The Office

I fear that The Office is becoming the new generation of Friends. 

- Stay tuned for a very special baby episode of The Office.  Then what?  Does the show turn in to a series of episodes about how they deal with the baby until one day next season the kid is 5 years old and we aren't supposed to notice, but it was the only way to keep the kid in the episodes without having to explain why there isn't a baby around all the time?  (On friends it was convenient because the kid was owned by a pair of lesbian parents who were not central characters of the show).

- Stay tuned for a very special wedding episode of The Office.  Then what?  Now that their married, Pam and Jim are no longer that interesting.  So now I have to hope that the Dwight/Angela deal gets interesting and doesn't continue along it's comically unrealistic way those two deal with relationships?

Dog Door

Yesterday I installed a dog door and Lou now knows how to go in and out the door.  I still don't trust her to realize when she needs to go to the bathroom though.

Dog Post

Lou
Originally uploaded by hugeguy

The dog is doing well. She has only had one accident in the house and it was my fault. She is starting to go to the door to go outside, though a lot of the time she just goes out and then wants to come back in.

RSS

This week I unsubscribed from a lot of websites that I had in my RSS reader.  I wasn't reading most of them anyway.  I decided to look at my trends page today to see what the drop off was, but apparently it doesn't count your items as posted after you deleted them, but it appears it keeps them as items read.  The only anomaly in this is from Wednesday this week when I read some recommended items.  Otherwise you can see the sharp decline in what I have been reading.

Dog

Since I moved back to the States I have wanted to get a dog.  When I was living in an apartment, I didn't feel right about getting one and not having anywhere for the dog to be other than pooping in the common area of the complex, which I think is really not cool.  So I moved into my house and still wasn't adimately looking, but did look around a bit.  I initially wanted to get a lab, but soon decided that my yard probably wasn't big enough for a lab and during a conversation with Emily about 3 weeks ago I found a breeder near me that had just had a litter of puppies.

I did some research about Springer Spaniels and found out what I needed to about them, but only after I had called the breeder to come look at the dogs.  Turns out that you can train them very easily and that they can work well as gun dogs.  I saw the dogs the day after the superbowl and decided to go ahead and purchase one.  I get the dog on Saturday. 

I will let you know how it goes.  I am hopeful right now that I will be able to house train her pretty quickly, but we will see.