Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

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

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

In the home stretch (28 of 30)

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NaBloPoMo is almost over! Key word: almost. It’s not over till it’s over, and I almost screwed up and missed posting today. That would have been tragic this late in the month!

Additionally, my hopes of having a totally relaxing four-day weekend were somewhat thrown off course today, but there has still been more relaxation than stress. I guess that will have to do.

Finally, today’s post will unfortunately be almost devoid of content and will serve only to keep me alive in NaBloPoMo 2008. But that’s still a good thing, and that, too, will have to do.

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No accounting for tastes (27 of 30)

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I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving Day, however you chose to celebrate, or not celebrate it.

I mentioned yesterday that I do not like turkey; I don’t really care for all that many of the dishes that are part of a typical American Thanksgiving feast.

One dish that seems to be part of a lot of people’s childhood memories is the green bean casserole. You probably know it: canned or frozen green beans, canned mushroom soup, canned french fried onions and bacon bits. It was never a part of my own family’s Thanksgiving dinner, so I have no memories of it, fond or otherwise.

I do end up cooking it for holiday dinners, though. For some reason, and I’m sure I’m far from the only one reporting this fact, people do not seem to want it changed, not even for what is clearly the better. I’ve tried it with fresh green beans, homemade mushroom sauce or gravy, fresh mushrooms, a few different variations on the onions, and freshly fried bacon. The original recipe is still the one that seems to be the favorite.

I’m pretty sure it’s not the tampering with the food that is at issue, it’s the tampering with the memories. Otherwise there is no logical explanation at all!

A chance to get caught up? (26 of 30)

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I’m looking forward to the possibility of a relaxing four-day weekend. Yes, it is Thanksgiving weekend, but since my husband is at the firehouse on Thanksgiving Day, I’ve opted to neither entertain nor be entertained. As you all know, my family is in Hawaii and we just got back from visiting them, so there is nowhere I’m truly obligated to be tomorrow. So I am planning to spend a peaceful day alone with the animals. For the record, I don’t like turkey anyway. Ham is my idea of a perfect holiday meal.

In fact, I have only one definite thing scheduled for the entire weekend, so it might be a good opportunity to get caught up on a few things that never seem to get done. Stuff like backing up the computer, getting rid of documents that are no longer needed for tax purposes and getting my office area organized a little better. Oh, and editing the contact list in the new BlackBerry. I probably should have edited the list on the Palm before transferring it to the BlackBerry (Palm Desktop Manager would have made it so much easier). Some of the contacts are quite dormant, but at least everyone on the list is still alive. This was not the case when I moved from Palm IIIc to Palm Tungsten E2.

Speaking of right now though, I’m not sure how I ever managed to watch TV before TiVo. I’ve been trying to watch the season finale of Sons of Anarchy since the first showing started, and between the phone and the dogs, I’ve paused and rewound so many times I’ve lost count. It’s quiet now, so I think it’s a good time to finally finish watching the show.

More technological fun (25 of 30)

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There is a lot of swearing going on here as we work at getting our new cell phones set up. Mostly not from me at this point, though, because I forgot the cables for my Palm Tungsten at work. I’m saving my heavy swearing for tomorrow when I attempt to transfer years of data from that Palm to my new BlackBerry.

Despite my attraction to the touch screen phones, I ended up getting the Curve rather than the Storm. After finally getting a little more time to play with both phones (and also the Palm Centro since I’ve been a Palm PDA user for about 8 years), I surprised myself by deciding the Curve worked better for me than the Storm. I think I would have preferred the Centro over either BlackBerry, except that VZNavigator won’t run on the Centro and that is something I definitely wanted to keep.

Now off to do the really important stuff… set up my ringtones!

Kennel website again (24 of 30)

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It looks like Axe might be going out in search of that championship sooner than I had originally thought. I talked to his soon-to-be handler this afternoon, and there’s a good opportunity to hand him over in about two and a half weeks. So the health tests and the kennel website now move up on the priority scale. The health tests are a priority because there’s no good reason to send an unbreedable dog out to get a championship (unless of course you’re doing it yourself for fun; it is still a sport as well as a measure of breed worthiness), and the kennel website is a priority because I’ll need some place to brag!

Here’s the comp I mentioned in my post on November 22:

I think I still like it. Yeah, I know the photo of Freya makes it look like she has an underbite. She doesn’t, and a better one has been taken since then. Axel was still in utero when this was designed so I’ve had ample time to locate photographs of both dogs. My dogs are not photogenic but fortunately they show a lot better than they photograph.

I’d better try to turn it into a working website before I get caught in the trap of second-guessing myself (grunge version? 70’s version? Web 2.0 version? I could go on and on and on and on, and I don’t even like designing stuff).