Playing hooky

I know, you were all concerned about Sarah and my whereabouts yesterday. Well, we were playing golf in the LSO golf tournament. Boy did we suck. Our group had two foursomes this year, and pretty much just about as much fun as last year. The other foursome even got lucky with handicapping and won the highest net. We came in dead last. But it was fun, and that's all that matters. I lost 9 balls, and, 6 of my drives were used (it was a scramble). This year, I really vow to go to the driving range at least a little more often. And then, maybe next year, we'll have an all women's foursome, with Jen as our ringer, and really take advantage of the ladies tee!

See here for some pictures from the event.

Afterwards we went to see Matrix. It started out kind of slow, but it still rocked. I find it hard to imagine how they spent $60 million on the car chase scene. You know, the reason I like Matrix is that its really pure sci-fi. There are a lot of popular, big budget films that have sci-fi settings, but isn't anything like reading a good science fiction book or comic. Whereas the Matrix has all the big budget master effects and cast and everything, but it still maintains a real science fiction script. I loved that. I think I may actually have to watch it again to understand everything that was going on!

My House Is a Zoo

Its official.

I'll tell you a little story about some foundlings and my bizarre breeding experiments.

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This is Dixie. Dixie was abandonned. Then Dixie had 12 puppies and was found a day after. 4 of the puppies died from exposure.

Now, Dixie, and her 8 PUPPIES live in my dining room.

I don't know if we're half crazy to volunteer to do this. Cari and I (and theoretically Kennda) will be puppy raising for at least the next month. The puppies are under 10 days old (we know this because their eyes aren't even open yet.) But they can't stay in the shelter (they euthenize puppies that haven't been weaned yet because they can't take care of them). And, so, our house it is.

So, if you're in the market for a puppy, PLEASE, let me know.

Total animal count in my house: 2 adolescent dogs (Benett and Apache), 1 cat (Tang), a mommy dog (Dixie) and her 8 puppies + Cari + Kennda + Becca = 15 mammals.

Good thing I didn't break down and get the cockatiels I wanted...

My house is not going to blow up

Apparently I did actually have a gas leak in the pipe behind my stove. The guy from the gas company actually remembered me complaining about a gas smell from my stove when I moved in, and he felt really bad that he didn't find it before. Anyway, they patched it up, no charge. What a nice service that the gas company does, keeping my house from blowing up and all.