Nov 19, 2011 09:05
Hi! Long time.
Variable is here! He's a name change activist who I met on Youtube last year when I tried to get my name changed to Boomer The Dog and it was publicized. He contacted me and we have barked on and off since then. I lost my case and an appeal, and Variable has always wanted to help me in some way if he could.
He has been moral support along the way, and finally got the chance to help me in a more direct way, by coming here and helping with my name change!
I picked him up at the Greyhound station on Wednesday, it would have been Tuesday, but there was a mix up in the scheduling and he spent the night at the Sheraton down town.
I cleaned Hobnose's room out for him, and it's a good room, decent living space, with some furniture and a computer desk, and a futon. Variable didn't bring his laptop, so we set up a small desktop computer for him to use.
On Thursday we went in to town early in the morning to go to Occupy Pittsburgh, to visit and try for interviews. I noticed that Occupy was just down the block from the court that handles name changes, and Variable thought we could see if the protesters might want to support the name change and maybe march with us to court.
On the first morning we were so early that the camp was still kind of quiet and we didn't get to woof to too many there about what they think of name changes and how they speak to freedom. They didn't really know what to think of us then, but on Friday we went again, and they were more chill, and got to know us more and were willing to chat. Interesting camp of tents in the mud, and it was really cool how hard core they were, Variable said.
There was some talk about our message diluting the message of the '99%' at Occupy, but we're really thinking that freedom causes could come together. We went to the army-navy store on Friday and Variable got some gloves and boots there for the colder weather.
In the afternoon we went to Walm for a blanket and food, and I wanted to look at a Flip camera. They had a Sony Bloggie that looked cool, but I was more just looking around.
At home we worked on the name change case, and tried to get fingerprints on Thursday at the State Police barracks, but it wasn't the right day of the week.. ;) We have to go back on Monday. Otherwise we have been barking about our ideas on life and how we carry on with our 'causes' for lack of a better word.
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