Sunday sunbeam sharing

It looks like we are at capacity.

The Aggies will not be winning the Big XII

I just told Molly. Even added that we would not beat the hookems.

Yep, morale around here is at an all time low. Molly is still mad about last year. Don't think for a minute that the hookems have forgotten about the cheap shot at the end of the game at the last meeting.

Good news for Aggie fans though, our band is favored by 27. GO BAND!!!

Updated: Good guys: 38 vs. Bad guys: 30. Nothing like some blatant dog exploitation to fire up a team. Speaking of blatant dog exploitation, I know one girl who will be getting an extra bone tonight...On another note, after the game on the way back to home base, we walked past my old haunt, the Langford architecture building, past the sculpture in a courtyard there. It never clicked, but guess what kind of dog is also memorialized for the ages on the campus at Texas A&M...you get 3 guesses and the first two don't count.

I can't believe I've never realized that until today.

BREAKING NEWS: Tess takes a good picture...

As always, Molly looks like she knows what she's doing. For poor little Tess, this is a first.

I've cracked the Comcast customer service code

Recently I switched to DirecTV, but I kept my cable internet. Needless to say, this move required about 5 or 6 calls to customer service to get everything straight. One call to cancel my tv service, one call to correct a faulty connection, one call verify that my bill was credited accordingly and on and on. I'm an honest guy and generally not too argumentative with those folks who answer the phones. I would always follow the prompts on the automated system to properly direct my call.

"Due to a high call volume, wait times may be longer than normal."

Yea...you say that all the time! "For trouble with your service," you can press "1"...if you want to wait on hold for 30 minutes to an hour chained to your speaker phone.

This is where I turn dishonest...I opt for option 3..."to upgrade your service, press 3." Oddly enough there is never a wait time when Comcast thinks you want to spend more money. The people who answer always speak fluent English, they can help you with whatever it is you are calling about and wait times vary from 5 to 10 seconds. Please be patient.

Just a little tip for those of you who are Comcast customers. Did I mention all the HD channels DirecTV offers...with even more on the way? If you are thinking about making a move, I'll send you an invite and we both get 50 bucks off...

Wrong in more ways than I can count

So, the Houston Chronicle is apparently advocating Golden Retriever abuse on their website...and I have proof!

Apparently you can upload pictures of Golden Retriever abuse and they will publish it on the front page of their website.

Exhibit 'A'
Exhibit 'B'
Exhibit 'C'

Y'all know how to work the internet, so I won't include an address for you to send your letters to the editor condemning this behavior. Someone posted similar photos last year too!!!

I want to meet that Exhibit 'C' dog and the owners because they really understand how important it is for a young boy to have a dog (even if the owners were too lazy to go to another Wal-Mart to find the Batman costume.)

New toy at work

So yea...turns out you can scribble right there on your computer screen. Pretty cool.

Should I write my grandmother?

Bless her heart! Everyone needs to meet my Big Momma. She has a way with words. 80+ and still giving me a hard time about my correspondence frequency.

"O" really?

Apparently the new issue of O Magazine includes a piece where "O" reflects on the choking death of her two year old Golden Retriever, Gracie.

"She never stopped moving. Was energy in motion. ... I have never seen a being, human or animal, always so full of joy," Winfrey says of Gracie, who ran amok and gulped food and treats. "This dog lived every moment as though it were her last."

A young Golden being spunky and eating everything that isn't nailed to the ceiling? Really? I'm shocked. Thanks for the heads up "O." "This dog lived every moment as though it were her last?" I'll say it again...that's how Goldens roll...and that is exactly why I love them so.

When I got to the bottom of the article linked above, I wanted to punch a hole in the wall after reading this:

Winfrey says she "got the message" to slow down and catch her breath when Gracie died.

So, "O," let me get this straight...you got the message to BREATHE because of Gracie's final moments gasping for air while people you hired to tend to the day to day obligations of dog ownership pounded on her chest in an attempt to dislodge the obstruction to Gracie's airway?

You can tell a lot about people by how they treat their animals.

This one, just because...

There is evil among us

Watch your back. That's all I'm saying.

An oil change that makes some guy hate Oprah

A guy walks into an oil change place and picks up a recent issue of People. Thumbing through it he sees pictures of celebrities and their dogs. He thumbs through it a bit more and finds an article with a very interesting headline. Please note, this guy never reads the articles in People. He just likes to look at the pictures...slow witted Southerner I guess. He was compelled to read the article this time. Oprah Winfrey's Beloved Golden Retriever Dies.

I'll bet you five dollars that the guy reading the article got very angry. He probably saw pictures of Paris and Brittney walking around with their canine "accessories" before stumbling upon the story about Oprah.

The platitudes of how Gracie lived every moment as though it was her last probably made that guy even more angry. Gracie was a Golden...that's how they roll! Let's not talk about how Gracie had a hired dog walker, ok?

The guy was just there for an oil change. Waiting for a moral to this story? I've got a call into that guy who read about Oprah's Gracie. I'll bet he'd say that dog ownership comes with responsibility. He might also mention that if you feel the need to hire someone to walk your dog, you probably don't need a dog.

Word on the street is that dogs actually enjoy "living every day like it was their last" with their masters.