Friday, June 24, 2005
Shaven dog!
So yesterday my parents took my dog to their house. Today they returned her, shaven. She has been shedding like crazy (I'm ok with that, it's a bit of a pain but I can live with the hair everywhere) and has had fleas like crazy (I'm not ok with that, she has been gnawing on herself a lot). Her fur was so long and thick and you couldn't catch them with a flea comb and it was insane to try to get the eggs off of her.
So, they shaved her. And bathed her in flea shampoo. And bought her a flea collar though we have never had those work well (and they stink!). And now she is back. Her under coat is white, and her head didn't get shaven, so she has a golden head and a white, wrinkly body. She didn't have wrinkles before but I guess she has gotten old and fat.
While she was away I vacuumed our rugs and sprayed them with pesticide. Hopefuly we will get rid of the fleas that have taken up residence in here.
I need to make her less attractive to fleas, though, because when she went outside at my parents house for a while they said she came back in with lots of fleas on her. So they just like her. A lot.
Some people suggest feeding dogs garlic with their food, but others say that garlic and onions and the like contain chemicals that make dogs anemic. So I don't know. A lot of places say to use citrus oil sprayed on them -- i'll try this one. And she'll smell lemony fresh!
Odd... For some reason it's prefacing the first post of my blog with a huge blank spot. Dunno what that's about. It might be gone by tomorrow for all I know so this post might not be true.
I hadn't seen the prof of choral study at USC's bio until tonight (sometimes their website is a little behind). He was the director at Loyola for a time and started the symphony chorus there. He is also the director of music at first presbyterian church in columbia -- something of a sister church to fpc augusta. Neat!
Adult Swim
I love so many of the shows on Adult Swim. From Family Guy to various Animes. Sure, the Animes have been cut/sensored and are dubbed -- some of them badly.. but still, it's like the only way I see Anime because it costs much money to buy. And Sealab and Aquateens are classics. Spaceghost even more so.
But now... these days...
We have Tom Goes to the Mayor. And then Robot Chicken (I admit, some things on Robot Chicken are funny but mostly it's just stupid). Tonight apparently was the debut for a show called 12oz Mouse. Oh. My. Goodness. This is the most retarded show I have ever, ever seen. I would choose to watch Super Milk Chan before I would watch this show. The animation is little more than stick figures that are... who knows what they are... And a squirrel. Or something. And the plot is... there is no plot.
I hope it won't stay around long.
In other news, Sunday night will feature a crossover episode of Tom Goes to the Mayor with a resurrected Spaceghost! I hate Tom Goes, but since they are bring Spaceghost out for it I'm excited!
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Lentil soup. Mmmmm it's yummy. I cooked some tonight.
1 onion and four stalks of cellary chopped and sweated in some olive oil. To that add four carrots diced, two cloves of garlic minced, and some chopped up basil and oregano, some diced tomatoes, 4 cups of veggie broth, 4 cups water, and two cups of lentils. simmer for a good while. Blend half the mixture and add it back to the soup. Add a cup of cooked chick peas and a cup of sliced up spinach and a couple tablespoons vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. It's yummmmmy.
Monday, June 20, 2005
Today I have been reuniting my CDs with their cases and inserts. I went to Best Buy to exchange the power inverter I bought (the fan started making a horrible racket two days after I got it -- upon my second use of it) and, as I am apt to do upon entering a store such as Best Buy, I found something else to buy. (Hmm... I wonder if they make sure to have a certian number of products fail so people will bring them in to be exchanged and while they are there spend even more money...) I got a CD shelf that holds 480 CDs. Now, I don't have quite that many (More along the lines of 200-250) It's nice to have a place to store them all, and I'll be able to keep DVDs and videos on it too.
So today I started putting CDs back in their original cases. Some have not been in these cases in years. Indeed, some may have been out of their cases for a decade now.
I'm missing a few cases, though, and I figure they are in a box... Somewhere. I've moved to and from college four times, and my parents moved twice, and I moved from my college to an apartment in town and then later to another state. In all those moves I have boxed and partly unboxed so much stuff that I have multiple boxes of similar things.
The last move my parents made DID help consolidate some things as most of my stuff from college was at their house and they repacked everything upon moving and we have repacked it since then for storage here. All of my stuff should be somewhere here, at this house -- though I wonder at the possibility of some of my CD cases being in my dresser which is at mom and dad's house.
In other news... After the joyous post I made about having a multimonitor system the second monitor died. I came home the other night to find the monitor, which I had left off, turning itself off and on repeatedly. Oh well, it was free.
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)