Dogs, Dirt, and Stuff

Was Happening?

Forgive me for being later than I usually am in tending to your many great submissions. I'll recount what's going on as being of possible interest, and not an alibi. Monday morning I finally took Reagan the Wonder Dog (Wheaten Terrier) to the vet. She had been throwing up, eating dirt, stomach heaving, etc., and nothing I did seemed to comfort her. It appears she has pancreatitis, which can be a nasty thing, and quite painful. Vet put her on Pepcid AC, and a Veterinary dog food. I take full blame, and knew what it prolly was when she refused her marrow bone Sunday night. That was major. Now she's on a virtually fat free diet, and today she was romping in the surf like old times. Now it's my job not to fall back in my old ways of giving her Pup-a-roni and Snausages (heavy fat). Yesterday I installed Windows Service Pack 3, not because I really wanted to, but because I guessed that all future Windows XP updates will demand it. The window says, if you can read it, size is 66.9 MB, download time, 24 minutes. Oh yeah? It took the better part of two hours, but when it was done, stuff worked. Until my computer went into sleep mode. Kicked back to life, my internet connection was lost, and NOTHING would restore it, save a reboot. Today I uninstalled SP3. That went considerably faster, and now I can go in and out of stand-by with no ill effects. Take that MS. Drew up preliminary plans, and bill of materials on Tuesday for Hucker's deck extension. Work begins Saturday, it it stops raining. Today, and yesterday, was working at the club, because MoSup is grounds chairman and is doing planting and landscaping up the ass, and I'm the helper boy. But here's the good part. I received two Woots today. One was the remote oven and grill thermometer that I picked up for $35, I think. The second was a real surprise. Not that I received it; that I love them so much. Neck earphones. They rest behind the head, on the neck, and are the most comfortable ear music things I've ever had. I got two for $1.99 plus $5 shipping. I alerted Teresa to the thermometer, because she's a big time griller and smoker, but she had already gone through a "cheapy" deal, and was now using one that cost $3000 and worked better than anything. Her husband is a pharmacist, so she gets it all. Her experience had me worried that the Voice Alert from Maverick Industries would be a cropper. But no! The thing works great. Select the meat and "taste" you want, or set a time. When the proper temperature is close to being reached, a voice on the handset says, "Your stuff is almost ready," and displays the current temperature. Now, you people know that when I do a review on something, I go all the way, like the time I pressed my trouserswith the panini machine. I do that because people might ask, in this case, "Hey Rodge, can you use it as a rectal thermometer?" Yes. Yes you can. Goes off at 99°. Who else would do that for you? The probe is damned sharp though, and Band-Aids don't , you know. UPDATE It broke after one use.