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Collecting Botts Dots

james — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:15:43 +0000

Walking our dog twice a day gives us plenty of time to look around our local streets. Lately we’ve started collecting what we call speed bumps. They are the little plastic pieces glued to the concrete that seperate lanes. We later learned through the marvels of the Internet that these bumps are officially called “Bott’s Dots” after their California inventor. Now before you accuse us of causing wrecks we have developed strict rules regarding our collection practices. First, we only pick up bumps that have already been knocked out of position and are now just littering the road. However a good kick maybe nessecary to ensure that a bump is still stuck to the road. Second, you can only pick up one bump per walk. It is allowable to swap a better bump for an less favorable. It becomes important to remember where you dropped the swapped dot though in order to pick it up on the next walk.

Merry Christmas

james — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:00:24 +0000

Even in Texas it’s getting to be Christmas time so I thought I’d pass along some holiday greetings in the form of the Christmas card we sent out this year. Merry Christmas to you.

James, Erin and Tigerman pose for the camera

Tigerman with a Santa hat on

TigerMan in the Snow

james — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:58:35 +0000

It snowed in Dallas tonight and TigerMan enjoyed playing in the snow.

TigerMan Walking Nicely

james — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:07:49 +0000

The intervention worked. More later, but here’s a video of TigerMan walking nicely.

Intervention Today

james — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:53:34 +0000

TigerMan is getting an intervention today. He’s a bad walker. Since that’s his main activity most days it’s a problem. So a dog trainer is coming to work with him. This is the fourth trainer to try to fix him. Here’s hoping.