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Some F*CK HEAD egged M’s nice new car SO HARD it BROKE THE PAINT!

We were driving down the road and heard a terrible bang. I thought we hit an armadillo cuz we saw nothing (they jump vertically into the air when you drive over them, otherwise you’d drive over them and not even harm them, and it’s real common down here). But it sounded like it was on the side of the car and it sounded like a rock.

So we go to a gas station and it was a rotten, yes, ROTTEN egg. But the thing is, it sounded like a rock when it hit, so idunno WHAT they did to make it that hard and damaging. It broke the paint. M’s nice new car!

I think they must have used a strong slingshot or something and then also done something to the egg to make it more damanging, like shellack it or glue a nickel to the tip of it. There’s a perfectly round, nickel-sized area where the paint and clearcoat are destroyed. M is PISSED. I am too.

I mean, you spend the night preparing for an evening where you are handing out candy that nobody is paying you for, and ALOT of the trick-or-treaters weren’t even our neighbors, they come to our neighborhood by mini-van because they live either in the boonies, the bad part of town, or apartments.

And then in return we get expensive damage to the car. Thanks alot.

What scares me is this thing hit HARD and only a minute before I had my window open and it could have hit me! If it had hit me I’d be in the hospital FOR SURE, and if it had hit me like in the temple or something, I’d be DEAD. I’m not exaggerating. This thing, whatever it was (I thing something was glued to the egg) was HARD, and it hit probably a foot from my head, and we were driving fast (as usual).

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I HATE PEOPLE!

Is it just me?

I created my puppy blog (or at least wrote the first post) on 10-4-04, apugslife.blogspot.com. On 10-6-04 a company by the name of Marketing Blaster inc, through DomainGuru.com registered apugslife.com.

What are the odds of that?

D’ya think some people are jumping on domains w/ the same name as new blogs created at blogger hoping that the creator will pony up extra bucks for the dot com?

Seems dumb to jump on a dog blog’s name, but marketers know that pet owners are fanatical. Yeah, I just thought today that I’d buy apugslife.com and host it at blogger, but you know what? I’m NOT paying extra to do it, I WON’T pay a third party a profit to get a name that they are SQUATTING.

These squatters need to get a life.

M and I have determined that we now have a FARM. 2 cats, a puppy, plus the fish.

The puppy is still sick w/ a VERY snotty cold. He has to go out to pee every 2 hours or else he goes inside (small baby dog bladder). To teach him not to go inside, I’m taking him out at 4am, 7am, and just NOT SLEEPING. He also needs medicine, eye antibiotic gel, baths. The cat needs a pill twice a day. Litterbox. Also the cat barfs about 3x a week on the carpet.

I’ve been so overwhelmed by all this that I have just… and I’m ashamed to admit this but who cares, I just have not cleaned up the last two cat barfs. I’m so tired from the very demanding puppy. I don’t even have time to shower, I swear. So the builder came to the door so I covered up the barf w/ a piece of paper, and then today saw barf on top of THAT. Turns out cat had barfed in the very top of her cat tree and that was just drippins’. Yay.

Oh, and meanwhile, I’m fighting a cold, AGAIN. Ack! I need a day off away from the farm.

Brown sucks.

No, not UPS, although UPS pretty much does suck.

But brownouts really suck.

It’d be better if the power just went OFF. But a brownout will burn out all kinds of things and cause other machinery to just get confused.

We’re watching something like ‘Puppies Around The World’ on DVD and the power browns out. M’s like “oh no, anything w/ an A/C motor can burn out!” so we’re running around like crazy trying to turn off stuff w/ motors: computers w/ fans, bathroom fans, ceiling fans, the breaker for the fridge, the air conditioning.

Where brownouts are nice is that you can still get around, read, play scrabble, etc. But it’s not a good idea to run the tv. When it first happened the tv image shrink to about 5 distorted inches. It was really weird. I’m surprised the tv didn’t burn out.

