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Studies

Paula has her last exam in her nursing studies tomorrow. She has some items left to do afterwards, before she gets her degree in January, but this exam is the most important thing. I have helped her study for it tonight, and shared some popcorn with her. That was a good trade.

Yet again, I received one of those strange comments today. I tried a different online translator, and it seems this comment was in Japanese. It makes sense that someone would try to comment in Japanese in my blog, since I am of a breed of Japanese origin. However, the translation just gave me a lot of words, I could not comprehend the message. I believe that it is some kind of spam, so I rejected this comment as well.

Ups and Downs for Dad

Daniel was away from town for work today, and Dad got to come with Paula to pick him up at the railway station in the late afternoon. I envied Dad for this, I would have liked to come too.

What I do not envy is that Dad then had to go to the veterinarian. Even though it was just routine, it is never a joy meeting the vet. However, what Dad disliked the most was a thing that happened while waiting for his turn to see the vet. While he was lying on the floor resting, a young Tibetan Spaniel just walked up to him, and would not back off when he growled at it. The Tibetan Spaniel's human held it in a leach, but allowed it to come within half a metre of Dad. This is invasion of privacy for a Shiba Inu gentleman, but neither the Tibetan Spaniel, nor its human understood this. Luckily, they went away after a while. Paula said she was about to intervene just about the time that they left.

After the visit to the veterinarian, Paula, Daniel, and Dad went grocery shopping. Dad stayed in the car, but when Paula and Daniel came back, they gave him two hot dogs for all his troubles. This is definitely something I envy.

All in all, I believe Dad's journey held more positive than negative experiences. He enjoyed telling us about the hot dogs, too.

By the way: I rejected another comment in what I believe is Chinese. I still do not know why I get them.

Raising Pup

Dad and I help April raise her pups now. Paula says Dad is the best male dog here, when it comes to raising pups. It makes sense, since he has the most experience. He helped raising my unruly brothers. I was, of course, not unruly myself, but I observed and learned from my parents. Paula also says I am best of the females to help April with her pups. I have had pups, so I know what it is all about, and April and I are good friends. Dad and I are making a good job, and the pups are eager to learn from us. It is an interesting job, it is fun getting to know the pups, and it makes me feel a little more useful than I ordinarily are.

On a side note, I have received comments to my blog over the last three days that I have rejected. The comments seem to be written in Chinese, but I have not made any sense of the text when I have tried to translate it on online translation pages. While online translations does not make good translations, they generally give you some sort of impression of what the translated text says. This is not the case here. Since I have no idea what is written, I reject the comments. I am curious though, and hope to get the message in a language that I can understand.

Paying Bills

Daniel occupied the computer all evening to pay bills. I believe he should have done this earlier, but he claimed he had other things to do, such as work (even though it was Sunday) and setting up Christmas lights. Well, the result was that I did not get access to the computer until after midnight. This blog post is therefore actually the blog post of Sunday, but dated on Monday. Paula occupied the computer in the same way a couple of days ago. It really makes me annoyed, but what can I do after the fact? Well, I hope I can write a better blog entry Monday evening.

Rain, Rain, Rain

This November has had quite boring wheather. There has been almost constant rainfall, sometimes a lot, but often just a small downpour, and when the rain has not fallen, it has still been overcast. The air and the ground has been moist all the time. Parts of the yard has turned muddy, the grass giving up. It is sad. I hope the December wheather will be more like winter. Snow would be welcome, for the fun of playing in it and because the landscape seems less dark when it is white. We will have to see.

Heh Heh Heh

Some news are just hilarious, you would not quite believe they would be true, were it not for the general truthfulness of the news agency reporting it. The BBC reports from the Pacific Ocean island country of Vanuatu, that the Prime Minister has lost his seat in parliament due to a paperwork error. Under Vanuatu law, if a Member of Parliament is absent from three consecutive sittnings without notification about the reasons for the absence to the Speaker, the MP loses his or her seat. Prime Minister Edward Natapei has been away on a Commonwealth summit and must therefore forfeit his seat. The remaining MPs will have to chose a new Prime Minister, while a by election will be held on the seat vacated by Mr Natapei. What a blunder! Was there not a single co-worker of the PM who could foresee this and make sure to avoid it? I just laugh at it.

If Mr Natapei has dogs at home, I guess they will be pleased to see him more often, as a prime minister usually work long hours. That would be an advantage of the blunder.

Disappointing Pizza

Can pizza ever be a disappointment? Yes, if you ask Daniel, it sure can. He bought some take away pizza for dinner tonight, but when he came home with them, he discovered that he had not got the pizza he had ordered. Instead of salami sausage, there was mushrooms all across the pizza, and Daniel dislikes mushrooms. I volunteered to have the pizza instead, but he did not think that was a good idea. However, they were nice at the pizza place, they asked for forgiveness and came by with a new pizza of the right kind with their delivery car. That is good service and Daniel thanked them for it.