#granddog

[missypapageorge]

Mila Bear took me for a walk. It was so fun. #mila #bear #bipolarbear #granddog #LA #walkthisway #wholetthedogsout (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOpzWMPA3k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thedaveandkimmershow]

To be honest, January felt a lot like an extension of December. As if December just kept going and going. The 31st, 32nd, 33rd...

And so on.

We actually closed out 2024 with an impromptu trip to hang out with family from December 30 through December 33. Not really to do anything but to hang out, live there a bit, indulge this other life we lead when we're in California. We even managed a party with friends to celebrate the ends and beginnings of things. :-)

January was a month of firsts. For example, we're not exactly grandparents but we have a granddoggy named Teddy. He's a light brown shepherd of sorts and Kimmer totally spoils him. Even before his first day staying at our place she'd bought him a bowl a mat and a big box 'o dog biscuits. She also pulled Linzy's old sleeping bag from the garage and arranged it in the living room so Teddy had something familiar in the house. Plus, Kimmer picked up a green stuffed toy just in case. :-)

Another first was that we bought a cat tree for our cat, Quarter. Kimmer was thinking he'd benefit from such a thing and, one day when she was browsing about the Shoreline GoodWill, she found it, had me check it out and think about it, then buy it, then bring it home, set it up. And presto!

A cat tree in our home.

Quarter took right to it. Although I've gotta say that he's kind of lazy about it. He could, if he wanted to, climb/leap the first three levels to the top which we call the Crow's Nest. Instead, he realized early on that the third level is more easily accessed from the desk right next to it. So that's what he does. He jumps up on the desk and almost walks across to the third level. If he's feeling ambitious, he'll leap straight up and into the Crow's Nest from the desk.

Bit of a cheater-pants, if you ask me.🤨

Now, we did get the cat tree for Quarter but Dinker uses it, too. The two cats actually took to playing Storm the Castle and Defend the Fort with Dinker as the attacker and Quarter as the defender. Quarter will actually poke his head out the bottom of the Crow's Nest and swipe and Dinker... and Dinker will swipe back.

Other times, though, we find Dinker in the Crow's Nest and Quarter on his blanket at the base of it. No claws out. No hissing. Just everyone being chill and all is right in the world. :-)

The next thing's not a first time but yeah. Kind of. We wanted to start in on the Harry Potter franchise again, top to bottom, in January. Only we didn't want to play any more streaming games. Bad enough the movies went from Netflix to Peacock to Netflix to Max. So we figured we'd buy the DVDs at GoodWill, Value Village, and Half Price Books. Which is how it worked out except for two things.

The first is we had to buy two Order of the Phoenix DVDs because the first one failed about halfway through. And then the second one failed at the same spot. So we gave up and watched the rest of the movie through a YouTube rental.

The second thing is that the movie we bought to kick off our seventh maybe eighth time through the franchise was called Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone.

Whoops.

That's the title of the British version of the book and, of course, the movie... for Brits. Yeah. We somehow wound up with a European version of the disc, encoded for European DVD players. Popping this disc in, we immediately got a Not available in your region message because yeah. European DVDs don't play over here. Like, at all. So we went back to the store and bought a proper Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone and everything was right in the world. :-)

A coupla things that added to the vibe of an extended December: my friend Hilary gave me a Lego Severus Snape that's super adorable and owns a prominent piece of real estate next to my edit workstation at home. Linzy also had something for me in January: my December birthday card she didn't give me on my birthday but instead gave to me toward the end of January. Hand-crafted. Very cool deal.

Speaking of Linzy, she had a bit of a month. She traveled with The Little Lies (Fleetwood Mac tribute band) to perform at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. She flew out the morning after a Midnight High gig, went straight from the airport to the rehearsal space in San Francisco and practiced 'til evening. The next day, the band got to visit The Record Plant in Sausalito just the other side of the Golden Gate bridge. This is where Fleetwood Mac recorded their iconic, classic album, Rumours. Bit of a visiting Mecca experience for this group of musicians. :-)

A coupla weeks later, they're in Los Angeles at The Regent Theater. Prior to these California performances, the band did shows at The Moore in Seattle and Aladdin in Portland. These performances are an integral part of a live podcast tour, a co-production of the You're Wrong About podcast and the American Hysteria podcast. We actually flew down the 23rd to the 26th to catch this show, once again living a few days in Irvine with family and embarking on quite the adventure the night after we arrived to probably the sketchiest, most dystopian part of L.A.. The evening involved many moving parts including, yes, the dystopia but also an authentic Mexican dinner along a historic street, a walkabout in Union Station, the logistics of trying to find the kind of parking that seems, you know, safe, a bar where the bartender is also the DJ for all the vinyl records up on the back wall of the bar that take their turns on a turntable, and finally, of course, the live podcast itself.

