I had a border collie nudging me for food earlier. That made me haz a happy.
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MikeJ
I don’t expect a bagel every time, but I know if I go to starbucks between 2:30 and 3am there’s a good chance they’ll be uploading the day’s sales data and will give me my coffee for free.
zomg! Rasens is bad for doggs. Poisens! Wat kind of egsample is this blog providen? Centrists! Lieberals! Yoose tryin to kills our pure bred Merkin dogs.
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Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Heh. You made a funny. Accurate, but still funny.
Comment ca va?
6.
FoxinSocks
One time my hound mix poked her head into a bush and out popped a cat. For months afterwards, and sometimes even now, she’d poke her head in that bush, waiting for a cat to appear. I call it the magical cat-giving bush, because a couple times since then, a cat has jumped out, much to the dog’s delight.
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YellowJournalism
So this cartoon is John and Lily in five years?
8.
Yutsano
@YellowJournalism: Five years? if you ask John that’s contemporary. Although I’m not clear how many bagels Lily has hunted down randomly.
9.
stibbert
the stibbert prefers bushes that produce cats, over those that produce cheneys & alitos.
I got into great trouble with Michael D. for once mentioning that my dog liked grapes. I tried explaining that, yes, while grapes and raisins were bad for dogs, the cases where one has died usually involved the dog eating the whole box… I’m a bad parent apparently.
That said, on the weekend, Pedro managed to swipe two slices of my fruit cake off the table, and is still wandering around with all evidence of lusty aliveness.
I’m well – at work, a little bored, trying to get through a very long advice on bonus payments. Urgh.
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Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Grape/raisin poisoning is cumulative, so one dose usually won’t cause any ill effects. However, no more fruitcake for Pedro!
Bonus payments are a wee bit of a raw wound over here, so can’t give you too much advice on that front. I’d say if you can say no say no. Though from the sounds of it it may not be your call.
Bleah. My brain decided to stop working.
13.
soonergrunt
So, I’m gone for a couple of weeks and BoB finally gets shitcanned? WTF? I’ve been briefed in another thread about him posting something about slavery being enobling or something to that effect but I can’t find it. Seems to have disappeared into the WordPress guts.
It happened while I was gone. (8-year-old) NO FAIR! (/8-year-old)
Anyway, I’m still searching for a job. I interviewed a couple of places last week. The fun job won’t pay enough and the well paying one looks like it will suck donkey balls, which is probably why it’s so well paying. I’m interviewing again tomorrow morning, and then I have another meeting. Wish me luck.
If RedKitten shows up, thanks for the link to the “always enjoyable giant inflatable beavers.” Being unemployed for the moment, I’m going to have to wait, though. $5,000 is a little much now, even if it were Canadian dollars. The t-shirt looks more attractive all the time.
Oh, and one other thing–I know there were some others looking for work. If you found jobs while I was away, YAY! I’m very very happy for you. If you’re still looking like me, well, hey at least we’re not in Iraq or Afghanistan, right?
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Yutsano
@soonergrunt: I suppose we could bring him back for a night then ban him again just for your benefit. Of course he’d have to play along, so there’s that at least. Welcome back good sir, I’m glad you’re returning for what shall be some very exciting popcorn moments over the next two weeks.
You would find the comment in question at about comment three here, if it had not been expunged.
Your summary of what he said is reasonably accurate, except make it about three times more offensive than you expect.
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Anne Laurie
@soonergrunt: Welcome back! You & your job hunt are in my positive thoughts. Any way you could leverage the “fun job”, say for a raise in x months if you hit y goals, that would make it doable? Or if the recruiter is enthusiastic about you, see if HR can re-write the job description just enough to bump up the pay grade?
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fucen tarmal
you know you have had a full rich day of insanity when you have superstars of white flight in arizona asserting that they have the right to question the legitimate right to be there of people who’s ancestors may have been there since the superstars ancestors were still loyal subjects of his/her majesty.
and ends on the alledged equal right to publicity.
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Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: I haz a new crush now. Chef from Australia with a smile that will make you melt.
@soonergrunt:
Am I remembering correctly that you said you worked a government job after you got out of the military? I don’t know about the area you are in or if you are interested in moving to a different region, but the base my husband is stationed at is hiring civilians up the whazoo to replace all of the Navy personnel being cut. If you’d be willing to move to a coast or the wonderful Chicagoland area you might check out civilian posts for the Navy.
edit – Welcome back. Also. Too.
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Brian J
For a long time, my dog would eat several dinners. Whether or not she ate hard stuff during the day when no one was home didn’t make a difference, because when the first person got home that day or the person who was home decided to feed her, she’d act like she hadn’t eaten in days. Then someone else would get home, and she’d play the same game, usually because nobody would leave a note saying she had already eaten. Then someone else, usually my mom, would come home, and she’d play the same game again. No joke, for a long time, she would eat three dinners a night. (That’s why, whenever someone would say she’s dumb, I’d insist she was smart, because she knew how to play the game.) And yes, despite her ever expanding tummy, she did and sometimes still does expect a couple of dinners each night.
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Yutsano
@Brian J: Ha. We had a poly lab who knew that exact same game. She’d nudge me saying she wanted dinner, then as soon as my mom got home she’d start dancing around bugging my mom like she hadn’t eaten in days. We got to the point where we would scream at each other checking if she had eaten or not. Even then she’d still get the extra food every now and again.
As much as I like my dog, I can’t stand when she breathes her hot, smelly breath on me as I try to eat a meal on the couch. Maybe it’s because I had become good at ignoring her, or maybe it’s because she could sense I meant business, but she doesn’t bother me nearly as much as she bothers other people. I just don’t give her as much of a chance to eat extras as some people. My mother, on the other hand, will gladly place a bowl on the ground once she’s done with ice cream and let her lick it. I know that’s not good for dogs, and it only encourages her to beg. I’ll gladly toss her a pretzel every now and then, but man, licking the plates is a step too far.
