It
has been a long strange week…
All
is centered around the new puppy… Abby, a 75lb German Sheppard girl… about a
year old… she is boisterous, energetic, and curious… and not yet well behaved…
the cats are filing complaints…
Emma
(the other dog) is enjoying the extra walks….
A
neighbor is a volunteer for Rocket Dog Rescue…. She was picking up a couple of
dogs, from foster homes, to take them to an adoption event… she walked by and
asked, “would you like to adopt a dog”… we wanted to, and did… and Abby now
sleeps under our bed…
I
spend a lot of time walking the two dogs… It makes Emma happy… Abby is happy
too…
The big event was last Friday with the new Star Trek movie… we (myself, the wife, and the
daughter) went to dinner, then to the movie… where we found fans in star trek
uniforms ahead of us in line… (in the interest of honesty, I own a Star Trek
shirt… gold, for command, from the original series… due to a brain lapse, I was
not wearing it… my bad) We sat one row
ahead of the group dresses as the bridge crew… Tina was wearing blue, and a science
crew insignia was offered… photos were taken… It turned out that the Asian guy
in blue (nominally Sulu) turned out to be the Mayor of San Mateo (David Lim.) Tina asked why he wasn’t the Captain… He said
it was an Asian thing… It made (sad) sense…. Uhura (Linda, in her red dress) turned
out to be a blogger… @fangirlblog.com but mostly blogs about Star Wars….
The
movie was good… The company good… all good…
(It is at its core a remake of the second Stat Trek Movie, the Wrath of
Kahn… lots of line reused… in a way honoring the original, but this was a
different movie…. PS, Kurk dies... get
over it… )
I
worked Saturday and Sunday, with music boxes at Patterson House… With a book signing
event on Sunday after all else was done… As a result I didn’t take much (any)
time off…
Now
Tuesday… I had the day off… gardening… puttering about… visiting two used book
stores… buying carabineers to manage leashes for the baby dog… (ever underestimate the value of a carabieneer (or four) when training a dog...) The baby dog
(aka Abby) now has a Google badge… She
is officially a Doogle… The cats are still angry and do not recognize her officially sanctioned status… they will or will not eventually
get over it… Emma is still enjoying the
walks….
At
the book stores I ended up with a couple of copies of Desert Solitaire by
Edward Abby… It will be my next “give away” book… I keep extra copies of certain
books about… and give them to anyone who feints interest…. I still have a
couple of copies of “The Iron Trail” by Rex Beach about… a fictionalize account
of the construction of a railroad in Alaska…
I may be out of copies of Travels with Charley (a large grey dog) by
Steinbeck… but more will be found… So, now Abby is added to the free book
selection… I have a Monkey Wrench Gang
tee shirt… some have noticed… I think Abby (author, not the dog) is possibly the true voice of the western
desert…
Now,
late Tuesday…
T
and I went out for dinner… then home to find the dogs… (Abby (the dog, not the
author) and Emma….) Emma wants a walk… Tina is getting ready for bed… I am
blogging… Back to work tomorrow, but I
am not looking forward to it… in fact I am dreading it…not for the work, but
for the politics… something needs to change… but I am not sure what or how…
Emma
is insisting on a walk… goodnight
P.S. Remember, don't wear a red shirt... they kill the red shirts first... except Uhura... she is special (she has been seen in gold as well... but that is a different story)
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