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Do you believe in miracles??
Posted by Janet on Saturday, June 20 @ 22:26:38 PDT (8 reads)
We've finally starting taking some really big steps after four months of baby steps! So for all you 6 who've voted in our poll, the odds are changing! It looks like Quincy may get to stay with us after all. <3
They're both finally able to be some what relaxed in the same room at the same time without restraints of any sort! And Quincy doesn't even bolt after her when she moves!! He's still interested, and we still have to watch him VERY closely and correct him quite often, but we're making progress!
Click "read more" to see more proof of the unbelievable!
Posted by Janet on Sunday, May 24 @ 13:26:33 PDT (11 reads)
Finally made it to Hawaii as a tourist, not just visiting family! Of course, I missed them, but Brian and I had a great time!
We went to Maui this time, a first for me, and all of Hawaii was a first for Brian.
The first two days, Thursday and Friday, were mostly spent shopping, relaxing, and getting to know the place.
Saturday, my birthday, we went zip lining- a four hour "tour" with 8 ziplines! And then to Lahaina Grill for my birthday dinner on James- thanks James!
Sunday we went blue water rafting around Kahului, including at a famous mostly submerged crater, Molokini, and a turtle habitat area that Brian loved. I got a nice tan, but Brian didn't re sun block himself ever, so he fried! Poor guy.
Monday we went horse back riding around Haleakala crater, a nice tour with just the two of us and our guide! The guide's name was, I think, Melissa, and her horse was Adam. Mine was Woody, and Brian had Apple Jack (whom we called AJ after one of our fosters!).
Tuesday we did moe shopping and the sugar museum, where Brian got his first real sugar cane! And spent some time at a near by beach, which I forget the name of. Oops...
Click "read more" just beneath this to see some pictures! (Very picture heavy!)
Posted by Brian on Friday, May 22 @ 18:24:31 PDT (8 reads)
Doubt anyone really noticed, but I moved the website from an older server to something a little newer with some more space (because my wife is eating up all my disk space with pictures!).
Now that things are settling down please feel free to browse around. If you do happen to find something broken please let me know. I've resolved a few quirks already; difference in PHP versions from the old system to the new system, separation of websites from databases, nameserver changes, hostname changes, server architecture change from i386 to x86_64, and some improvements to the packages installed for performance and security.
The old system will hang around for a few more days while I make sure that everything is happy... and just in case I get some feedback that something is broken (... unless I intentionally broke it).
Posted by Janet on Sunday, April 05 @ 20:30:12 PDT (32 reads)
Early April, and we are already enjoying nice weather- even on the coast!!
We took the P-Chan and Quincy to Ft. Funston today, and we all had a blast!!
P-Chan did pretty well despite her limping leg, and was REALLY enjoying being out of the house, happy puppy!
Quincy was LOVING being out and running around, since we haven't had really long walks the last few days (darned dishwasher catching on fire!!), so he was just bulleting around every where. Another happy puppy!!
Click "read more" to see some pictures of our fun day!
Posted by Brian on Tuesday, March 03 @ 12:45:58 PST (27 reads)
So I'm back home and I've finished uploading the photos that I've taken while on my trip, including some from the plan on the way back home. Enjoy, and have fun browsing the photo gallery!
Posted by Brian on Saturday, February 21 @ 20:57:49 PST (19 reads)
I didn't bother posting my aggravations when my laptop nuked itself the first time, but this is the second time its done so, and its a little upsetting.
How am I posting this then you ask? Must I be at an internet cafe? Where are all those pictures you said you'd upload?
Well, since my laptop died the first time I spent some time over at www.pendrivelinux.com looking for ways to fix my poor XP install. Needless to say, I haven't ran my laptop with Ubuntu long enough to see if this is an XP thing, an Ubuntu thing, or just this laptop, but one thing's for sure, XP nuked itself for the second time on this trip. So, in preperation for another failure I was looking for ways to DD the Windows image without having a USB CDROM drive (since I didn't bring one with me). I installed Ubuntu on one ofmy class 6 SD cards, and I've been using that when my system dies. Turns out its still having heartburn reading the native disk installed (might be a clue to me.. hmm... hardware?) but at least the install runs fine, and its persistent.