@Brian J: I must give off the vibe that I’m the easy mark, because even dogs that have just met me will plop themselves down right next to me and beg like mad. I always give in unless it’s on the verboten list. I know, I know, it encourages bad behavior, but dammit it’s fun to me!
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Martin
The corgi expects food everywhere. Corgis are just wired like that – they’re the black hole of dogs.
Hi, hubbies! How goes it? I just had a nap. I’m groggy.
@soonergrunt: Welcome back! Have missed you. Yeah, I missed his comment, too. I’m skeered to try to find it. He’s been gone for some time, but his evil twin, Bob K is around. He’s like the uber-liberal version of B.o.B.
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Martin
@Brian J: They don’t know precisely, but they can cause renal and kidney failure. Depending on the species of dog, it may only take a handful.
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Warren Terra
@ Soonergrunt,
If you want to, you can read the comment that finally got BoB banned blockquoted in comment 51 of the thread Tattoosydney linked. It was pretty awful. John bans BoB at comment 102.
Anyone here have any experience with a cat gradually losing eyesight or sudden partial vision loss? Tell-tale signs? Gus hates the vet SO MUCH that I am loath to make the trip if it turns out that he’s just being “special.”
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: My brain is in shutdown mode so I’m choosing to do less than nothing at this point. Otherwise I’m hanging there as well as can be expected.
There are only a few things my dog will actively spit out. Bananas are one of them, at least for me, and I seem to remember grapes being another. I guess she knows.
“We are not saying that we are 100 percent certain that what we found is Noah’s Ark. No one has ever seen the ark, no one knows what it looks like,” said team member Yeung Wing-cheung. “We are only 99 percent certain that it is Noah’s Ark based on historical accounts, including the Bible and local beliefs of the people in the area, as well as carbon dating.”
99% is good enough for me. Repent, motherfuckers!
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Martin
@Brian J: You must not have a corgi. Mine will eat a grape, shit it out, eat the shit with the grape, shit it out again – the fucking dog will get 100 servings of grapes from the same goddamn grape.
The only types of dogs we’ve ever had have been Cocker Spaniels, who have mastered the art of looking sad and making you feel like a douche for not giving them anything, so I am particularly vulnerable.
@Yutsano: How are you feeling physically? Can you talk?
@Mark S.: So it proves that god really did kill most of the animals on the earth to make a point? Not sure why that should make me want to believe in that god.
@Mark S.: I believe so. I couldn’t say for sure. And, it’s just Bob K’s cadence that reminds me of B.o.B.
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: My voice came back more or less full strength yesterday, which is about what I and my doctor expected. I got put on vacation because he wants to be absolutely sure that my vocal cords have sufficient rest to get back without any issues. Not that it matters I’m thinking that I’ll be seriously job scrounging over the next two weeks. I realized just how tired I am of it. Although the promotion I want is still listed as open, so maybe I’ll go for that as well.
Also, a question I never got a sufficient answer to: What did Noah do about the fish?
@Brian J: We’ve had all kinds of dogs, current spoiled beast resident of the household is an adorable border collie. He already has my number.
The miracle was fitting all those fucking dinosaurs in there.
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Martin
@Mark S.: I wonder if these guys realize that the White Mountains here in California has a whole bunch of 4800 year old wood up at 12,000 feet. Is that the hippie ark or something?
@asiangrrlMN: Hey that’s about the answer I got too! It’s what my mom gets for sending me to a Mormon Sunday school (not entirely her choice) and having me get kicked out for asking way too many questions.
i question an all knowing all powerful diety that could make itself known to all unambiguously, somehow requiring faith…it seems a little passive-agressive to me.
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Yutsano
@fucen tarmal: Seems like the perfect place to put this again:
When are you people going to learn? It’s not about who’s right or wrong. No denomination’s nailed it yet, and they never will because they’re all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn’t matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up.
(Yes, dear heart, that was as much for you as anything.)
@fucen tarmal: Good point. Never thought of that. Hm. Passive-aggressive, terrible temper, thin-skinned, and jealous. Sounds a lot like today’s teabaggers, so perhaps they are Christians after all!
@Yutsano: You got kicked out of Mormon school? That’s even better than getting kicked out of Catholic school!
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eco2geek
@Mark S.: As Attaturk said on Atrios’ blog this morning, “Fox News viewers will accept this as totally true – but Obama isn’t a citizen.”
(Speaking of Mt. Ararat, there was this curious book I read… Declare, by Tim Powers, which managed to combine British spying against the Soviet Union, powerful djinns who lived on Mt. Ararat, Kim Philby, and a whole lot more. Sort of “if John Le Carre wrote fantasy”.)
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Mnemosyne
Haven’t they “discovered” Noah’s Ark like five or six times now? I remember hearing about it when I was a kid, and I’m 40 now, and there’s at least one book making the claim 15 years ago that it had been found.
Noah’s Ark is like al-Queda’s number 3 man: constantly reappearing.
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: It embarrassed the hell out of my mom, but I don’t know what she was expecting. When your six year old can read about 90% of the words in the Bible, that tends to open up a huge can of worms.
@Mnemosyne: Add to that fact the location of Mount Ararat has been determined to be in Turkey, and that mountain has been searched so many times it’s nothing but footpaths, and you would think they’d just say God took the damn boat to Heaven after Noah was done with it and call it good.
@Yutsano: Yeah. Like my best friend’s daughter asking her mom what happened to the other animals when my friend read Noah’s Ark (the kids’ version) to her. My best friend no longer reads the Bible to her very serious-minded little girl.
