Buggin' you - where buggin' is lovin'

I decided that rather than spending hours futzing with software and drivers and rebooting my machine a million times to get the connection between my camera and my computer working again, that I would go to Staples and get a USB adapter thingy for my camera SD thingy, so that I could just load the photos directly onto my computer, by-passing my camera. So, presto! We've got photos again! I think the blog o' power is much more festive with photos. Let's catch up.

Here's Mark at the end of the Reach the Beach 2006 relay road race in Hampton Beach, NH. Yes! The Nocklebeast came out east to visit me (and run). Don't you wish you were visiting me too? Though, if you do, I won't make you run 21 miles in relay fashion from mountains to the oceans traveling with 11 other stinky runners in a 27 hour period. Believe it our not, he volunteered for this. Mark "my quads are trashed" Nocklebeast.

Meet Lola. She lives in Exeter, NH.

Proof, the beast was in Turners Falls, MA.

Here's a fun Bo picture. She looks goofy when she yawns.

Here's our patient, Tio Pepe, before he got sick with poopy issues. Do you see Lucy in the picture too? Here's another take on the paper vs. plastic debate. Last Sunday, the emergency vet learned from the vet assistant that Tio has a history of eating plastic bags. She kinda laughed, and I asked if this was something she'd seen before. "Oh yeah," she said, "though my cat prefers paper bags."

Dead Luau piggy at Kevin's house. Piggy was yummy.

Here's Bo, with piggy grease on her head. She spent as much time as she could underneath the table that the piggy was getting chopped up on. She scored big time at the Luau.

LUCY CUTIE!

Here's Bo and Stevie the wonder scuptor's creation, on the banks of the Connecticut River at Turners Falls, MA.

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This entry is for all my baby-makin friends out West who now only talk about poo and the babies that make it.

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Tio Pepe was a bit distressed Sunday night. He was straining to go #2, and was puking up whenever he ate food or drank water. Memories of his near fatal urinary track crystals in '03 and the clear discomfort he was in led me to take him to the emergency vet at 1 a.m. that night. (It was perfect timing for a visit from Brother Buttwipe!)

Tio Poopy is a beautiful boy kitty with the softest fur in the world. He has good genes, but he is also a meticulous groomer. This combined with a little summer dehydration caused him to have giant rock hard hairball poos stuck in him so that he couldn't go. Some fun quotes from the evening, "he couldn't have passed that on his own." Just what did they do in that back room?!? Was it an emergency, I wondered out loud? "I wouldn't have wanted that in there." I got to see the x-rays and everything. GIANT POOS ON FILM! $205 worth of Poo to be exact.

I've been giving him some medicine for a few days, and now finally this afternoon, he has had his first poo since they wrenched one out of him on Sunday night. Yay!

Go Tio Poopy, Go!

I haven't had time to figure out how to get my photos from my camera to my computer, since that whole interdevice communication thing broke down, but here's an oldy but goody of Tio in the dryer at my old Bothell apartment.

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Seattle's favorite circus featured on MSNBC.

If you're near New York City, you should go! (Now playing until 9/23).

Weird. The link above seems to ask for a login/password, which is silly. So ... go to msnbc.com, then scroll down to the bottom, and on the right under Special reports, click on the link that says "TAKE 3 MAGAZINE: The circus is in town, and it's the adults who are getting all excited."

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Keith Olbermann transcript and video.

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See http://www.poetrybus.com/ for the latest updates on the poetry bus tour.

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The connection between my digital camera and my computer is no longer working, so I have no new pretty photos to post. :-( On my camera, I've got some great Tio Pepe shots, Luau pig shots, and new pics of little Miss Bo spazzin. Hopefully, the happy Canon folks will have some good tips for me to solve the problemo.

Unitl then, ya'll want to vote for your favorite Bo photo? Go here, ignore the first 2 photos that show up, and then vote for your favorite Bo shots (all Bo pics are tagged with key word "Boregard"). Why? Inquiring minds want to know! And, I may have a Bo project in the works depending on how much procrastinating I need to do. You can post your vote comment on the photo on my flickr site, on this here blog, or email me if you know who I am. I don't know who I am so good luck there.

Current flickr stats:

This Bo photo is deemed the most "interesting" by flickr. Anyone know how the hell flickr calculates interestingness? It's #80 in my interestingness pile.

This Bo has the most views or "hits" of all the Bos. Currently at #5 overall for my flickr site.

No one has marked a Bo photo as a favorite on flickr. The caninity!

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