our plumbing is finally fixed, so that’s nice

  • hooray for fixed plumbing!

    i mostly have dog news (no surprise there).

    echo is officially part of the family as of saturday. signed the paperwork and sent it in! i’ve got her signed up for a trainer evaluation next weekend so she can get into a canine good citizen class.

    i took the other two dogs (loki and jean) to a fast CAT trial on saturday as well. loki peed in the ring his first run (immediate disqualification, oops) and didn’t seem to know what i wanted him to do. kinda kicking myself for not signing him up for two fun runs instead of paying for two scored runs. i swapped his second run to a fun run so i could walk down the length of the track, and he did way better that time. the lure spooked him at one point, but he recovered, and i think we’ll do a couple more fun runs to see if he likes it enough to keep doing it.

    jean absolutely crushed it! her fastest run was 9.477 seconds, which boils down to 21.58mph (34.93kmph). the slower run was somewhere between 10-11 seconds, but i forgot to write it down. she ran right to me at the end and leapt into my arms like a champ both times. she was also great around all the other dogs who were barking and yowling and generally being amped up. looking forward to seeing the photos that were taken later this week, which i’ll be sure to post over on !animals@beehaw.org. 😊

    loki & jean after the trial.

    aussie and chi mix

    echo spending her day with another rescue volunteer.

    brown and white border collie sniffing a daffodil

    jean is heading to another fast CAT trial in a couple of weeks, and loki has a rally obedience trial coming up the weekend after that. this year is really going to the dogs. 😅

    •  krellor   ( @krellor@beehaw.org ) 
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      39 months ago

      Very fun, thanks for the pictures. For whatever reason the speed of your dogs jogged my memory of skiing with my old dogs. We would skin up backcountry peaks, them with booties and leg wraps in the -20f cold. Then at the summit I’d take the skins off my skis, and the booties off their feet (otherwise they get lost), slather their feet in mushers wax, and race down the mountain. I always had to watch my speed since they maxed out around 20mph, or roughly what your dog’s clocked at.

      Have a great week!

  • Supremely frustrated as of late of flakey people who make plans which fall through and considering setting a boundary around that or just not doing the labor to keep them in my life. Not sure what I wish to do at this point, to be honest, and need to think on it. With that being said, I’m otherwise doing well, on the last few days of antibiotics to recover from strep. Just a few weeks out from getting the peripheral nerve stimulator put back in, assuming they don’t blow an IV or two again, so hoping that goes well and doesn’t get infected again.

    •  krellor   ( @krellor@beehaw.org ) 
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      49 months ago

      You don’t deserve to have people who constantly flake out. If they are always cancelling and never initiating activities, invest the time and energy into your own well-being, hobbies, and other friendships. Best of luck with what sounds like some health challenges!

  • I bought a second car yesterday so I’m pretty stoked on that

    It’s not a new car by any stretch (it’s 24 years old) but it’s going to do a lot of work for me as a vehicle I can use for going to trails that isn’t my commuter car

    •  krellor   ( @krellor@beehaw.org ) 
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      59 months ago

      Awesome! I’ve got a 2001 Subaru that I use to get to trails. Same thing; sometimes I have to walk, but at least I’m not beating up my main car for getting the kids around.

        •  krellor   ( @krellor@beehaw.org ) 
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          49 months ago

          I got lucky in that regard I guess. My mechanic told me that I got the one model of Subaru that doesn’t blow the head gasket. So fingers crossed!

          Otherwise, yeah, Subaru’s aren’t easy to work on at home.

  • I had been having a tough time this past month with work and some interpersonal feels. Yesterday was my birthday so I took LSD and went on a hike with my best friend. It was good to feel some of the results I’ve been getting from taking boxing class, as I was able to keep pace with my buddy for the 6 km walk. Saw some nice rocks and fungi. I went into the experience thinking about what I wanted to change in my life. Ultimately I was like, yeah I actually already had everything I need: amazing friends and plenty of opportunities for creativity And self improvement. Just gotta work on separating from the stress and enjoying the little moments :)

    Oh and then my buddy’s gf made me panang curry and my wife made me key lime pie! And we watched Jennifer’s Body, a quirky horror movie from 2009

  •  Elise   ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 
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    99 months ago

    CW

    Well, tbh I’m in bed 24 7 since my meds ran out. It’s going to take a few more weeks until the new ones arrive. It’s a complicated and traumatizing process to get access in this country. I’ll just have to hold out a bit longer, and then I’ll finally be able to continue healing again.

