Charismatic Dog

Almost fifteen years ago my sister and mom found a cute puppy to bring home as a birthday present for my Dad. He named the dog Abbey. I’m pretty sure he was ready to give her back a month later when she ate the bottoms off of the pants of his best suit. Somehow she stayed with us another 14 years. This summer Abbey began having seizures. Last night after her last one she was no longer able to stand under her own strength. She wouldn’t eat or drink. This morning, before taking her last trip to the vet, she drank some water out of my hand–the only time we were able to coax her to drink. The first photo below is from a party a month ago. The second photo is from this morning.

You’re a good dog Abbey. Wherever you are.

As noted on the waste of face, I had dinner tonight with not one, but four lovely ladies. Since the loveliest of them is my wife and she wanted access to photos on the internets I present said photos to you now:

My wife would be the pretty girl I’m smooching. The birthday girl would be her good friend Angie.

Followup note: I had a remarkably tough time getting this posted and working with lightbox. So it goes.

Laptops are banned in the Senate, Twitter and YouTube are out in the House. It’s pretty well known that the only way politicians will understand new anything is if we elect new politicians to whom it’s not new.

This got me thinking about redesigning this.

Each disclosure would go to an editable list of favorites or the appropriate wheel for distance.

Tapping in the text field would the key board up for direct entry.

This is a mockup only. The Stephen’s Creek folks should feel free to use it if they like any elements of it.