“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
--unknown

In an attempt to get out with my dog with other dog folks a bit more, I went through meetup.com and found a dog social club in my area. So I went out there tonight...it consisted of a walk around a park followed by dinner at a local restaurant that welcomes dogs in its outdoors patio area. We had a presentation by a trainer, a raffle, and got to ( Read more... )

How about a little racist topping your slice of religious pie??
Christmas CrossI am beyond astonished that anyone would think this was in any way, shape, or form acceptable to display on their front porch ( Read more... )

So. Fires. Ugh. Closer than I would like, smokier than I would like, but I don't think they're directly threatening. I'm about 12 miles south of them right now, and if the Yorba Linda one blazes down south it will still be east of me. Anaheim/Brea ones are no threat (except to lungs of course). Still, not going to be a pleasant few days, at ( Read more... )

Mostly catching up at work, redoing some older software with stuff we've been doing more recently -- always tricky work ripping this stuff up and hoping nothing breaks in the meantime. New software is forgiven the occasional oddity; old software that "used to work before!" brings on all the screeching... So that's kept me busy ( Read more... )

Feel free to skip... but first, some gratuitous cute!


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Had the day off today, which was nice. Not everyone gets to observe this day ( Read more... )

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Green and Black's Organic Chocolate Ice Cream is absolutely lethal.

Wow.

Hands off, it's all mine! Grrrrrr!

I know some of you are a tad further north than me and won't appreciate my own weather related complaints.

However.

It's 91F/32C degrees out there!!!

AGH! Give back the nice cool fall weather we were having this last week or two!!