We have a new doggy!

We're goin' to Petco, baby! Must buy toys and treats!

Laundry happened yesterday. Today I went out and bought shoes (I need to take my fluevogs into the cobbler to get the the heel reattached and I noticed cracks in the heel posts of the other standby, so.) I ended up getting 2 pairs since both were 50% off the ticket price. Grand total of $65. Not as fun as my fluevogs, but now I have backups.

PEECTURES!

Congrats, KRM and Kristen!

I want to shoot all the people in the eHarmony ads. I'm at that point.

TiVo grabbed a "is the Bermuda Triangle a black hole?" program off the History Channel. Not only does NASA deny that assertion, they deny there's a Bermuda Triangle. Government conspiracy?

Ah, well. It was a dumb and sensationalistic assertion at best.

Yay doggie! Picturespicturespictures!

Yay Puppy.

In sad pet news, my mom called me earlier in the week and told me that my sister's youngest Golden Retriever had to have surgery to remove some object from it's belly (total count: two trouser socks, part of a dishcloth and a discount card from a clothing store.) What she forgot to tell me is that my sister also had to have one her cats put to sleep on the same day. After about a year of not being himself, his kidneys failed. I felt badly when I was talking to my sister last night and she mentioned the cat, and I had no idea.

TiVo grabbed a "is the Bermuda Triangle a black hole?" program off the History Channel. Not only does NASA deny that assertion, they deny there's a Bermuda Triangle. Government conspiracy?

Whenever I happen across that, being presented by the History Channel as if it's real science, my eyes start rolling like slots in a Vegas double jackpot machine. If they want a show about black holes, why not do a documentary presentation with Stephen Hawking or Neil deGrasse Tyson or someone else who actually knows how they work and can explain it to laymen? There's all kinds of interesting stuff about time dilation close to an event horizon and other weird effects that are proposed by people who didn't get their credentials out of crackerjack boxes.

my laundry got done.

Today I introduced the concept of a limit to "screen time" in our house. We have had some informal lines drawn before and I have been talking around the issue, bringing it up more than once since Christmas, but today I made some demands. After 3 hours of tv, an hour of PS2 and another 1.5 hours of watching shows on my computer (while I started watching the football game), I told mac he needed to find something non tv and non video game to occupy himself. Thus started the pouting, with some stomping and crying thrown in. I didn't waver and mac chose to NOT play with any of his toys, or draw, or color, or read for over 2 hours. lunch was in there as were 2 trips to the laundry room with me. AFter the game I turned off the tv and I got about doing more of the work I need to do around the house (wash dishes, iron, put away stuff), he actively worked to annoy me and then pronounced, "I will just do what I want anyway" and took out the DS.

He has chosen his own punishment for tonight, which is taking a bath without me in there. And now there are official screen time rules: after chores are done morning and night he can distribute as he chooses: 1 hour of tv and 1 hour of video games per weekday, 3 hours of tv and 1 hour of video games on weekends (after max times are met he can ask for more to be handed out based on behavior).

The pouting continues.

So the Obamas have narrowed it down to a poodle or a Portuguese water dog.

Whenever I happen across that, being presented by the History Channel as if it's real science, my eyes start rolling like slots in a Vegas double jackpot machine.

It's really appalling. I've held out this long (45 minutes in) in case they argue against the point too. But I've calmed myself down with reading on the internet--both crackpots and sensible people.

Now they're suggesting there's a wormhole from the Bermuda Triangle to near Japan.