dog and his piece of the nasty-ass pig ear. The larger dog howled and raved and charged the smaller dog each time to be turned aside. After a time, the smaller dog carried his pig ear unto his cave and, seeing that he was, for a time, safe the Lord left to tend to the garden.
Upon his return the smaller dog came out to greet him and also came the larger dog cursing the smaller dog and again seeking to take from him what the Lord had given. At this sight the Lord became enraged and taking hold of the larger dog, cast her into the land of Nod there to dwell amidst the darkness until the Lord grant her forgiveness for her trespasses or the dawn of a new age or time to go outside before bedtime. And she wailed in sorrow at her banishment such that she could be heard through the high walls of the garden of Livingroom wherein dwelled the Lord and the smaller dog.
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dogs
You know how it’s kind of uncomfortable to type with a watch on? Well it’s harder to type with a little dog on your wrist. I’m dogsitting today and the little one has to be on your lap because a) he’s needy b) he will be picked at by the larger one until a fight erupts otherwise and c) being on your lap antagonizes the other dog. And when he is on your lap, he has to rest his head on your arm unless he has your full attention. It’s almost adorable. Almost.
Also, the bigger dog is the way I envision children which is to say, if you are not actively paying attention it goes off and tries to eat something. Anything really. Leathery, bird pecked, dried out husk of tomato? Check. Strand of carpet that appears to be sticking up higher than the rest? Check. Other dog (having foolishly ventured off-lap)? Check.
The ice maker in the fridge is the devil come to take us all to hell. We’re all up in arms about it. We barked and ran around and now we’re fighting with each other stopping only to give the kitchen a good intimidating when the ice maker makes more noise. And now the timer on the microwave has beeped. Oh lord. It is truly the end times. Why has our mommy forsaken us?
Earlier today someone’s little darling boy pulled the fire alarm while I was having a nice cup of coffee after lunch so I basically didn’t get much done there. I had to install Windows 7 in Parallels on my work computer to get some database stuff done and Windows keeps updating itself and restarting. Which is fine, except for the part where I said do it later and then it decided now was later and killed my PL/SQL Dev. session. It looks like stuff was saved but seriously wtf?
The bigger dog is now running back and forth and in circles. I take this to be a good sign. Gonna be nice and tired tonight. The smaller dog is making sure that everything on the porch has been carefully smelled. Despite all the complaining it’s been a pretty relaxing day. Just bumming around the house, watching a little bit of internet starcraft video, watching the dogs and so on. If I can actually get a little work done tonight I think everything will be ok.
I also have a picture of the bigger dog trapped under the couch. I’ll see what I can do about internettting that.
