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Five^H^H^H^H^H Seven things I miss about not having a dog

Bandit was put to sleep the day after Xmas 2007. (See).

I have no reason to rush home after work. Well, my wife, Bette, I suppose, but she gets home later… I would let him up, and we would go out and get the mail, come in, get his dinner. It was a fine life. [...]


December 29th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Family, Musings | One comment

Au revoir, Bandit

Well, we did it. Wednesday morning, the day after Christmas 2007, we took Bandit, our 11-year old mixed breed dog, to the Woodstock Animal Hospital and watched and held him as he was put down.

Bandit, around Thanksgiving, had developed problems. In June, he started destructive chewing, which he had never done before [...]


December 28th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Family, Musings | One comment

Weller WTCPN Repair

I got a free day off today — and it’s too darn cold outside — so time to attack a few jobs that have been neglected.

First was my old Weller WTCPN soldering station that I inherited from several jobs ago when they ditched hardware development – very tacky now in this lead-free era, [...]


December 23rd, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Musings | Leave a comment

Walter the Limo Driver

Well, I finally emptied out my wallet of cruft. One card I came across was for Walter Jalosinski, a Certified Professional Chauffeur out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Why do I have his card? Eric and I traveled to Edmonton on business several times. On our first trip, somehow we got him for a limo [...]


December 22nd, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Musings, Travel | Leave a comment

Fireside Dinner Theatre

Drove up the beaten path to Whitewater to the Fort to see the Christmas show. We had heard the Theatre was fun, so picked a free night. We picked a bad night to go — Fridays are hard. Needed to leave by 5PM. Stressful. Bad planning on our part. We are tired people come Friday [...]


December 1st, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Dining, Fun, Music, Postcards | Leave a comment