This week is dragging.
Why is it not the weekend?
Sweet sweet weekend please.
Why is only Wednesday? [NOT 13/12/23]
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This week is dragging.
Why is it not the weekend?
Sweet sweet weekend please.
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They just voted to start the Biden impeachment. Not only a long week, it is going to be a helluva long year until the election.
At least a bunch of early headlines are pointing out that they got nothing. We’ll see if editors and reporters keep their spines.
They totally have nothing. It is all about pushing the “see, both sides are corrupt” narrative. It will make for some great Fox News sound bites & stoke the fire of the Trumpers.
I stumbled across the website for the guy who created the manga that is the basis for one of my all time favorite TV shows, Midnight Diner.
http://abeyaro.com
It’s all in Japanese, but Chrome’s translate function does a pretty good job of changing to English. I can’t say I follow a lot even then, but the illustrations are wonderful. I’m not a manga fan, but I’m guessing this is about as mild as the genre gets.
Tomorrow morning we’re heading to Chicago to spend Christmas with the daughter/boss.
I hope the snow gods are kind. Enough for a white Christmas but not so much that the travelling gets bolluxed up.
A Lab came in to one of the shelters up in West Central MN, near-ish where I grew up (YES, I’ve basically been stalking the websites of ALL the shelters I know of, from an hour south of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro region, to an hour southeast of Fargo!😉😆😂🤣💖)…
His shelter-name is Dale (they have a Yellow Lab that came in at about the same time, named “Chip”), but his name WOULD get changed to another “D” name, if we get him (maybe “Ducky” like David McCallum’s character from NCIS😁)…
I just submitted the application, and should be able to find out more in a few days.
I called to ask about him earlier today, to find out more info & ask about the adoption process up there–annnnnd to find out if he’s got prey drive, or is cat-friendly.
They said they typically test the dogs by taking them into the Cat Room at the shelter–but that they don’t test the dogs, until your application is approved (in order to *not* stress the cats unnecessarily!).
So I asked some folks I trust, to act as “pet-owner references” for me, sent his petfinder link to my roommates to ask what THEY think of him (they both think he’s an adorable derp, too!😉), and called our last vet office to ask about the “reference” policy there, and timelines on “new pet” appointments–since when we were there when I still had Lily, they were booking 3+ months out…
Got a call from our/Lil’s vet this afternoon, that *now* they open up appointments on Mondays,for each week, and the cost of a regular “new dog/wellness” visit will run about $90 at the top end.
The application is now in, and we’re at the “hurry up and WAIT!” stage.
If he’s supposed to come here, he will, and if he’s supposed to be someone *else’s* pup, he won’t, is what I figure.
If *he* isn’t my next pup, I’ll keep watching the dogs coming through Animal Control here in Minneapolis, and those Shelters I’ve been “stalking” online😉
Annnnnd if our pup *doesn’t* pop up there before the spring semester starts? I’ll also fill out the “pre-approval” application at that Vet Tech program Luna the Newf/ Doodle cross was at, so that the Vet in charge of that program can maybe set us up with the right fit😉🤗💖
I’d never heard of the concept of cat testing before. We have a cat and when we foster we report on how the foster dog does, but it’s an extremely imprecise science because our cat is plenty flaky.
Good luck! My sense is there are a lot of doggos in the pipeline around the country, so if this one isn’t a good match, there will be others before too long.
Did I ever tell you (HERE HE GOES AGAIN) that we get all our dogs from shelters, but they keep getting more and more aggressive with their fundraising appeals and the unsolicited crap they ship. But I want to support the shelter that we got Faithful Hound from, so we rent a car and I stuff an envelope with unmarked $20s and hand it to the nearest, handiest volunteer/employee. And then we hi-tail it out of the parking lot as if we’re fleeing a murder scene. People must think we’re insane. I think I’m insane.
Skum Nole didn’t exactly graduate with a real degree, but thinks he can make his own university.
For those STEM students who want to tongue bathe Elon and no yucky women or minorities (at least those who don’t think they’re white) in their beloved STEM classes.
DeVry For Incels.
I will have you know that at the dawn of the Internet age a friend of mine scored a pretty major position with a fledgeling tech start-up and their offices were on the top floor (or two, maybe?) of the DeVry Institute on 6th Avenue. Pretty much right across the street from the famous Limelight nightclub, the deconsecrated church, that I used to haunt almost every weekend with my handy Limelight VIP pass. Not that I was a club kid, per se, but New York is an extremely sociable town and you get to know people and we all trade favors. It’s too expensive otherwise.
My point is, back in those halcyon days, I didn’t really know what DeVry was, but I met plenty of students of all ages and backgrounds going in and out of that building and they were very nice, if a little haggard, because I think some of them had overnight service jobs (like security guards and cleaners) and weren’t getting a lot of sleep.