“In 1998, Pakistani nuclear scientist Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood proposed in a Wall Street Journal interview that jinn (described in the Qur’ān as beings made of fire) could be tapped to solve the energy crisis. “I think that if we develop our souls, we can develop communication with them. … Every new idea has its opponents, but there is no reason for this controversy over Islam and science because there is no conflict between Islam and science.”” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie
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Yutsano
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: You know, up until about the 14th century the Muslims were kicking the ass of the west when it came to advances in scientific thought. Rather than treat it all as religious heresy, they made faithful translations of the Greek and Roman scientific texts and expanded upon them, also incorporating some Indian and Chinese ideas (the concept of zero is originally from India). What made them step backwards was the Renaissance in Italy and the Mongol invasion basically decimating their empire. After that they fell pretty much off the wagon and Europe caught up quickly.
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Eric U.
Our dog ate a whole bowl full of grapes. My wife gave him something that induced vomiting. This all happened before I got home from work. I never would have known it was a problem and he woulda died.
I know Chock full o Nuts is Thymezone, but is he also Angusgodofmeat (or whatever that is)?
Yep – and various permutations of cats in hats, and any other name that has taken his fancy over the years. Little Dreamer (formerly various permutations of Rome) is his tag team besty.
@Tattoosydney: And the hot sauce dude as well, I just remembered. I haz a happy! You’re back!
@Tattoosydney: Gotta agree with you, TS. Glad I’m not the only one.
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Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Okay by me, I’ll just pine away by my lonesome. Plus I’d end up killing him, I specifically go for men that rarely or don’t cook. Doing the dishes, however, now that is a bankable skill.
@asiangrrlMN: You and I have very divergent tastes in men, we established this a long while back. In women, however, we seem strangely aligned. I’ll get on figuring that puzzle of the universe out at some point. It may take more creativity enhancers.
BTW both of you smack me, I waded into the damn immigration debate again. Dammit.
Back from tech rehearsals for this show. BJ supporters get the best discount….(but don’t go opening night. We got a few….glitches….to iron out….).
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Not especially. I do have fairly strong sadist tendencies although I don’t particularly understand the infliction of pain on a sexual partner. Plus if I really wanted to torture myself there are many many other ways I could do that besides wading into that mishegas. It could just be my stupidity allergy kicking in again.
@gwangung: If I haven’t mentioned it before, I really appreciate your work, if for no other reason than if wifey does decide to come out west and visit I can show her a laugh riot I’m certain she’ll appreciate.
@gwangung: Man, I’m going to plan a west coast trip around your productions so I can catch one.
@Yutsano: Good because there is only room for one masochist in the family–me! I actually think it’s your optimistic gene. You think if you just explain it well enough, the other person will understand. I have that, too. P.S. You got it. I can visit you and see something funny and Asian at the same time.
Is that thread still going, or has the shitfight moved to a new thread?
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Wild Ginger then Pork Filled Players then Pioneer Square for bar-hopping. No I don’t have this planned out at all why do you ask? Oh and Beth’s Cafe for 4 am munchies.
@Tattoosydney: It seems to have infected several threads but it’s mostly on the one four or five below this one. I’m gonna one and done it though, I can’t really handle teabagger nonsense right now.
@Yutsano: Oh, yeah, baby. You’re planning on being there for some time, right?
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I have zero plans to leave this state at this time. There is a slight possibility I may take a job in Portland (I applied for one but I haven’t heard back on it yet) but yeah I’m sticking around. I’d live across the river to the north if that happened anyway.
@asiangrrlMN: Oregon is much more of a basket case than Washington is budget-wise (unemployment is much higher and they had to vote to get a tax increase rather than grow a pair and just institute one), however Portland has all kinds of neat nifty little spots that you have to know are there or you’ll miss them entirely.
@Yutsano: And the best damn used bookstore in the country (almost). I did not know that about their budget. Damn. gbear pointed out on an earlier thread that MN hopefuls for gov (Republicans, of course), said the AZ solution was only a first step. We have not elected a Dem as governor since 1993. I may have to move after the next governor’s election.
Which are you? As I said, only room for one masochist!
I suppose technically I could argue that I am a sado-masochist, and so there is still only one of each. Personality wise, I am neither – I’m sweet and lovely. It’s only in the bedroom that my other sides come out.
Personality wise, I am neither – I’m sweet and lovely.
Uh-huh. That’s what they all say until your head is in their mandibles and your neck is little more than a bloody stump. Oh wait, that’s me. Never mind.
@asiangrrlMN: I’m not much of a breakfast eater, but damn if there’s isn’t one of the best little cafés in Portland that could almost make me change my mind. It’s localvore/heavily vegetarian, plus they have the BEST scones evah.
Praise Bob, Bob never went away, he’s still with us in spirit. Everclear Anyone? Muaahh, Muahh, Muahhhh
The truth is that Mumsy found out about little bobby getting around the net nanny and was oh so peeved she threatened to cut him off from his trust fund.
My children – we must realize in the coming battle against Lord Mordor/Mudroch/he who will NOT be named. They can bring the cash. We are like the VietCong we must bring the snark – it’s all we have. Cavaliers! If you haven’t absorbed the analogy yet google Third English Civil War.
DO NOT GO TO GOOGLE VIDEO. Whatever you do if you do go to google video. DO NOT watch “World of the Future” It’s time to choose between Blue Pill/Red Pill
If you choose red pill than you’ve probably already read “Chicken for Checkups” I can hear Sue Lowden doing the “Number Two” rant – can’t you. Buh-Bye Harry hope they buy you a nice watch.
I spent the last 30 years of my life turning this two-bit evil empire into a world class multi-national. I was going to have a cover story with Forbes. But you, like an idiot, want to take over the world. And you don’t even realize that there is no world anymore! It’s only corporations!”
