Taking your dog to the vet is NOT supposed to cost $300.00. If I knew that that Sid (our shepherd) was going to need X-rays, an EKG and a battery of blood tests, 
I might have stayed in bed today.
To make matters worse, we still don’t even know what’s wrong with her. All the vet could tell us was there MIGHT be a mass in her abdomin. We’re supposed to get the results of the blood tests tomorrow. We’re a bit freaked out - it doesn’t sound good.
The vet didn’t really help our concerns. After the x-rays, she stuck the image of Sid’s abdomin on the light board and explained that she couldn’t see much detail due to a build up of fluid in the area, but she was concerned that there may be a mass there. She proceeded to grab the x-rays of another ‘patient’ and slapped them up on the lightboard by Sid’s. These were her words.
“Here are the x-rays of another dog that we just euthanized, notice the mass in the abdomin.”
WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!?
We’re obviously worried - we didn’t really want to hear how she just did a Dr. Kevorkian on someone else’s dog with a similar condition.
Niiiiice. I thought Lori was going to start crying on the spot.
Anyway, we’re hoping for the best…but really worried about the worst. She’s acting fine, and I am still hoping they call and tell us to pick up a prescription of magic dog pills that will make her all better.
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As I was walking out the door for work today, Charlie called to me, “Wait Dad, I need to tell you something.”
I turned around and he ran out of his bedroom, gave me a big hug and said “See you later crocodile!”
I told him “Afterwhile alligator” and gave him a big hug and kiss.
A pretty good start to the day.
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I walked into the office today, and one of the warehouse workers looked at me and said “Hey, where’s your coat!.”
That’s when it hit me. I’ve lived in Northern Indiana too long. It was 20 degrees out, and I didn’t even realize I wasn’t wearing a coat. It’s finally happened, my body has adapted to the midwest climate.
I knew I should have moved when I had the chance!
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I was just looking at the webstats for monkeyjack.com and discovered that 2 recent visitors found my site by searching for “Shithead” and “Monkey Piss.”
I’m not sure if I should be sad or proud.
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Even though my first foray into the blogosphere was waaaay back in 2001, I really didn’t get active with my blog until sometime last year. One of the biggest reasons I started the blog was to create a historical record of things that were happening in my life, especially milestones with my boy Charlie, but now that I have become more active with it I’ve discovered blogging to be very cathartic.
Lately Scott and I have been discussing all of the benefits blogging has to offer on both a personal and professional level, so, it’s been pretty top of mind. I was actually thinking about writing some of these things in my blog, but just haven’t had time to focus my thoughts on it. Well, it looks like someone beat me to it.
Yesterday, I was surfing through some of my favorite blogs and came upon a link to Steve Pavlins’s personal development Blog. He has a post titled “Blogging for Personal Growth.” It really sums up most of what we’ve been discussing, and adds few other points too. Well written and worth the read. (especially if you haven’t jumped into the world of blogs yet.)
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We tuned in for the SuperBowl this Sunday along with a reported 141 million other Americans. Like many, we were there for the commercials. Just past halftime, Budweiser aired a really cute commercial featuring the famous Budweiser Clydesdales (See the commercial here). Once it was over, I turned to my wife to comment, and saw her eyes were watery and about to overflow.
I sort of grinned and chuckled thinking to myself, “I’m going to have to Blog this.” I could see the title in my mind, Beer makes my wife cry.
She looked at me as if reading my mind “Don’t you dare put this in your Blog.”
I laughed and I told her I wouldn’t dream of it. 
“I’m sure that’s exactly the response Budweiser was trying to get from it’s Beer guzzling customers.” I told her.
Without missing a beat, she informed me, “Well, next time you have me buy beer, you’re getting a case of Budweiser!”
Great, because of a couple of oversized ponies, I’m gonna get stuck with one of my least favorite beers.
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If you happen to like to comment on other blogs (which I do), but hate that there is no easy way to keep track of replies to your comments (which I hate), then there is a new tool in development that you’ll love. It’s called cocomment, it’s in beta right now, but I was lucky enough to get an invite.
Go register for an invite and check them out… Go… Now.
UPDATE:
If you get an invite to cocomment, make sure to go out and install the greasemonkey script too. This makes the process even better. Check it out at SolutionWatch.com.
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Seth Godin (evidently staying at the Intercontinental hotel in Toronto) decided to start a little contest tonight called “Find the Ethernet Jack.” If you don’t know who Seth Godin is, I suggest going and checking him out yourself because I don’t feel like typing a bio tonight.
Anyway, like I was saying, Seth started this little contest complete with a nice little photo from the hotel room. He never says the connection is actually in the room, so I’m going to go with my experience from the last few “nice” hotels I stayed in.
Drum roll please.
The Ethernet Jack is…”In the business center.”
The last Toronto hotel I stayed in was on Front Street. They told me they had high speed internet and I assumed it was available in each room. Nope. Business Center only, and the hours were from 8am to like 5 or 6pm.
In Vegas, they had dial-up only in the room. I figured all the hotels on the strip would be wired for speed. I really didn’t miss it so much in Vegas, we didn’t spend much time in the room.
New Orleans had high speed internet to the room, and all was good. Of course who knows what condition that hotel is in now.
There are two reasons I’m guessing “the business center.” The first reason is my bad experience getting high speed internet in hotel rooms, and the second is because everybody already took all the obvious answers.
Cheers.
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I had to buy cough syrup for Charlie tonight.
I told the pharmacist I needed something to help suppress a cough for a 4-year old to help him sleep through the night.
She gave me a cough suppressant that was supposed to last for 12 hours — only 10 bucks.
“Do you have anything that isn’t $10?” I asked.
“Sure, you can buy this bottle of Robitussin for $4, but it only last for 4-6 hours.” she said, then just stared at me.
Her eyes were boring holes through me. I could almost read her mind. “Which one will he choose?” “I wonder if he’s a cheap-skate?” “How much does he love his kid?”
Which one would you choose!? $10 for a freakin’ itty bitty bottle of cough syrup!!
…I bought the $10 bottle - what do you expect?
I was really ticked off when I got home and found out it didn’t even come with a dosing cup. Luckily we have like 10 dosing cups in the drawer at home. You know, we got them from all of the $4 bottles of Robitussin we bought.
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