I am about to enjoy a nice two-day work week.  SWEET!!!  Wednesday morning I’ll be joining Donette on a trip to lovely Omaha, NE, and then we’re going to follow that up with a camping trip to Lovewell Lake in KS.  Should be relaxing.

Well I’m not really too keen on typing today, and I’m going to use that as an excuse for a brief update.  In addition, we really didn’t do much, so I don’t have anything to relate anyway.  I find this brutal heat rather oppressive so I just stay inside for the most part.  Friday night, case in point, we just stayed home and watched TV.  I did find time to work on my nifty firewall that I was bragging on in last week’s update.  This project culminated with me ruining my router;  Oops.  My beloved wrt54g firewall/router is now a blue and black plastic paperweight.  Oh well, it lived a relatively long life, I got my moneys worth out of it I suppose.  They aren’t very expensive anyway.  I found this an opportune time to read the documentation on the firewall software, and found the error of my ways.  Now I just need a new router.  Crap.

Saturday morning kicked off with Gabe’s agility class.  He continues to excel, and is even getting a bit better on the stupid weave-poles.  They introduced the “A-frame” this time, which is pretty much just a big ramp that they go up and over.  No problems on that one.  After class we went over to Mom’s and installed a new printer for her to use with her digital camera.  Pretty sweet printer… you can just plug the camera into it and print borderless 4×6’s with one button.  After that short project Mom made some lunch; Grilled ribeyed with sauteed mushrooms, and zucchini on the side.  Now that’s a lunch!!!  Far better than the chips and dip I probably would have eaten at home.  SCORE!!  We didn’t do anything that night… tried to watch King Kong but I fell asleep about 30 seconds into it.
Sunday Gabe and I got up early and went to the “Dog and Jog” at the Plaza.  I had some reservations about taking him down there, but he did just fine.  Sure, there were a few very minor confrontations, but no worse than any of the other mutts.  Hey, the boy doesn’t like having his butt sniffed, who can blame him.  I have thought about getting him a shirt that says “You leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone” but decided against it because A) if you’re close enough to read the shirt it’s probably too late, and B) dogs can’t read anyway.  We had fun though, I put up just a few pictures here.  The walk didn’t take too long, and after that we met up with Donette’s parents for some breakfast at Sharps.  I’ve had the chicken fried steak the last three times I’ve been there, might need to branch out a little next time.  It was mighty good though, except we got stuck with the crazy “psuedo-non-smoking” booth.  Exactly how you can call a booth “non-smoking” when smoking is allowed at the one right next to it kind of escapes me.  Joke.  After that we took care of our weekend “home maintenance” chores, then wound up the weekend down at the Brooksider.  Todd came over and watched “Entourage” with us, since the Sopranos is now over.  It rated “OK”.