Limerick challenge on a recent Wait Wait episode…
I can face all the undead hordes calmly,
even if they can learn how to bomb me.
In my fort I keep fresh,
and they won’t eat my flesh.
My new home will protect me from ______
Listener answered: ROMNEY
Awesome..that’s what we need..Romney proof homes!
How about a Romney proof world?
Hey everybody! Here’s a question I recently received:
Hey Truffles!
I was browsing your dads’ site when I was working on their e-mail trouble they submitted! Since you are so tech savvy and answering your e-mail, I was wondering if you had any toys other than your computer? Maybe an iPad to play AngryBirds or a nice chew toy.
Thanks!
Eric
That’s a great question, Eric. I’ve got lots of toys. Below is a pic of my play pen from above (courtesy of daddy David’s camera phone). I love my toys and I routinely drag them about the house just to watch my daddies put them back away into my play pen. They are so cute when they do that. 🙂
As far as ipads, I don’t usually use pads. Often, they are just fun to lay on, provided no other doggies have peed on them. But I do like chew toys…some of which you’ll find in the pic above. And I love to chase birds, although I’m usually on a leash and can’t catch them. If only I could find a way to get loose….
Oh, daddy David is telling me to say that we like droids and don’t like apples that much. I guess he’s right. I don’t like apples normally. I prefer to snack on carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers, and chicken.
Anyhow, thanks for your question, and I hope you have a great day! And don’t forget to follow me on twitter, @DivaDogTruffles !
Here’s a tiny album of Theo, the doggie we are fostering, and our Chihuahua, Truffles.
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| Theo and Truffles |
We’re fostering a doggie, Theo. He came with two bags of Kibbles ‘n Bits dog food.
Already having decided to feed him the same type of food (Natural Balance, Duck and Potato) that we feed to our dog, Truffles, we looked at the ingredients list.
Kibbles ‘n bits’ main ingredient was corn, as I suspected. But then there was also corn syrup. Really? Why?
Later there was animal digest for chicken flavor. First I thought this might be chicken guts…but then I read a wikipedia entry. Gross!
Propylene glycol. Salt. And hydrochloric acid!
Plus caramel color and several other food colorings. I guess that’s what makes it pretty enough to entice people to want to feed to their pets.
We then double-checked the ingredient list of what Truffles gets. None of that icky stuff.
Kibbles ‘n bits (Original):
http://kibblesnbits.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_digest
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/substances/toxsubstance.asp?toxid=240
Natural Balance (Limited Ingredients- Duck and Potato):
http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com
Over father’s day weekend, I built a set of stairs for her to use to hop up on the bed at night. She likes them!
Now, she won’t wake us up in the middle of the night, whining for us to pick her up.
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| Pet Stairs |
Check out this spectacular image taken of Venus as it cross the Sun, with a UFO plainly visible!
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| From June 7, 2012 |
Don’t get me wrong—I love Pet Supplies Plus, and will continue to go there.
We love to purchase the dog treats they sell in bulk. But just to advise you, don’t purchase the multi-colored dog bone treats. We purchased a small bag some time ago, and put them into a glass jar for Truffles. We don’t go through a lot–our five pound doggie doesn’t get to eat treats all the time, and just recently we purchased another small bag of these.
Today, we found the glass jar full of BUGS!
At first, we thought maybe bugs got into the jar. But we checked the bag we purchased a week or so ago, and found bugs in it, too.
I called Pet Supplies Plus, and while they offered to refund me for the amount purchase (which wasn’t much–we only bought a little for our small dog), they did not otherwise seem concerned.
So, just be careful with what you purchase. From now on, we’re purchasing pre-packaged treats.
There’s the blog, which has been feeling like the unwanted stepchild. It probably started off more as a venting/rant&rave platform (aka condo drama), grew into a photo gallery (which I have since migrated to Picasa), and now sits mostly unused by the sidelines. There’s no fancy web development, even though I wanted to use it, too, to teach myself new tricks. It used to link to netflix and twitter and facebook, until those RSS feeds broke.
There’s Linked In, which really isn’t a regular platform for posting, but something I need to consider for that career track. I find it’s really a place to keep track the coworkers and bosses and other acquaintances that you didn’t like so you know where not to go look for a job.
There’s Twitter, perfect for those quick, attention-deficit disorderly shout outs, but which don’t tell a lot about a person. I’m not all that witty in the moment. I’m not that thought-provoking and philosophical in 140 characters or less.
There’s Facebook, which is great at seeing what others are up to. Even people you don’t know, family members you didn’t know you had (and still don’t speak to much). Maybe facebook is really more to make others envious? Sure, the pictures of a friend’s exotic, sun-drenched, beachy, beautiful place-he-calls-home in a foreign country are nice to look at, but is he just thumbing his nose at my poor, work focused, debt ridden, tanked economy lifestyle? Plus he works out, is younger, and has a better body?
Foursquare, which is just another “I’m here and you’re not” envy producing tool, which I use frequently, because I want to gain points.
GetGlue, so I can really let everyone know how much of a couch potato I am, and which gets me these cool stickers, which are completely useless, but I want something for free, damn it!
Google Plus, which has these nifty hangout tool. hell, I don’t know if it’s nifty. I’ve not used it. I don’t know what to say to people in real life, much less with them staring at me or talking to me in real time. It takes time for me to formulate my thoughts and to come up with nonsense. I like posting pictures of my dog, though.
Oh, and youtube. I’ve two videos there. Two. On a bright note, hangouts has/will have an option to record and post to youtube. that would be useful for me, you know, because, um….
And my latest obsession, Klout. Only because of that stupid Wired.com article that says it can lead to free stuff and jobs. So now I have to tweet, facebook, and g+ more.
I even have skype on my computer and phone. I’ve used it once to talk to my mom (who lives 20 minutes away) as an experient so she can contact Germany. I’ve my partner in my contact list. And I have one twitter/google+ peep in my skype contact list, whom I’ve never spoken to IRL.
HELP ME!
P.S.: I’ll post this on google+, and tweet and facebook about it.
P.S.S. : I forgot why I typed this. Maybe the brand names I’ve dropped will give me more klout.
Rather than just the usual family gathering, for Thanksgiving last year we took a trip to Charleston, SC. Check out the pix from our trip, viewing the historic homes and touring the aircraft carrier at Patriot’s Point.
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| Charleston |
