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 If you can’t eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away.

Wanna go out and play?  I dunno, do you?

 

        I’m a mystery writer–read my ‘about me’ page to find out more.   Feel free to check out the excerpts from my Doggoned Mystery series and take a look at my favorite pictures of our pond.  The Bull Pen page has pictures of our bullies and friends.   

      

Yippee! New faucet!

Old chrome faucet, leaky and full of hard water stains.

Lasted about 15 years.

Took longer to remove this than to put in the new one below.

New faucet, stainless steel and no leaks!

Maybe this one will last 20 years?

Thanks to Barry for removing the old one and installing this in an hour.

The Curmudgeon says that he knows it would’ve taken him two days.

Passwords, a touch of insanity

     How many passwords do you have?  I’ve changed all of mine.  If a psychiatrist ever saw my new ones, I’d be residing in the nut hut.  I don’t have passwords by the ‘dozens’  but I do have several.  Most places today require a minimum of 8 characters and at least one should be a number.

     Creating passwords is  interesting.  Passwords are also a bit telling.  Many people use the names of their pets–not a good idea folks.  You need to find cleverer things than that.  Don’t use your birthdays, anniversaries, or the grandkids names either.

     How creative can you get?  As creative as you want so long as you can remember them.  I have had to change passwords a few times because I forgot what one I used for the account.

     Some of mine  can tell you exactly where my head was at the time of creation.  No, I’m not spilling the beans.  I don’t want to change them all again.

No dog left behind

     Yes, Bullies are short bus dogs.  Patty proved it yesterday.  Not to be outdone by her brother’s ear hematoma, she came darned close to breaking her neck THREE  TIMES. 

     It began in the morning when The Curmudgeon had Gavin outside and Patty was left to her own devices.  The Curmudgeon came in and he found her poorly balanced on the radiator at the kitchen window.  She was so intent on her balancing act that she didn’t hear him open the door.  He asked her what she was doing.  She startled and he had to grab her in mid-air to keep her from taking a bad fall.

     Later, I took her outside and when she was ready to come in, she dashed for the door so fast that she missed a step.  Had she not had a leash on I think she would’ve fallen off the porch steps.  That was two.

     Around dinner time she decided to egg Gavin into playing.  She huckle butted around the living room, bounced up on the love seat, went to dive off and fell on her face.  I started to run over to her, she stood up, shook herself, and gave me that ‘I meant to do that’ look that they all have.  That was three.

     Yeah, my dogs ride on the short bus.

A Gavin update

     Had Gavin at the vet’s this evening.  He checked Gavin’s ear and wants to leave the stitches in another week to make sure enough scar tissue builds up to prevent this from happening again.

     As usual, Gavin was not thrilled to be there no matter how many cookies he got.  Yes, he’s a short bus dog for sure.  His vet adores him even though Gavin will not look him in the face.  Gavin will close his eyes to take a treat so he can’t look him in the eye.

     When we got home He leapt about with Patty like a puppy.  He was very happy to be home after the torture of having NOTHING DONE to him and many cookies.

Back it up…I should tattoo that on my hands.

     So I’m sort of getting used to the new lap top.  I do love the wireless feature.  Being able to take the computer to my bedroom, my chair, or even the kitchen has its perks. 

     I do hope my computer gets fixed sometime this week.  I also hope that I didn’t lose the couple batches of pictures and some writing I’d done and hadn’t gotten around to backing  up.  Nasty little F*tards who send out viruses and make us average people suffer are worthless pieces of crap.   Normally, I made regular back ups, but since the heart attack, I’ve neglected several things and that was one of them. 

     Oh well, you live and learn–sometimes.  You think I would’ve learned since my hard drive crashed a couple of years ago, but NOOOOOO, I forgot for a few months.  Yes, Dave I lost a lot of the book if my computer guru doesn’t recover everything.

     You all have a good one and don’t forget to BACK IT UP!

Another day…

     We didn’t get as much snow as it had sounded like we were going to get, much to my relief.  AJ came and had our driveway and walk cleared in no time.  The street isn’t in bad shape so if we have to go anywhere we can easily go.

     If I was on my desk top I would’ve taken and downloaded pictures for the blog but I have no desire to load my lap top with pictures now.

     Each time the dogs went out they reacted differently to the snow.  One time Gavin loved it the next he couldn’t get out and back in fast enough.  Patty raced about eating snow on a few trips and on others she too would dash out and right back in.  I have weird dogs.  Another Bull Terrier owner calls these dogs ‘short bus dogs’ by cracky she has the right of it.

