Take me to the river, drop me in the water.

As an ex-whitewater river guide, River has taught me many things, possibly even more once I stopped guiding. So this is one of my main metaphors for this project. And I have some things lines up, like meds (!), time, and almost a bit of clarity. Drop me in the river dammit, because I know [...]

Time to Sell My Klipsch RF-3 Speakers?

Uggh.
It may be time to part with my babies. The house we moved into this past November had a surround sound stereo set-up already in place. Some of it was built it, and rather than take it apart to sell it, it might be time to sell the Klipsch’s.
They are RF-3s in pretty damn good [...]

Sweet baby jeebus, Samson’s ears are lookin’ good!

Whether it’s the weather, the new pills, the new drops, a bit more time outside in the dry cold, less cleaning in the nooks and crannies with Q-tips, more love and patience as my mind/body system comes down from constant overload, or some cosmic intervention, SAMSON’S EARS ARE GETTING BETTER! His ears are getting back [...]

Update on Samson’s ears: The quest continues…

Nasty, smelly when he shakes his head, tender to the touch when he itches them or I am cleaning them…
Uggh.
Trying new things and getting nowhere really. He’s obviously got a pretty chronic case. Maybe, if I have time, I’ll post exactly what drops and other things we’re trying to do. It’s costing a lot of [...]

Cell Phone Mystery – Will It Be Solved This Year?

Yes.
I also pulled the trigger on cell phones. The reality is that we cannot afford to jump in the iPhone game right now. And with all the gripping about service and performance, I think it would be smart to wait until the next iteration.
Actually, I just realized the “new” iPods might be introduced tomorrow, so [...]

I’m pulling the trigger…

It’s time. The mighty Samson seems to be doing a bit better in terms of the overall allergy picture, but his ears are still a mess. I can’t keep up.
He’s responded positively to Temaril-P in the past, and I just ordered some. Time to nip this smelly, gross ear funk in the butt. Samson also [...]

Dog ears that still smell

So Samson’s ears are still funky and getting worse. What seemed to be a “new” funk appears to be the usual yeast, brown, gross funk. Allergies have crept in, his immune system gets taken for a ride, and it’s itch itch itch.
I need to stay on top of cleaning them frequently. Temaril-P [...]

Hobbies, Self-Care, Vision, and Joy

Tomorrow is my last day of class.  I woke up this morning really tied up in knots.  For many reasons, some obvious, some not so obvious.  It’s interesting for me to notice that the past two days I have been knowing I need some exercise…even a walk.  I could feel that tension building to a [...]

Smelly dog ears

So now Samson, our yellow lab, has a new ear funk.  It’s not as dark as the usual one, but with his allergies kicking in now that the snow is gone, we get to see some new ear funk.
And, like usual, it smells really bad.  Not as gross looking, but stinky.
Poor guy.  He’s itchy all [...]