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At 11/7/09 07:45 PM, Proteas wrote: I will pet him, and stroke him, and call him GEORGE.

-D

We joked about calling him George, but I dated a guy named George in college and we're still friends, so Steve and I thought that might not be a good idea ;)

Husker has decided that pizza and chicken wings are much more appealing than kibble and boiled rice.

Charlie is definitely less upset than he was when we brought my sister's hyper 4-month-old puppy to visit, that's for sure.

He seems more affronted that the dog won't pay attention to him, as though it should be petting him like any other visitor to the house.

Not too concerned about that. He already has excellent leash manners, took an epic piss in the yard and has had no problems in the house so far, and has ignored the cat.

Here you go, folks, my new pupdog.

Before I post this, let me just point out that this dog is at his racing weight. Nobody starved him or anything - this is an ideal weight for a current racer. We will probably allow him to gain 3-5 lbs, so that only the last two ribs show, in his new lifestyle as a couch potato. So please don't tell me I need to feed my dog.

He is in his crate right now with the door open, sitting quietly. He was panting some earlier, and he seems much more nervous inside the house than in the yard. Overall, though, I think he is adjusting well.

By the way, totally unrelated...I think I have found my Halloween costume for next year.

"Oh, man. Don't tell me I've been slaying hot girls this whole time!"

I cheated by using an online countdown creator.

I am insanely stoked. I'm freaking out, but in a good way.

6,845 minutes until puppytime.

No, it happens. Sounds like you and I have similar problems - I had to go in for a haircut a few weeks ago because my hair was creeping down my neck, and I'll probably need to have the back cut at least two more times before the top and front catch up. The first time I chopped all my hair off I let it grow back in with no interference, and I wound up with this little wimpy ponytail in the back. If I didn't pull it into the wimpy ponytail, I had this wavy mullet that flared out to the sides because of how my hair grows in the back.

I don't regret shaving my head, but I wish I could skip past this stage.

At 11/1/09 09:54 PM, Malachy wrote: My aunt is a hair stylist and has been doing it for some time. My hair is really thick and you can't make it do things like slick back and whatnot either, but she uses these funky thinning scissors that thin out the hair to make it less thick and easier to handle. I also have weird cowlicks that makes my hair grow a bit weird.

Yeah, Jodi does that for me as well. It's about the only way I can survive in the summer heat.

I have a whorl at the crown of my head, and the hair at the back grows out to the sides instead of straight down. It's delightful.

At 11/1/09 09:22 PM, Proteas wrote: You mean this? I wouldn't think it would take that much styling.

Nope, can't do the wet look either. What you see in my costume picture is pretty much all my hair will do at this length, or for the next 2-3 inches. If I put a shitload of product in it I can make it sit a little flatter, or I can spike it up, but that's it.

Even my hairstylist is baffled by how uncooperative my hair is. About the most drastic thing we've been able to do to it was use a flat iron on it when it's longer, and even then it only stays straight for about two hours. For the fancy do-da style I had at my wedding they used over thirty pins and an entire can of spray, and by the time I got back to my hotel it was noticeably returning to its normal state.

It's a trade-off. On the one hand, I have a LOT of hair, and it's extremely thick and resilient. I can dye it over and over again without any noticeable damage. It has a lot of shine and luster even when I don't bother conditioning it. A lot of people have told me how jealous they are of it. It's a nice color, and I'm fortunate enough to have a face shape that permits me to get away with almost any cut. But that comes with a price - I cannot get it to do anything it doesn't want. It won't hold a curl, won't stay straight.

To be honest, I'm okay with it.

At 11/1/09 02:17 AM, fli wrote: It's an opportunity for you to go through a variety of lengths. You ought t slick it a bit and do the Demi Moore hairdo from Ghost. That was extremely cute.

My hair simply will not do that. There is no gel or spray or mousse on this planet that will make my hair stay back - I could use beeswax or glue, like I used to for my mohawk, but that wrecks your hair and I want it to grow out healthy.

I don't really have a lot of options for my hair. It's extremely thick and there's a hell of a lot of it, and it does not cooperate with styling.

Nope, last time I posted a picture was in June and I had shaved it down to a 2-guard all over.

At 10/31/09 04:36 PM, morefngdbs wrote: DOUBLE POST...Skunky your hair looks nice .

Now that I actually have some? ;)

My Mahoney costume is complete. The iron-on transfer paper we bought wouldn't cooperate with our printer, so I wound up tracing the basic outline of the logo and then freehanding the interior.

At 10/30/09 09:54 PM, RightWingGamer wrote: mine's been filled with star wars stuff for years

When we bought this place, we asked "How could we possibly use all this space?"

Four months later, the question is, "Where did all that space go?"

At 10/30/09 07:31 PM, Proteas wrote: Can I rent a timeshare from you? That way I can be your gimp on the weekends?

