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About to kill the rottweiler [video]

Ugh, this dog!

Here is a video about my mangey Rottweiler and the new boyfriend: RSS/facebook readers: click here if you cannot see the video.

How to get postal service

I’m walking the dogs when I run into my mailman:

Mailman: “Eek! Those are huge dogs! Makes a mailman wanna piss himself! Are they friendly?” Me: “Oh, most of the time.” Mailman: “Heh. Huge all the same. What apartment do you live in?” Me: “53B.” Mailman: “53B?” Me: “Yes.” Mailman: “I’ll make sure you get your mail on time then.” Me: “So that’s [...]

Bad Customer Service at Sprint II: Resurrection.

I’m furious.

Remember last month’s epic Sprint customer service fail when it took me three hours to purchase my Blackberry?

Well, this morning Madre Jansen sent me an email:

Madre Jansen: “What is this $30 equipment charge on the phone bill? Here is the username and password for the account. Figure it out.”

So I call sprint:

Sprint Rep: “Hi [...]

Pre-law school advice

Grasshoppers!

So you are not taking my advice! You are coming to law school. You are starting blawgs. You have “JD” in your twitter usernames (we will address that later) and you are tweeting and emailing plenty of questions.

Let me point you to a few places for your pre-law reading pleasure:

Wish I would have known: a [...]

The hand that feeds

I always release the dog treats a little before Harley bites down… Now you know why.

The “treat” in that picture is a pig ear. They come in sacks of 20 at Wal-Mart and the dogs love them. And yes they are greasy and absolutely disgusting to handle.

Oh, and that mess of wires is the power-strip [...]

BWE 7: Minesweeper and busyness

I have not watched the Oscars since middle school. The show is excruciatingly boring, has no fun musical performances, and there are only 3 or 4 awards anyone cares about.

Although I suspected the Oscars would be a snoozefest, I joined the boyfriend at Jeff’s house to watch the Oscars anyway.

Nothing has changed. We are [...]

Progress

There’s a new player on the University of Minnesota East Bank skyline: Fall construction pictures are here and here. The demolition pictures of the prior building are here.

I expected an uglier building than this, and I am still not sold on a sleek new building so close to the UMN mall. I guess this is called [...]

Hoar frost & muck

Things are actually rainy and muddy right now, but a few weeks ago we got some pretty hoar frost.

The images link to larger files. RSS/Facebook readers: click here if you cannot see the gallery above.

The pictures were taken on my Blackberry. I’m ambivalent about spring coming. The temperature is warmer but the dogs are muddier, and there’s [...]

The flaming fart at Arise Bookstore

Brilliance. This is the side of Uptown’s Arise Bookstore. Many of Uptown’s buildings have cool street art, but the Arise flaming fart is right up there with the giant blue baby on the side of Cal Surf store near Lake Calhoun.

I plan to let my future kids tag the house for their school art projects so [...]

The Creep Circus

The dogs and I pass this mural frequently on our walks. I’m never sure if should be impressed or sketched out: More Minneapolis street & car art:

Something Blue Potty Art for Blackberry Creepy Little Girl Car Tattoo Art Car