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Good (woof) Morning on Friday the 13^th.

Here are some friendly words of advice:

Never open a black umbrella in the house. Black is the color of unlucky-ness. However, I have learned that opening a pink, orange, or tabby colored umbrella inside a dwelling to cause not bad luck to fall upon the owner. However, three days after the fact they surfaced covered with tiny scratches and sheets of strange colored fabric.

Yawning, although often considered cute by humans when pets yawn is also considered bad luck. In the olden days, when humans wore less suits and built things out of stone, there was a lot of fear by us dogs about silly things. Our life spans were shorter, and strange things could happen. An innocent yawn could bring about the devil, or in worst scenarios, lead to a deep peaceful slumber, and the humans may assume we died and bury us. We had to be very alert, and often found secret places to hide to take our naps. It was popular for those places to be up and out of the way, such as the roofs of thatched buildings.

Aaaarggg

Sometimes people are very hard to get along with. This is why I prefer the company of animals. People can be nosy, ornery, obstinate, and demand to have things their way (By the way, the people I am referring to aren't part of our group). It can be very tiring to work with them, to keep up a good front and to smile. But that is often our job. Grrrrr... Wish I had a good game of pinnochle with the rabbits to look forward to. I'd say more, but that may not be the best idea.

To end with, the weather is nice, I think I'll lay in the grass and chase butterflys the rest of the afternoon.


Grrwoof!

Looooong update

Whew! It's been rather hot this summer, too much running around and not enough lakes and streams to cool down! While my master has been slaving away, and "claiming" to be trying to catch up on sleep, I have been doing all those wonderful summery things that all dogs should be doing. I've read books, laying out on the grass, using my paws of course! Ever tried turning pages with your nose? Quite difficult, quite difficult indeed. In between my book spells, I have been walking myself around the park, and taking long naps in the sun. Highly recommended for all! Oh! The other day I ran through a cornfield, creating what humans call a crop circle. I do this to confuse them of course. :) Halloween is beginning to pop up in stores, and soon will be the first holiday of the new school year! Not counting labor day of course. I am rather excited about Halloween this year, as my master lives in an apartment complex, and we see/meet all the kids in costumes! The last two or three years we have had candy all ready and almost no visitors. :(

The Muse

An owl I met today on my afternoon walk to the river. He said his name was Muse. An interesting name for an owl, yet I inquired no further. I enjoyed the pleasant conversation we shared as he flew alongside me on my usual solitary sojourn. I asked him what his occupation was. He declared in a decidedly British accent, his voice soft and clipped, "I flutter over the shoulders of others, often adding to their work, and I give them something, a tangible object they put into their writing, or story. And in return, they give me perspective, a way if you will to look through the eyes of another."

Snoopy

*I had a few snoopy comics posted here, but alas they have dissipated. *

A fellow enthusiast. Woof! I may do the same today. Live it up!

*Please Note, this is a comic by Charles Schultz, one of my favorite comic book artists. Seeing as how he signed his name on the comic itself, I don't this can be construed as plagiarism or anything of the like. :P

rain

Rain can be very refreshing, and really helps with the air quality after a couple of weeks of hot sun. After the rain knocks the hot air, and fumes out, the air smells fresh, and the landscape is greener. The grass is still too wet to roll around in, buy my master promised to take me to the pool this afternoon! I'm looking forward to a bit of doggy paddle-ing, and then stretching out to dry out while my master sits in what he calls a "hot-tub". Why humans like the contraption is clueless to me, I hate hot water. Warm water is fun, but only for so long, then I need to dry out. It is rather boring though, my master has to work late today, and he said something about picking up food on the way home. Alas.. I shall have to be patient and wait for another hour. I guess I will go join the bunny's poker game. I think the blue one cheats though.

Woof!

in response to a friend

words and thinking aren't working for me today, the weather is rainy, and work is rather humdrum and blah. But in in any case, I shall endeavor to phrase this as best as i can:

First of all, there is a joy which comes from God when we step away from our own issues to help someone in need. Jesus made a point of picking disciples who had not quite conquered their own issues to join Him. This led to two powerful messages for us: 1) God calls the imperfect, 2) God teaches us along the way. Jesus time and time again used His disciple's greatest weakness and turned it into their greatest strength. Peter is a great example for one. I believe God gives us joy, and great happiness in doing things for other people.

R2D2

Thought you may be interested:

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/?cid=wwa-us-kwa-mac-aos 

Meet R2D2, probably the most common joke about this new machine. That, and that it looks like a trash can.

joking aside, i was impressed with the specs:

1 processor slot (Intel 12core proc)

2 video cards (AMD oddly enough, both pulling at least 2 gig of ram)

4 ram slots (I'm behind on how much one slot can hold, but lests say 32-60 gig of ram depending on how much you want to spend).

Upon inspection, It seems like these three boards (the main board, and 2 graphics boards) are arranged in a sort of triangle, with a backplane port in there somewhere. The only cooling is the center of the piece, which uses one fan to cool the entire gadget. the cpu, and video cards are all facing in towards the center, and it is assumed the bottom of the unit contains the power supply.

I also noticed after inspection, there are no monitor ports on the darn thing. I was confused until i remembered that apple has their new "Thunderbolt" port, which is a fancy way of saying this port will do anything with the right 30$ dongle connected to it. :P there are 6 thunderbolt ports, so i will assume you can probably hook up 2-4 monitors at least if you really wanted to.

Finally, Apple is introducing a new type of flash hard drive storage. this is essentially a card connected to a PCI-E slot. This card is supposed to be about 10 times as fast as a standard 7200rpm basic hard drive. They didn't bother to mention how large the storage card is (64gig-512gig my guess), but who knows?

in any case, this whole strange contraption is about 6 inches wide, and about 9inches tall, allowing for a beautiful look, but rather limited upgrade capability.

Worry

I tend to worry. A lot. This has become more prevelent with a great many people I talke with and converse with. Our society, and in a way, life as we know it has become economically more difficult. An entire mis-placed generation, all of whome remember 9/11, graduated into a bad economy, watched gas prices soar, and ipad sales plumet are not prepared for what is ahead of us. We stay in contact better, but spend less time having genuine conversations. There are all kinds of things to worry about. America is in more than a slump now, I believe it is a spiraling effect which we may not claw our way out of.

math?

So, (woof) I can see my master never did get back to his silly mathematics post about integration. I shall take over for him and teach you my way. :)

Integration is just a fancy word for a grassy hill in the sunshine. Yep, that's all it is. A grassy hill. I happen to be laying down, enjoying the green grass, and slightly cloud covered sky when I begin to think. Dangerous pasttime eh? I begin to wonder if there are any dwarves living under this hill of mine. Heavens to goodness I would hate to be interrupting some mining excavation of grave importance. Then I realize it could just as easily be a goblin horde beneath me. How many are there? I ask myself. Well, that depends on how large the area is, and how many nasty goblins would fit in an area that size. Now I'm no great shakes at math, so I make a rough guestamate. The hill is about an average hill, that is no bumps or strange curves. Let us assume a "bell-curve" sort of like that liberty bell you humans go to gawp at.