Kevin's musings

On April 21st, I went up to Nunn, Colorado and helped out at Almost Home for Hounds.
Almost Home for Hounds is a facility that takes in racing greyhounds and cares for them until they can be transported out to homes
in states that do not have Greyhound racing. It was a fun time. They put me to work sweeping and mopping, but I also managed to help with turnouts and petting pups.

Here’s the girls being turned out in the near yard, and some longer term residents in the next area over. The Girls are let out first, then the boys.
There weren’t too many hounds out there the weekend I went. Probibly about 15 each boys and girls, about 10 longer term residents and about 25 or so in the isolation area.

Here’s the girls heading back in.

I didn’t get any pics of the boys or the 2 puppies they had there. ;( The boys were a bit on the rambunctious side.

Also out there was Aria the puppy. She had a growth plate problem and needed to have surgery on her leg.
She’s the sister of another puppy I know, Maisey… She was very friendly and getting around pretty well despite her cast.

It was a fun time, I should try and get back up there sometime again soon…

On April 13th, I went up to CU for a Linux installfest for cs/engr types.

It was a fun time. They had a bunch of pretty modern lab machines people could install on and play around with. All of those would boot off the net and otherwise were pretty well supported hardware. A few folks brought laptops and desktops of their own to install. Almost all of those installed just fine too. There was one old dell laptop that just didn’t want to install via the net, so that guy ended up just taking a set of install cd’s home.

Hopefully the folks there learned some good Linux info. The distro of choice was Fedora, which I know quite well, so it was pretty easy to help out.

I have been even more of a slacker than usual updating here… will try and catch up over the next week now.

On April 11th, Nash graduated from the Petsmart Basic Obediance class. He did the final test with almost no problems. He usually starts out being very focused and follows all the commands,
then gets bored after a while and stops doing them. Luckily the test was pretty short, so he did great.

A bit of pre-test playing with his friend.

Time for the test already?

The graduate.