Later on, after the power went back on, I was in the computer room and heard this rather loud TICK TICK TICK TICK. After much searching I found out it was the cd-rom drive for the old Power Mac that we like, NEVER use. Apparently that thing had been ON for probably over a year and we had no idea, that drive has no light to let you know it’s on. So I don’t know if after a reset if it’ll behave properly.

Then this morning my new Senseo coffee maker started acting up (on the one morning that I REALLY NEEDED my caffiene [but that's another story]). It started to make and then just died. I unplugged it and plugged it back in (there should be a word for that… maybe “replugged” or “cycleplugged”) and it, without pressing any buttons, just shot out this bit of coffee that was not unlike syrup. After that it was fine. But whew. Too much for a sleep-deprived, fighting-a-cold, nyquil-hungover caffiene addict!

All this also affected the nearby international airport.

M. found this on Fark:

“Here is an example of the kind of issue that might turn Ohio into Florida.. Take a look at the absentee ballot for Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located. Suppose you wanted to vote for George Bush. Which square would you fill in? If you picked the one I colored in green, congratulations, you just threw your vote away. The one in red is the correct choice to vote for George Bush. Blue is for Kerry. I guess that after losing her reelection bid, Palm Beach County, FL, elections supervisor Theresa LePore must have gotten a new job designing ballots in Ohio. I didn’t think ballot design was rocket science. Shows you what I know.”

(text from main page of http://www.electoral-vote.com)

I haven’t had much to say cuz not much has been new. I got a puppy, but you knew that, and that’s pretty much all-consuming.

Hey, at least it’s not a kid. I can’t STAND baby blogs. I mean, sure, set one up and share it w/ family, but I hate when a good, interesting blog turns baby… or some pretentious smart *ss who THINKS he/she is cool starts posting nothing but baby pictures and googoo gaga stories after previously writing interesting entries or posting good photography.

I’m cynical, what can I say. Puppies are better than babies, and at least I keep most of my puppy stuff on the dog-blog, so at least I’m up front about it, and at least TRY to talk about other things.

M’s parents didn’t come down this week after all. They called the night before to say they couldn’t come. Mr. D. is sick and has to have some tests. I feel bad for them, and M is quite worried. But we’re going up in December at least, so we can see them then (or before that).

M just got off the phone w/ the parents in Canada. Mr. D. was saying that there in Canada, flu shots are free and there is NO shortage. They have such a good supply that they figured instead of asking a nominal $5 (CDN!) fee ($3.50 US?), they figured it’d cost them (the gov’t) less in the long run just to give it out for free and keep everyone healthy.

Since it’s free they have no method set up for billing for it (all of that stuff is standardized up there), and now all these Americans are crossing the border trying to get a flu shot.

It’s quite the topic of conversation. (Mr. D. is a doctor.)

The news here is talking about it too: Yahoo News, CNN, MSNBC, even the Drudge Repot.

Very good little movie (Flash) about Pit Bulls, “The Pit Bull Problem”:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/11454716/
It’s the owners and the treatment, not the breed.

From Fark:

“Community college students signed “petition to legalize weed” without reading it; a few weeks later, they’re all registered Republicans“

This Jesus Freak was hanging around Subway, when I went in he was harassing people in line and I guess the staff had just told him to leave and on his way out he looked at me like he wanted to eat me (or convert me) but he reluctantly walked out. He stood outside talking to himself, and motioning w/ his arms. And whenever someone walked by he’d start talking to them about Jesus, but he was psycho, not just “a christian”. At one point he came back in and approached this table of four and said “can I tell you how Jesus changed my life?” and they all just got up and left (he had seen that they were ready to leave). The staffers kept going by the door pretending to be windexing tables and he’d move away. But then he’d come back when the staff went back behind the counter. He’d stare in the windows at us and wait for people to come out. This one couple was waiting for him to turn his back and when he did turn his back and walk a little away, the one says to the other “now RUN before he sees us!” and in one fell swoop they dumped their tray stuff in the garabge and FLEW out the door, it was hilarious! The guy turned around real quick but was obviously upset that he missed yet more victims. He was gone by the time I left, thank god cuz i was in NO mood for that kinda crap. My game plan was to SCREAM in his face something like BACK OFF MAN! or something, make a total scene. I was just not in the mood for it. Lucky for him he mosied off before I was done eating! >:{

Now I have a cold. The in laws get here Saturday and the house is a pig stye and M keeps having to work late and now I have a cold. I can’t clean if my nose drips when I bend over and I’m so run down that all I can do is nap, and the only cold medicine that WORKS is Nyquil which puts me out entirely. This is going to be fun.

