The dang dog got out again - he broke out of the kennel without too much difficulty. We have had quite a hard time trying to keep him contained in the back yard. We reinforced part of the kennel by placing a piece of fence over the top in an effort to prevent him from jumping the fence. I let them hang out in the house last night after catching him but I think that in the end I was only rewarding him for making another jailbreak.
We left this afternoon to go check “Tall Ships” festival in downtown Tacoma. Prior to leaving, we locked both dogs in the kennel hoping that they wouldn’t be able to get out again. We must have crappy luck. Something set the dog off and he escaped - luckily - our neighbor directly across the street caught him. When we checked out the kennel we found that he had repeatedly smashed against the fence until it broke apart.
We fixed the kennel by completely covering the entire roof - we also chained him inside the kennel. We had to do the same thing to the last dog that I owned - she eventually hung herself during a thunderstorm when she tried to jump the fence while chained. I kept the chain short enough that he can’t get to any location where he could potentially jump and strangle. Hopefully this dog will be smart enough to avoid that fate. The kennel can now be called Dogcatraz - no dog should be able to escape this cage - if he does, he deserves to be free.
For the last few nights I’ve had one song running through my head - Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak.
Let’s hope that I don’t have to worry about it again - if I do - its time to add hotwire to the rest of the kennel. That ought to slow him down.
We started with two dogs and traded one back in - she wasn’t a bad dog - she was just ridiculously lazy. We’re back to two of them and I forgot how much I missed having dogs. I moved away from my parents house years ago and that was the last time I had really spent any length of time around a dog. My last pet was a bit of a nut job and was banished to an outdoor existence after tearing the house apart for the last time - certain members of my family did not want to put the dog outside or place it in a kennel when we left home. She had a “bit” of separation anxiety and proceeded to destroy anything she could find - you know - dads shoes, any scrap of paper she can grab, the Christmas tree.
Our dogs live in a massive backyard and have plenty of room to roam. Violet, the dog we got in the trade deal, is a little skittish (still) and won’t roam far from the kennel area. She’ll get used to it in time but its a change of environment. She has a unique and disgusting habit - she burgles turds. Yes, after she or the other dog leaves uhh… waste behind she will collect it and place it in her dog house. Apparently, she has been doing this for years. I really don’t know why a dog would collect turds aside from eating them which is a bit odd - dogs normally go for cat crap, horse crap, pig crap, cow crap, and well - essentially any other crap but their own. You may not notice it when you look at the dogs in this picture but Duke and Violet are trouble - I just don’t know how much trouble they are going to be - yet.
I’ve got a few videos of the two dogs in action and they may only be interesting if you really like dogs. You may want to check them out because you can see the scale of the yard that I get the “opportunity” to mow.
Then again, you may just watch the videos if you’re bored and you’ve got a high speed internet connection. Whatever reason - here they are.
I found a collection of videos at Film School Rejects that caught my attention. Instead of watching some of my favorite and highly quoted scenes from movies - why not read them - curious? Watch this bit from V for Vendetta.
In Iraq I really only knew a few things to be true - I knew that it was going to be hot during the day and I also knew that it was going to be dark and noisy at night.
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When I finally left I rode out on dark and noisy military transport - a continuation of a theme. My camera doesn’t like extremely shaky environments full of low light conditions but I think I captured enough for you to understand how enjoyable the ride actually was for us. If you look at the bottom picture, cram yourself into a closet with 4-6 other people, crank up the volume to the maximum level on your speakers, and sit/stand there for three hours you’ll have a slight understanding of how “comfortable” it was
I got home and met a fantastic girl in the airport - well - I it wasn’t the first time I’ve met her but it had been quite a while since I had last seen her.
We went home and she showed me around our house - where we had the lengthy task of unpacking looming on the horizon.
Luckily - I’m a task oriented guy and we got starting working at the task so it could be done - and so we could look forward to the party we were to have that weekend.
The house is complete with a garage and two dogs in the backyard - one of which will flop around like a fish if you ignore her.
We had a party and it was a great time despite me knowing only a handful of the people there - I met quite of few of Jessica’s friends but there names are already a mystery to me - damn short term memory. Feel free to check out more photos of the house in the gallery - thats it for now
Someone played this last night and I laughed the entire time. The lyrics are absolutely absurd and completely off the wall - its my kind of humor. Watch, enjoy, and be prepared to have this song stuck in your head for the next week - kinda like those damn unicorns at candy mountain - I’ll never forgive you for ruining my ears with that schlock.
Most of you suffered through the television writers strike - that is, if you’re the type of person that watches television. Late night shows were struck hard as they had to rely on the creativity of the host to get some laughs. One of my favorite late night hosts is Conan O’Brien - he’s just silly - and he makes me laugh. I can’t give you an overall synopsis of the writing during the writer’s strike because I simply don’t know. But, I can show you this clip because there was some comedy gold during the strike. Watch, enjoy, and laugh.
If you’ve never heard of James May (Top Gear) or Gordan Ramsey (Chef) - this video is not for you. If you have heard of them, you might get a laugh or two out of it as I did.
After some searching I found a video that I talked to my dad about a few weeks ago. Dennis Hopper was in a series of commercials for Nike - they were great - and bad things can happen - bad things man.
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