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February 22nd, 2010

Pummeler

I think she’s being dramatic.

Harley’s unimpressed.

February 18th, 2010

Snow Romp

Winter walks are always entertaining:

bullmastiff in snow

bullmastiff in snow

bullmastiff in snow

February 11th, 2010

Heightened Expectations

Someone left a note on my car a few days ago:

Passive Aggressive note on car

Now I expect a note every time I go to my car!

And yes, I was blocking the curb cut., but the curb cut was not shoveled, so I could not see it when I parked.

I don’t know why anyone would care about an unshoveled curb cut, but I am just glad all the snow on the car was white.

December 24th, 2009

Harley’s frolic

These are the rest of the pictures from Harley’s pre-finals frolic in the snow.

The images below link to larger files. Facebook/RSS readers: click here if you cannot see the images properly.

December 7th, 2009

Well, crap.

I checked weather.com this morning and let’s just say the “winter storm warning” is in all caps and the word blizzard was mentioned. Maybe we are getting another Snowmageddon?

Good news is that the bullshit storm starts TOMORROW, so I have one day of non-weather-chaos.
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October 12th, 2009

1up!

If I wrote about how I really feel right now, my law school career counselor would probably let out a primal scream and assault me in the hallway.

So, no profanity editorializing – I am just going to state the facts:

  1. It is October 12th around 7am.
  2. The dog needs a-walking.
  3. And this is the scene outside of my window:

Minneapolis snow

Methinks it’s winter now.

Update (post dog walk): so, I officially scrapped tonight’s plans of outlining tax law. Tonight’s new project is teaching Harley how to use a litter box.

The weight of the snow causes mini avalanches from the trees. It feels like the trees are chucking snow down on the sidewalk out of bitterness like “WHY IS THERE SNOW ON ME? I STILL HAVE LEAVES DAMMIT!”

So, I felt like the star of my own video game! I am Super Mario with a golf umbrella and sack of dog poop. The object of the game was to hop around the neighborhood without getting dumped on by the trees. 1up my people!

It was a lot of fun. I take back all my bitching about the snow….which is only getting worse by the way:

Minneapolis snow

October 10th, 2009

First taste of winter

It is 5:30am. I have been asleep for exactly 3 hours.1

I wake up because I feel hot dragon dog breath on my cheek. I open my eyes and glare at Harley.

Harley (nudging me): “I need to go pooooooop.”
Me: “It’s snowing outside. I need sleep.”
Harley: “And I need to release! I need a walk. Now.”
Me: “Nono, you don’t understand. It is cold and SNOWING outside! Hold it! BACK TO BED!”
Harley: “Pooopy time. 5:30 a.m. is POOOPY time!”
Me: “Seriously it is SNOWING!”
Harley: “Listen. You have two options: let your balls drop, get off your ass, and take me outside, or kennel me and mop up my brown river of stink tomorrow.”
Me: “I will kill you.”

So when we get outside…

Bullmastiff in Snow

Bullmastiff in Snow

…Harley stops and looks at me like,

Harley: “Wait! It’s gross and cold…”
Me: “SEE! I told you so! God dammit! I told you so!
Harley: “I’m a dog. I can’t actually understand a word you say to me.”
Me: “Understand this: you dragged me out of bed and I’m murderous. YOU BETTA SHIT.”

He certainly understood that.

Bullmastiff in Snow

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September 23rd, 2009

Desktop Wallpapers

Here are some the wallpapers that I have in rotation at the moment. With the exception of the first wallpaper, the wallpapers consist of photos taken by me in Minneapolis and are sized at 1440×900.


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March 10th, 2009

Lumps from the sky

March 1st, 2009

Best Week Ever 6: One big, snowy hot mess.

This past week was hilarious for all the wrong reasons.

The week started with me randomly getting a car. I have never bought a car by myself before, so I didn’t know how long the financing process would take. I thought it would take a few weeks. It took about 10 minutes.

The gist:

Me: “Hi. I’m a law student who just got a job in the suburbs. Busing won’t cut it anymore, and I haven’t learned how to fly…”
Banker: “Got any cars in mind?”
Me: “Yep! I am eying a car at BigChain car dealership. It’s an Altima.”
Banker: “Do you have a number for the dealership?”
Me: “Yep. I filled out a form and Rick Salesman sent me an email, the number is 612-000-0000.”
Banker: “Please hold.”

Banker: “Okay. I’ve cleared everything with the car dealership. You’re approved for the loan. Just login to your online account and check “yes.” There is an e-check you can print out to get your car tonight.”
Me: “Wait, what? Tonight? Really?”
Banker: “Yep. Let me know if you have any problems.”

Click. I didn’t even have time to call mom before the car dealership called:

Salesman: “Hey, this is Rick Salesman from BigChain. We’ve emailed. I just talked to your bank.”
Me: “Uh…yeah…hi. Sorry about that. I didn’t think they were going to call you immediately…or even approve the loan that quickly.”
Salesman: “Yep. BigBank works quick.”
Me: “They sure do.”
Salesman: “So when are you coming to test drive?”
Me: “Well the problem is that I don’t have a car. So I have to find a ride…maybe tomorrow...”
Salesman: “Oh don’t worry about that. I’ll pick you up. You can test drive it back to the dealership. I’ll be there in 25 minutes.”

Yikes! I guess there isn’t a recession going on! Or, maybe so few people are buying that they are eager to sell to any non-sketchy person they can find. Hm. I really wanted the car, but I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly…

So I enjoyed the wonders of winter-car-ownership this week. Miami didn’t prepare me for any of this:

  • The gas tank freezing shut. I was running low on gas and I couldn’t open the tank! Images of past tow-truck adventures started flashing before my eyes. The car has inside pull-level, so I didn’t know if it was really frozen shut or if the pull-level broke.  I had to get my car steamed in a car wash before it opened.  But it DID open…
  • Getting stuck in my driveway. The neighbors found this hilarious. I pretended I was an Olympic hurdler when I lunged over the snow wall blocking my driveway…
  • My febreeze freeze. The car completely stunk of nicotine when I bought it, so I bought some febreeze. It froze in my trunk, and is currently thawing on my desk.
  • Snowmageddon: the first day I took my car to school we got 10 inches of snow. I hadn’t bought a snow shovel yet. It was tragic. My whiny vlog about it made CNN though!

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