Ramblings Of A Married Bald Man

It has been 7 days. 7 days since I held Saffie in my arms cuddled against my shoulder as the vet injected her with the drug that would slow her heart to the point it stopped and give her release from her earthly bonds. Most people are amazed I held her while it was happening. Why would you do that? Simple answer is why not? She hated the vet table and would always try to climb up on you to get away from it. And one of the places she loved to be was up on my shoulder. So when the vet asked if I wanted to hold her the only answer was yes. I will admit as he administered the drug and Saffie slowly relaxed down against me it really hit hard. I knew she wasn’t cuddling in for a nap, that she was being taken from us. That we would never again get to hold her or cuddle with her. Thirteen years is not enough time.

We still miss you Sapphire.

Saffie, our 13 year old Dashund had to be put to sleep at 4am this morning. It was a hard decision but in the end she was suffering and no amount of surgery or vet care was going to change that. 

You will be missed Saffie. Your barking when we came home from shopping. Your warm body pressed up against us in bed at night. She use to curl up with me in the morning after breakfast and sleep while I watched TV. She kept me nice and warm on cold days. She may have been small but she had the heart of a Pit Bull and backed down from nothing.

Microsoft recently gathered a bunch of people together who had negative feelings about Vista and show them the ‘new’ Mojave OS. More than 90% gave a positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that what they were looking at was actually Vista.

Article here.

5:30am - Dogs are ready for breakfast. As typical I let them out to do their business first. Rubie and Pearl shoot out the door like lightning. First clue something is going on. I step out to see them explode across the backyard, Rubie actually rolling Pearl over in her excitement. Second clue. They disappear up by the kitchen and I hear bushes rustling and dogs barking. Clue three. I called Pearl off and like a good girl she came and went in the house. Rubie on the other had had the orange cat that had wandered into the backyard on the run and was not giving up. the cat bolted behind the pond by the fence and Rubie smartly ran around the other side and right into her. The cat jumped up, claws raised as Rubie pounced. With no place to go the cat ended up in the drink. Rubie came around and stood on the stones to gloat. Then calmly ran into the house.

If you have a cat and it lives around us first off hope it is smart enough to avoid our backyard. If not hope it is smart enough to get out. If not Rubie and Pearl will run your cat down.

Shrinking products.

I mentioned something about this to Jennifer the other day. I was out getting some groceries and stopped to pick up toilet paper. Grabbing a package of Charmin off the shelf I noticed it said ‘Double Roll’ yet after turning it over I noted the size of the roll was roughly what I felt normal rolls were. Then I picked up a roll of “Single Roll’ and was suprised by how tiny it was. Suddenly double is single and single is rediculous. I have three rolls of toilet paper from probably 20 years ago. Don’t ask. I think they got buried in the back of the linen closet. Anyway…………. I bet each roll holds as much as 4 of todays rolls. I can remember also when a bag of chips was 200g. Then suddenly one day without warning they were 180g. Sneaky, sneaky.

You may be able to sail right up to the North Pole this summer. It seems that it is only covered by thin young ice that will likely melt this summer leaving the Noth Pole open.

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Phoenix Lander finds ice on Mars!

And you know what that means. Ice means water and water means life!

$1.35 for a litre of gas. Crazy! And by the sounds of it soon to jump another 10 cents. I walk to work and Jennifer only has a 5 minute drive but we still feel the sting when we gas up the vehicles. I have sympathy for those who commute to work. That really has to hurt.

In todays news the Saudi’s are boosting production by 200000 barrels a day in fear that people will sour on oil. Duh! Might be a little too late. You can sense a shift in things especially driving past a car dealership. Instead of row after row of big SUV’s you see smaller cars. Will this trend continue? Like the 70’s are the days of the big gas guzzler done? As much as I hate the price I think it is a good wake up call. But now that we are awake they can lower the price a bit. hehe

Food for thought: 

I can remember back in public school everyone saying oil would cease to exist by 2020. We are getting closer. Will it happen?

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