Kevin's musings

It’s been a quiet week here for the most part. Work wise there have been a bunch of
updates and other items to get done before the end of the year, so thats been keeping
me pretty busy during the days.

I have been waffling about what to do for new years for a while, but finally decided
to just stay around town. It would have been nice to go down to Las Cruces and spend
it with friends, but the 22 hours of driving and all the costs didn’t sound worth it.
After my car being in the shop (which luckily was mostly paid for by insurance) and
twyla going into expensive surgery, spending more on a trip doesn’t sound like a good idea
right now.

Thanks to J I finally got around to watching firefly. Wow. It’s super good. Like countless
others, I have to wonder why on earth they canceled it so quickly. It’s become my favorate
post Civil War Western. I hope the movie is good.

Merry Christmas all. It’s been a pretty good one here. Got up pretty early and started
baking. Made a cake, some apple crisp and made some mashed potatoes. Then this afternoon
it was off to B and W’s house for xmas dinner. Everything was very nice there. The dogs had
a wonderfull time running around the large back yard there. The food was all excellent.
Hope everyone is having a good time wherever they are.

Finally got down the walnut in boulder for their lovely december/january barlywine.
It was delightfull as always. I think the year before last where they let us sample the previous
years barleywine was the best, but this year wasn’t bad at all.

Winter is here now in a big way. Cold temps and snow (althought not too much snow yet).
Here’s some pictures from the walk in the cold with the pups today.

and then a well deserved rest:

You would hardly know it was December outside today. It’s sunny and warm and very nice.
Took the dogs for a walk and they had a nice time. Lots of squirrels out today, although at least
the suicide bunny that we sometimes see wasn’t around. Just as well, as holding back the
hounds from eating the bunny while it just sits there isn’t all that much fun.

Well, it was a pretty busy week last week. Fair nice stream of things at work (always
seems to get busy in the early part of december at least). Bottled Beer tuesday night,
GURPS game wednsday night, Hacking Society
on thursday night, and not much friday. No particular plans this weekend either except
to relax and get some house cleaning and laundry and such done.

Twyla is starting to get back to full healthy. The first few days after the surgery
she had “leaking” issues. Mostly those are gone, but I have to muzzle her to keep
her from licking and pulling out her stiches. She gets the stiches out next thursday,
so hopefully she will be 100% by then.

Well, dropped Twyla off at the vet around 8:45am this morning for
surgery. She came through it reasonably well. Picked her back
up around 4:15pm and she was still very grogy, but able to
walk and jump up into the truck. Got home and she went out for
a bathroom break and then back in and promptly went to
sleep. Slept like a rock until a bit ago and wanted to go out
again. Hopefully she will be happier tomorrow after a good
nights sleep.

Well, the holiday party went pretty well last night. There was a
pretty good turnout (at least for one of my parties) ( I think
there were about 12 people there). Nice varied crowd, talking
politics, art, photography, geekspeaking and having a nice
time. The only downside is that there are a bunch of leftover
sweets, which since they are here I will probibly end up
eating myself. Oh well, tis the season to gain weight.

Finally got my urban back. Pretty happy to have my own truck that can carry
more than one dog, has my music in it, and drives like I like.

The GURPS game is going pretty well. We had our first combat, and the party
survived (barely). The plot hasn’t really started to unfold yet, but it will start
playing out next session I think. We will see how fast the players can figure
things out.

Tomorrow I get to go help out with more pet pictures with satan^H^H^H^H^Hsanta
in greely. It’s for a good cause (the greyhound group gets 1/2 of each picture sale),
witch is pretty darn good. Then tomorrow night is a nice holiday party. Hopefully
there will be a nice turnout. Anyone reading this is welcome to attend. Email for
directions.

Thanks to jafo. I think I
have RSS feeds working with his journal. Time will tell.

Skipped the usual petsmart meet-n-greet Saturday since I could only fit one
dog in the rental car. Feel kind of bad about missing it, but it would have
been a pretty gigantic hassle, and 2 dogs would have been pretty annoyed.

Took the FINE rental down to Colorado Springs Saturday afternoon for
Kathy’s
Open house. Got to see a nice casting demo and look over all the nice
goodies, as well as visit with Kathy for a bit.

Saturday night
elusis
was DJ’ing down in Denver, and I wanted to go. However, by the time later
evening rolled around, I was not feeling very social or like dealing with driving
the rental down in Denver and parking it, so I bailed.

Sunday I went up to Fort Collins and the petsmart there and helped out
with taking pictures with Santa as a fundraiser for
CGC. It was a bit on the slow side, but
we still did about 10-15 pictures, so thats 50-75$ for the group.

Unfortunately, Monday I found out that Twyla has a abscessed anal glad.
Pretty nasty and painful looking. So, next week she gets to go in and
get her anal glads removed. Poor pup. Have to keep her from licking it
and get antibiotics into it in the mean time.