Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

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

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

How did they know?

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Somehow the folks at Copyblogger knew exactly what was going to be in my head tonight when they published “The Most Horrible Blog Post Ever” today.

And I will take the advice to just go ahead and write something anyway.

I’ll still have at least one thing from today to push off into tomorrow, as I am just not getting a look that I’m satisfied with for the photo web page I mentioned yesterday. The other website update is finished, and while I didn’t make a large dent in the photo and movie archiving, I did make at least a little headway on the photo archiving.

I didn’t use my practice rally courses this evening. I wasn’t sure if the rain was going to come back (so of course it did not) and didn’t want to set up the signs if it was going to rain again. I did practice several exercises with each dog, though. Our fronts and finishes are very sloppy. I should have taken more time to teach accuracy from the get-go. Lesson learned, or perhaps that should be lesson forgotten from the days of the original Rottweiler wrecking crew!

I’m not sure yet what to plan for tomorrow, other than hoping my muse comes back and helps me to finish that photo web page. Dog training is a given, even if it turns out to be just 10 or 15 minutes for each dog. There are some new class sessions starting up in August, so I will put it on my list for this week to get the start dates and get us enrolled in one.

(NaBloPoMo | August ’09: 3 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 191 of 274)

Weekend procrastination with a very small side of accomplishment

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Weekends are made for procrastination. Or maybe that is just me. I’m definitely pushing a few things off until tomorrow that I had hoped to complete today, including two website updates (one very minor with a few additions to an event listing page, and one a little more involved with a number of photos to resize and crop) and getting some movies and photos transferred to DVDs and CDs.

The dogs didn’t get as much training as they should have today. It was a nice day and we should have taken advantage of the lack of rain, which I think is supposed to be back tomorrow. Axel should also try harder not to injure me. Very minor, mostly my stupidity and my fault, but still, ouch.

I spent some time tonight making some rally obedience practice mini-courses that will fit in the back yard and work for both AKC and UKC. Through the rally obedience Yahoo! Group that I joined recently, I found an extremely cool freeware course designer written in Microsoft Excel. It requires Excel 2002 or later. It is working fine so far on my setup with Microsoft Excel 2007 and Windows Vista Home Premium.

If the rain holds off, or avoids my sector entirely, those practice courses will be what’s on tap for tomorrow!

(NaBloPoMo | August ’09: 2 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 190 of 274)

Tomorrow… hope or procrastination?

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Another month, another NaBloPoMo! The August 2009 theme is “tomorrow” and since I’ve already used up (wasted? I did get a few things done, but not as many as I’d hoped) most of today, the thought of tomorrow is a promising one right now.

Tomorrow is about hope and promise. That’s a very positive way to look forward to a new day. That new day might bring new opportunities, or at least a chance for a do-over. Tomorrow is also about procrastination. Those things I didn’t get done today? Pushed off until tomorrow, just because I could, assuming that there will always be a tomorrow. Not quite so positive.

I admit to falling into procrastination mode far more often than I should, and using up that limited supply of tomorrows that has been alloted to me. Something to think about as I figure out how to spend tomorrow.

(NaBloPoMo | August ’09: 1 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 189 of 274)

Still in need of a more effective routine

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Here we are at the end of NaBloPoMo for July 2009. I didn’t write much on the month’s theme of “routine” although the struggle to establish an effective routine is an ongoing concern.

At the beginning of the month, I had hoped to establish some better routines for blogging, dog training and computer maintenance. I think I succeeded in one area only, that of computer maintenance, and particularly if success is equal to having current backups of everything important.

NaBloPoMo has gotten me into the habit of writing daily, but unfortunately I’m having difficulty shifting my writing time from extremely late night to early evening. Early morning was considered and rejected as a good time to write. One must be awake and alert to write. That is not me in the morning.

The dog training routine is now high priority. Freya and Axel both need to be ready for rally obedience trials in October or November. I’ll be training very few totally new exercises to either dog, so the challenge is to keep them (and myself!) from getting bored and sloppy.

(NaBloPoMo | July ’09: 31 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 188 of 274)

Things I want to talk about

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I’m running on empty for no apparent reason, so I’m just going to make a few notes about some topics I want to talk about, before I forget about them entirely.

  • I got my invite for Google Voice last week. I did set it up, but haven’t had a chance to play around with it much, nor have I tried to set up its BlackBerry client. I’m sure at least a couple of you out there might like to hear about it!
  • I wrote a little bit about WordPress for BlackBerry when it first came out, but I should probably do a more complete review. There have been six updates since then, over the space of less than a month, so the developers really are working hard on bug fixes and enhancements.
  • As you all know, Freya is working on her rally obedience titles. When Axel goes back out with Julia this fall, he will also be working on rally obedience titles along with his AKC championship. That is, if I make sure he knows all of the Novice stations before he leaves. With about two and half months to go, we should definitely be able to do that, and get some training posts out of it, too!

(NaBloPoMo | July ’09: 30 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 187 of 274)