Queen Prawn

First game I will get to see this year (won't be able to see all of it, but should be able to see most of it). GO SOX!!!

Happy Easter! The temperature makes me think it should be Christmas though.

Figures - first game I get to watch and it is post-poned. I can't believe how freaking cold it is. After 70s and 80s in Texas, the cold feels all that much worse. My flight out of Houston last night was delayed 2-1/2 hrs due to high winds in Chicago. When we were landing the shearing was so bad we were almost knocked off of the runway. Not a good feeling when landing and feeling the plane moving sideways rather than forward.

Great - I have 4 flights on Continental this week. Is it Friday yet?!

Is XP at risk as well or is this just a Vista virus?

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 02:57 PM) Have to go to a seminar for work so I can't even follow the game. I'll be in Texas helping with inventory so I won't know anything until I get back to my hotel room unless my coworker who is also a Sox fanatic lets me know.

87 (not based on anything, it just happened to be the first number that came tome after reading the title lol)

Happy birthday!!!! Hope you have a great day.

I know Jewel has a recycling bin for plastic bags (I have a sack of them ready to go for recycling). That is one thing I like about Aldi's stores. I bought 3 bags about 4-5 months ago that I use for every trip.

I was thinking it might have been a very slight concussion because on Saturday I couldn't stand up for too long without getting dizzy or a little nautious.

QUOTE(knightni @ Mar 26, 2007 -> 12:20 PM) Two, maybe three. Sounds about what I will be attending. One for my brother's birthday, company is taking me on 5/11 and then Brian and I were talking about going to a game or two.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 25, 2007 -> 11:13 PM) I hope you are feeling better. For the most part yeah. I have a habit of massaging my scalp while working on stuff and started to do that this morning and jumped because it hurt when I put pressure on the area (haven't looked, but just assuming I have a nice bruise there). The gouge and scrape was longer than I had thought though but it scabbed over and so far so good.

We started that last night. He seems to be warming up to it a little.

My heart is still pounding from that finish. I am not sure I can handle watching qualifying next week because of the situation for the 21 car. If the car doesn't make it in (whether Jon or Kenny is running it), they need to let Kenny go. The reason for having him was to keep the car in the top 35 while getting Jon some seat time.

Yup, he is fixed and he is somewhere around 5 (he was found as a stray and originally adopted in March 2003). I think we will have to look into the crating. Our Aunt Maureen does that with her dog and she said that she hasn't had much of any going issues. Brian just called me when he got to work and was getting really upset at the idea of having to get rid of Pooka.

lol, no kidding.

Did you know it hurts really bad when you whack the side of your head on a steel pole? It bleeds too. To make a really good time out of the ordeal, you HAVE to experience a nose bleed where the blood is shooting out of your nose. Good times I tell you.

Pooka is the first dog I have ever had so I am not familiar with dog behaviours other than what I have learned from my best friend's mom (she's had dogs her whole life). This is the third dog Brian has had. For the first month Pooka was great. He had no accidents in the house but had to be trained on being near the hamsters. After the first month we have been able to have him in our room with the hamsters and he doesn't so much as look at them any longer. Fast forward to two weeks ago. He had an accident in the upstairs hallway. We did the tell him no and then showed him so he knows what he did wrong. Well, it happened a few more times. We were told by his brother and aunt (who have also had dogs their whole lives) that after cleaning it, we should sprinkle cayene pepper where he piddled. We did that and it seemed fine. Well, last weekend we shampooed the upstairs carpet and then he did it again (we didn't get too upset since it had been t-storming most of the day and he was too afraid to go out). Well, Brian left the house for an hr yesterday and he came home to a stinky little "treat" again. He was furious and banished the dog to the basement when he left for work - yes, the dog had his blanket, food and water. My SIL came over and let him out for a little while around 6. No messes and Pookster was being a really good dog. Then there was this morning. We let him out for a half an hour and then left to go to the junk yard. We were gone for less than 2 hrs after that and came home to find another stinky treat in the hallway as well as that he peed all over the stairwell. Brian had him in the basement while we were gone. It was a test to see if he learned from yesterday. I guess Pooka didn't. We are at a loss as to what to do. He obviously has some separation anxiety, but why can we leave him for 6 hrs by himself (between the time Brain leaves for work and I return) with no issues, but if we are gone for an hr or two, issues? How can he tell how long we are going to be gone or is it just coincidence? If we cannot get him to stop it, we might have to take him to the no-kill shelter he was originally headed for when we got him.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 22, 2007 -> 08:05 PM) I have been pulled over simply because it is 2am and there are bars nearby. I have also been stopped at 'safety check' roadblocks, which are a crock. The 2am one was the worst. I have no problem with this whatsoever. But, this is coming from the point of view of someone that lives a few blocks from a very popular bar and nearly lost their husband (before he became my husband) by a drunken driver. The stupid drunk b**** pulled out of the damned lot without looking which caused Brian to have to lock the brakes and do a 180 while doing everything to avoid her. They ended up facing each other so he saw she was clearly drunk and had no business being behind the wheel. She takes off swerving down the street and he does eventually get home intact. All he was doing was getting home from work - he was working 2-2 at the time and this incident took place at about 2:30am when he was on his way home. Had he not seen her zooming in the parking lot, he would have been t-boned right in the driver side door. Cops used to patrol over there and do as you mentioned but because one of the up and ups in the suburb owns part of it, they stopped it. Keep in mind Brian was pulled over one time for a sobriety check because he was going through the parking lot there because he stopped for some groceries at the Dominicks. Didn't bother him in the least. Went through the motions and was allowed to proceed home (cop saw his work uniform as well as the groceries in the front seat while doing the questioning and it also helped having no booze on his breath or in him lol).

Congrats! She is a cutie!

Me neither. It's not worth the potential consequences to do so.

9/10 - my liver is apparently safe at an open source conference lol.

An interesting experience you had there. There's nothing wrong with a glance or a smile and a hello in my opinion. It's when it goes beyond that and they do not understand what "not interested" means.

I'll be in Brownsville, TX .

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 22, 2007 -> 11:49 AM) She beat it once, so let's hope she can beat it again. I noticed they said it was no longer "curable"... so the best they can hope for is remission? Prayers go out to her and her family during this. Prayers are defintely out. I wondered what they meant by the comment about it no longer being curable.