Watching WVU v. Maryland.
All six animals are in my little office because Shawn has to get up for work at 4 am for his new job, so they are in here to keep them somewhat quiet. As you can see, the puppies just dropped their toys, which includes a toilet paper roll they stole from the bathroom trash can, and just collapsed.
You all might find that picture cute, and I do, a little, but mostly it is terrifying, because I know in 45 minutes they will be wide awake terrorizing everyone, bouncing off the walls.
gogol's wife
So, so cute.
MomSense
Love them.
srv
Those sound like fracking hours.
The new DemoNormal:
Catfood for everybody!
WaterGirl
Adorable! Pretty sure my heart rate slowed just looking at them.
yodecat
Nice doggies. Aren’t they cute when they’re asleep? Later the needle teeth.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@srv:
Yeah, my budget would look a lot better too if I could “defer” paying my bills.
SWMBO
Every moment they’re laying there, they’re storing up energy. You should take a nap when they do.
jl
I find that picture cute.
Thanks in advance to Cole for upcoming pix of puppies bouncing off the walls.
Take a pic when the pups launch, and post it, Cole, it will calm you down. I promise it will.
Violet
Awww..they look so sweet. We all know the real truth.
Thurston is so much bigger than Lovey. I love how he’s got his paw protectively on her back. Like a good brother. The truth of it may be somewhat different.
Suzanne
Babies of every species are adorable so you don’t push them off the overpass.
srv
God F’ing Bless Arizona:
rikyrah
the picture is beautiful
BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack (tablet): So I can tell the credit card company that I’ll pay them off in a few years? Kewl!
srv
Local news reporter talks to witness, who says she woke up in her camper to melee. Next he asks “what are all these people doing sleeping in Walmart parking lots?”
Apparently nine people in a Suburban camping out. Am told there are a lot of Rainbow Family folks in Idaho.
Suzanne
@srv: I really don’t know how much gun crime it will take before people think that maybe everyone having immediate access to guns is A BAD FUCKING IDEA. Sigh.
Cottonwood is lovely.
Roger Moore
@BillinGlendaleCA:
As long as you keep making the minimum payment, they’ll be perfectly happy with that plan. Of course they’ll be charging you usurious interest until you finally do pay it off, so it may be as bad a plan for you as it is for New York.
NotMax
@srv
“Walmart parking lot” doesn’t have quite the zing or cachet as “O.K. corral.”
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
Only because we’ve had a century of priming to think of the OK Corral as something cool. If people make as big a deal about this shootout, in a century people will think that “Walmart Parking Lot” has plenty of zing.
Keith P.
A strange neighborhood cat has come into my house for the 2nd straight night (I have a cat door). Sucker goes nuts for the Fancy Feast, and now he’s sitting on a chair in the living room staring at my female cat. She’s actually got 3 different cats that come to visit her, which drives my male cat nuts. I should probably boot the cat out, but it seems to really want to be inside.
Mike J
@Roger Moore: The bullets are unreal. Without body. They are illusions only. Shadows without substance. They will not pass through your body, for they do not exist. Unreal. Appearances only. They are shadows. Illusions. Nothing but ghosts of reality. They are lies. Falsehoods. Spectres without body. They are to be ignored.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: Oh, I have to make a minimum payment? That’s different. Never mind.
Violet
@srv:
They’re from Idaho? White supremacists?
srv
@Violet: Idaho has all kinds. As I mentioned, the campers story would trend towards Rainbow Family and not Ruby Ridge types.
TaMara (BHF)
@Keith P.: I have a male cat in a cat carrier on my deck at the moment, starving, slightly injured. He can’t come in for various reasons, but I’ll get him to the shelter tomorrow to see if he is chipped or just an (unneutered) stray.We know most of the roaming cats in the neighborhood and he’s new and very much wants to be an indoor cat, so someone is probably missing him.