I don't really have room for one, sorry. My dungeon got filled up with Star Wars stuff.

I had the kidling help me make dinner tonight. He got to witness a spectacular (but not disastrous) mistake.

I bought three of the big 20 oz. apples (they're not actually twenty ounces, they're just called that) to make baked apples. I stuffed the centers with cinnamon sticks, raisins, and brown sugar, then studded each of them with a couple of cloves. Apparently I packed the centers too tightly. Pressure built up while they were cooking and they exploded.

Now I have a big bowl of very hot applesauce and shreds of apple skin.

At 10/29/09 09:20 PM, stafffighter wrote: After the watchmen movie this might be a bad year to do blueman group.

I have a friend who wants to get one of those gag costumes that looks like a giant penis and paint it blue and be Dr. Manhattan's dangling junk next year.

At 10/28/09 09:26 PM, LordJaric wrote: So the MJ movie is out, jesus can't they just let the story die already.

Maybe they're just hoping to pay off some of his outrageous debts.

You realize that the wild species that the domestic housecat is descended from is commonly seen wading into streams throughout Europe and northern Africa after fish, right?

We've taught them to be prissy.

This is gonna blow your mind, Prot...

My sister has a cat who loves to swim and enjoys baths, but he's a purebred Turkish Van, and the breed has a reputation for that.

At 10/26/09 06:03 PM, zephiran wrote: As for rat-killing dogs, I can only say that I have never heard of such a thing. But I find it perfectly plausible nonetheless (hungry hunting dog, anyone?).

Most of the small terrier breeds were originally bred as vermin eradicators. They don't have to be hungry, they just love to find and kill rodents. Huskies love to pull, collies love to herd, and a border terrier will hunt rats until he is head-to-toe dirt and blood.

At 10/25/09 08:24 PM, Proteas wrote: I'd put a feral cat up against a rat catching dog any day.

Then you haven't met any rat-catching dogs.

At 10/25/09 07:37 PM, Malachy wrote: why do they breed dogs to hunt rodents and such, they could have saved themselves the time and energy and generations of breeding dogs and just found a barn cat.

Cats are passive rodent control, while dogs are active rodent control. Dogs are also much more capable of burrowing after things - a lot of terrier breeds were bred to "go to ground" after prey, which I'm pretty sure you could never convince a cat to do.

Cats were also considered to be evil and/or bad luck in many cultures, so having one in the house was to be avoided whenever possible.

Ta-dum, shark pumpkin!

I wound up carving a shark pumpkin, with big pointy teeth and fins and such. Steve is taking pictures, so I'll be sure to post some when he's done.

We're going to go carve pumpkins in a minute, and I'm still totally undecided what I should actually carve. I bought a book of stencils and I've been trawling the internet for ideas, but I just haven't come up with anything.

I guess we'll see what happens.

Just be careful if you get a Yorkie that you find a good breeder. Don't go to the newspaper or anybody who doesn't show their dogs in conformation. Yorkies are among the most common dogs for backyard breeders and puppy mills, and if you get one from a shitty breeder you will have a neurotic, unhealthy little mess.

Don't buy from anyone who describes their dogs as "teacup" or anything else gimmicky. Don't fall for the "Oh, we only breed our dogs as companions" bullshit. Find out what kind of titles and health testing the parents have. Don't buy from anyone with more than one or two litters on the ground at any one time. Be very leery of anyone who breeds more than one breed. Do not buy from anyone who sells crosses (yorkiepoos, schnoodles, whatever). Don't buy from anyone who will not let you see their breeding facilities.

Most reputable breeders will offer some kind of health guarantee, and by that I don't mean "Oh, if it gets sick I'll just replace it!" They will require puppies who go to non-showing homes to be spayed or neutered by a certain age. They will have a clause in their contracts for you to return the dog to them if it ever needs to be rehomed. Most importantly, they will be able to tell you what their particular breeding program is doing to improve or maintain the quality of the breed.

Anyone who doesn't pass the sniff test is a backyard breeder or a puppy miller. Don't support those people. They are the reason purebred dogs have a reputation for being miserably unhealthy, and many of them will try to sell you what is basically a vastly overpriced mutt by claiming it has "hybrid vigor" - this is a lie. If you take two purebred dogs who have inherited hip problems and breed them together, their puppies will have hip problems. They are also largely responsible for the huge overpopulation problem facing the United States.

A well-bred Yorkie from a quality breeder will usually live to be seventeen or eighteen years old without any major health problems and be a calm, easily trained, pleasant companion. Conversely, a Yorkie from a crappy breeder will likely be neurotic, undersized (since small is cute), miserable wreck whose patellas will luxate by the time it's four or five years old and require expensive surgery just to not live in constant pain and be unable to move.

Anyway. I'll get down off my soapbox.