@asiangrrlMN: The nice thing about scones is once you have the basic base down (thanking Ina Garten for this info) you can flavor them just about any way you want. Broccoli-white cheddar should be quite doable although I’d have to futz around with the recipe to get it just right. Was the broccoli in spears or milled up into the batter?
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Tattoosydney
Can someone explain the American scone to me? Here a scone is a very specific item – almost always a sweet thing: flour, butter, milk, served with butter, jam, cream. Occasionally made with pumpkin by the wife of one of our most corrupt and evil state leaders. Never involving brocolli.
What is this thing you call a scone?
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Tattoosydney
Then I see Andrew Sullivan raving about starbucks vanilla scones, which as far as I can tell are a cookie with icing on it bearing no resemblance to the British scone. I get so confused.
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Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Very similar to the British iteration, however we tend to experiment wildly with the flavour combinations. The basic idea is to get enough butter in layers to get the dough flaky, then we tend to treat it as more or less a blank canvas. Hell just researching over the last few minutes I saw strawberry-rosemary, cranberry-orange, and cheddar-dill.
@Tattoosydney: Starbucks scones, however, are not worthy of the name. I had one the other day and whatever the hell that dense too-sweet under-fruited atrocity was, it wasn’t a scone.
@Yutsano: Ground up. It was absolutely fantastic. Caribou Coffee, local coffee shop offered it late one afternoon. I think they may have been experimenting with scones after hours, if you know what I mean.
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Caribou Coffee was my lifeline when I was in Georgia for my friend’s wedding, however I don’t recall their exact scone offerings. You realize of course now the wheels in my head are turning and I HAVE to figure out if I can somehow duplicate this.
@Yutsano: I will love you long time if you manage the heavenliness that was the broccoli/white cheddar scones. Damn. MN and Seattle do not play in the NFL this season. I never saw the scone again. Maybe I made it up in my fevered mind?
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MikeJ
Yutsano will now open a broccoli scone stand at the fair to compete with the raspberry crowd.
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bago
The nice thing about scenes is once you have the basic base down…
Oh, do tell.
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Yutsano
@MikeJ: Despite the cookie/scone talking going on here, I actually don’t really bake all that much. For one, I don’t have the time, two, I usually don’t have the patience (I’m a recipe tweaker), and three, yeast hear my name and run in terror. I’ll try to figure out the scone thing cause it’s close enough to cookies that I could probably manage it, but no exact guarantees as to what will happen. At least the chickens will be more than happy to eat the remnants if it doesn’t turn out right.
@asiangrrlMN: Heh. You’d do that anyway just from the date I have planned alone. I’ll do some thought experimenting and see what I can figure out.
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MikeJ
I’m with ya. Baking just doesn’t interest me, mainly because you have to be so exact.
So are we gonna do a Balloon Juice trip to the theatre?
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Yutsano
@MikeJ: Sounds like the start of a plan to me. I can always get a cheap hotel room through my brother’s work if needed. I’ve been interested in going since gwangung mentioned his involvement with the troupe a few months back. Hell I don’t even mind being the only white guy there!
@Yutsano: Shhhh! Don’t give away the fact that I’m so easy!
@MikeJ: I used to love baking, and I would tweak the recipes all the time.
Oooh, US road trip/theatre trip. We planned one to NYC earlier, and now, the west coast. Awesome!
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MikeJ
I know there’s other Seattlites here, we just need to try rounding them up.
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Yutsano
@MikeJ: We got Wile, gwangung, Elie is up in Bellingham but I’m sure she can be talked into a trip south, same with Max (although she’s just settling in so might not be up for it for a spell yet) and I can always just hop the mountains for a day. That’s just off the top of my head here, I’m certain there are more of us up here.
raw mushrooms are the only thing my dog won’t eat. anything else she’ll grab before it even hits the floor.
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soonergrunt
@IndyLib: Thanks. I’ll check that out. I’ve worked a contract job for the government.
I’ve applied to positions with the federal government. Basically every single 2210 (Information Technology Management) position within 120 mile radius. I’ve advanced through the system for a couple of them.
I want to move because I hate the flat, empty nothing of Oklahoma, and also because of the troglodyte attitudes of our neighbors, but most of my family has settled here and my wife doesn’t want to be away from family. It’s here or San Diego area in that case.
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Remember November
Things that are toxic to canines:
Raisins, grapes- anything of that variety.
pointsettia plants
Xylitol and artificial sweeteners ( most sugarless gum)
Chocolate- any chocolate with theobromide- a bar of dark chocolate can kill a pomeranian sized dog.
macadamia nuts
there’s more but these are the big ones imho.
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Yutsano
To answer the cartoon: yes, yes they do.
I had a border collie nudging me for food earlier. That made me haz a happy.
MikeJ
I don’t expect a bagel every time, but I know if I go to starbucks between 2:30 and 3am there’s a good chance they’ll be uploading the day’s sales data and will give me my coffee for free.
ellaesther
I don’t know about “expect,” but I would certainly like one. It might even encourage more walking on my part.
But the dog — any dog — most certainly does expect it. From now until eternity.
Tattoosydney
zomg! Rasens is bad for doggs. Poisens! Wat kind of egsample is this blog providen? Centrists! Lieberals! Yoose tryin to kills our pure bred Merkin dogs.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Heh. You made a funny. Accurate, but still funny.
Comment ca va?
FoxinSocks
One time my hound mix poked her head into a bush and out popped a cat. For months afterwards, and sometimes even now, she’d poke her head in that bush, waiting for a cat to appear. I call it the magical cat-giving bush, because a couple times since then, a cat has jumped out, much to the dog’s delight.
YellowJournalism
So this cartoon is John and Lily in five years?
