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links for 2009-03-15

March 15th, 2009
  • Cool and quirky movie about morris dancers! You can watch the preview at http://morrismovie.com/, and then — if you like — sign the petition urging that the film be distributed to theaters. (The petition is set up assuming you live in the UK, but you can just leave the "region" list blank if you don't live there.)

links for 2009-03-07

March 7th, 2009
  • Oh. Good. Lord. Fascinatingly horrible examples of dreadful things apparently intended for consumption, mostly extremely not vegan. Pretty much all should kill you dead at 20 paces.

    Is it really all that wrong that I kind of want to veganize some of them, just for the challenge? C'mon, a vegan pizza cone would sound really comforting after a stressful day. . . .

You Need Another Dog

March 6th, 2009

Boone Needs a Forever Home

Seriously: how could you not want to take this guy home? He’s young, outgoing, good-looking, and is a total sweetheart. Oh, and he’s single, and looking for love.

His Petfinder page is here. I met him this afternoon when I picked up Moliere after his haircut.* Most of the time I was scratching his ears and head, he was trying his best to lick my hands without twisting his head out of my reach.

Two dogs is my limit — if nothing else, my HOA agreement specifies no more than two, and limits them to 35 lb or less — but if you or someone you know is in need of a dog and has the space for a dog who’ll maybe be 60 to 70 lb when he hits his full growth, check out Boone. The groomer said he’ll be at the Petsmart on Ponce de Leon on Sunday, if you want to meet him.

He’s a lovely, sweet young dog, and he deserves a good home.

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*One of the things I like about my groomer, or rather Moliere’s groomer, is that he does stuff like this to help out rescues a lot.

links for 2009-03-04

March 4th, 2009

General Suckitude

March 2nd, 2009

All in all, today was not my favorite day. It could have been much worse, I’ll admit — my car might’ve slid on the ice and smashed into something or someone, or Nigel could’ve had a medical problem — but it was still fairly sucky. The various bad things of today included, but were not limited to, the following:

  • For the third day in a row, both dogs had accidents overnight, of both sorts. This, despite their having been outside many, many times the evening before. I feel as if I spend my life mopping floors and laundering pee pads, towels, and throw rugs.
  • Immediately upon returning from our morning airing, Moliere decided that would be a good time to crap on the floor.
  • While scraping the snow and ice off my windshield, I broke my passcard for work. Yes, I should’ve used an ice scraper, but I lost mine when I moved from Illinois, and haven’t felt like buying and keeping track of another one when I only need it once a year, if that.
  • Sid the Beetle’s battery light came on while I was driving to work, necessitating an unplanned trip to the dealer’s, time lost from work when I really can’t spare any time, and over $1200 in repairs. (It was the alternator that had conked out.)
  • Nigel’s kidney situation continues to deteriorate (though at least while I was gone he actually managed to hit the pee pads — and also the kitchen tiles, but at least they’re nonabsorbent). He wants to go outside every half hour to 45 minutes. From the number of times we go up and down the stairs each day, I should have amazing, phenomenal, slender, Swedish-like thighs, but unfortunately that’s another thing that doesn’t seem to be working the way it should.
  • Indie bookseller Wordsmiths Books closed today. It’s always sad when a local shop closes down; you lose a little more of what makes neighborhoods unique, and takes you one step closer to suburban/urban megamalls with identical architecture and absolutely the same bloody stores everywhere.
  • Though they’re not closing (thankfully!), Cosmo’s is moving to Marietta at the end of the month, which is terra incognita as far as I’m concerned. Guess I’ll just have to order from the web site rather than dropping by occasionally, and that makes me rather sad.
  • There is now a big white box on Errol the Mac’s screen, obscuring everything underneath it, and it refuses to go away despite everything I do. Probably just a performance lag — Errol’s getting old and slow — but it’s bloody irritating, and makes it hard to type without errors.
  • On the positive side, no one has died; Nigel’s in good spirits and Moliere remains sweet but, well, slow; no damage has been done except to my credit cards; and at least the woman at the car dealership said she liked the sock I’m working on:

    Ankh-Morpork Brassicas Sock

    It’s a crappy shot, but it’ll have to do for now. I’m off to watch old “Mary Tyler Moore” episodes on Hulu to cheer myself up.