Growing Family

This past Saturday, my Beloved and I welcomed two new family members into our household.


Abby, a 4 yo. calico.


Guinness, a 4 mo. lab mix.

Abby is a complete sweetheart. She's very social, which I didn't expect from adopting an adult shelter cat. It seems obvious to us that whoever left her at the Humane Society loved her very much. Our guess is that they could no longer afford to care for her and hoped the shelter would be able to find a loving home. We're so happy to have her with us (even if her diesel-engine purr sometimes wakes me up at night ^_^).

Guinness is...a puppy. Holy cow, such a bundle of energy! His housetraining is coming along pretty well, but it will be a while before he gets the hang of it. Trying to figure out how to keep him from antagonizing the cat is also a bit of a trick. How do you reward a non-behavior? Needs more research! :)

The Onion pretty much sucks anymore.

And this takes the cake (sorry, I tried to embed it, but all the "width" and "height" fiddling in the world couldn't convince the player to actually resize the video image to fit inside blogger's column width).

I was talking to Scott Madin and he noted that the video is "unbelievably tired and predictable; like, seriously, Onion? making fun of Hillary Clinton? In 2009? that's just lazy and stupid."

Word.