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Name: Stiv
Birthday: 11/24/1967
Interests: Music, books, homebrewing, homebrew drinking, beer drinking in general
Expertise: Cooking, Brewing, Troubleshooting Difficult Issues Of All Kinds
Occupation: Computer related
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10/18/2005
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This is Bailey, latest addition to the family. We've had him since either May or June. He belonged to our neighbors. He was a yard dog and he kept escaping. Either I or Julie would see him out the window, go get him and bring him inside until they got home. They tried a number of things to try to keep him in, had a new fence built, but he dug right under it. We could tell they were losing patience and he was either going to end up in the pound or hit by a car so we offered to take him in and they said okay. Of course, he came with hookworm and heartworm but we've got those taken care of. He's very much a man's dog which drives Julie nuts since she's the animal person. He's very excited when I come home, he's always following me around and he listens to me when I tell him to get out of the kitchen. He does not listen to Julie. We think he's about 5.
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| Made a quick trip to San Francisco this weekend to visit some old friends. One of them was in the hospital but he tried not to let that get him too down. 
I got him the "Three Wolf Moon" shirt, that's what he has draped over him. 
He really didn't want anybody taking pictures but I got to take these a few minutes before I left. | | |
| Saturday afternoon all four of us went to see The Wiggles at Nokia Live in Grand Prairie. I've been watching The Wiggles for about 6 years now and a lot of our family discussions center around The Wiggles so Julie and I were both really looking forward to it. We kept it a secret from Corey until about the time we entered the parking lot and she saw all the kids in Wiggles outfits. Sammy and Corey both loved it. Julie and I loved it, too. It was an impressive show with all The Wiggles characters, dancers, and acrobats. I never appreciated what an athlete Anthony (the blue Wiggle) is. Both he and Jeff (purple Wiggle) did a lot of acrobatic stuff. Even Captain Feathersword had some impressive moves. Murray and Sam weren't nearly as physical as Anthony and Jeff but they were both great as well. Very good show and they brought out most of the hits. Saturday night we were going to a writer's club meeting but everyone cancelled out. It was down to me and Julie and the girl who was hosting it so she cancelled it. We had already made arrangements for my parents to watch the kids. We looked at movies but there's nothing out that I'm dying to see. Some old friends were in town and having a get together so we went there. I guess I didn't eat that much on Saturday or something. I got really drunk really fast and it was an early night. Had a lot of fun while we were there, though. Sunday, took Corey to horse riding lessons. She's been going for about 2 months now and getting more confident and more familiar with horses. Sunday afternoon, hung out with an old friend, John. He's deep into the homebrewing hobby so I tried some of his beers. It's been a while since I've homebrewed, hard to make the time these days. Sunday evening, Julie's friend Angela came over. I watched her 4 year old daughter and Corey and Sammy while they went to see "500 Days Of Summer". This was one of the movies I had no interest in seeing the night before, even though it has Zooey Deschanel who I really like. Julie confirmed that it wasn't that great and I Zooey played a pretty unlikeable character. The TV show "Lost" is now available on Roku so I started watching episode 1 of Season 1 Sunday night. For years I've heard nothing but great things about "Lost" but haven't had the time or inclination to start in on it. First episode was pretty good so, we'll see. A friend of mine who knows a thing or two about TV shows told me that it's a bit like "X Files", they throw a lot of crap out there that doesn't make sense and it's never going to be explained. It's cool and all that but there's never going to come a point where it all comes together, it just keeps going. | | |
| Today was pretty busy. The toilet broke last night, not a serious break, the little plastic arm that attaches to the handle and has a chain that hooks to it to pull up the little rubber thing (flanger? Something like that) broke. You could still flush the toilet, just had to lift off the back cover and pull up the chain yourself. This morning Corey had a dental appointment for teeth cleaning. Her teeth are good. She still hasn't lost any of her baby teeth. The dental tech some of them were a bit loose so I bet the tooth fairy will be here soon. I noticed yesterday that the registration was out on my car. I still had a sticker that said July 09. This made me instantly paranoid that I was going to get pulled over so after the dental appointment, went to the sub courthouse and got that taken care of. Then went by the bank to cash a check that had pretty much already been spent but still kind of cool when it looks like you have money in the bank. Came back home and realized I'd forgotten to go to hardware store to get replacement parts for toilet. Me and Corey went back out, got the toilet stuff, went to Walmart because we were out of oatmeal and sandwich bags, then went to the feed store to get nightcrawlers for Millie, our turtle. Made chicken tacos for wife for lunch, grilled cheese sandwich and beans for Corey, Sammy got a banana, beans, and cheese. Went to work listening to Diane Rehm Friday News Roundup podcast from last Friday. Hope we get some decent healthcare. My governor Rick Perry is trying to get some kind of exemption for Texas so we won't be able to participate in any federal healthcare program. He wants Texas to come up with it's own. This is probably just political grandstanding, I don't think states will be able to opt out of it but we still don't even know what "it" is. | | |
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