29 AugMy Dog’s on Prozak

Well, Roxie is adjusting to her new home well, except when she is left alone. She doesn’t like it at all! She is displaying some signs of anxiety, in the form of a brown, fluid mess on the carpet.

Our vet suggested putting her on “Puppy Prozak”, the diluted form of human Prozak. This should ease her nerves.

We picked up a ninety day supply and the vet said it should start kicking in within a couple of weeks. I’m hopeful this will “Do the trick”.

28 AugOne More Payment (then it’s not mine)!

Honda Odyssey
Well, it’s closing on four years ago we made the silly decision to lease my wife’s Honda Odyssey. With that, we have not yet decided if we are going to buy it outright, or shop around and find something a little newer.

My wife would like something a little bit bigger, we have car seat issues to deal with. We test drove the Chevy Astro mini conversion but it was big to drive, and didn’t gain very much interior space. We also drove the Chevy Uplander and we weren’t very pleased with it.

The next phase is to revisit the Honda Dealer and see what we can do.

I know what I’m NOT going to do, and that is lease another vehicle.

27 AugThe Mars Hoax

mars

OK, after I got an email last week and watched the Power Point Slideshow about how Mars would be visible, and as large as the moon, I fell for it.

I only found out it was a hoax when I read on Cory Holt’s Blog about it being a hoax.

27 AugI Finally Upgraded

I’ve been putting it off forever it seems, upgrading my blog from 1.5 to the newer 2.X version. I am always weary of these sort of upgrades. I surely don’t do them right away, let someone else work the bugs out. Now that it’s been done, it turns out it was rather painless and took less than ten minutes.

27 AugComment Spam Takes New Form

Just when I thought I had my comment spam under control with Akismet, the die hard comment spammers found a new way to sneak in. They do it in the form of a trackback. I noticed my first one yesterday, then this afternoon I found two more.

I have also noticed increase comment spam on the about page. I’m going to have to do some tweaking in this department.

26 AugShopping for a new theme

Today I decided this blog is too common looking. I’ve seen many with the same theme as this. I think I will start shopping for a new theme and modify that one. Keep your eyes peeled for a new look!

26 AugDon’t let love get in the way of Divorce!

Please don’t get me wrong, I don’t like to see divorces happen. However, if things look like they’re going down that path, you need to be smart about it.

I am no expert, I’m happily married. In the last several years I have had friends who’s wives have gone to the wild side, then wanted out.

The wives get lawyers, but the guys seem to not want to get legal advice because, I think, they feel it will only make divorce immenant.

The end result of waiting until the last minute is they get screwed over big time!

If divorce is a probability, please do yourself a favor – Listen to what all your friends are telling you…Get a lawyer!

24 AugPrescription Flavoring for Kids

I have three kids, so I know the deal with this stuff. You get some awful tasting medicine for your child, and they’ll spike it with a squirt of fruit flavoring of your choice for two dollors so they’ll actually drink it.

What is so special about this stuff so that it costs so much? Can’t I just add my own flavor like Kool-aid or something?

If anyone can shed some light on this, please let me know!

23 AugClamping down on Blog Links

Today I was approving links on my Blog Directory and as usual, I had almost 100 links waiting for approval. I am growing more and more frustrated with the amount of links submitted that are not blogs. I think I make it clear that only blogs, and blogging related sites will be approved, yet the amount of Indian travel sites I get are unreal.

I guess I can expect that with a free directory.

I have decided that I am going to look into buying an upgrade for the directory, and maybe I can do a mass delete or something like that.

I also decided that I am going to get a bit more selective on the sites I approve. I will no longer be approving sites that rely soley on feeds for content.

23 AugRoxie Update 8/23/06

Well, it’s been a few days since I updated on our new dog, Roxie.

She has really been becoming comfortable in our home. She has been more actively playing with our other dog, Potter and hasn’t had any nervous accidents in a couple of days.

We have schedued a visit with our vet to get Roxie a good look over and get a couple shots if needed. We will be boarding the two dogs at Animal Care Center while we go on our trip to Iowa.

Roxie is still not willing to venture upstairs to the bedrooms. I carried her upstairs the other day, lets just say I don’t want to do that again! I decided that I won’t rush her, she’ll go up when she’s ready.