My new bracelet

Chazz(ZZ), Frankie(Top) and Spats(Spats), Annie's rabbits, got me a LiveStrong bracelet.

That episode a couple of weeks ago with the women that castrate turned out to be another occurrence of my hemangiosarcoma. It's pesky.

Sheila is doing what she can. All things being equal, it's much better to be canine than human. I can't speak for rabbits.

This doesn't look like a yarn store...

Below is the quick response code for Sheila's yarn store, a present from google places. The idea is to show it to your cell phone for info, a coupon, a terribly important alert to your Facebook friends,this, etc. At the time of this post the response from most US cell phones would be 'Whaaaa!?', but not for long. Advertisers are always looking for new ways to get to you. TiVo, e.g., put a crimp in one of the traditional ways.

Randy thought this QR code might look good on a tee shirt(geek alert: the white boundary is part of the code). He says it would be art and an advertisement, all at once; also maybe a good multi-stranded knitting project. Then he started muttering to himself about the perfect storm of error-correcting code, aesthetics, and crass commercialism. Maybe he should have something to eat.

Now the alpha dogs are discussing coffee cups. They seem quite excited. Please, oh please, not on my dog dish...

Sheila is thinking of using this picture for her new Facebook page

 

I'm a bit miffed

Sheila and I fighting aliens...

...in the Bernilius Sector(I didn't make that up).

Hoover's random digits for multi-stranded knitting projects

Sheila has used these to get cool color patterns in knitting projects (some knitters just use dice or maybe a roulette wheel if they happen to find themselves multitasking in a casino). This seems very nerdy to me. At first I thought the alpha dogs were talking about their toes.

Anyway, click HERE for all the free random digits you need. You will get a different sequence of digits each time you visit. Don't spend them all in one place.

Randy says it's interesting how much research has been done on generating "random" numbers with computers, i.e., it's not easy to closely approximate random behavior with a program and many people have been fooled very badly^*. I find cheddar cheese a lot more interesting than any of this.

^*Important note: Hoover is not responsible for knitting catastrophes of any kind arising from the use of his (pseudo)random digits.

Quality time with Sheila and Jana

When I woke Sheila, as usual, at 7 this morning, she couldn't help but notice a nice pool of bright red blood underneath me everywhere I walked.

So, here I am spending another Sunday morning with friends and family like I did two weeks ago at the Taos Wool Festival. Nothing personal, but I liked the Festival better. Joy and Michele stopped by to see how things were going, but I was totally conked and didn't get to see them.

My mom patched me up in about an hour with a lot of help from Jana and I am once again at home, sleeping very soundly by now after wobbling past my scribe and telling him to "make it work".

Bernese Mountain Dogs belie the Swiss reputation for precision engineering.

My scribe is a Luddite

It was pointed out to Randy that he had not enabled comments on my blog. He is trying to fix that now but seems puzzled. Computers confuse him.

Maybe Sheila will help him.

Comments may be enabled on new posts eventually, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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The Connie Cycle

Sheila==>
Laptop==>
Virtual tennies==>
Router/Gateway in laundry room==>
Comcast coax==>
Internet backbone==>
Converse factory==>
US MAIL==>
Sheila

Time: 4 weeks

Taos Wool Festival

Here I am about to be introduced to one of many small humans I met today. One of them grabbed my tongue, a greeting ritual that is new to me. That's my ID badge on my leash.

In this picture, my attention is focused entirely on a nearby LambBurger stand.

The weather was very pleasant(no thunderstorms!) and the grass was green. Sheila and I were totally exhausted by the time we got home. I quickly dictated this entry to my scribe and should be counting sheep by now.

My Business Card

Sheila, Annie, Jana and I are driving up to the Taos Wool Festival on Sunday in my Subaru. Field trip!

Last year at the Festival people were asking a lot questions about me so now I have a business card.

I told Randy, who lashed it together for me, that it looked a bit like a small wanted poster. He said not many dogs get their own business cards, and I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. Randy is not quite as good-natured as my Mom.