Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 248811 times)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1100 on:** July 21, 2009, 02:29:19 PM »

i have a sore throat. excuse me as i punch kittens in the coots.

Grefter · « **Reply #1101 on:** July 21, 2009, 02:51:23 PM »

That was way more fisting imagery than I needed.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1102 on:** July 21, 2009, 03:38:15 PM »

that was the point. at least they weren't asian schoolgirls.

Shale · « **Reply #1103 on:** July 21, 2009, 04:01:47 PM »

Seconding the awesomeness of retrievers.

Less awesome: Found out yesterday that the "acid reflux" I've been having for two weeks is actually a stomach ulcer. And my insurance company is requiring prior approval for the medication I need. And when I called my doctor's office a day after hearing this, they still hadn't heard they needed to send off the proper forms to get approval.

Man, fuck life.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1104 on:** July 21, 2009, 04:20:49 PM »

Stomach ulcers are awesome, they run in my family and have given me a sweet taste of their happiness and joy for three years. Tagament is your new best friend.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1105 on:** July 21, 2009, 05:56:44 PM »

dolorousanschlag (11:55:07 AM): Stop trying to duck your duty to have lots of lesbian sex!

Super Must Die.

superaielman · « **Reply #1106 on:** July 21, 2009, 05:58:02 PM »

You're completely at fault for this one. Don't duck it and try to blame me!

Lady Door · « **Reply #1107 on:** July 21, 2009, 06:25:50 PM »

What the dog has eaten:

Swords and Devilry
A Marc Ecko purse
A pair of feather earrings
A new pair of Sony in-ear headphones
His rabies vaccination report
The Gentle Leader head-collar that was supposed to make him behave on walks
6 pens
A Renaissance faire poster I got during my senior year of high school
A 20% off coupon to a local pet store
The apartment lease contract
The folder in which the lease, the coupon and his vaccine reports were sitting

The main problem is that it's all my fault for leaving those things innocently laying on the dining room table. I really ought to know better than to leave a young dog with free rein over the course of 8 hours, but I've never had a dog who chewed before. *sigh*

He's still really cute, even when he's laying in the middle of the living room with chaos strewn about him.

Shale · « **Reply #1108 on:** July 21, 2009, 06:30:49 PM »

Yeah, that's the main reason I will never own a large dog. I could never be tidy enough to prevent one from destroying everything I own.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1109 on:** July 21, 2009, 06:42:43 PM »

So I just dropped 400 dollars (thank you, ebay!) on a machine that will hopefully save me more than that in the long run, both through how much I spend each month and potential future medical bills. I've wanted one of these things for a while, so even if it doesn't pay itself off as quickly as I'm hoping it will, I'm still glad I spent the dough. Especially since half of it was birthday money and the other half I put on my credit card so I have two or three weeks to save up before I need to pay it off.

It probably won't get here until I'm at DLC, though, or a day or two before I leave. Regardless, I'm excited. Way better way to sink hundreds of dollars than buying fancy over glorified callouses.

LD: Make sure that the dog can't get to any electrical wiring, because he'll chew that stuff up too. You should probably take some time to dogproof the apartment; if he's anything like my old dog the chew everything in sight phase stops with a little training, but not for a year or two.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1110 on:** July 21, 2009, 07:04:44 PM »

This will be fine once he can come to work with me. Until then, though... he's locked up in the kitchen/bathroom, which have been stripped bare just for him. >_>

I forgot to mention that he chewed apart one of the iPod-computer connector cords! It was an impressive thing. I'm just glad he thankfully destroyed the headphones (~$10) and the iPod cord (we have another) instead of my iPod, which was connected to the headphones and also in the purse he chewed up.

He totally set us up. The first night, he slept on the floor next to me for about 4 hours, then decided to get up and pounce on crickets. He never chews a thing during the night. So... we figured if we picked up stuff and put it more-or-less out of reach, it would be fine! Except he has no qualms jumping up on the table, apparently. Luckily, he took the odd papers and things and left behind the new Darkstalkers art book, the Arkham Horror board and its pieces, and the 100+ WoW TCG cards that were *also* on the table. At least his taste isn't expensive. >_>

And thank GOD he is properly potty trained.

Makkotah: Yeah, that's why he is absolutely not allowed in the bedroom unsupervised. Way too much dangerous/expensive stuff in there. We did a basic sweep before we let him free, but we underestimated his ingenuity. We'll definitely be spending this weekend making the rest of it more dog-okay, but there's no way to totally puppy-proof it soooo... time for my books to smell like bitter apple!

