Sometimes, I feel a small urge to start a blog for my two dogs, Pandora & Loki.
They have enough personality that it could work... and they think they're little people (minus the opposable thumbs), so it wouldn't be a surprise.
Then I realize that my own blog posting is sporadic enough as it is. With school, I feel a sense of "time crunch" and barely have enough time for any real socializing and blogging, let alone maintaining a whole new blog for the pets
but it's tempting... oh so tempting
Loki, being the super-nosy being, would definitely be discussing all the comings and goings of the neighborhood. The blinds in the front part of the apartment *must* be left up a foot, so he can see out and watch everyone. NOSY DOG! If he could work the remote control, I am sure he would fill me on on the summary of the day's soap operas. He'd also know all the best neighborhood gossip. And he'd daydream about Chicken. Roast Chickens the size of minivans. Chicken Bits that float through the air, and one must simply leap up to snag morsels of yumminess. Chickens that tango across the room, before laying down in the food bowl, surrounded by tasty veggies. Chicken. Chicken for day, years, eons...of all sizes and shapes. CHICKEN!
Pandora would discuss her Napoleonic complex - the complexities and difficulties of trying to rule an apartment (let alone the world) when she's less than a foot tall...let alone barely a foot long. She'd be addicted to the news all day, blasting Sarah Palin for her stupidity and Barack Obama for his inability to strike out in a brave manner on any topic. She'd delve into politics, world events, social commentary...and would have a very well-developed dialogue. She'd argue with the radio (as if they could hear her), providing commentary to NPR and attempting to bash in the hollow head of Glenn Beck.
Maybe they can just have a Facebook page, for starters, and see how that goes...
They have enough personality that it could work... and they think they're little people (minus the opposable thumbs), so it wouldn't be a surprise.
Then I realize that my own blog posting is sporadic enough as it is. With school, I feel a sense of "time crunch" and barely have enough time for any real socializing and blogging, let alone maintaining a whole new blog for the pets
but it's tempting... oh so tempting
Loki, being the super-nosy being, would definitely be discussing all the comings and goings of the neighborhood. The blinds in the front part of the apartment *must* be left up a foot, so he can see out and watch everyone. NOSY DOG! If he could work the remote control, I am sure he would fill me on on the summary of the day's soap operas. He'd also know all the best neighborhood gossip. And he'd daydream about Chicken. Roast Chickens the size of minivans. Chicken Bits that float through the air, and one must simply leap up to snag morsels of yumminess. Chickens that tango across the room, before laying down in the food bowl, surrounded by tasty veggies. Chicken. Chicken for day, years, eons...of all sizes and shapes. CHICKEN!
Pandora would discuss her Napoleonic complex - the complexities and difficulties of trying to rule an apartment (let alone the world) when she's less than a foot tall...let alone barely a foot long. She'd be addicted to the news all day, blasting Sarah Palin for her stupidity and Barack Obama for his inability to strike out in a brave manner on any topic. She'd delve into politics, world events, social commentary...and would have a very well-developed dialogue. She'd argue with the radio (as if they could hear her), providing commentary to NPR and attempting to bash in the hollow head of Glenn Beck.
Maybe they can just have a Facebook page, for starters, and see how that goes...
I snagged this from Breann - who snagged it before me. Play along!
1. My most prized possession is: A stuffed Mickey Mouse from when I was a child...and has managed to survive all these years, with a LOT of Mom's stitching holding it together.
2. If I could be one age for the rest of my life, I would want to be: 30. It's that nice in-between when you still see life as a large vista in front of you, but with some actual experience to help make sense of things.
3. The best way to spend a weekend is: With the windows open, hanging out with the dogs and the record player cranked up.
4. My outlook on life is:"I still believe I can fly". Whatever it is, most things can be accomplished with enough effort. If not, then there's valuable lessons to be learned for the next attempt.
5. If you want to annoy me: talk about how much something you have costs. A thing's worth is in its features and what it means to the person, not the dollar sign attached.
6. I am completely defenseless when it comes to: coffee.
7. When dressing for the day one should put on: a watch.
1. My most prized possession is: A stuffed Mickey Mouse from when I was a child...and has managed to survive all these years, with a LOT of Mom's stitching holding it together.
2. If I could be one age for the rest of my life, I would want to be: 30. It's that nice in-between when you still see life as a large vista in front of you, but with some actual experience to help make sense of things.
3. The best way to spend a weekend is: With the windows open, hanging out with the dogs and the record player cranked up.
4. My outlook on life is:"I still believe I can fly". Whatever it is, most things can be accomplished with enough effort. If not, then there's valuable lessons to be learned for the next attempt.
5. If you want to annoy me: talk about how much something you have costs. A thing's worth is in its features and what it means to the person, not the dollar sign attached.
6. I am completely defenseless when it comes to: coffee.
7. When dressing for the day one should put on: a watch.
Adventures in Re-Learning How to Cook - Baked Chicken
...in which i make a first attempt at cooking again...
...in which i make a first attempt at cooking again...
Trip to Japanese Garden in Houston, TX... part of the Museum District
Feb 2011
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Feb 2011
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- Current Location:US, Texas, Houston
Actually managed to snap a photo of Pandora without her walking off or throwing me a proverbial middle finger! :)
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- Current Location:US, Texas, Houston, Harris, Valley Forge Dr, 5907
Back in April, I decided to start one of those 365-Day projects, where one takes an idea and implements it each day for an entire year.
Decided on photography.
