Comments on: This year’s model.

By: poochlover

poochlover — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:47:34 +0000

Dexter, so sorry about your loss; it’s a blessing she went peacefully with you by her side. My last dog’s ashes are in a beautiful box on the mantle with an engraved brass plate that says “Beloved Friend.” She had such a gentle spirit and I’m pretty sure she understood English.

By: joodyb

joodyb — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:40:18 +0000

Isn’t it amazing, my husband frequently muses, that we choose to live with dogs. And there’s a reason for that. You’re in good company here, Dexter. I guess you know that.
C-Girl, mark the occasion. This is a big deal these days. So happy for you.
As for the military-industrial complex, we’ve all done it, wittingly or no.

By: Rana

Rana — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:49 +0000

Dexter – I’m so sorry.

crinoidgirl – Congrats!

By: derwood

derwood — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:46:31 +0000

crinoidgirl — congrats on the job. My wife is a technical writer on contract for an “evil” pharmaceutical company. She also has a Journalism degree but never officially worked in the field.

Take the paycheck from where you can get it.

-daron

By: alex

alex — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:44:45 +0000

Congrats, crinoid. My brother used to work as an engineer for a defense contractor that built aircraft. He’d toil for years on massive projects only to see them cancelled at the eleventh hour. I think this was some sort of stimulus spending under Reagan only they called it something else back then.

Just visited with my old Dobie who’s staying with my parents. I don’t know how old she is. I was told maybe six or seven when I took her out of a bad situation where she had no human attention whatsoever. That will have been five years ago. She’s good company for my retired parents, who lost a beloved old Labrador. Every now and then I get these pangs of guilt perhaps like those of a mother who sacrifices a child for adoption, but I know she’s better off being around people all day than locked up and alone while I’m working. Also more land to roam on and fewer people to intimidate.

Her absence might also explain why my garden’s getting ransacked by chipmunks and squirrels.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:57:09 +0000

crinoidgirl: I had a Pomeranian in the early 1970′s. He’s the dog that peed on Plymouth Rock…we were thankful no US Park Rangers or authorities saw that one!
Thanks for the heads-up. Cloak of steel descending around me….

By: crinoidgirl

crinoidgirl — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:05:41 +0000

Dexter, I can tell you that scattering the ashes will involve a LOT of tears, no matter how much you think you will be stoic. My Jasmine (Pom) is in Kensington Metro Park. I can’t believe how hard it was to do.

Try to steel yourself.

And I’m crying now that I’m thinking about it.

By: MichaelG

MichaelG — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:37:16 +0000

If it’s in my district it’s public works. If it’s in your district it’s pork.

I’d like to think there’s a difference between someone like C-Girl who is signing on as an employee to do an honest day’s work for a day’s pay and Halliburton, an organization which seems to exist for the purpose of scamming as much money out of its corrupt Govt contracts as possible for as shoddy and as little work as possible.

By: LAMary

LAMary — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:48:44 +0000

I have a very right wing brother who is in the opposite position. He’s an employee of NREL, which has been given a huge budget boost. He’s making money off the Dems and renewable energy. He doesn’t seem to have any problems with cashing the paychecks.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:18:00 +0000

I just signed on again and I want to again say “thanks” to all you fine dog-lovers who know or can imagine how that “sock to the gut” felt last evening.
Cremation, I pick up the ashes in a few days, and I have scattering plans.
I still have our eight year old Jack Russell Terrier, and she has adopted a feral cat which means we have, too.