Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

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

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

Unseasonably warm

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According to Weatherscan, it’s 69°F right now. This is the latest Indian Summer I can remember. Do we even call it Indian Summer if it’s a few days into November?

Freya did not bring her “A” game to obedience class this morning. As long as she does remember to bring it to the trial next week, I suppose I can’t be too upset about it. After all, class is for working out problems in a controlled environment. Speaking of the trial, I hope there will be no problem with correcting our entry. The confirmation I received showed us entered on Saturday instead of Sunday.

It’s almost time to leave to do another rescue transport. I haven’t done any transports all year, and this is now two consecutive weeks, this time for a young female Rottweiler. I suppose there is some irony that I’m leaving my own Rottweiler home on one of the last sunny and warm days of the years, but it is for a good cause. I can’t feel too bad because tomorrow is supposed to be warm and sunny, too, and I can make it up to Freya then.

(NaBloPoMo | November ’09: 7 of 30 | 75% Challenge: 252 of 274)

Someone to watch over me

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This month’s NaBloPoMo theme is Haunted.

I prefer to think of it not as being haunted, but being visited and having someone to watch over me. I don’t know that I’ve ever been graced with a visit from any of my family on the other side. Or more likely, life and logic have caused me to lose the ability to see or feel anything from that side.

As the month goes on, I want to write something about each one of the people and animals that I hope are haunting me. Forgive me for not starting tonight. It has been a long day.

(NaBloPoMo | October ’09: 6 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 228 of 274)

Wake me up when September ends

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Huh? What’s that? September’s ended? Where did September go, anyway?

I had originally planned to take a few days off from blogging at the beginning of the month, but those days stretched out all through September. Not my original intention! I’ll blame it mostly on work, which is actually a good thing. As slow as business was earlier this year, it was good to see a heavy workload again for a few weeks. Of course, since we are running about as lean as is humanly possible, we all put in long hours. The last thing I wanted to do after sitting all day and then some at a computer, was to come home to sit at a computer to write.

Not only that, I would probably have had nothing to write about except complaints about the long hours, eyestrain, and being chained to the computer. Just guessing, but even my most creative complaining won’t hold your attention for a full month.

So I didn’t write.

But now I’m back. Work is still pretty busy, but I’ve signed up for October NaBloPoMo to prod me into writing at least a little bit every day.

So! How have you all been? I’m sure my feed reader will let me know what at least some of you have been up to, so I’m going to go check it out now. See you tomorrow!

(NaBloPoMo | October ’09: 1 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 223 of 274)

Did you miss me?

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Did you all miss me??

:: crickets ::

Hmmmm… well, okay, then! Maybe the question should be: did any of you notice I was gone??

I planned to take a few days off from blogging as soon as August’s NaBloPoMo was completed. I didn’t mean for it to stretch out past a week, but I’ve been stuck behind a computer screen for other reasons and didn’t feel like staying on to blog most nights. Some of it was for work, which is a welcome change from the shortage of paying customers over the summer. No one ever thinks that graphic arts is a seasonal business, but it is. Some of it was for the most poorly-chosen hobbies ever, websites and the Rottweiler magazine. I’ve talked about it before, and it just cannot be good for me to spend eight hours InDesigning and Photoshopping at work, and coming home to do more of the same plus DreamWeaving. At the very least, it’s making me crabby.

Does it sound like I’ve been neglecting the dogs? Yes, their training has been sliding a little too much considering that both Axel and Freya have Rally Obedience trials to prepare for. The dogs are far too self-centered to let themselves be neglected, and that is fine.

I have been keeping notes on a number of topics that I want to write about, and fortunately, very few of them are time-sensitive enough to go stale. At least you know you probably won’t be spoiler’d by the time I get around to writing about the season ending of Rescue Me and the new seasons of Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy… OMG, Sons of Anarchy, was that S2 opener a punch in the gut, or what?

Back soon. Or at least, it won’t be a whole week.

(NaBloPoMo | 75% Challenge: 220 of 274)

The summer that wasn’t

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I don’t think summer ever really got here. Except for maybe a week’s worth, in total, of dangerously hot and humid days, the entire summer was unseasonably cool and much too rainy for my taste. The yard doesn’t look as a bad as a Rottweiler-ravaged yard should, thanks to that rain and the resultant grassy growth spurts. But that’s it for silver linings.

And now, it’s the last day of August, still unseasonably cool or even cold, and summer is gone without ever having really been here. What an aggravating year this has been so far in so many ways.

(NaBloPoMo | August ’09: 31 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 219 of 274)