Yutsano
@YellowJournalism: Five years? if you ask John that’s contemporary. Although I’m not clear how many bagels Lily has hunted down randomly.
stibbert
the stibbert prefers bushes that produce cats, over those that produce cheneys & alitos.
Comrade Mary
Hey, is the “It’s a tarp!” tagline new? I like.
Tattoosydney
@Yutsano:
I got into great trouble with Michael D. for once mentioning that my dog liked grapes. I tried explaining that, yes, while grapes and raisins were bad for dogs, the cases where one has died usually involved the dog eating the whole box… I’m a bad parent apparently.
That said, on the weekend, Pedro managed to swipe two slices of my fruit cake off the table, and is still wandering around with all evidence of lusty aliveness.
I’m well – at work, a little bored, trying to get through a very long advice on bonus payments. Urgh.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Grape/raisin poisoning is cumulative, so one dose usually won’t cause any ill effects. However, no more fruitcake for Pedro!
Bonus payments are a wee bit of a raw wound over here, so can’t give you too much advice on that front. I’d say if you can say no say no. Though from the sounds of it it may not be your call.
Bleah. My brain decided to stop working.
soonergrunt
So, I’m gone for a couple of weeks and BoB finally gets shitcanned? WTF? I’ve been briefed in another thread about him posting something about slavery being enobling or something to that effect but I can’t find it. Seems to have disappeared into the WordPress guts.
It happened while I was gone. (8-year-old) NO FAIR! (/8-year-old)
Anyway, I’m still searching for a job. I interviewed a couple of places last week. The fun job won’t pay enough and the well paying one looks like it will suck donkey balls, which is probably why it’s so well paying. I’m interviewing again tomorrow morning, and then I have another meeting. Wish me luck.
If RedKitten shows up, thanks for the link to the “always enjoyable giant inflatable beavers.” Being unemployed for the moment, I’m going to have to wait, though. $5,000 is a little much now, even if it were Canadian dollars. The t-shirt looks more attractive all the time.
Oh, and one other thing–I know there were some others looking for work. If you found jobs while I was away, YAY! I’m very very happy for you. If you’re still looking like me, well, hey at least we’re not in Iraq or Afghanistan, right?
Yutsano
@soonergrunt: I suppose we could bring him back for a night then ban him again just for your benefit. Of course he’d have to play along, so there’s that at least. Welcome back good sir, I’m glad you’re returning for what shall be some very exciting popcorn moments over the next two weeks.
Tattoosydney
@soonergrunt:
You would find the comment in question at about comment three here, if it had not been expunged.
Your summary of what he said is reasonably accurate, except make it about three times more offensive than you expect.
Anne Laurie
@soonergrunt: Welcome back! You & your job hunt are in my positive thoughts. Any way you could leverage the “fun job”, say for a raise in x months if you hit y goals, that would make it doable? Or if the recruiter is enthusiastic about you, see if HR can re-write the job description just enough to bump up the pay grade?
fucen tarmal
you know you have had a full rich day of insanity when you have superstars of white flight in arizona asserting that they have the right to question the legitimate right to be there of people who’s ancestors may have been there since the superstars ancestors were still loyal subjects of his/her majesty.
and ends on the alledged equal right to publicity.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: I haz a new crush now. Chef from Australia with a smile that will make you melt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Stone
IndyLib
@soonergrunt:
Am I remembering correctly that you said you worked a government job after you got out of the military? I don’t know about the area you are in or if you are interested in moving to a different region, but the base my husband is stationed at is hiring civilians up the whazoo to replace all of the Navy personnel being cut. If you’d be willing to move to a coast or the wonderful Chicagoland area you might check out civilian posts for the Navy.
edit – Welcome back. Also. Too.
Brian J
For a long time, my dog would eat several dinners. Whether or not she ate hard stuff during the day when no one was home didn’t make a difference, because when the first person got home that day or the person who was home decided to feed her, she’d act like she hadn’t eaten in days. Then someone else would get home, and she’d play the same game, usually because nobody would leave a note saying she had already eaten. Then someone else, usually my mom, would come home, and she’d play the same game again. No joke, for a long time, she would eat three dinners a night. (That’s why, whenever someone would say she’s dumb, I’d insist she was smart, because she knew how to play the game.) And yes, despite her ever expanding tummy, she did and sometimes still does expect a couple of dinners each night.
Yutsano
@Brian J: Ha. We had a poly lab who knew that exact same game. She’d nudge me saying she wanted dinner, then as soon as my mom got home she’d start dancing around bugging my mom like she hadn’t eaten in days. We got to the point where we would scream at each other checking if she had eaten or not. Even then she’d still get the extra food every now and again.
Brian J
@Tattoosydney:
Why are grapes and raisins bad for dogs?
Brian J
@Yutsano:
As much as I like my dog, I can’t stand when she breathes her hot, smelly breath on me as I try to eat a meal on the couch. Maybe it’s because I had become good at ignoring her, or maybe it’s because she could sense I meant business, but she doesn’t bother me nearly as much as she bothers other people. I just don’t give her as much of a chance to eat extras as some people. My mother, on the other hand, will gladly place a bowl on the ground once she’s done with ice cream and let her lick it. I know that’s not good for dogs, and it only encourages her to beg. I’ll gladly toss her a pretzel every now and then, but man, licking the plates is a step too far.
KRK
@soonergrunt:
Good luck!
Yutsano
@Brian J: I must give off the vibe that I’m the easy mark, because even dogs that have just met me will plop themselves down right next to me and beg like mad. I always give in unless it’s on the verboten list. I know, I know, it encourages bad behavior, but dammit it’s fun to me!
Martin
The corgi expects food everywhere. Corgis are just wired like that – they’re the black hole of dogs.
