Category: Adventures in Rufus and/or Otis

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What It Is: 5/12/09

What I’m reading: I read Chuck Klosterman’s Killing Yourself To Live during the weekend, and enjoyed that a bunch (not quite 85%, but still). I also read some of the comics that I bought during TCAF: Seaguy, Tales from the Farm and Swallow Me Whole. There are a whole ton more in the queue.

What I’m listening to: The Shepherd’s Dog, by Iron & Wine.

What I’m watching: The eh conclusion of Dollhouse, which had a couple of neat twists and turns but was never going to be able to match the impossibly well-crafted heel twist in the previous episode.

What I’m drinking: The lesser gins that they have at Lai Wah Heen, where Amy & I managed to eat 3 times in 3 days (Friday dinner, Saturday dim sum lunch, Sunday dinner after our evening plans fell through). We also had a nice wine (and fantastic meal) at Lee on Saturday night.

What Rufus is up to: Not getting into any trouble during his weekend with fellow grey, Tut! And spending lots of time at girls’ sporting events, since the family that was taking care of him has 3 daughters between 10 and 17.

Where I’m going: Atlanta next Monday for the BIO conference. My 3 nights will consist of a visit with friends in Decatur, a dinner at the awesome restaurant Bacchanalia with a client (and pal), and then the Rockies-Braves game, with more client-pals. The day before the trip, we’ll head down to Bridgewater (weather permitting) for the semi-annual greyhound picnic! In other words, don’t expect a ton of posts next week, either.

What I’m happy about: Having a nice getaway weekend with my wife. It was good to be in a city that we’d already visited and photographed; it made this visit much more about just relaxing and having some nice meals, instead of feeling like we had to get out and see the sights. Oh, and we were happy to see my cousin Andrew & his family!

What I’m sad about: That I had to tell numerous cartoonists that I either don’t know who they are or don’t know what they’ve published in the last few years. Still, most everyone seemed happy that I was willing to take their pictures for digital posterity!

What I’m worried about: Nothing I can think of, so yay!

What I’m pondering: Our next mini-vacation. We’re thinking of making the drive up to Montreal for a long weekend sometime this summer.

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KTFO day

I’ve got a ton to do before leaving on a mini-vacation tomorrow, but I’m all zonky and sleep-deprived. In other words, I feel like this:

Blech.

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Dam, straight.

I took a half-day, ran some errands, and then got home with plenty of time to work on my post about John Lanchester & the metaphors of risk and finance. Or I could’ve written up the rest of my notes about last week’s Las Vegas trip, and posted the pix from that. Or I could’ve sprawled out on the sofa, read some Plutarch, and let the afternoon drift by.

Instead, I drove Rufus out to the pet store and then took him on a walk across the Monksville Dam. Enjoy the pix:

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Sprung

Looks like someone forgot to post today! I’d better rectify that with a photoset (with oddball commentary) of this evening’s walk! Why don’t you click through the picture and go to the set?

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Kosher Dogs

While I’m celebrating the fact that my super-tonic doesn’t include high fructose corn syrup, and thus is All Good for Passover, official pal-of-a-VM-pal Andy Newman just published an article in the NYTimes on Passover-kosher food . . . for pets.

We’re not too concerned in our household. Despite appearances —

— Ru is keeping his religious options open.

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Rufus and the Power-Up

If I described the leaps & twirls Rufus makes when I get ready to feed him, you’d think I was exaggerating. Once I give him one nibble from his food, he leaps in circles as though he’s got his paws on a power-up icon from a Marios Bros. game.

See? I don’t do him justice.

It’s like this every single time I feed him, twice a day.

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What It Is: 3/16/09

What I’m reading: I finished reading Montaigne’s Essays last week, and also finished Liar’s Poker. I read The Lemur, by Benjamin Black, on Sunday, and will soon get back to Cultural Amnesia.

What I’m listening to: A whole ton of The Who, and some Lloyd Cole.

What I’m watching: Iron Man (boo!), In Bruges (wow!), and Synecdoche, New York (I think I’m getting it a little more).

What I’m drinking: Bluecoat gin & Q Tonic

What Rufus is up to: Getting freaked out by the noise of the trains in Ramsey. He may have been bummed that we didn’t take him to the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Morristown with all the other greyhounds, but I think the noises there would’ve freaked him out worse than the Ramsey train.

Where I’m going: NYC for Interphex! (with a side trip to the Waldorf to meet some people at DCAT)

What I’m happy about: What part of “I finished reading Montaigne’s Essays last week” didn’t you understand?

What I’m sad about: Being away from Rufus for a few days, but he’s staying with our greyhound-owning friends who took care of him for us last December, so he’ll be fine.

What I’m pondering: What sorta world we’d be living in if In Bruges made $582 million in worldwide ticket sales and Iron Man made only $33 million, instead of the other way around.