Oct 20th, 09
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So I brought the stray that has been living in my garage to the vet yesterday shelling out enough money for me to say that this dog is mine and mine alone. Molly, as she was named on the way to the vet yesterday, is a nine to ten month old Black Mouth Cur. For those of you not in the know, BMCs are very intelligent and fiercely loyal all around good dogs, that is actually a hybrid breed that the vet says, “suffers from hybrid vigor.” In other words, she is loving, sweet, kind, protective, brave, and not scared of shit (as further evidenced from the many scars she has from being a former hog dog).
Molly was breed by a hunting dog breeder down the road and was sold as a pup to a man about 5 miles away some 6 months ago. She wandered back into our neck of the woods about 4 weeks ago flea ridden and on the brink of starvation. I took to feeding her after the kids started playing with her and Maggie, our 10 month old beagle, took a liking to her. Since then she has put on about 3 or four inches around the neck and you can’t see her hip bones anymore. She weighed in yesterday at 56.2 lbs. and has a lot of room to grow.
The wife, kids, and I all agree that she is a wonderful dog and just couldn’t stand to see her suffer any longer. So without further ado here is Molly.
Oct 15th, 09
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So it has been awhile since the last post and some interesting developments have occurred. I am now officially back running a dedicated Linux server 24/7 and I absolutely love it! I installed the Ubuntu Minimum release (about 9MB ISO file) and have slowly been adding the packages that I want. Of course it is running headless and my main interface is through a Putty SSH connection from my Vista work machine. My .screenrc file is working good and I am testing out the dvtm window manager used in conjunction with screen to split the screen up into several different dedicated boxes.
I have also been adopted by a sweet, and somewhat giant, stray dog that we have started calling “Marmaduke” or just Duke for short. She has been neglected for a while and was very thin and flea infested when she started showing up, so after a bath a flea pill and some food, she now guards the property outside. The kids also love her and she is content to simply sleep in the garage and do virtually nothing. Definitely my kind of dog. So on Monday Duke and I will be off to the vet for a checkup and a rabies vaccine. Then I imagine she will have a much needed thorough scrubbing and cleaning. Oh, and Maggie, the little beagle, is actually a better dog with her around. Duke will bark and Maggie will come flying out of no where and will actually stay near the house instead of running away for hours on end. All in all a wonderful dog.
I finished Joe Abercrombie’s altogether awesome First Law Trilogy and have started on the stand alone book from the same universe, Best Served Cold. So far I have not been disappointed. I hope to have it finished as well within the next week or so. And why so long you ask? Well, keep reading.
Along with everything else, Steven decided he wants to be a Jawa for Halloween, so Courtney has sewn up the cloak and been working on the gloves while I have to solder up some orange LEDs to mount into a mask for the eyes, and figure out how to make that little gun from the first movie. I think I have it figured out at least.
So that is pretty much it! Oh, and I am writing this with a CLI python based blog editor for Linux called charm. So if it comes out a little bit wonky, that’s why.
