Drink Rum

Hooray for me.

I've finally finished upgrading the blog software. You should notice no changes.

The reason I did the upgrade was to help with spammers and intergrate some older plugins. Readers should notice that I've been able to keep the comments sections of the site spam-free, but I wasn't happy with the method I was using so we'll see if some of the new ones work better.

In the meantime...

My puppy Mad Max went from being the worst puppy in his puppy school to being the best puppy in his puppy school. My what a week of work will do. He's almost six months and is really just a furry pile of energy. Being an Australian Shepherd/Siberian Husky mix makes his puppy energy doubly potent. I've finally got him to focus on me versus blowing leaves, shadows, his reflection, air, basically anything that exists... or in some cases doesn't.

Max's instructor is a stout, square-faced lady that refuses to believe he has any Husky in him. She's a pretty good trainer so far. She'd AKC certified up the yin-yang and trains service dogs in her spare time. Last week was puppy socialization week and Max wasn't terribly interested in meeting other dogs, just meeting other people. He was a bit intimidated by a very large German Shepherd puppy that was out of control and barking like mad at all of the other dogs.

Max is almost as tall as Jack now. Maybe a couple inches short. Jack's still got a 15lb weight advantage when they wrestle, but they are good about taking turns playing top dog vs. beat up dog.

Max also knows that cars are full of people.

If a car comes by he will try to chase it... hoping it will stop and spew out its people contents for him to play with. Boy does he love him some people.

It's funny now when we have people on the sidewalk because both dogs bark like mad at them from the window, but for different reasons. Jack is trying to get the people to leave his yard and Max is trying to get them to come inside to play.

Looney dogs.