Based on the prints left in the frost it has doggy like paws about half the size of Apollo’s. I’m thinking coyote, but it could be stray dog. Whatever it was Apollo was NOT AMUSED. He spent half an hour this morning dragging me around the front yard, sniffing prints, peeing on strategic spots, and huffing away to himself. He’s now sitting infront of one of the front windows and won’t even come to breakfast.
Year: 2011
Today’s links
BoA forcloses on a woman over $1, and then forgets to tell her.
I want to know how no one noticed this till after the fact……it had to have made a heck of a lot of noise!
Today’s links
I just picked two today, though there were a few more that caught my eye.
Store refuses to accept coins as payment. I’ve been on both sides of this, both the person buying stuff with coins only, and the cashier having to take them, and its less than plesent from either side, but I really can’t beleive the store outright refused them. I remember scrounging change in college so I could buy $5 in gas, and I still occasionally scrounge a $1 so I can have a donut with out breaking my budget. I always feel bad handing the cashier that handfull of change, cause even though the change is usefull they still have to count it so as to make sure their cash drawer stays correct. I’ll admit that $32 in change is a bit much, but it was in quarters which means its REALLY EASY to count out. I think the best part of the article though is that the news people called the stores twice, once as newsies, and once as your average Joe, and got two different answers!
Dog bites Halloween Prankster. So, boyfriend decides it’ll be fun to scare his girlfriend, girlfriend gets so freaked out her dog (a Rotti) feels the need to protect her and bites the boyfriend. First off the article doesn’t say if the dog has any official history of aggression, but in the over all scheme of things I’m not sure that makes a difference in my feelings on this (it makes a difference to the dog and girlfriend though, if the dog does this could be a final straw). First off: kick out that boyfriend. Sorry, if he was doing something that aggressively scary he needs to go. 2nd, I’d be willing to bet that the dog and boyfriend never got along well in the first place, if the dog liked him it would have been less likely to cause actual harm in guarding its master (sorry for the “it” the article doesn’t say if its male or female). 3rd “Eggers told officers at the hospital he knew the dog was just doing its job, protecting Yeida, but that he wanted the dog put down.” Cause yah, anything that protects your loved ones has to go huh? Sorry dude, if you were my boyfriend you’d be gone. And if this incident resulted in the loss of my dog I’d probly sue too.
heh
Someone from JPMorganChase found my Spam and Scam week post searching for information on cscalllog.com. Hope it helped!
(whats odd is I can’t get my blog to come up in Google using that set of search terms. Oh well!)
No Snow
Thursday we got the barest hint of white stuff falling from the sky (though area’s not much south of me had a couple inches to deal with). I was not amused, and was dreading Saturday when they said there might be accumulation. Probly not much, but some. We got missed, thank god. Not sure if the storm ended up a bit more east than expected or what, but we didn’t even see flurries. After seeing pictures from the people who got hit I’m just as glad! (Apollo’s not though, he broke the ice on his kiddie pool this afternoon cause it was “so hot” he wanted to dunk himself, he’d have been delighted with snow!)
Poor Apollo
Poor pup is suffering through his 2nd set of antibiotics after the UTI made a comeback. Course, since it came back (or its sibling did anyway, different bacteria this time), the antibiotic this time is a stronger one. We’re a bit worried by the fact that it came back, males (human or animal) are MUCH less prone to UTIs in the first place due to body structure (if you don’t get it go Google it, I’m not explaining the birds and the bees to you), and neither his line or his breed have a predisposition to them. One happens, twice is worrysome.
Anyway, the new antibiotic is screwing with his system. Both drying him out, and at the same time making him not hungry, and possibly mildly nauseous, so he’s drinking alot but barely eating. Since he’s still a growing pup not eating much is extra not cool, so today I headed down to Petco and picked up a can of Puppy Gold. His breeder recommended it to us when we first picked him up, but he’s been weaned off it for months and months now. But he LOVED it, and it can be given as a liquid. Picked up a package of raw boneless chicken breasts too. Came home, chopped up a raw chicken breast into bite sizes, mixed it with a serving of Puppy Gold…..and he licked his bowl clean. Just gave him a 2nd serving and he licked that bowl clean too. Sweet.
Note: for anyone looking to buy Puppy Gold, unless you only need a little bit (such as we do right now) its MUCH cheaper to buy it in bulk, we got a huge bag from Amazon for something like half the price it would have been to buy that much by the 1lb can.
Disclaimer: I did not get paid, reimbursed, or even asked, to do this post, so the .GOV can go screw itself.
Snow Blower update
We ended up with this model (from my local Tractor Supply). For those of you who don’t want to click, its a Cub Cadet 24in 2stage Electric start model with Zero Turn (woohoo, that’ll make it easier for ME to use it). Not the biggest snow blower out there, but it should do our driveway just fine.
I don’t think this was the search result you were looking for….
(I’ve noticed that set of search times a few times, but hadn’t bothered to look at where they were coming from. I will admit to being amused)
Edited: Oh, and how come Blogger’s built in stats can say 96 page views one minute, 3 an hour later, and 35 a couple hours after that and yet none of those are even close to what Site Meter says?
Spam update
CivWorld got back to me today about my complaint about being unable to unsubscribe from the newsletter. Basically saying that they didn’t know why it bounced but they’d removed my email from the list manually. While double checking the email address I’d sent the unsubscribe to I realized what exactly had gone wrong. When they coded the template for the newsletter they coded the email address incorrectly. Basically if I manually type in the address as shown it works fine, but if I click on the email address (cause its clickable) the coded version was incorrect. Simple typo from the looks of it. I advised them of the error along with thanking them for taking me off the list.