Whoa, that was a pretty busy weekend.  Busy for us anyway.  It went by entirely too fast.  My latest theory is that we always need to go out Friday night, because it makes the weekend seem longer.  For instance, this past Friday we watched a half a movie and went to bed at 9:00… And sure enough this led to a remarkably short weekend.  I’ll start testing this new theory this coming weekend.

Anyway… If there was one good thing about our boring Friday, it was that we caught up on some sleep.  Everybody put in a hard 11 hours of sleep, even the pup.  After we finally got up, Gabe and I went down to Jerry’s pet store in Westport, where the rescue group was having an “adoption event.”  We had just a jolly good time, and the boy was relatively well behaved.  He was wound a little too tight though, so I took him back home for a nap while Doni and I went to lunch at Jazz.  Saturday night was almost as uneventful as Friday; I went over to Todd’s and started reloading his PC.  Poor guy hasn’t been on the Internet for months.  We’re doing away with his Windows 2000 and putting XP on.  Sort of a slow process but it’s getting there.

Sunday we woke up at 5:00 and went on our very first organized run, the Trolley Run.  We had a good time, and somehow managed to even make it the whole 4 miles.  We didn’t run the entire way, but I’d say we ran 3 of the 4 miles.  Not bad for us, especially considering we didn’t really prepare for it very much.  After the run, we went over to Kim and Ed’s for a little post-party, which lasted a lot longer than I thought it would.  I think we hung around until noon or so.  After that we took a nap, then decided it was so nice out we needed to go hang out on the deck at the Brooksider.  Took the pup with us and sat down there for a few hours, then it was back to Todd’s place to work on the PC.  Had a little Chinese food and called it a weekend.  This morning I’m so sore I can barely walk.  Exercise is over-rated.

No, we haven’t forgotten about our poor abused cat.  I just thought that was such a darn fine picture I decided to put it on the main page.  Our “family pics” should be coming in soon; hopefully some (one maybe?) came out OK.

Holy smokes, we’ve been busy.  This new “kid” is taking up all our time, or at least all of mine.  It’s alllll about the puppy.

Well, if I could summarize the entire last week, it would be the continual effort to kennel the puppy.  He defeated me every attempt at reinforcing the kennel, up until Thursday when I clipped some heavy d-rings on the door.  That little guy can weasel through some small spaces, I’ll tell you that.  I put up a webcam so I can keep an eye on him, at GABE CAM.  Looks like it got knocked askew today, I’ll fix it when I get home.  Hopefully it wasn’t knocked over by a rampaging dog…

Well let’s see… Friday night I don’t think we did anything.  Rested up for Saturday I guess.  I started off Saturday morning by taking Gabe up to the Vet.  He keeps having “accidents” in his kennel so I wanted to make sure he didn’t have an infection.  Naturally they felt it best to give him an x-ray and prescribe some antibiotics.  Heaven forbid the Kenagy’s EVER go to the Vet and they say “everything looks OK, that’ll be 7 bucks for the office visit.”  Nah, they always get us somewhere well into the 3 figures.  Sheesh.  After that, we had a trainer come over to the house.  It just so happens that the couple who fostered him for the last several months also do dog training.  Bonus!!  I think she has detected the fast-rising panic in my tone over the duration of the week and was nice enough to come give me some pointers.  I don’t know if the dog learned anything, but I learned all kinds of stuff.  He already knows quite a few things anyway, I just need to figure out how to make him do them.  After two hours of schooling, we took both Gabe and Kane up to the pet store, where they had a photographer doing “family portraits.”  That was as big of a debacle as it sounds like it would be… I won’t even go into details.  After the horror that was family picture time, we headed up to the Northlands, where one of my co-workers was getting married.  The reception was in Parkville, and we quite the fine time.  Even stayed out pretty late, probably due to the stress of the rest of the day.

Sunday, for some reason, I got kind of a late start.  After goofing around all morning I went out to Mom’s and did a few “chores.”  Work on the PC a bit, spread a little mulch around, that kinda stuff.  Gabe came with me too, and seemed to like the big yard.  I think he’s used to a little more space then we have at our house.  After that, I went back home to start getting ready for dinner; Doni or Susan or somebody had invited people over to dinner, loosely in celebration of Todd’s 40th birthday.  We had fajitas and fixin’s… good times.  The dog behaved admirably; didn’t eat anybody or their food.

More smoker status!!  It’s DONE!!  Ready for the first fire I believe.  I haven’t seen it in person, but K.B. sent me some pictures last night:

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We got back from San Diego in mostly one piece.  We hit quite a few spots; Sea World on Wednesday, the Zoo on Thursday, and Doni and I took a Harbor tour on Friday.  I would recommend NOT attending Sea World and/or the Zoo with anyone under the age of 35.  Both were very cool, but my decrepit old bones are too broken down to put up with all that walking.  At a minimum, I dissolved all the cartilage in my knees.  I should have rented a scooter or something.  We got a generous dose of evening entertainment mixed in too… I’m pretty satisfied that I have now “seen San Diego.”  I’m also satisfied that I have traveled enough for a while; I think I’m gonna lay off the vacation for a few months.

In other shocking news, we are once again “dog people.”  We still have Kane of course, but now we have a real pet to go along with him.  (Heh heh.  I’ll get hit for that one.)  More details to follow as they develop; We just got him yesterday and are still getting acquainted.  So far we are getting along like peas and carrots.  The only “incident” of note is that my first attempt at kennelling him failed miserably.  It was recommended that he stay in a crate any time we’re not home, so we went and bought a nice wire crate, and sure enough he went right in it with no complaints.  Alas, when we got back home he was loose in the basement, tail wagging happily as he polished off the last of Kane’s $$$ prescription cat food.  Oh well, no harm.  I “think” I found an assembly flaw in the crate, so we’ll see how he’s doing when I go check on him this afternoon.  I’m working on a web-cam so I can keep an eye on him from work.  A name is still in the works; He goes by a few different names, both of which are under consideration, or we might just pick something new.  Here’s a couple of pics:

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Short and sweet kiddies… I’m leaving for San Diego tomorrow so I got a bunch of stuff to get done before then.  Pack, figure out how I’m getting there, etc.  Doni is already out there with Kim, Ed and I fly out some time tomorrow.

Not a whole lot to tell about the weekend anyway.  Friday night I met Todd at the Brooksider after work, and hung around there until 7:00 or so.  Saturday was the official (for me) opening of the Brooksider deck so of course I ended up sitting out there all afternoon.  (After working a few hours… BOOO!!!!)  Then I watched the basketball games and went home.  Sunday?  Well, you know… more sitting out on the deck at the ‘Sider.  I do like Spring, and I do like sitting on that deck.  I went over and helped a friend set up his new DSL access Sunday night, and so ended the weekend.  Yeah, I know, that’s weak.  But, like I said, I gotta get ready for San Diego.

I did get some new progress pics on the Smoker De’ Brown, I need to get those up.  ETA is two weeks!!!