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Vega the wonder dog continues a puppy habit.
Even though she’s quite a bit bigger now she can make herself small enough to fit in the rubber water bowl. This means that when I fill it up, it soon empties. I have to go buy a smaller bowl, one she can’t use for cooling off.
In other dog related news I bought two sprinkler heads to replace the ones purloined by either Vega or Rigel. They have a high degree of energy and intelligence. That makes them inquisitive and with dogs this size that means destructive.
I spent the morning on Ovid, translating verses of the Metamorphoses, 11-15. This is a slow process for me because I have to look up each word, discern which of the possible words it probably is, determine its possible declension or conjugation, then go back and try to put all this together in an intelligible English line. Latin poetic conventions make this difficult since words that below together are sometime split apart by as much as a verse. Also, Ovid, like Shakespeare loved neologisms so sometimes the word he’s used is the only time it was ever used in Latin.
Don’t get the wrong impression though. When I finished this morning, I whistled and sang, a sure sign I feel good about what I’ve just done. It’s a fascinating process for me.
Kate has a big month taking shape. She leaves on Tuesday for San Francisco and two continuing medical education conferences which will take until June 6th. On June 30th she has hip surgery. She needs the surgery, her hip is painful for her and painful for me to watch.
The violence in Bangkok continues and some of it happens right outside my brother’s soi, a sort of side street with no exit that is peculiar to Bangkok’s urban design.
Final Sierra Club legislative meeting for the 2010 session tonight. There will probably be work upcoming related to next year’s session, but for the near term future, that work will come to a close. No more weekly meetings. Happy hour after this meeting.
Perhaps your dogs need some dog proof toys. I am suggesting a tough garden hose with a rugged field type sprinkler on the end that they and run under and chew on without destroying it. That may mean steel piping that can lay on top of the ground so they can hear the water run through it and attempt to stop it, to no avail. Use your imagination to stay ahead of them, not just pick up after them. Think like a dog. What would you like if you were Vega?
I always like Sunny weather and disliked gloomy rainy weather.'”;
the weather these days is hotter than the previous decades, i guess it is the effect of global warming;`.