    And I just received the message that my grandfather died. I just don’t feel anything, and I know I am going to miss this funeral as well. I just hope he’s in a better place and that he can finally understand why I couldn’t visit him, and that I really wanted to see his smile one more time.

  • Had a rough lecture the other day and the imposter syndrome smacked me hard. I was teaching students in a skills lab, a sort of optional space where if they are struggling they can join me and learn basic items their prior courses didn’t prepare them for. For context, a budgeting class where they never opened a spreadsheet before.

    So I walk them through the basics, how to use formulas and functions, simple stuff like SUM and using conditional formatting to make negatives red. I must have clicked it typed something and missed it and f’ed the last 10 minutes. Pie charts broke. Wouldn’t filter or sort my data by color. Man. It was a cluster fuck.

    I woke up this morning, huge headache, and realized I’m just damn tired and drained. And it’s resulting in cracks in how effective I can be in the classroom. Really need this term to end, I’ve got too many classes and too many students to teach in top of my own research, family balance, etc.

  • Found this website thanks to a comment on another site, so that’s pretty cool. Still trying to figure out what the Fediverse is, but since it’s defederated, I guess that doesn’t matter?

    Wife and I are on week two of our daily walks (barring the weekend, we are lazy) and I’ve been keeping up with a few exercises in between, and that’s been encouraging. I’ve always been cleaning more and have just generally been more on top of things since the funeral. I do need to read this manga I bought and this cool black horror anthology comic, but they’re not going anywhere.

    All in all, doin’ fine! Thanks for asking.

  • Very good, got back from my fifth date with the chef girl and it went super well, we spent hours together and we both managed to get off in the end as well unlike the first time where I couldn’t keep it up from the anxiety and anticipation.

  • All but two of the groups of cuttings I stuck in the ground last fall are looking promising. The earlier season plants are loaded with buds that I hope won’t be damaged by frosts (late or otherwise) like last year. With any luck this will be the first year getting to eat hazelnuts from my own property.

    The bookshelf project is coming along reasonably well. Today I put clear epoxy into all the knots and nail holes in the original stud we’re keeping as part of the build and when that’s cured it’ll get sanded up. The boards for the shelves are in the sanding phase which is a slow, fine grind (woodworking pun ftw!). I’m finally up to 80 grit on the palm sander after 36 and 50 with a belt sander. Part of what’s taking so long is that I’m taking the time to raise the grain in between sanding sessions so I can get a finish that will impress my one woodworking friend.

    The ducks are starting to feel like it’s spring, which means that they’re getting busy. That wouldn’t be a problem except that our bestest boy Sudo is extremely reactive to the act (ducks are not gentle lovers) despite my efforts to counter condition his perception of it. One of our neighbors was over when he had an episode, and were perplexed by how calm I was at what was clearly the sound of my dog dying in six bear traps.

      • Yeah, it’s not my favorite thing about them. We keep the flock balanced to give the girls a break but it’s still upsetting and I’ve interceded on a hen’s behalf a number of times myself. One small comfort I tell myself is that Sudo fully grasps the concept of consent and can’t abide when others ignore it.

  • Starting to be a lot more active around here because a lot of people (read: deranged spammers) have been posting uhh… Sketchy shit (putting it way too lightly) in other places (Kbin was where I was most active before) and I just don’t want to be around that.

  • Shitty, because we’re potty training.

    Luckily the kiddo is doing better more than not, but we’re having issues with daycare. They said they would “follow our lead” on what we’re doing, how we want to approach this, etc…but the reality is not that. And I get it, they have 15 kids to manage and you can’t have someone pooping their pants and not telling them about it, it’s more just our own frustration that the teachers/admin said one thing and we’re seeing another (and never sat down to map some of this out). A lot of our frustration would have been solved if they said how they do things and we could adjust to their style. This is really the first time we’ve been disappointed in our daycare, it’s been fantastic otherwise ever since we started with them.

    Plus the poor kid fell in the toilet at school last week because they were playing too much/not paying attention (not at all shocking to me TBH) and has been terrified of the school toilet ever since. The upside is at home over the last weekend, we’re calling it one and a half accidents in 2 days, with several longer outings/trips in there.

    In non-bathroom news, work slogs on, child #2 is shockingly imminent for us, and I’m mad at my wife for introducing me to The Traitors because I’ve had a blast watching it and I’m not usually a reality tv person.