Hmm….. Well, we went tonight to see the new puppy at the breeders. She sure is a cutie, and I have no doubts she’s as smart, or maybe smarter, than her predicessors. Of course, now she’s right at the five week mark. We held her for about an hour or so, letting her get use to our smells and get accustomed to us handling her. It was quite nice, actually.
Ok, last week I told you Cerwyn got sick. After tons of discussion on what to do, talking to the vet, then getting a second opinion from a different vet, we knew what we had to do. Our little Sheltie girl was not going to get better, and life with drugs to help control the effects of what was going on with, and the sheer fact that we don’t have thousands of dollars to spend for proper diagnoses of her problems, we had her put down. We had been preparing oursleves for the worst, but hoped for the best. In the end, it’s really what was best for her. She’s no longer suffering or in pain, and this thought has kept me sane the past week.
We had an unexpected thing happen early yesterday. But before I get into that, let me give a little more background. A few months ago my sheltie puppy, Cerwyn, had some neuralogical problems. She couldn’t stand at one point, but with treatment she eventually becamse more of a normal puppy. Her temperment has never been a normal for a sheltie. She’s always been a “touch me not” when it’s come to being held, and I’ve rarely known an inside dog that was like this.
There was a time in my life when I didn’t play any MMO’s at all. It wasn’t until I was on my own that I started playing them actually. It’s my way of blowing off steam, meeting new people, it was cheap, and I had time to burn. It seems as though the time I get to spend in my favorite games grows ever smaller, being taken up by more urgent needs and wants, health being a big one. I imagine at some point I’ll have to either force time for games, or give them up completely. I don’t relish the thought of giving them up all together. So what’s a guy to do?
I’ve been around the net a time or two, that’s not something I’m gonna hide. Heh, my first website was on geocities and consisted of html I coded myself in DOS edit and pictures I swiped from clipart collections and cleaned up in .7 of Paint Shop Pro. There were no formating sins, and no dynamic this or AJAX that. The only server side scripting was done in perl, and WISE and ARCHE were still viable content vehicles.