Posted by Brian on Friday, February 20 @ 04:04:51 PST (25 reads)
So I'm wrapping up my stay here in Kerala, otherwise known as "God's own country". I've taken quite a few photos while I was here, including the team that I work with here. Its going to take a while to upload all these photos because there's about 2gb presently. I'm doing them in small batches so that I can ensure everything makes it. Eventually I'll start populating albums but it will take a little bit of time. Enjoy the Mumbai photos while you're waiting.
Posted by Brian on Friday, February 20 @ 03:59:04 PST (28 reads)
So it took a while, but hey, internet is a bit slow when you're 1/2 way around the world from the server that has the website!
Anyway, I've uploaded my photos that I took while I was on business in Mumbai. There aren't many pictures (70 I believe), but enjoy! I wasn't there for long and I had a lot of business to do.
Posted by Brian on Sunday, February 08 @ 05:44:01 PST (26 reads)
I'll be away in India for business for the rest of February, so looking forward to being able to upload a few photos here and there (though my internet connectivity will be sporatic and half way around the world from my site/server). Hoping to have a good time and get through everything that I need to do for work.
Posted by Janet on Sunday, February 08 @ 05:35:59 PST (26 reads)
Been a while since we've updated a mass amount of photos, but we finally got around to dumping our cameras to the site. Most photos are of pets we've already posted articles about. New addition to the family, Quincy, has been added to the photo gallery which prompted some updates of other pictures and cleanup.
Pets: album P-Chan and Quincy: album Fosters - Bleach Babies: album Cronos and Sam (including sub-albums): album
Aside from some cleanup around the photo gallery (which means some pictures were relocated, but not deleted) the above additions were made recently. Have fun browsing and enjoy!
Posted by Janet on Saturday, February 07 @ 11:36:58 PST (15 reads)
So Quincy is home!
We got to the SPCA about 1:30- we being me, Brian, and my dad- and met with the trainers, filled out the paper work, had to listen to a few lectures and videos on how to raise a dog, and then we got to take him home!!
We dropped by my mom's work so she could meet her new Grandson for the first time, then went to my parents' house so he could meet his Auntie P-Chan again. Then we came home! We let him sniff around the house on leash, then we let him off after a bit.
At first, he was super-glued to Toku's cage, ESPECIALLY when she moved! But he is already- less than 24 hours later- getting MUCH better. He pretty much ignores her when she's still, but when she moves we still have to occassionally remind him to "leave it". So, I am holding out hope that we can keep him and introduce him slowly and carefully to Evie.
After settling in a bit, we got him to play! Then we went to Petco- he needs a LOT of manners training! He's a very good boy, just too much. Ha hah! He needs a lot of work listening when he's excited. He does pretty good a home with sit and down and heel and all, but when we get him out, it all goes to pot! We also took him on his first snooty (walk, for all those that don't speak Janet-ese!), and he was way too bouncy at first, but after a while he got better. So he has potential!
He's already getting better with sitting and waiting to go through doors and such. He's a smart boy and fast learner!
I've uploaded all his pics so far in the website, so take a peek! Photos, then pets, the P-Chan and Quincy.
Posted by Janet on Tuesday, February 03 @ 16:15:24 PST (40 reads)
So for the first time in probably two months, I left work on time. And guess why! Because I can't wait till our boy comes home on Friday! So I went to go see him!! And this time, I had my camera and took my own pictures.
Here's our handsome new son! I love this picture of him. <3
Also, the name list / poll has been updated! Take a look at my last post and the poll. I'd love your opinions!
Posted by Janet on Monday, February 02 @ 11:12:59 PST (40 reads)
So our new boy needs a new name! These are in our list at the moment. Feel free to let us know if you have any other suggestions!
The names so far (only so much info will fit in the polls!):
Yoshi (Japanese for "good", and the little green dinosaur from Mario!) Tsuki (Japanese for "moon") Mani (Australian aboriginal for "equal") Aspen (the tree, but worried about his "shortened name") Kon (Japanese for dark blue, as an Australian Shepherd his coloring is officially "blue", pronounced "cone") Ashor (a cute name, similar to Aspen, but without the same worry!) Quincy (just another cute name!) Kaze (Japanese for “wind”, pronounced “kaw-zay”)
2/3/09: The list is changing!
Daddy has nixed Tsuki, and I want to add Quinten. I like Quincy, but Quinten seems more dog appropriate. Poll has been updated!
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