Guess who just got back today! Ok not really, but that's how the song starts. Yes, it's true, I'm finally back after a longer than expected absence. I lost my broadband connection last week and was stuck with dial up for almost three days. Yes, I know that hardly counts as a hardship but loading today's Internet pages on a dial up connection takes FOREVER. What happened to clean coding? What happened to graphics optimization? Now everyone's into big, fancy Flash pages that take 20 minutes to load and run streaming video and audio that slows your computer down to a crawl unless you have the latest graphics cards and a fast processor to handle it all. But I digress :-)
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If you haven't already done it, check out CC's blog for the latest on what happened over the weekend at the dog show. She's got some great pictures, including a little bit of costume play with the dogs. I was really surprised they put up with it. They're not known for letting us do cute things to them. Usually when you try and put something like that on them, even something as simple as a neckerchief, they run and hide or they try and shake it off. Not this time though. I guess they like being fussed over now.
Anyway, the dog show was great! I was torn beetween taking mine or leaving them home. On the one hand it's a good way to get the dogs used to being around other dogs. That would make it easier to walk them on a daily basis because they'd be less inclined to get all jumpy every time they see something with 4 legs. On the other hand, it means I can't pet all the OTHER dogs there because that would make mine SUPER jealous. I decided to leave them at home.
Honestly, it would have been a LOT of work to keep Katya calm enough to handle the dog show. She'd start off REALLY jumpy, wanting to go run and play with every dog she came near, then eventually she'd lull us into a false sense of security and calm down. But that would last only until she saw something like . . . the dog races. She'd see the other dogs running through their course and she'd want to chase them and she'd start barking and so forth. No, it'd be WAY too much work if I took her with me.
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Almost time for the World Series! One thing I really like about post-season baseball is that they really don't mess around. Their games come right on top of each other. None of this "off day" business or taking time to recover between playoff series. No, they play until it's over and the only time they take a day off is when they need to travel to the other team's ballpark. Of course, sometimes that really makes it hard on a particular team. Take the Angels for example. They had a stretch there where they played 3 games in 3 nights in 3 different time zones. They played the Yankees in NY, then at home. Having won that game and the series, they were due the next night in Chicago to play the White Sox.
And next week it'll all be over. Our yearly 4 sport crossover will be finished, down to three. And that's pretty cool too. The finals of baseball will last only the one week. No stretching it out so you can maximize TV money. Gotta love that :-)
Oh yes, lest I forget, be sure to insert a rant about really weird umpire calls during some of those playoff games and also another rant about Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees. The best player in baseball? Best at choking maybe. Don't get me started or I'll never get this blog entry finished :-)
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We've finally settled on a design for the fireplace. You may recall that CC and I were going back and forth on what to hang over the fireplace. We had a Van Gogh print at first, then a Mucha. Now we're going with something a little different.
I came across a replica samurai sword while I was out the other day. Really nice looking thing. Always wanted one and it was affordable so I picked it up. CC saw it and thought it would be great on the mantle so that's where we put it, along with a few other Asian items. Problem is, it doesn't match the Mucha print.
I went online and looked for something that would go better. Found this one:
It's called The Great Wave and it's by Katsushika Hokusai. This print is HUGE. It's 60 X 40 which makes it about a perfect fit for over the fireplace. The only problem is that no one really makes a frame for something that big. You have to have that done custom. That's expensive. REALLY expensive. So it looks like my weekend project will be building a frame for this picture. It's not that hard. Just need some wood and paint, a little plexiglass, no problem. I'll try and get a picture of it once it's done..
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