The dog that didn't last...

One day about two years ago, a lady at Shauna's work brought a small puppy with her into work one day. She said that she had found him in a ditch beside the road. The lady had phoned the SPCA and a animal shelter called the Blue Cross, but both said that they had no vacancies and that the dog would be put to sleep if they took him in. Well, to cut a long story short, we ended up taking him. We had always planned on getting another dog to be some comfort for Chase. However, after about 3 months he was causing too much hassle. He was still just a pup and wanted to play all the time. Even at three in the morning. One night I woke up to him barking and growling with Chase, just play fighting. The neighbour next door was not pleased and at this point neither was I. He had to go. So we let him go to a friend of Shaunas, but he didn't last long there either. After he ripped up there garbage and generally made a mess of their back yard, he came back to us. Luckily, Shauna had a friend who lived on an acreage and had lots of space and was far away from her neighbours! But the story doesn't end there. Apparently he was very keen on her cats... a little too keen. After she had seen him run behind her shed, she chased after him. She seen Muck running away and a dead cat on the ground. After that, I'm not sure where he went, to the SPCA I think. He had a hard start.

Our new dog

We've had Lady for some time now but have only just got around to taking some photos of her. Not that she is looking the greatest right now anyway. She is in desperate need of a haircut. ;-)

Anyone want to post a topic here?

I thought that it would be a cool idea to let anyone who wanted to post something that they wanted to say on here. I mean its really hard to put down all my views on here. Guess thats why I never kept a diary. But I'm sure there are those of you out there that have opinions on stuff and wouldn't mind sharing it. I know one of my co-workers would need five pages just to get started on religion. Another would probably just post funny stuff. Think about it and if anyone wants to write something, go ahead and email it to me.

I have recently started watching a show called "Penn and Teller: Bullsh!t". The name says it all. Those secret giving magicians pick a topic and basically rip it apart and prove it to be Bullsh!t. This weeks episode was on recycling. Yep, recycling is a complete waste of time. The long and short of it is that recycling aluminum cans is the only one worth doing. The rest cost more to recycle than to actually make a new one, cause more pollution by recycling them, and don't cause and need for panic due to landfills filling up too fast. To recycle you need to send out another truck. You need machines to sort and process the items. Plus the machine to make the new items. The USA makes 220 million tons of garbage per year. To dispose of that amount of garbage you would need a hole 35 X 35 miles wide and 200 feet high. USA has a land mass of 9,161,923 sq kms. The only reason recycling carries on is because it's thought of as the right thing to do. And the government releases figures showing that its saving materials.
They have also done shows on "the war on drugs", "animal rights organisations (PETA, ALF)" and "Phrophets such as Nostradamus". I guess when you are given information for as long as you can remember you just accept it as truth. But when someone gives you the other side of the coin perspective, it really opens your eyes to how blinkered you've been. Then it gets you thinking about other things that you have always believed to be true. How far do you go? Have we been visited my aliens? Are we alone in the universe? Hmm I wonder...

Changing sites again

Well as good as a .mac account is, it just isn't for me. You do get a large web based email account, back up storage, 1GB storage. But it all comes at a cost. $99.95 a year. Its probably worth it if you would use all of the features. I wouldn't so this is why I have been looking for another web host. I subscribe to pod cast about Macs called Screen casts online. One of the screen casts highlights a web hosting site called Site Ground. For only $4.95 a month you get 40GBs of storage, a free domain name, unlimited emails plus other features. This is the way I think I am going to go. So get ready for another web address. I am thinking of deejaydoubleyou.com to keep with my initials. Stayed tuned for updates.

As I work with the public on a daily basis, as you can imagine I meet all sorts. From millionaires in multi-million dollar houses, to filthy, disgusting lowlife people and everything in between. Some people that live in very posh houses who apologize for having a coffee cup on the table to backward, slimey idiots who have a path way through the piled high rubbish from the kitchen to the TV. Well a few days ago I met someone who I found to be interesting. Most times people pick up on my slight accent and guess that I'm from England... (or there abouts)! Well the customer in question mentioned that he had a cousin who used to play professional snooker in England. "who?" I asked, "Bill Werbenick" he replied. Now at first I didn't believe him but after looking at his physique, he really did look like Bill. After we chatted for a few minutes I left. When I got home that night, I decided to look up some information on the Canadian snooker player. I loaded up google, typed in Bill Werbenick, and the results showed "0". Now he might not be the most popular snooker player of all time, but I'm sure most people who like snooker would have heard of him. And with the amount of mis-information that is available on the internet today, I was surprised that there was nothing on him, Zilch, nada, zero. I thought that this was quite sad. Until just now when I just typed in his name again, and realised that his name is spelt Bill Werbeniuk, So really this post was irrelevant.