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Getting to the final stretch

It’s down to the final stretch. All the major work is done on the house, and we went through the house with our realtor for the walkthrough today. Neither of us was terribly impressed with the painting that was done. The colours came out nice enough, but there are a lot of little touch up things that need to be done. Far more than what I would have expected. If the painters were all finished, then they were very sloppy on finishing the details.

Hopefully fixing all the things on our list won’t take too long, and we’ll be able to finally close on this this house and move in by mid-April.

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Stay-at-home-dad week

This week I get to be a stay-at-home dad for Nala. Need to work on some training and education for her. She can be very stubborn when she doesn’t want to do something. When we go outside for walks, as long as she’s within sight of the apartment, all she wants to do is run back inside. Take her out of sight, and home is completely forgotten and she goes about doing her doggy things. She likes to smell everything, and for some strange reason she always wants to crunch on rocks (which we take out of her mouth as soon as she tries to grab one). Maybe they look like food or something to her. She isn’t quite at the stage where she can hold something in her mouth while walking, so we can’t keep her mouth busy with something else to keep her from picking up rocks to munch on.

Playing with a treat ball
Nala playing with a treat ball

She’s fun to watch running around chasing a ball at the tennis court, although she has all the attention span of a gnat (as my wife says), so you constantly have to grab it and bounce it around for her to chase after. Otherwise she pounces at it, chews it a bit and moves on to something she thinks is more interesting, like leaves to munch on.

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Passing of a medical physics pioneer

From the MedPhys mailing list comes sad news of John Cameron‘s passing on March 16. He was a well respected elder of the medical physics community as a researcher and educator. I only had the opportunity to meet him once and although I was a bit star-struck (like someone meeting one of their idols) he was very pleasant to talk to.
There are a lot of people who will miss him and his contributions.

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Women should be on this list

My wife will probably smack me for the title of this post 🙂

This New Scientist article about the 13 things that do not make sense is an interesting read, and presents some of the more perplexing problems that still defy explanation. There are some pretty interesting ones in the list.

Found at Slashdot.

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The light at the end of the tunnel

Appraiser gets to go do his thing on Friday. One last conversation with the insurance guy to get things finished with that and it looks like we’ll be able to close by the end of the month! Woo hoo!