Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

Rottweilers. Computers. Cameras. World Domination. Not necessarily in that order.

Rottweilers.
Computers. Cameras.
World Domination.
Not necessarily in that order.

So why would I take a picture of that…

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There are still quite a few 1960s signs near my home and office. Here’s one I go past every day. It’s at the CVS drugstore at the corner of Nagle and Higgins on the northwest side of Chicago.

A restaurant and banquet hall called the Golden Flame used to be on that corner, and they kept the old sign. I was trying to remember if there was actually a neon flame on top of the original sign. I never took a picture of it when I moved into the neighborhood, and no one else seems to have taken one either. Among the many, many photographs of vintage signage in Chicago on the internet, I have still not found even one of the original Golden Flame sign.

I have made fun of the people I’ve seen taking pictures of garbage cans. Now I’m not so sure I should ever be making fun of anyone taking pictures of anything they might want to remember, even if I can’t imagine why they’d want to remember it.

And if you have a photo of the old Golden Flame sign? Please, please let me know!

(NaBloPoMo | November ’11: 2 of 30)

Sports break

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I’m taking a rare non-dog related sports break tonight to watch the hockey game. Third period just starting… come on, Blackhawks… don’t break my heart like most of the other Chicago teams!

24 degrees

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That’s the difference between the high temperature on December 26 and the high on December 31. I’m still not entirely convinced about global warming, but there have been a lot of strange things going on with the weather in recent years. We did have local warming in a big way last week, with a high of 55°F on December 31. That is pretty unnatural for the Chicago area.

Just a few days earlier on the day after Christmas, the high for the day was 31°F and a few inches of snow had fallen overnight. The dogs loved it because it was deep enough to wrestle in and roll around in. Please note that these are Rottweilers at play, not war. They may appear to be killing each other, but trust me. They tell me this is big Rottweiler fun.

Temperatures were warm enough on the 29th and 30th for the snow to start melting. The unseasonably warm temperatures on the 31st killed it off almost completely. I don’t have photos of the in-between swamplike stage featuring freezing cold mud, but here’s that same yard on New Year’s Eve day, after rain overnight and through the early morning.

We’re back to a more typical 20something°F today. No more local warming here.

On an unrelated note, I’m starting a Project 365 and attempting to take and post a photo every day this year. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll be adding a link to my photoblog in the right sidebar soon, but I’ll repost only the dog- and computer-related photos here. Like today’s:

Project 365/2:
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Windy city

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The day started off with strong thunderstorms and continued on with high winds all day. But in my sector, the storm really didn’t live up to the claims of being the biggest storm to hit the area in more than 70 years. In other parts of the Chicago metro area, there were tornadoes, wind damage, power outages, and weather-related injuries. Here on the northwest side of the city, though, this rather lame video was the best I could get: lots of wind noise, more than the usual amount of tree movement, and our Rottweiler swirly wind spinner actually spinning in the wind.

(NaBloPoMo | October ’10: 26 of 31)