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #1111 on:** July 21, 2009, 07:16:26 PM »

It took us a while to prevent our old family golden from chewing up things for that a while. And even then, she still intermittently went after pens and pencils for a few years.

superaielman · « **Reply #1112 on:** July 21, 2009, 07:20:13 PM »

Bitter apple's not 100% LD. Good luck with that one.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1113 on:** July 21, 2009, 07:35:06 PM »

Ugh. I know. I will have to get used to the idea that I have a dog that chews on things. I just need to make it more possible to chew on more appropriate things. The weird thing is that he's soooo uninterested in balls and other toys. I guess he's just picky? Given the choice, he'll take his leash or else insert himself between your arm and body. The only exception is if there's another dog or a bird around but hahahah as if I'm going to use THAT to occupy him.

Shale · « **Reply #1114 on:** July 21, 2009, 07:39:13 PM »

Has he gone after anything in your presence, or just while you've been out? Boredom tends to make the more social dogs particularly nuts, and a golden definitely is that.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1115 on:** July 21, 2009, 08:58:50 PM »

Quote from: Shale on July 21, 2009, 04:01:47 PM

Seconding the awesomeness of retrievers.

Less awesome: Found out yesterday that the "acid reflux" I've been having for two weeks is actually a stomach ulcer. And my insurance company is requiring prior approval for the medication I need. And when I called my doctor's office a day after hearing this, they still hadn't heard they needed to send off the proper forms to get approval.

Man, fuck life.

God, is everybody I know getting chronic stomach problems now? I've had reflux problems for basically my whole life, but an ulcer -has- to suck even harder.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1116 on:** July 21, 2009, 10:09:26 PM »

It's definitely boredom, Shale. The only time he's grabbed anything while I was there with him was a piece of paper, and that's just because he got very excited and it was hanging in front of his nose.

It's definitely boredom. He's the most velcro-y velcro dog I've ever seen. If you sit down, he jumps up to climb into your lap. If you sit on the ground, he comes over and does the same. If you stop moving, he'll come launch himself face-first into your legs and sit there until you give him copious pets. If you stop petting, the nudging begins. He does leave off if you ignore him, but it's kind of hard to ignore a 60 pound dog in your lap. I'm really lucky he doesn't ever bark or whine.

He has a really good sense of the fragility of people, though. When I was out for his evening walk yesterday, we stopped by an older man sitting in a chair. He tucked his tail in, kind of half-walked/half-crawled over and put himself in an excellent position to receive pets, all without jumping or even moving very fast. Contrast this with "OH, there's a person coming! There! 50 feet away! 20! 10! FIVE!!!" jumping and twisting when he sees a younger person... yeah. XD

See? He's cute and I love him. He's just also a pain in the ass.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1117 on:** July 21, 2009, 10:41:35 PM »

What's the name of your baby dog?

EDIT: Right, Fox. Nevermind. Anyhow, he sounds very affectionate at least.

Shale · « **Reply #1118 on:** July 21, 2009, 10:45:21 PM »

Quote from: Lady Door on July 21, 2009, 10:09:26 PM

See? He's cute and I love him. He's just also a pain in the ass.

And a better description of the relationship between man and beast I've never seen.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1119 on:** July 21, 2009, 10:50:50 PM »

Quote from: Shale on July 21, 2009, 10:45:21 PM

Quote from: Lady Door on July 21, 2009, 10:09:26 PM
See? He's cute and I love him. He's just also a pain in the ass.

And a better description of the relationship between man and beast I've never seen.

Or any couple ever.

Grefter · « **Reply #1120 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:15:16 AM »

Quote from: Shale on July 21, 2009, 04:01:47 PM

Man, fuck life.

Why bother with life when you have a perfectly good medical system?

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1121 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:16:26 PM »

Throat fails less. As such, the need to instill creatively sadistic fisting-based imagery upon this topic diminished as well.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1122 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:02:08 PM »

Well, I've been working 12 hour days for the past week to help my uncle get this construction job his company's on done. It's some giant mansion thing. Anyway, I found out today it belongs to Phil Knight. You know, the guy who owns Nike? Yeah.

In other news, I found out that apparently, if I leave for a week, my raiding guild breaks up or some shit. Jesus christ.

Grefter · « **Reply #1123 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:28:59 PM »

Welcome to MTing a WoW guild man.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1124 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:45:38 PM »

I guess. It's not like I've never left before, but this time apparently it was important? Shit.

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Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 248811 times)