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney:
@Yutsano:
Hi, hubbies! How goes it? I just had a nap. I’m groggy.
@soonergrunt: Welcome back! Have missed you. Yeah, I missed his comment, too. I’m skeered to try to find it. He’s been gone for some time, but his evil twin, Bob K is around. He’s like the uber-liberal version of B.o.B.
Martin
@Brian J: They don’t know precisely, but they can cause renal and kidney failure. Depending on the species of dog, it may only take a handful.
Warren Terra
@ Soonergrunt,
If you want to, you can read the comment that finally got BoB banned blockquoted in comment 51 of the thread Tattoosydney linked. It was pretty awful. John bans BoB at comment 102.
eco2geek
@Brian J: Maybe this is why? (I didn’t know that either.)
KRK
Anyone here have any experience with a cat gradually losing eyesight or sudden partial vision loss? Tell-tale signs? Gus hates the vet SO MUCH that I am loath to make the trip if it turns out that he’s just being “special.”
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: My brain is in shutdown mode so I’m choosing to do less than nothing at this point. Otherwise I’m hanging there as well as can be expected.
Brian J
@Martin:
There are only a few things my dog will actively spit out. Bananas are one of them, at least for me, and I seem to remember grapes being another. I guess she knows.
Mark S.
Suck it, atheists!
99% is good enough for me. Repent, motherfuckers!
Martin
@Brian J: You must not have a corgi. Mine will eat a grape, shit it out, eat the shit with the grape, shit it out again – the fucking dog will get 100 servings of grapes from the same goddamn grape.
Other than that, he’s a great dog.
Brian J
@Yutsano:
The only types of dogs we’ve ever had have been Cocker Spaniels, who have mastered the art of looking sad and making you feel like a douche for not giving them anything, so I am particularly vulnerable.
Mark S.
@asiangrrlMN:
Bob K is a little odd, but I’ve only run into him once or twice that I can remember.
I know Chock full o Nuts is Thymezone, but is he also Angusgodofmeat (or whatever that is)?
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: How are you feeling physically? Can you talk?
@Mark S.: So it proves that god really did kill most of the animals on the earth to make a point? Not sure why that should make me want to believe in that god.
@Mark S.: I believe so. I couldn’t say for sure. And, it’s just Bob K’s cadence that reminds me of B.o.B.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: My voice came back more or less full strength yesterday, which is about what I and my doctor expected. I got put on vacation because he wants to be absolutely sure that my vocal cords have sufficient rest to get back without any issues. Not that it matters I’m thinking that I’ll be seriously job scrounging over the next two weeks. I realized just how tired I am of it. Although the promotion I want is still listed as open, so maybe I’ll go for that as well.
Also, a question I never got a sufficient answer to: What did Noah do about the fish?
@Brian J: We’ve had all kinds of dogs, current
spoiled beastresident of the household is an adorable border collie. He already has my number.Mark S.
@asiangrrlMN:
The miracle was fitting all those fucking dinosaurs in there.
Martin
@Mark S.: I wonder if these guys realize that the White Mountains here in California has a whole bunch of 4800 year old wood up at 12,000 feet. Is that the hippie ark or something?
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: He just, you know, shut up, that’s what!
@Mark S.: OK, you made me giggle madly. Kudos to you, Sir!
@Martin: Oh, god! Full on snort/wheeze attack! Nice one.
Martin
@Mark S.: Thankfully, dinosaurs take up less space while they’re fucking. That was a good plan by Noah.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
@Mark S.:
So many hoaxes…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searches_for_Noah's_Ark
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Hey that’s about the answer I got too! It’s what my mom gets for sending me to a Mormon Sunday school (not entirely her choice) and having me get kicked out for asking way too many questions.
fucen tarmal
@asiangrrlMN:
i question an all knowing all powerful diety that could make itself known to all unambiguously, somehow requiring faith…it seems a little passive-agressive to me.
Yutsano
@fucen tarmal: Seems like the perfect place to put this again:
(Yes, dear heart, that was as much for you as anything.)
asiangrrlMN
@fucen tarmal: Good point. Never thought of that. Hm. Passive-aggressive, terrible temper, thin-skinned, and jealous. Sounds a lot like today’s teabaggers, so perhaps they are Christians after all!
@Yutsano: You got kicked out of Mormon school? That’s even better than getting kicked out of Catholic school!
eco2geek
@Mark S.: As Attaturk said on Atrios’ blog this morning, “Fox News viewers will accept this as totally true – but Obama isn’t a citizen.”
(Speaking of Mt. Ararat, there was this curious book I read… Declare, by Tim Powers, which managed to combine British spying against the Soviet Union, powerful djinns who lived on Mt. Ararat, Kim Philby, and a whole lot more. Sort of “if John Le Carre wrote fantasy”.)
Mnemosyne
Haven’t they “discovered” Noah’s Ark like five or six times now? I remember hearing about it when I was a kid, and I’m 40 now, and there’s at least one book making the claim 15 years ago that it had been found.
Noah’s Ark is like al-Queda’s number 3 man: constantly reappearing.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: It embarrassed the hell out of my mom, but I don’t know what she was expecting. When your six year old can read about 90% of the words in the Bible, that tends to open up a huge can of worms.
@Mnemosyne: Add to that fact the location of Mount Ararat has been determined to be in Turkey, and that mountain has been searched so many times it’s nothing but footpaths, and you would think they’d just say God took the damn boat to Heaven after Noah was done with it and call it good.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Yeah. Like my best friend’s daughter asking her mom what happened to the other animals when my friend read Noah’s Ark (the kids’ version) to her. My best friend no longer reads the Bible to her very serious-minded little girl.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
@eco2geek:
From wikipedia:
“In 1998, Pakistani nuclear scientist Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood proposed in a Wall Street Journal interview that jinn (described in the Qur’ān as beings made of fire) could be tapped to solve the energy crisis. “I think that if we develop our souls, we can develop communication with them. … Every new idea has its opponents, but there is no reason for this controversy over Islam and science because there is no conflict between Islam and science.””
