Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

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

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

Some days…

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…you just get the paw flipped at you.

That’s all.

Guest starring the paw of Oliver Kittyweiler

(NaBloPoMo | March ’10: 2 of 31)

It takes a special talent…

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…to fail the shortest NaBloPoMo month of the year!

I have been fighting off an extremely nasty and persistent winter cold all week and I’m finally feeling almost human tonight. I’ve missed several days of work (fortunately nothing earth-shattering happened there), several dog training classes (we won’t know until Freya’s next trial whether this will turn out to be a minor omission or an earth-shattering one), and the International Kennel Club dog show.

And obviously, the last week of February NaBloPoMo. So it goes.

Can you hear me now?

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I think you can!

I had a few problems getting some of this week’s posts up for the world to see. All is well now, or so it seems. If this were November’s official NaBloPoMo challenge, I’d disqualify myself. But it’s February, and I was keeping up with the daily posts offline, so I’m staying in the game.

EDITED 2/15/10: So I was wrong. Not all was well. I think it is now, though. Cut, paste, update, catch up.

(NaBloPoMo | February ’10: 11 of 28)

Randomness

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Some random thoughts before I try to get a good night’s sleep. The training facility where we are going for Freya’s APDT rally obedience trial runs a single ring, so the two trials will run one after the other, not concurrently. So tomorrow promises to be quite a long day.

  • I think today’s pre-trial practice session helped with fixing Freya’s crooked sits and improving on sloppy turns. I hope I didn’t break something else though, as she was starting to shut down a bit on the last run-through. I am hoping that she, too, just needs a good night’s sleep.
  • Thinking about what time I have to get up and what time I have to leave tomorrow, I am reminded of why I drifted away from dog competitions: too many early mornings. I am so, so, so not a morning person.
  • The dogs and I watched the AKC Eukanuba National Championship Dog Show on Animal Planet earlier this evening. Freya and Axel are a lot better than some of the dear departed Rottweilers at watching animals on television. They did not chase or bark at the TV dogs, or better yet, try to get behind the TV to see where they went.
  • It was fun to watch the dog show even though, like all psycho dog people, I already knew the results.
  • I knew there were quarters minted last year for the District of Columbia and the territories. I honestly can’t remember ever seeing one until today when I got one for American Samoa in my change.

(NaBloPoMo | February ’10: 6 of 28)

Nothing much going on here

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This will be one of those posts that serves simply to keep NaBloPoMo alive for me for February. I’ve opted to let sleeping dogs lie tonight rather than wake them for training or anything else requiring action of body or mind. I’m not sure why we are all so tired after doing not much of anything, and that includes my day at work. Freya and Axel like the cold and snow way more than I do. Even though we had less than an inch of snow here over this afternoon and evening, the dogs were determined to roll around in what there was of it. But it was far from their usual vigorous playtime. I’m sure they secretly wish we were getting big snow like the East Coast. I am glad that it does not appear they will be getting their wish.

I’ve just printed out maps to Sunday’s trial location and saved them to my BlackBerry as well. Dog crate pads and towels are clean and dry and ready to put back in the van. Freya and I will be attending our regular Saturday classes and using them to prepare for Sunday. Time for a good night’s sleep so we are bright and alert for class. Or at least awake!

(NaBloPoMo | February ’10: 5 of 28)