Thursday, November 20, 2008

Some of you know that we have had a long-term canine guest at our home: Dakota. Dakota married Cosmo and they had a little girl: Vudoo. Very sadly, Vudoo went swimming in the pool with inadequate supervision last Saturday and now resides under several hundred pounds of dirt in our way back yard pet cemetery, which is now becoming quite populated. We were all very sad about this, especially Dustin who locked himself in his room when he found out. Vudoo, we are sorry and we will miss you. Dakota, I guess you don't get spayed just yet after all.


Each morning, Dakota, Cosmo and I accompany Dustin up to wait for the bus at the corner. Dakota, a very smart dog (not that she often uses it for good...), has learned a new trick, which Dustin captured on video as follows:




Typically, she licks off the mucoidal delicacy on her first jump. This one did not dangle as well as others. Oh well. Who knows what other tricks we'll learn while waiting for the bus!

This next picture relates to my last post, item 6. This is how I knew Dustin was home from school today. Please notice 1) empty tp roll on the right, and 2) fully clogged toilet on the left! For goodness sakes! It simply doesn't take an entire roll to clean or even to polish such a small bum! I am considering tp rationing...


Finally, I wanted to add some interesting detail on the endless counting that goes on in my mind. First, you may find, as do I, that if you cluster the counting, it becomes at once more reliable and easier. For example, you can count to 10 by 1,2,3,4...10. OR, you can hear two groups of 3 beats and one group of 4 beats and that is 10. I wonder if any computer algorithms take advantage of this approach? It is WAY easier to count this way, then you just have to keep track of the 10's.
The other number related thing is that I sometimes convert to other number bases. For example, when I saw BJ and Katherine's house address, 11101, I converted it from binary to 29 base 10 (decimal). That made it pretty easy to remember and also serves as an error check.
So that's it for tonight's show. Happy Thanksgiving to all our family and friends :)


2 comments:

Amber Larsen said...

Poor littl pup. PS: did you get the memo that you don't have to keep posting quirks?? the spit thing is disgusting.

Clint, Marianne, Sage, Charlotte, Emery and Ivy said...

oh.my.gosh.
nasty.