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie
Yutsano
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: You know, up until about the 14th century the Muslims were kicking the ass of the west when it came to advances in scientific thought. Rather than treat it all as religious heresy, they made faithful translations of the Greek and Roman scientific texts and expanded upon them, also incorporating some Indian and Chinese ideas (the concept of zero is originally from India). What made them step backwards was the Renaissance in Italy and the Mongol invasion basically decimating their empire. After that they fell pretty much off the wagon and Europe caught up quickly.
Eric U.
Our dog ate a whole bowl full of grapes. My wife gave him something that induced vomiting. This all happened before I got home from work. I never would have known it was a problem and he woulda died.
fucen tarmal
@Yutsano:
if that is true, then they need to destroy every copy of the wizard of oz in existence…won’t get fooled again!
Tattoosydney
@Mark S.:
Yep – and various permutations of cats in hats, and any other name that has taken his fancy over the years. Little Dreamer (formerly various permutations of Rome) is his tag team besty.
Tattoosydney
@Yutsano:
I’m ignoring your crush by the way…. ew ew ew.
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: And the hot sauce dude as well, I just remembered. I haz a happy! You’re back!
@Tattoosydney: Gotta agree with you, TS. Glad I’m not the only one.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Okay by me, I’ll just pine away by my lonesome. Plus I’d end up killing him, I specifically go for men that rarely or don’t cook. Doing the dishes, however, now that is a bankable skill.
@asiangrrlMN: You and I have very divergent tastes in men, we established this a long while back. In women, however, we seem strangely aligned. I’ll get on figuring that puzzle of the universe out at some point. It may take more creativity enhancers.
BTW both of you smack me, I waded into the damn immigration debate again. Dammit.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: That’s the one thing about him that is tantalizing–he cooks. I only date partners who cook as I do not.
@Yutsano: Yes. It’s very strange.
And, why do you do that to yourself? Are you a masochist at heart?
gwangung
Back from tech rehearsals for this show. BJ supporters get the best discount….(but don’t go opening night. We got a few….glitches….to iron out….).
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Not especially. I do have fairly strong sadist tendencies although I don’t particularly understand the infliction of pain on a sexual partner. Plus if I really wanted to torture myself there are many many other ways I could do that besides wading into that mishegas. It could just be my stupidity allergy kicking in again.
@gwangung: If I haven’t mentioned it before, I really appreciate your work, if for no other reason than if wifey does decide to come out west and visit I can show her a laugh riot I’m certain she’ll appreciate.
asiangrrlMN
@gwangung: Man, I’m going to plan a west coast trip around your productions so I can catch one.
@Yutsano: Good because there is only room for one masochist in the family–me! I actually think it’s your optimistic gene. You think if you just explain it well enough, the other person will understand. I have that, too. P.S. You got it. I can visit you and see something funny and Asian at the same time.
Tattoosydney
@Yutsano:
Is that thread still going, or has the shitfight moved to a new thread?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Wild Ginger then Pork Filled Players then Pioneer Square for bar-hopping. No I don’t have this planned out at all why do you ask? Oh and Beth’s Cafe for 4 am munchies.
@Tattoosydney: It seems to have infected several threads but it’s mostly on the one four or five below this one. I’m gonna one and done it though, I can’t really handle teabagger nonsense right now.
Tattoosydney
@Yutsano:
/has to go and get some fresh air for a moment.
Tattoosydney
@asiangrrlMN:
What about those of us who swing both ways? Are we still talking about sex here?
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: Which are you? As I said, only room for one masochist!
@Yutsano: That sounds amazing. I’m there! Yeah, I’m avoiding the immigration threads as I don’t want to spontaneously combust in anger.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Pan-Asian but true to the cuisine of each culture represented. You can’t go wrong there.
http://www.wildginger.net/
Beth’s is what Denny’s could only dream of being. Local greasy spoon worth every single calorie and always open.
http://www.bethscafe.com/
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Oh, yeah, baby. You’re planning on being there for some time, right?
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I have zero plans to leave this state at this time. There is a slight possibility I may take a job in Portland (I applied for one but I haven’t heard back on it yet) but yeah I’m sticking around. I’d live across the river to the north if that happened anyway.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Cool. Portland is a great place, too.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Oregon is much more of a basket case than Washington is budget-wise (unemployment is much higher and they had to vote to get a tax increase rather than grow a pair and just institute one), however Portland has all kinds of neat nifty little spots that you have to know are there or you’ll miss them entirely.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: And the best damn used bookstore in the country (almost). I did not know that about their budget. Damn. gbear pointed out on an earlier thread that MN hopefuls for gov (Republicans, of course), said the AZ solution was only a first step. We have not elected a Dem as governor since 1993. I may have to move after the next governor’s election.
Tattoosydney
@asiangrrlMN:
I suppose technically I could argue that I am a sado-masochist, and so there is still only one of each. Personality wise, I am neither – I’m sweet and lovely. It’s only in the bedroom that my other sides come out.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney:
Uh-huh. That’s what they all say until your head is in their mandibles and your neck is little more than a bloody stump. Oh wait, that’s me. Never mind.
@asiangrrlMN: I’m not much of a breakfast eater, but damn if there’s isn’t one of the best little cafés in Portland that could almost make me change my mind. It’s localvore/heavily vegetarian, plus they have the BEST scones evah.
asiangrrlMN
@Tattoosydney: Well, duh. I meant in the bedroom, too! Although I am neither sweet nor lovely outside the bedroom, come to think of it.
