Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

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

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

Communication breakdown

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So late last week, I received a call from Towerstream, the new broadband provider for our workplace. So what, you say? Well, we didn’t realize we’d left Sparkplug Communications. We certainly hadn’t requested it… yet… as our contract is not up until July. It turns out that Sparkplug has divested their holdings in the Chicago and Nashville markets. Friday’s call from Towerstream, the company that acquired those holdings, was the first notification we received. Neither I, nor our office manager, as the primary/technical and billing contacts, had received so much as a phone call, email, or voice mail from Sparkplug.
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6-bee

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I’m not really a big fan of Jimmy Fallon, or the current incarnation of Late Night, except for Slow Jam the News. But I totally love these “6-bee” Glee parodies…

Good stuff!

Speaking of Glee, I didn’t expect to like this week’s Madonna-themed episode, but there was more to like than not. Didn’t really need to see that “Vogue” number two weeks in a row, though.

(NaBloPoMo | April ’10: 20 of 30)

Practice makes perfect

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That should probably be more like “practice makes perfect, but not if you practice your mistakes, only if you practice doing things correctly.” But that’s too long to say all the time. And anyway, right now I want to figure out the best way of using our limited back yard practice space efficiently, and so that we are not practicing any mistakes.

Here is what we have to work with:

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Two weeks till our next trial

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The second half of April kind of sneaked up on me. Freya and I were not entered in any rally obedience trials this month, but we did not get in as much good training time as I had hoped to. We didn’t totally waste the first half of the month, but we still have a lot to work on.

Yesterday’s rally class had its ups and downs. I’m still not able to get a full 6 feet to the right of the jump if I want to be sure that Freya will go over it, and not around it. The strategy remained the same as last week: lower jump height and handler closer to the jump on the run-by. I have ruled out injury or discomfort as Freya’s reason for sometimes refusing the jump. It’s more likely that she is being lazy or smart or both, and is taking the path of least resistance. Unfortunately, not acceptable for this particular sport!
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Back in the wind

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Not me… yet. One of my dormant Sportsters.

I haven’t been much for taking pictures of any of my wheels, not even the ones I really liked. I never did find any photos of my 1990 Harley-Davidson Sportster XLH883H (the ones you might remember seeing here in a past post are of my 1989 Sportster). It seems odd that I didn’t take a picture when I first got it. Maybe because it was and is almost bone stock. And I didn’t take one today as it left with one of Dan’s club members.

I’m a little bit sad, but I hope Carlos has fun with it and takes good care of it. It’s time that bike got back in the wind.

(NaBloPoMo | April ’10: 17 of 30)