     You all keep safe and have a good one.

So they say we’ll be getting snow…

     Sometime in the wee hours of  this morning we’re to get a snowstorm.  I am not looking forward to it.  The one we had in October was plenty enough for me.  At least I have my winter boots by the back door so when the dogs need to go out I can switch from my flip-flops to my boots.

     I had rather enjoyed the strange weather that was (so far) this winter.  Weeks of fifty degree days kept me from complaining.  Look out, because when the snow hits, it’s going to be bitch, bitch, bitch!  Hehehe.

     I won’t say how the dogs will react since they always make a liar out of me when I do try to predict their behavior.

     Hey, all of you who aren’t getting this weather, enjoy what you’ve got.  For those of you who are getting the snow, stay warm and drink some cocoa for me.  You all have a good one!  I’ll catch you later.

I still want my old desk top

 

     I’m glad The Curmudgeon shies away from using my new lap top.  This is a good thing because it means he’ll leave it alone all the time once my old workhorse is back home.  Yeah, the lap top is cool, but I’m used to my desk top and I miss it.

     I did have a difficult time getting used to the mouse pad, so when I am using the lap top at my desk, I hook my mouse up to it.

     I have no idea how long my old work horse will be in the computer hospital–not much longer I hope.  However, if he can save most of my hard drive he can keep it for as long as he needs to.

     I still want to shoot the malicious turd who malware bombed me.  I had some pictures on that computer I hadn’t saved to my flash drive yet.  {Sigh}  I hope they aren’t lost forever.  Hell, just shooting them isn’t good enough–they should suffer through a bunch of torture first then get shot.

     You all stay healthy and have a good one!

Six month check up

 

     My cardiologist is pleased.  He took me off of one medication today.  The nasty one that was making me cough so much.  However, he did raise the dosage on another.  The one for my cholesterol.

     Now if I can only take off the weight that I put on over the last few months.  Comes with the smoking cessation the doctor said.  He’s not worried about it but I am!!

     I hope you all have a good one!  I know I will now that the cough inducing med is off my list.

Shoot them all — Yep, I’m in a rotten mood.

 

     I am NOT a happy camper since someone bombed me with a malware bomb and sent my computer off to the computer hospital for a few days.  You’d think I’d be a little happy since The Curmudgeon decided that it was time for me to have a lap top as a back up computer.

     Well, that sort of took a lot of the sting out of it.  However, to those of you who think it is fun to hack, send viruses, worms, and malware out into the world I’m here to tell you that it causes heartbreak–I lost a couple of book chapters I worked very hard on thank you very much…I thought I’d backed them up as I normally do but I must’ve been over tired.

     It cost us plenty money wise–paying for the repairs and buying the lap top.  This means we’ll have to go without something this month–maybe a medicine.  Did you even consider that?  I doubt it because you only think of yourself.  Personally, I hope all of you who do this rotten crap get caught and I wish they’d stand you against a wall and have a firing squad shoot you.

Winter weather again

 

     We actually got a little winter weather last night.  Sometime around 8 p.m. it began to sleet.  Now my yard has an icy coating that the dogs aren’t too fond of walking in.  Truth be told neither am I.

     At least it wasn’t snow and I have no plans to go anywhere today.  I went shopping yesterday which made the dogs happy since they were almost out of food.

     Fortunately, the temperature is supposed to hit around 42 degrees today so that icy coating should disappear.

     Hope you all have a very nice day.

The right to privacy

 

     I no doubt upset a niece yesterday.  I did not intend to do so; I was merely defending my right to privacy.  She had posted a childhood picture of me online and had tagged it with my name.  (Another relative posts childhood pictures of me with no consideration and she refuses to take them down when asked to.  She’s not a nice person.)  This is the first time this niece posted a picture of me and I think I shocked her by my protest.  However, I do not apologize for my actions.

     Do we not have very little privacy left to us as it is these days?  You will notice that on my blog and Facebook page there are very few pictures of me.  Could it be because I don’t want them out there?  Why yes!

     I consider my right to privacy as valuable as yours is.  I’m sure you wouldn’t appreciate me posting bad pictures of you or your private thoughts on the web whenever the mood strikes me.  I will ask your permission to post a picture or a quote before doing so.  I expect the same courtesy in return.  Yes, it is courteous to ask one’s permission.  In my case, it is also a copyright violation to post any of my stuff without my explicit permission.