Trap

I finally made it out to the trap range today and shot some clays. It was awesome. I also learned that, despite my natural talent at skeet shooting, I suck at trap shooting. They are completely different sports. I will need some practice at it.

Memorial Day Weekend

This year was a boring one. Chris and I basically just worked this weekend. Everyone was somewhere else. I just got off a chat with my friend Sarah who was with the rest of my friends in Chicago at Pete and Molly's wedding (except for Joe and Robin who were away with Robin's Family in Detriot). I really regret that we couldn't go to that affair. Sarah made it sound like we really missed some fun. It would have been neat to meet Pete and Molly's folks as well. Such is life.

Weekend at the Beach

Chris and I took last Friday and Monday off to have a mini-vaction at the Beach this weekend. Chris' cousin has a beach house in Fenwick that he likes to share with us when it would be vacant otherwise, so we took the opportunity.

Anyway, it was Ollie's first time seeing the ocean. Dogs learn by doing, and this weekend Ollie's lesson was, "do not drink seawater". On our first day there we took him for an extended walk in the surf. He liked it enough but was freaked out everytime the water touched his feet. Once a wave began to recede though, he would chase it with his head down, taking little gulps of water along the way. Knowing how dehydrated he had become, we let him drink copious amounts of fresh water once we got back to the house. About ten minutes later, he went into a fit of vomiting. The first two spasms were all just water with a few milkbone chunks. The last two spasms were different. They were pancake-sized, mostly a consistent texture, beige in color, and they appeared to dry very quickly. Closer examination revealed these curious fluids to be beach sand. Presumably it was mixed in with the frothy sewater he had been drinking from the receding waves all day.



I can only imagine how odd it must feel to be carrying around a belly full of sand. Can you imagine how funny it was to watch a dog vomit sand?

update 5/28: click the pic above to see the rest of our beach photos.

New Weapons for Sexual Revolutionaries

Check it out, they now have a birth control pill for men and a new aphrodisiac drug that actually works on the part of your brain that makes you horny. It apprently works especially well for women.

I Lean to the Left

I just took the world's most terribly worded blogthings poll to find out that I now lean to the left in two ways.

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 40% Conservative, 60% Liberal

Social Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

I Write, therefore, I Sit on My Ass Alot.

I'm taking time off from work sporadically so I can finish writing my thesis for my Ph.D. If you have visions of me sitting around my house, happily typing away at a laptop while dressed in PJs and sipping tea, you'd be wrong. No, I get to burn my precious vacation time in my office at work. You see, all of the data I will use in my thesis is stored on the severs here at work, and so the book must be written at work for the most part.

Blech.

New Gadget

Chris went out and bought us a new snapshot camera yesterday, a Sony DSC T5. We finally got annoyed with our old digital camera's inability to take candid shots. You always want to get that quick shot of people smiling naturally, before they realize you are pointing a camera at them, but the camera itself needs to have the shutter button held down for maybe 2 whole seconds before it takes the shot. Two seconds is a really long time. When summing the shutter lag speed of one shot and five shots, it wins out as the festest digital camera available today. It takes one shot in 0.14 seconds and five consecutive shots in 4.78.

We are pretty happy with it so far.