So far I'm about 60 days into the project.
Some of the days are taking shots of something that happened that day, some of them are just things that stuck out in my mind.
After about a month, you start to notice a pattern in your own shots. As one co-worker put it: "you like to shoot things up close". Well, yes... on the one hand, I'm short...I'm used to being up close to something in the first place. On the other hand, photographing plants was where I got the photo-bug, so that seems to be where the mental tendency goes.
With that in mind, have been playing around lately - angles, shadows, cropping parts of the image on purpose, zooming in so far that it's hard to tell what the object actually is (so focusing on the texture/etc), lighting, and lately it's been playing with the colors/temperatures of the shot.
About two months in to a year-long project like this, one definitely begins coming up with ideas to keep it fresh...or at least something to keep focused.
Right now what comes to mind is themes - taking an idea and implementing it for a week at a time. Not sure how that's going to play out, but it's just an idea for now.
(the camera image below is a link to the gallery)
Decided on photography.
So far I'm about 60 days into the project.
Some of the days are taking shots of something that happened that day, some of them are just things that stuck out in my mind.
After about a month, you start to notice a pattern in your own shots. As one co-worker put it: "you like to shoot things up close". Well, yes... on the one hand, I'm short...I'm used to being up close to something in the first place. On the other hand, photographing plants was where I got the photo-bug, so that seems to be where the mental tendency goes.
With that in mind, have been playing around lately - angles, shadows, cropping parts of the image on purpose, zooming in so far that it's hard to tell what the object actually is (so focusing on the texture/etc), lighting, and lately it's been playing with the colors/temperatures of the shot.
About two months in to a year-long project like this, one definitely begins coming up with ideas to keep it fresh...or at least something to keep focused.
Right now what comes to mind is themes - taking an idea and implementing it for a week at a time. Not sure how that's going to play out, but it's just an idea for now.
(the camera image below is a link to the gallery)
It's that time that comes around every four years! 
GOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, not the Olympics...that's every two years. No matter what they say about it being an every-four-year event, it's really two years, since they have that Summer and Winter business going on.
(and where are the Spring and Fall games?)
WORLD CUP!
If you enjoy sports, know that it is the most-widely viewed sports event ever.
If you don't enjoy sports, know that there are hot mens running around, who often get shirtless after a match.
Somehow, after years of falling asleep whenever sports were present, soccer and rugby stuck to the head stuffing I call brains. Not sure why - maybe because there's actually activity and skill involved, unlike baseball and football. Tennis is also fun, but boring as hell to watch. Golf? Neither fun to play or watch, unless it's mini-golf, and even then it's only good for about an hour before being mind-numbing.
Somehow at work, I became the go-to person for the World Cup. All I did was put up a bracket poster to track the games, and ask if we could turn the lobby television channel to some channel that plays the games.
How does the finals systems work? Which teams are playing today? Whose ahead on points? How does a match work? What are they doing? What's going on?
How does one become a soccer guru?
Wikipedia
You too can become an instant quasi-not-really-expert on anything known to man...or at least a dozen people who created and edited a page on the internet.
The best part of the World Cup? The television at work.
The bank provides a random assortment of channels. On the surface, the channels that are filtered out make sense...until you actually make a list of the channels that are available.
At that point, it looks like someone in Accounting was drawing lines on another sheet of paper and the ink bled through onto the tv service contract, thus eliminating some useful channels.
One of these would be ESPN...which is not a channel I normally say in conjunction with the word "useful".
The channel that we do get? Univision.
YES!
Do you know what it means when you're watching the World Cup on Univision?
It means that you don't have a damn clue what's going on because it's all in Spanish - and that makes it easier to actually work and look up to see what's going on occasion, rather than just stare at the tv all day.
It also means that the game is more entertaining. There is a world of difference between the announcers on ESPN and the announcers on Univision.
ESPN likes to speak very stately, very knowledgeable, and as if they were a newscast.
In a word? Boring.
Univision likes to get into the game, as if they were...oh, I don't know...watching a sporting event!
When a goal is made? You'll know!
Because they scream GOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The lessons learned today?
1. Soccer is fun.
2. Wikipedia is a great tool.
3. Univision is entertaining as all hell.
4. If Donald had been born speaking Spanish, he might have been more interested in sports growing up.
GOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spending the weekend in NYC, arrived this afternoon at the hotel about 3p.
Wandered around, saw Times Square and Rockefeller Plaza. Went into the New
York Public Library (the big main building, yay)!
Saw St. Patrick's Cathedral
It's...an interesting city.
There's very little greenery.
The traffic (vehicle and pedestrian) is aggressive.
The city smells and is INSANELY noisy.
No one really talks to anyone else.
I think I need a Valium. :/
Tomorrow is the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Looking
forward to both of those, along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Natural History Museum.
(have to say that between New York City and Houston, I'd pick Houston in a
heartbeat...)
Wandered around, saw Times Square and Rockefeller Plaza. Went into the New
York Public Library (the big main building, yay)!
Saw St. Patrick's Cathedral
It's...an interesting city.
There's very little greenery.
The traffic (vehicle and pedestrian) is aggressive.
The city smells and is INSANELY noisy.
No one really talks to anyone else.
I think I need a Valium. :/
Tomorrow is the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Looking
forward to both of those, along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Natural History Museum.
(have to say that between New York City and Houston, I'd pick Houston in a
heartbeat...)
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Plus...from taking Spanish before,…
A Loki in the lap is good luck on the board!