Having seen the show, I still can't properly describe it. It's a bit podcast, a bit history lesson, a bit of a play, a bit music. It's an eclectic bunch of ingredients that are expertly crafted to work. Rumor has it the show may move east in the fall. New Orleans maybe. New York maybe. And if they do play New Orleans... I'm pretty sure we're going. :-)

So January, Linzy had a bunch of solo restaurant/winery gigs, a Midnight High show, the two shows in California, and then finally a songwriter's showcase at the Rabbit Box Theatre a block off the Pike Place Market. This was three songwriters taking turns on stage, this time around Linzy pulling songs from the vault and doing those old songs quite a bit of justice.

Makes us wanna hear more of those early tunes. :-)

On the professional front, Kimmer's still wall-to-wall-to-wall work and doctoral studies. I'm being a little more experimental, taking some AI tools out for a spin to see how close to a travel show I can get using high-resolution photographs the AI manages brings to life.

Not necessarily a professional thing but a work thing, UW Video treated its full-time and part-time staff to an evening of bowling and appetizers. Great team-building experience. Great opportunity to talk shop, especially with the photographers, bringing them up to date with what we can do in Post these days.

Most importantly?

I didn't embarass myself. 105 and a 115. :-)

I also started up a new blog, My Brain on Creativity, that focuses a little more intently on Creativity and Neuroscience. I actually started up two new blogs. The second one is called Very Angry? Count to 100. It's a space in which I'm working out how some of the foundational lessons I learned in college pursuing my Communication degree and my Psychology degree... I'm working out how they apply today.

Anyway... that was our January.

Onward!

[thewoundedgoddess]

Punch the squeaky cheeseburger. Do it.

[psychicandapoet]

[tomwordwulfsterner]

Look who Boo and I ran into at the RTD. #Dogs #frenchie #granddog #TennesseeBrindleTreeingHound #rtd #walk (at Thornton, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8QCKYuYWF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[southernista]

When I'm not getting up to puppy mischief I am looking out my second favorite window constantly on patrol to protect my people from evil squirrels and cats 😂. Officer Pumpkin is always on patrol🐶 #misspumpkin #officerpumpkinonpatrol #puppiesofinstagram #spoileddog #granddog #dogsofinstagram (at Durham, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2imunOi9V/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[summitclan-chronicles]

Merry Christmas!

Good morning! Admin Jingo is awake, which means applications are due to close. I will be doing so TEN MINUTES from this post (6:15 am EST)!

[dinosaurwithablog]

This is my granddog, Shantotto 😍 She's a lovely little dog with a lot of spirit. She's so much fun to play with!! I love Shantotto ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ woof!! I love dogs!! ❤️

[doghowto]

Doggo loves time with his grandparents! 👴👵 Follow me for more cute granddogs!

[vanweezer]

one day ill be an old old man and my granddogs will ask me "what did you do for fun when you were our age pop pop" and ill tell them i was posting about that musician mans pussy

[quilt-giving]

It’s 11 F outside. I wish my granddog “Jeannie”would quit wanting to go outside. Everytime I open the door, cold air rushes in. LOL,

[seriouslysam8]

You can write Harry getting a dog as a bonus chapter after my babies get together, my boi Sirius getting to be grandpa and an epilogue 😤

But… Sirius gets a granddog next chapter?? That’s like… good, right?

[obsessioncollector]

Speak, Memory is so funny bc Nabokov is talking about his childhood and mentioning that his family had two tennis courts (but the older one wasn't maintained!), their dog was the grandchild (or granddog...) of one of Chekhov's dogs, people were always asking his dad to do things in the government and it is all so casual and matter-of-fact. I don't object morally, it's better than if he'd pretended to be the salt of the earth etc and surely his readers were already well-aware of his background but still lmao.

[tomwordwulfsterner]

Kathy and Edmund #frenchie #granddog (at Thornton, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp58xQxuqph/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[southernista]

Sometimes I just sit on the steps and think but mostly I'm waiting on grandma 😆🐶 #misspumpkin #puppiesofinstagram #spoileddog #granddog #dogsofinstagram (at Durham, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpveW_UP8iP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=