For tonight he will be warm and well fed.
scav
Walmart road atlases had a little extra section that listed the attributes of their stores and I think camping was one of them. So at least that wasn’t the unexpected portion of the event.
TaMara (BHF)
The Pups are adorable. I guess I should be grateful that it takes so much energy to grow a Great Dane, Bixby was always out by 9 pm until morning, except for late night potty breaks the first month.
If he woke me up and raced around at 2 am, cuteness may not have saved him.
srv
@efgoldman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NkLlfSgl7c
WaterGirl
@TaMara (BHF): Come on, you know it would have!
TaMara (BHF)
@WaterGirl: Ha! Cuteness has not saved him this weekend. We had a very rough (ruff) go of it. Then on our final walk tonight…total and complete gentleman, even when we walked through a large group of people.
Who btw, completely understood I was working on his training, so they were very respectful and helpful and let me walk him through the middle of them, reassuring me if he decided he needed to jump and slobber all over them, they’d be ok with that.
He didn’t and was well rewarded for his efforts.
Another Holocene Human
@srv: I hope those union leaders that backed Cuomo are puking right now.
Mike E
The “Turkey” episode of WKRP was on earlier, classic.
@Mike J: He’s dead, Jim.
Elizabelle
Lovey looks spiffy in her new little collar.
Puppies are sweet.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike E:
So is this thread.
I woke up at 3:00 a.m., couldn’t get back to sleep, and came over here to see if the night crew could either amuse me or send me back to dreamland, but I didn’t expect a thread whose last comment was posted nearly two hours ago! Wake up, sheeple!
HRA
This is how Cuomo balances the budget. In 2013 he had the state workers donate 9 days off without pay and not allowed to use any accrued vacation time as well. Yes, he promised payment for the time and money lost. That happened in the last months of 2014. Ironically, I was one of those employees. Now I am one of the retirees since September of 2014. I opted for direct deposit of my payment. So far my check is mailed with a note of it being partial payment until they can compute my real payment correctly. Note: the union agreed with the 2013 donation and I am sure they agree with this new one, too.
SiubhanDuinne
Testing.
SiubhanDuinne
Testing again.
Aleta
@NotMax:
“Walmart parking lot” doesn’t have quite the zing or cachet as “O.K. corral.”
You would never run out of bullets though.
Save Money. Die Better.
SiubhanDuinne
This is a test.
BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Is it working?
Baud
Who knew?
raven
yea
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Told you it was gonna cost more money.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Thanks Obama.
BillinGlendaleCA
Oh boy, Tailgunner Ted is running for President.
raven
Oh boy Mika “wouldn’t underestimate him”. Stupid is as stupid does.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: First clown in the car.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
Oh noes!! Obamacare causes diabeetus!
Abo gato
@Keith P.: we had a cat come live with us about 10 years ago. For a number of mornings, I’d go to the back door just in time to see an orange behind go out. Open the door and look, but he was gone. Our other two cats didn’t seem to care. Put out extra food, checked the neighborhood, no one claimed to have lost a cat. Then one night about 2 AM, woke up to have him lying on top of me doing the cat thing with his paws. I actually said out loud to him “I don’t even know you and here you are in bed with me.” Husband didn’t even wake up. Named him Honker. He died two years ago. Pet doors can be awesome.
Keith P.
5:45 AM and I hear my female screaming bloody murder. I ran into the living room to see *another* black cat in the house chasing her. Finally, they both make it outside with the stray inside confused as hell. Took about 15 minutes but I got the strays outside and the female inside where she seems traumatized (and the male alpha is PISSED). Hopefully everything will be cooled down in another hour, but damn that makes my Mondays even worse (and I am quitting my job at 4:55 PM, which is gonna make for a looooooong day)
OzarkHillbilly
@Abo gato: If I had a pet door I’d probably end up with a family of coons raiding the fridge.
Bystander
Puppy paw on puppy butt is surefire cute, the first rule of Sensitive Photography.
