A Sad, Sad Day

Today my foster boxer of 7 months, Spader, will be put down. Almost 2 weeks ago he jumped on one of my other fosters, Gus, and in the course of me trying to separate them, Spader chomped his jaw down hard on my wrist. My right one, of course. Cracked it in 2 places so I'm in a cast for 4 more weeks. Spader of course didn't mean to bite me, he was trying to bite Gus. Such a shame, he is a sweet, fun young boy when no other dogs are around. He wouldn't hurt a person on purpose. Shoot, I trust him to do this:

He just can't be trusted with other dogs. :(

Pray for me. I don't know how I am ever ever going to do this.

This is great!

I got this in an e-mail and it is AWESOME!!!

You gotta love Texans!!!

I have a friend who is president of his homeowners association in the Dallas ,Texas suburbs. They were having a terrible problem with litter near some of his association's homes. The reason according to Wallace (my friend) is that six very large, luxurious new houses are being built right next to their community.

The trash was coming from the Mexican laborers working at the construction sites and included bags from McDonald's, Burger King and 7-11, plus coffee cups, napkins, cigarette butts, coke cans, empty bottles, etc. He went to see the site supervisor and even the general contractor, politely urging them to get their workers not to litter the neighborhood, to no avail. He called the city, county, and police and got no help there either.

So here's what his community did. They organized about twenty folks, named themselves The "Inner Neighborhood Services" group, and arranged to go out at lunch time and "police" the trash themselves. It is what they did while picking up the trash that is so hilarious. They bought navy blue baseball caps and had the initials "INS" embroidered in gold on the caps. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what they hoped people might mistakenly think the letters really stood for.

After the Inner Neighborhood Services group's first lunch time pickup detail, with all of them wearing their caps and some carrying cameras, 46 out of the total of 68 construction workers did not show up for work the next morning -- and haven't come back yet. It has been ten days now.

The General Contractor, I'm told, is madder than heck, but can't say anything publicly, because he could be busted for hiring illegal aliens. Wallace and his bunch can't be accused of impersonating federal personnel, because they have the official name of the group recorded in their homeowner association minutes, along with a notation about the vote to approve formation of the new subcommittee -- and besides, they informed the INS in advance of their plans and according to Wallace, the INS said basically, "Have at it!"

Part 2.... I guess

I'm too damn tired to bitch today.

But, I'm going to anyway.

Anybody watch Guiding Light? Yeah, me neither, most of the time. I actually TiVo 4 soaps though, the CBS soaps, and there is one that I watch religiously. The others, I'll read the daily updates online and if there is something I want to see then I'll watch. Or I may watch if I run out of other TiVo'd stuff to watch. There hasn't been anything I have wanted to watch on Guiding Light for some time. But nevermind that. THEY KILLED GUS! They freaking killed Gus. I love Gus. Gus is hot. And now he's gone. In protest I am going to, um, continue not watching their soap. Of course as soon as I read online that Gus died, I immediately watched all of the episodes I had TiVo'd. But no more. That's it. After his funeral.

Gus, you had better show up on a cool prime time show, that is all I can say.