The Spawn’s Christmas

So, I’m not much on celebrating the zombie deity’s birthday or creation day – whatever you call it; however, the Spawn does. It rather pleases me that the Spawn is happy, so I make attempts to do things for him that increase his level of happiness.

For a long time, he did not wish to learn to ride a bike. I  made a couple of attempts, and so did other members of the broken family; however, he just wasn’t that interested and didn’t really try. This resulted in him getting to the ripe old age of 11 before he decided that learning to ride a bike was a good idea. This pleased me.

The result, a video I made for his mother:

Also, awesome:

Supposedly there's a car here - I don't see it.

AT&T Has Dirty Windows

I walk by AT&T’s corporate office on a pretty regular basis, as every night I have to do a walkthrough at a satellite datacenter. At any rate, It seems like AT&T isn’t making a good decision by leaving the windows dirty. It makes the building look a bit shady, especially at night, and I can’t imagine anyone who visits during the day finds the building any more inviting.

This kind of follows my own decision making process. I’m trying very hard to not make poor decisions, but lately I feel as if no matter what my intention I’m doing the wrong thing. I really feel like I should be taking a firmer stand, but all I feel is helpless. It’s a really worrying concept for me, since I’m generally a self-assured and decisive person.

I don’t like the way things are going, and what is even more concerning to me is that I do not know what to do about it, to get things back on track. I’m a little lost, and I’m pretty sure no one is rushing to assist me in getting it sorted out. That’s sad.

On a less personal (but still quite important) note, the Spawn has pneumonia, and he isn’t getting what I would consider much better. He finished off his antibiotics, and he has an appointment with his doctor here; however, he slept all night while at work with me (he never does that), and he’s gone back to sleep since then. He’s actually in bed now, I’m mildly worried. =-/

To put a cap on the day, I think I’ve been lied to today (yay for lies before bed), and I imagine I’m going to be lied to a couple more time for the next few days. I am not going to fight those battles though, as much as I would love to do so. Instead, I’m going to (once again make a bad decision) let the lies work themselves out into honesty/truth. We’ll see where that gets me right?

I keep checking my e-mail. I need to stop that, but that means also getting off this computer, and putting my phone on silent so I am not tempted to check it for every little sound or vibration. That means going to bed. So, enough with the depressing, and on with the awesome. Good night everyone!

Li Ying Zhi (China)

I'd say something witty, but I'm distracted....what?

Powder and Ninja

For those of you not in the know, Powder is a a Border Collie/Chow mix that is 11 years old. She hates strangers, she hates people outside within view, and she will chase you and bite you if she gets loose and you don’t vacate the premises. She’s a good guard dog, but she’s eleven years old. She’s a good companion, and when she dies, she’s going to be missed. I will probably shed a couple of tears.

Enter Ninja, a German Shepherd puppy, that tests my patience a bit, but is going to be a great dog. He sits at my side and stares at people as they walk by. He doesn’t bark really, but if his father is any sort of dog to judge by, he’s going to be fearsome when he finally does open his mouth. Ninja will make a great companion along with Powder as he gets older.

Interestingly, Powder had some adjusting to do. She doesn’t like to share, and she feels that anything given to Ninja should also be hers. They are slowly getting over that now though. What I find really funny, is that she is much more playful with him than in the beginning, and even has gone so far as to want to go outside and insist that Ninja come along. She wakes him up by licking him and then heads to the door.

It’s both cute and funny I suppose, because she seemed very resistant to participating in any activity with Ninja when he first arrived. Now she offers her shoulder to him when they play so he has something to bite. The chow in her makes her extremely thick-furred, so he can’t actually get to her skin. It’s just all around interesting, and I’m a fan of the entire pack mentality. Hopefully Powder gets some get times out of their interaction together before she’s too old to play around much.

Any how, good times!

 And what everyone comes here for:
Ju Da Ha - Korea

Going to have to open your mouth a bit wider to make this happen.

The Machines are Coming!

You like awesome stuff right? I know I like awesome stuff. I classify many movies (mostly not Hollywood movies) as awesome stuff. So imagine what I thought of when I saw this neat article about creating cells from non-carbon atoms: http://bit.ly/tKRZLQ

Now, let’s hope this progresses well, and in a couple hundred years we’ll have something akin to this, I could only hope:

Optimus Prime - Cybertron

And I'm sure they won't try to enslave us or anything.

New Addition to the Pack

So, I’ve added a new member to my household pac, a German Shepherd that I’ve named Kuroi Ninja. When I first brought him home, Kuroi Ninja was just Ninja, and he was afraid of everything in the yard. Currently, he’s grown a very big dog mentality, but hasn’t quite gotten the physical growth behind him to show it off. Though he does try with Powder, who is twice his size and very tolerant of him despite her old age.

Interestingly, he’s looking at a dog two yards over, that he was terrified of on his first trip out into the yard. Now he seems to be thinking, “Herm….he doesn’t look so tough.” The dog in question is quite large, bigger than Powder, and tends to get off of his tether very often. His favorite trip is to my yard, because Powder is an unspayed female. Interestingly, Powder doesn’t spend much time outside, because she is allergic to grass.The result being, she’s never outside and she’d kill him anyway. She’s not fond of other dogs. I’m surprised Kuroi Ninja is as tolerated as he has been.

He's a German Shepherd

I see him over there, he doesn't look so tough.

Ryu Ji Hye - China

Take the hoodie off, I like to see your eyes looking up at me.