Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
While most of my geek comrades were out at the CREATE South conference, I was at the WHLR meet and greet over at Palmetto Paws in Mt. Pleasant.
We had about 9 of the adoptable dogs stop by to meet people.
Naturally some of the puppies were there too
Thanks to some great weather, we had a lot of people stop by to meet the dogs. Even better were the 4 or so people who asked to fill out adoption applications and the 3 who wanted to foster.
All in all, a very successful event.
This is Mel, my newest foster.
She’s a pretty sweet dog who was a little bit timid at first. When I first met her, I was told she was fine around women, but didn’t like to be around men. Took her a little while to warm up to me, but once she did she pretty much became Velcro® dog, so I ended up becoming her foster dad.
When I got her home, she integrated into the pack pretty much right away. Simba didn’t even give me a hard time about it either.
(VELCRO® is a registered trademark of Velcro Industries B. V.)
Anybody know what’s going on at the Jabers store on Rutledge Ave? The last few days I’ve been past there (heading to and from the dog park) the lot’s been cordoned off and filled with large trailers. Some of them have markings on them implying some kind of film shoot going on there. Traffic is a pain with people slowing down to rubberneck and see what’s going on. I’ve also noticed a higher than usual number of people just hanging out across the street.
Update: Heard from some dog park people that Kevin Costner was filming part of a movie in the area.
My calendar says today is Simba’s Gotcha day. Two years ago today, we brought him home. Yay Simba!
A grand experiment.
Inspired by my sister, who got rid of their cable TV service a while ago, I thought I’d try something similar although not quite as drastic. I’m just going to leave the TV off for the rest of the month.
Aside from a few hours of watching the kids watch cartoons while visiting my brother, I’ve already been TV-less for a week now. I have plenty of books to read, the dogs to play with and a steady stream of movies coming in from Blockbuster.com (which I have to watch on my computer now because the DVD player is flaking out) to keep me occupied.
Except for a few shows like Mythbusters, Stargate and Battlestar Galactica, I wasn’t watching a whole lot of TV anyway. When it was on, it mostly provided background noise and a lot of times I was just watching reruns.
It’s been pretty easy so far and I haven’t missed the TV yet. Resisting the temptation to watch Battlestar Galactica on Fridays will be the biggest challenge.
Maybe the TV will stay off even longer!