errantember

I just wrote this to an independent bookseller on Amazon. The rest of the story tells itself!
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Writing this was unnecessary, but I think you'll find it amusing.

During my childhood, The Poky Little Puppy was my absolute favorite book. I recently found a copy at a local bookstore and bought it. Re-reading it, it rang a few bells, but I wasn't really emotionally connected to the experience. What I *really* needed was to hear my mother reading it *to* me. At first I was going to ship her my copy and ask her to record herself reading it, but then I though, shit, I can get it on Amazon for less than the cost of mailing it with no trip to the post office. So I ordered the copy for her from you. Then, a few days later, I got an order from Amazon. It was the Poky Little Puppy! My first assumption was that I had made an error in the address in my order to you. I went and checked, and, Lo and Behold, the address was correct! So I fired up this message to complain, but decided to double-check the receipt on the copy I just got.

And it was from my Mom. A completely unrelated order!

So you're doing great, helping people re-connect with their favorite childhood memories.

Carry on!

After failing to dissect the last remaining rawhide chew toy to distribute to Loki and Louie with both a hack saw (too slow) and tin snips (too little torque) I finally resorted to a Dremel with a metal cutting disk. After reading The Omnivore's Dilemma I wasn't planning on buying any more industrially produced meat products, anyway, but the smell produced by this operation combined with my disbelief that any organic substance could be so strong has sealed the rawhide's fate.

Ew.

However, this makes it very clear why various types of armor worn throughout history were made of boiled leather. The chew toy I just cut apart would have handily deflected both a razor-sharp katana or a 30 lb. two-handed broadsword wielded by subject-matter experts. It's also ridiculously light for it's strength, certainly better than most metals and somewhere equivalent to polycarbonate.

He's a cutie pie!

Anthony (pictured above!) is not a chew toy!




This is going to be interesting...

Misery Week continues here on the WB with the arrival of the new puppy! Although he's completely adorable and very healthy, I also appear to be slightly allergic to him, which is exacerbating my fever, *and* he didn't *quite* make it home without shitting in his crate.

Anyone who can design the shitless puppy is in for Big Money$$$.

The puppy is now sharing in my misery (poor puppy!) as it's his first night away from his family of 2 adults and three other froppy puppies, and he is very lonely and sad. And loud.

Really fucking loud.

Poor puppy!

I've been told that if he doesn't chill after a few days, he may not be quite weened yet and may need to go home for another week. We'll see how it goes.

Pictures of the snugly one forthcoming...

No one else has made any suggestions yet on the Name That Adorable Fucking Puppy Contest. If you want a chance at naming him, you'll need to submit soon, since I need to pick something he can learn to recognize.