UPDATE: 7:19pm: Took some nyquil even tho I want to stay up, so will hype up on caffiene. I wonder what that’ll be like.

UPDATE: 8:13pm: Nose is dry, I feel spacey, feel like (another) nap. Might make more coffee. I’ve had coffee, then Nyquil, then Diet Coke, time for more Coffee.

Supposedly the Province of Ontario is going to ban Pit Bulls. Do u have any idea how HUGE Ontario is? This is really sad. I think it’s wrong to condemn an entire breed.

Most Pit Bulls never hurt or kill.
Lots of other dogs bite and kill but it never makes the press.
I feel it is misinformation.

In the neighborhood I live in, it’s against the rules to own a Pit Bull. The rules are enforceable and all people are (supposed to be) shown a copy of the rules before buying a home here.

What’s even more scary than this blind, uneducated mass ban, is the fact that alot of dogs are mistaken for Pit Bulls, even Pugs sometimes! (I don’t get THAT.) Here is an interesting page:

“Find The Pitbull“

This is old news (Oct. 7th) but I still think it’s really cool:

“Google Launches SMS Search Service”

I know I broke my blog sometime a while back. I wanted to delete some posts so I deleted the files. So now if you (or more likely *I*) went back to an early post and then hit next next next, something would break. But really who wou ld go that far back in my blog. Probably only me. Someday this blog’ll be fun to look back on. But I don’t think the general public cares about much more than what’s on the front page. To fix or not to fix, that is the question. I think I’ll leave it alone. At least for now. I can think of better stuff to do w/ my time.

Like play w/ new puppy or put up the last of the Ireland photos.

I forget what I was gonna say.

(posted by M)

So tonight, we decided we would cook hamburgers on the barbecue. Normally, I use charcoal, but I thought tonight I would try something different–hickory chunks. It actually worked out very well–the burgers came out somewhat crispy, but VERY flavorful.

In retrospect though, I should have read the bag for the hickory chunks. In boldface and all caps, was the warning:

WATCH FOR FLAIR-UPS

Huh? I’m at risk of suddenly turning gay for using these wood chunks? I mean, they really think that there’s a risk of that? The act of grilling frozen hamburger patties over an open wood fire outdoors might one day become my gateway to gayness?

Or is it just that once again, the morons are in charge of spelling and proofreading?

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe

Nice… some group getting people to vote tore up and threw out all the democratic registrants.

I appologize to my HUGE readership that I have not been blogging much.

I am just SO freaking tired from puppyhood. Plus, the dog is sick, so that makes it that much harder what with nightmare poos, constant pees, vitamin supplements, special food, special fluids, etc.

Riley’s blog is being updated alot:
http://apugslife.blogspot.com

Other than that, let’s see:

The wall that leaked during hurricane charley is fixed, now they just have to kick the carpet back down and clean it…

M’s parents are coming soon and the house is a PIG STYE. We have SO much cleaning to do and now M is working late alot and I have a sick baby dog on my hands. “Oh Ward, can’t I hire a maid????”

I’m so not up on tech stuff lately. TechTv just isn’t the same anymore and I’m so busy on dog message boards seeking help for my sick puppy that I haven’t even been surfing /. and similar sites much.

I have no life. Today: wake up, [take dog out to potty one million times not that it HELPS!], shower, take care of dog, get locked out of house, take care of cat, go for sushi, go to Target, go to Barnes and Noble to get concise book on housetraining, go to give M back the house key, go home, play w/ dog, read dog message boards for help on sick and untrainable puppy, look for cat who has been sulking and hiding and hissing since Saturday, call vet, go to vet to get anti-diarheal pills for dog, get stuck in traffic cuz there’s an accident every day in this town, go home, have dinner, play w/ dog, wonder why I’m so tired.