@Yutsano: SCONES! Nom nom nom. Best one I ever had was a broccoli and white cheddar cheese scone I had once. Once. I never found it again.
Band Of Bozos
@asiangrrlMN: @ Sooner Grunt
Praise Bob, Bob never went away, he’s still with us in spirit. Everclear Anyone? Muaahh, Muahh, Muahhhh
The truth is that Mumsy found out about little bobby getting around the net nanny and was oh so peeved she threatened to cut him off from his trust fund.
My children – we must realize in the coming battle against Lord Mordor/Mudroch/he who will NOT be named. They can bring the cash. We are like the VietCong we must bring the snark – it’s all we have. Cavaliers! If you haven’t absorbed the analogy yet google Third English Civil War.
DO NOT GO TO GOOGLE VIDEO. Whatever you do if you do go to google video. DO NOT watch “World of the Future” It’s time to choose between Blue Pill/Red Pill
If you choose red pill than you’ve probably already read “Chicken for Checkups” I can hear Sue Lowden doing the “Number Two” rant – can’t you. Buh-Bye Harry hope they buy you a nice watch.
I spent the last 30 years of my life turning this two-bit evil empire into a world class multi-national. I was going to have a cover story with Forbes. But you, like an idiot, want to take over the world. And you don’t even realize that there is no world anymore! It’s only corporations!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo851D8G48c
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: The nice thing about scones is once you have the basic base down (thanking Ina Garten for this info) you can flavor them just about any way you want. Broccoli-white cheddar should be quite doable although I’d have to futz around with the recipe to get it just right. Was the broccoli in spears or milled up into the batter?
Tattoosydney
Can someone explain the American scone to me? Here a scone is a very specific item – almost always a sweet thing: flour, butter, milk, served with butter, jam, cream. Occasionally made with pumpkin by the wife of one of our most corrupt and evil state leaders. Never involving brocolli.
What is this thing you call a scone?
Tattoosydney
Then I see Andrew Sullivan raving about starbucks vanilla scones, which as far as I can tell are a cookie with icing on it bearing no resemblance to the British scone. I get so confused.
Yutsano
@Tattoosydney: Very similar to the British iteration, however we tend to experiment wildly with the flavour combinations. The basic idea is to get enough butter in layers to get the dough flaky, then we tend to treat it as more or less a blank canvas. Hell just researching over the last few minutes I saw strawberry-rosemary, cranberry-orange, and cheddar-dill.
@Tattoosydney: Starbucks scones, however, are not worthy of the name. I had one the other day and whatever the hell that dense too-sweet under-fruited atrocity was, it wasn’t a scone.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Ground up. It was absolutely fantastic. Caribou Coffee, local coffee shop offered it late one afternoon. I think they may have been experimenting with scones after hours, if you know what I mean.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Caribou Coffee was my lifeline when I was in Georgia for my friend’s wedding, however I don’t recall their exact scone offerings. You realize of course now the wheels in my head are turning and I HAVE to figure out if I can somehow duplicate this.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I will love you long time if you manage the heavenliness that was the broccoli/white cheddar scones. Damn. MN and Seattle do not play in the NFL this season. I never saw the scone again. Maybe I made it up in my fevered mind?
MikeJ
Yutsano will now open a broccoli scone stand at the fair to compete with the raspberry crowd.
bago
Oh, do tell.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Despite the cookie/scone talking going on here, I actually don’t really bake all that much. For one, I don’t have the time, two, I usually don’t have the patience (I’m a recipe tweaker), and three, yeast hear my name and run in terror. I’ll try to figure out the scone thing cause it’s close enough to cookies that I could probably manage it, but no exact guarantees as to what will happen. At least the chickens will be more than happy to eat the remnants if it doesn’t turn out right.
@asiangrrlMN: Heh. You’d do that anyway just from the date I have planned alone. I’ll do some thought experimenting and see what I can figure out.
MikeJ
I’m with ya. Baking just doesn’t interest me, mainly because you have to be so exact.
So are we gonna do a Balloon Juice trip to the theatre?
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Sounds like the start of a plan to me. I can always get a cheap hotel room through my brother’s work if needed. I’ve been interested in going since gwangung mentioned his involvement with the troupe a few months back. Hell I don’t even mind being the only white guy there!
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Shhhh! Don’t give away the fact that I’m so easy!
@MikeJ: I used to love baking, and I would tweak the recipes all the time.
Oooh, US road trip/theatre trip. We planned one to NYC earlier, and now, the west coast. Awesome!
MikeJ
I know there’s other Seattlites here, we just need to try rounding them up.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: We got Wile, gwangung, Elie is up in Bellingham but I’m sure she can be talked into a trip south, same with Max (although she’s just settling in so might not be up for it for a spell yet) and I can always just hop the mountains for a day. That’s just off the top of my head here, I’m certain there are more of us up here.
chopper
@Brian J:
raw mushrooms are the only thing my dog won’t eat. anything else she’ll grab before it even hits the floor.
soonergrunt
@IndyLib: Thanks. I’ll check that out. I’ve worked a contract job for the government.
I’ve applied to positions with the federal government. Basically every single 2210 (Information Technology Management) position within 120 mile radius. I’ve advanced through the system for a couple of them.
I want to move because I hate the flat, empty nothing of Oklahoma, and also because of the troglodyte attitudes of our neighbors, but most of my family has settled here and my wife doesn’t want to be away from family. It’s here or San Diego area in that case.
Remember November
Things that are toxic to canines:
Raisins, grapes- anything of that variety.
pointsettia plants
Xylitol and artificial sweeteners ( most sugarless gum)
Chocolate- any chocolate with theobromide- a bar of dark chocolate can kill a pomeranian sized dog.
macadamia nuts
there’s more but these are the big ones imho.