What are the chances this guy will turn out to be a major Dem figure in the next few years?
http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/24774435/article-Mayor-Steve-Gets-Up-Close-and-Personal—On-relationships–the-Marines–and-Miley-Cyrus-?instance=jersey_mag
I’m really liking this guy, but I’ve kissed a few frogs lo these many years.
JPL
Ted Cruz has a video online called A Time for Truth. . Politifact has several incidences pointing out that Cruz has a problem with the truth.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Obamacare is pretty sweet.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Thanks Obama.
Abo gato
@OzarkHillbilly: well, we did have a bunch of baby opossums that came in, but that’s a long, long story.
JPL
Breaking News! Peggy Noonan is on CBS morning news and appears to be sober.
OzarkHillbilly
@Abo gato: I’ve got nothing better to do right now. ;-)
Elmo
@Mike J: Oh man. I read that and heard Nimoy’s delivery in my head, and now I’m all verklempt.
@scav:
Among the RV set, it’s well known that Walmart allows camping in its parking lots for free. When I moved from California to Tennessee, i bought an old RV and drove, with my wife and our seven dogs, while movers moved our stuff. We camped at Walmart twice.
It feels very safe. Plenty of lighting, and campers start showing up around 4pm or so, so there’s safety in numbers.
Believe it or not, that really makes a difference when you don’t know how far you’ll get in a day, so you can’t make advance campground reservations. Stopping on roadsides or truck stops is scary for two women traveling alone.
ThresherK
@JPL: Breathalyzer or it didn’t happen.
Baud
@ThresherK:
I vote for didn’t happen.
OzarkHillbilly
Today in Driving the Misogynists Crazy:
Reaching new heights: girl ascends to rock-climbing royalty – at only 13
debbie
@BillinGlendaleCA:
As you probably know, Josh Marshall knew of Cruz back when they were both at Harvard. He’s not surprised Cruz skipped the exploratory shtick and went straight to an announcement. It’s been interesting reading classmates’ recollections:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/me-ted
ThresherK
@OzarkHillbilly: Good for her. I started doing just a touch of this before even the first X Games; I’m thin enough, but there are just incredible amounts of core strength and upper body durability required which I don’t really have.
And that’s just indoors, where I had one person dedicated to keeping me from hurting myself, and also soft padding all around.
Iowa Old Lady
@HRA: Wait. NY is actually not paying the full pension? When I read what srv posted, I thought it meant the state was deferring its payments into the system, not that the system was deferring payments out to retirees.
But no tax increase, oh no. These people are immoral.
JPL
@Iowa Old Lady: Contracts no longer matter.
Baud
@JPL:
Not labor contracts anyway.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: DINGDINGDINGDING
WaterGirl
@TaMara (BHF): Well, thank god for that final walk so you could end the day on a high note!!
I used to date someone who was able to sense when I was starting to think “is this worth it?” and would suddenly be the nicest person ever. For awhile. Not that I think Bixby would be that manipulative. :-)
But maybe they do understand when they have tried our patience to the max and they need to settle down a bit.
geg6
Lovey’s collar is lovely.
WaterGirl
@geg6: It must be interesting falling in love on-line. At least you know it’s not a fake photo and she’s not pretending she’s something she isn’t. :-)
Botsplainer
Well THAT was embarrassing. Head so deep into the phone that I exited on the wrong floor, walked across to the mens’ room door and was momentarily confused to find it locked and keycoded and only then looked around to notice I was on the bank association floor instead of my own.
It would be just like bank people to do that. I’m just surprised that the lock didn’t have a debit card swiper.
WaterGirl
@Botsplainer: It’s not really embarrassing until you have walked into the other gender’s bathroom by mistake. I have done this at least 3 times. Oh,well.
Renie
@Mike J: Star Trek. Spectre of the Gun. You win the internet for this!
Abo gato
@OzarkHillbilly: sorry, I did….had to go to work.