Having a puppy is so much like having a kid it’s FREAKING ME OUT! Potty pads, puppy bag for the car, car seat, piss, sh*t, whining, crying.

It’s all too much like human babies it’s really freaking me out!

But one day I’ll be sad that the puppy days are gone.

Yesterday we went and got the puppy, Riley. I was so tired by last night. Just overloaded I guess. All the anticipation of getting the puppy, the road trip, the overstimulation of the new puppy.

It’s gonna take me a while to figure everything out, like when he has to potty vs. when he’s playing me for attention, stuff like that.

Cats are so much easier. But I wanted a buddy I could take to parks and dog bakeries. So, in time it will be worth it.

Remember, he has his own blog!
http://apugslife.blogspot.com/
I took some great photos of him yesterday, and they are posted on his blog.

We’re leaving in a bit to head to the other coast to get the new Pug puppy! Check my moblog for camera-phone pictures from the road, and then later tonight I should have better photos posted to the puppy-blog.

I just had the weirdest dream. I’m getting my Pug puppy tomorrow, and I dreamed that the breeder came to my house and was deep-frying a tray of what looked like fritters, globs of deep-fried something. I looked closer and it looked like tiny kittens with their necks broken, eyes missing/sunken, and then deep fried. I’d been eating these, and then I say to the breeder, “Just HOW are they supposed to come to life after being deep fried and eaten???” The breeder says to me: “Don’t chew them, just mush them up and then spit them out.” I started to freak out thinking about how I’d been chewing them and swallowing them, and thinking about the intense bruning heat of being deep-fried in oil, and then all of a sudden there was a big German Shephard dog on a leash I was holding. Then the alarm went off.

Whatthehell?

I don’t know why it is, but WITHOUT FAIL, every single dog breeder’s webpage, and every single “this page is dedicated to my dog” pages are JUST HORRIBLE! Flashing text, black text over black background images, pages that consist of nothing but 25 webring nav bars, repeating sidebars with text overwriting the sidebar, you name it. It’s horrible!

I must have adult ADD. I wrote this whole post and never hit submit, and then mindlessly hit the back button to go back to another page and never remembered that I dind’t submit the post.

ugh.

I’m sure it wasn’t interesting or I would not have wandered away in the middle of writing it.

I think it was just about my day: M’s car in shop, got up early, went to gym, went to subway, went to store, was tired, wanted to nap, had to shower, had linux meetup to go to, went to linux meetup, didn’t talk about linux.

Uneventful day.

Saturday my Pup puppy comes home!!!!

Holy cow!

Someone made an Indian film called “Bride and Prejudice“, which is “an adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic tale“, “Pride and Prejudice”. HOW COOL IS THAT GONNA BE!!!

I LOVE Indian films!!! … and I LOVED “Pride and Prejudice” (especially the one w/ Colin Firth in it! AGH!!!!!)

“Director Gurinder Chadha said the film gave “Pride and Prejudice” a modern twist in an Indian setting”

I’ve got to see this movie! And it has my very very favorite Indian actress, Miss World, Aishwarya Rai!

NEAT!!!

the movie:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/13594408?source=PA

Aishwarya Rai:

Puppy’s own BLOG!!!

http://apugslife.blogspot.com/

Went and visited the Pug breeder today. Put a deposit on a little boy who can come home this Saturday. I can’t believe I’m finally getting a pug, that I’m finally getting a dog after… how many years??? (thinking) …23 years or so. I’m nervous about puppyhood, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it.

Want to see picatures????
.:PHOTOS:.

I’ll have to come up with a blog category just for him, but I haven’t come up with a name for him yet.

I spent a lot of time finding a reputable breeder. I didn’t want to support the puppy mill industry (pet stores) and I wanted to make sure I did all I could to increase my chances of having a pug who came from healthy stock. The breeder’s active in showing, and several authors of books about pugs have consulted her and credited her, and most of the photos in “Pugs For Dummies” are her photos (and her dogs).

Yay!

UPDATE: I’m welcoming name suggestions, by the way.