Don't you wish your puppy was a poodle

Oh the fun you can have.



Sandy Paws Creative Grooming

From the files

Rick Astley is more popular now than he ever was singing.

Just Don't Think About It - Your Puppy Needs The Love
A Great Idea for your next cupcakes


Just made me laugh when I saw it.

Though - cute when the kid does it, but if I was to hold a sign like that I would be considered a creepy pervert.

Two Down, One To Go

The Confusion
by Neal Stephenson
Book II of The Baroque Cycle

Massive in size and massive in detail. As I have mentioned I finally committed to reading this 2700+ page three book series after avoiding it for years. Lisa asks me why I would read something I would avoid. On the surface I realize that it doesn't make sense, but Stephenson's books are so detailed and rich there is no such thing as skimming them; and they are not an easy read. It is work, but also very rewarding. The cost of that commitment is the realization of all the things I can't be reading, like the quick and easy stories, like the new John Grisham, which take me a day or two to get through. Grisham equals a one hour TV drama, Stephenson is a mutli-day mini series.
Anyways I finished book two today having reached the turning point on Monday. The turning point is in a really long book where I have read enough pages I want to charge to the finish. Prior to that I am usually just trying to read to a page goal for the day. I have been picking up books every time I have gone to the library while reading this, and now I literally have 16 books on my nightstand to read before starting book 3.

It Is All True – Keep looking!!

When I saw this headline:

Fired prosecutor denies leaking Doll House info

It totally made me think of the new Josh Whedon show on
Fox. I have been watching it on Hulu and while it is okay, I haven’t drunk the Kool-Aid yet.

I wonder if FOX paid the Salt Lake Tribune to write the headline that way, or at least the writer is a fan of the show.

Magnificent Indeed

No Line On The Horizon
U2

At one time in my life I had a problem with music CD’s, specifically I bought them to excess. But being mature enough to recognize this, I stopped buying them with one exception – anything that came out from U2. When that happens, I always buy it on release day, as early as possible. Five years ago when they released their last album – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – I showed up at the store so early I helped the clerk unpack her shipment boxes to get to it. This time around our community has a 24 hour Super Wal-Mart so I figured I would stop by before work at 6:30am and pick it up. Even though they were open, and the record had been technically released over 6 hours early, there were no employees in the department and it wasn’t out on display yet. So I went to work disappointed. About 9am I took a break from work and drove over to Target and got it for 10 dollars.
So how is the music – Simply Awesome!! While no one song jumps out as “this is a hit”, say like Elevation, Beautiful Day, Pride, Where the Streets Have No Name, etc., the entire album is listenable. More than that, the songs seem to grow on you with each successive run through, with music being very subtle and pervasive. This is what I love about U2 albums – you can listen to the whole thing. It’s not just a couple of catchy tunes and a whole bunch of filler crap that most bands seem to put out. Every song has merit; every song has its hook. After 30 years of making music, they still know how it’s done and this record is solid throughout.
The song that has initially hooked me is track 3 Moment of Surrender. The others that are scoring well for me are Magnificent, Unknown Caller, I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight, Stand Up Comedy, White As Snow, and Breathe. The most experimental song of the lot is FEZ-Being Born, and even that once it gets going is pretty good. I like track 1 No Line on the Horizon and the first single Get on Your Boots (which ironically seems out of place on the album). More of a poem set to a simple rhythm is the closing song Cedars of Lebanon, it is a great finisher. I am really looking forward to how they play these songs live, because for the most
part I am betting they will highlight unique aspects of the songs rather than a straightforward playing, especially if they are going to be doing bigger venues (this album would play well in a smoky 50 seat club).
But the biggest news is the fact a second album of the more experimental stuff is supposed to be released later this year, including some alleged tracks with a reggae flavor.

Dead People

The Keepsake
by Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen was a medical doctor who wrote suspenseful romances on the side, and then eventually moved on to Medical Thrillers starring Boston medical examiner Maura Isles. From there she broaden out to Detective Jane Rizzoli and straight forward police murder investigations, though both characters interact within her fictional Boston.
The Keepsake begins with a young woman with a mysterious past being stalked and having strangely preserved bodies turning up. Bodies like a mummy and a shrunken head. Through investigation the woman's past starts to come to light, and the conspiracy surrounding it. Well worth the read and it can be read independently even though it is in a long series of books. The over arching plot of the series is less than 5% of the story, so it still makes sense out of order.
I have read all Gerritsen's books* and can highly recommend them all.

*I haven't read the early romances, but I might one day because I really like her writing.

Enjoy

Oh Yeah - I will listen

This is how Lisa did it - deceiving underwear
Older Missionary Program -FAIL!!!

I think I will have bubble gum

I love this