I have a new endeavor. I’m going to toilet train Chip. Don’t laugh.
I’ve been researching it for quite some time, and Dr. Heekin said it’s definitly possible. Today I bought the CitiKitty toilet training kit and tonight begins the training!
I’ll be taking pictures of him throughout the process, hopefully he won’t mind.
It’ll probably take a few months, but it’ll be worth it in the end to never have a litter box again!
-ec
My hope is that Chip will look like this one day:
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It’s that time of year again for KY to brace itself for the “Level 3 Emergency” deadly snowfalls of 1-3 inches *smirk*
We’re due to get 1-3 today around noon and schools are letting out, there’s a buzz around the office about going home early, and people are running to the store to stock up on basic necessities. All the news channels are running “winter storm” articles as well.
It all cracks me up. Check it out: Cincinnati.com
“Hi, I’m from Kentucky, and I’m a snowophobic” Geez.
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Sorry to all our avid readers *smirk* that we haven’t posted in awhile. We’ve both been really busy with work, Dliberation work, friends and family. I was thinking back to this time last year, when we were buying our house, living at my mom’s, I was preparing for my black belt test, Emmaus was going on, we were having all sorts of car trouble, etc. Whew, what a stressful few months!
Now, a year later, it’s happening again…not so many big things going on, but this time of year seems to be a tough one for us to get through. We’re both swamped at work, there’s another black belt test coming up (thankfully this time I just get to watch everyone else), we have 3 mock trials coming up in the next month with Dliberation Resources, plus we are squeezing in a visit to St. Louis, and a couple of on-call weekends for me, and of course, Brian and Ashley’s upcoming wedding.
Luckily though, we’ve got Lost, Survivor, and The Amazing Race starting back up again (which we love), a great cruise to the Caribbean (YAY!), and April, which in general is our “ahhhhh, it’s all over” month. Hopefully we’ll get back to posting soon, just wanted to keep everyone updated.
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CDBurnerXP Pro – free burning solution
I’m often asked what software I use for CD/DVD Burning. I’ve used Nero, CDRWin, and Roxio. They work well…but they cost money! CDBurnerXP is a great bit of software that will burn CD/DVD/ISO/MP3/etc very easily. I’ve used it on three different computers and reccomended it to people in the past.
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So I’ve never really made a New Year’s Resolution before. I think I’m going to make one this year, even though it’s a little late. When I won the AirHead Trivia on Air1 Radio earlier this month, one of the prizes I won was a 1 year bible. I’ve been reading it every day, and have decided that I’m going to make a goal to read the whole thing this year.
Sad to say, I’ve never read the bible completely. I’ve made many attempts; tried to read straight through a couple times, but never made it past Samuel or Kings. I’ve tried reading the New Testament as well, but didn’t get all the way through either. I have listened to the entire New Testament on CD though, if that counts.
Anyway, I have begun reading the 1 year bible and so far it’s been very easy. This book gives you a page or so of the Old Testament, a bit of the New Testament, a passage from Psalms and a passage from Proverbs each day. In all, it’s about 3 pages in the book per day, not too bad, only takes about 15 minutes. It’s really easy reading, and my mind doesn’t get sidetracked because it mixes up the areas of the Bible each day. I found that reading straight through the Bible gets a little dry. It’s never worked for me in the past anyway…
I’ve got some catching up to do since I didn’t get the book until 1/2 way through January, but I’m getting there. Currently reading twice a day until I get caught up. Hopefully making this goal public will keep me on track and actually make me commit to my goal more seriously. 🙂
-ec
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Happy Birthday to Cate!! We hope your day is wonderful!
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I did some re-arranging on the blog today. Added a shoutbox to the site on the side bar. You can use it to leave messages for us without having to reply to a topic. The post will show up automatically and pretty much instantly. Hopefully we won’t have a spam issue with it like Chris did over at KY Blogger. I also moved the categories down to the bottom of the site. We kept adding more an more with each post and it was getting really long. Don’t think many (any?) people use them much anyway.
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Notebook Hardware Control (NHC)
NHC is a great program that digs into your laptop and gets all kinds of great information. Yeah, that part is pretty geeky, but even for the non-geek it can provide some good insight about your laptop. Some of the features I like are its ability to display CPU temps, harddrive, temps, battery wear level, etc. It also allows you to adjust the CPU speed, graphics card processor speed etc. Give it a shot, it doesn’t take up many resources and sits quietly in the systray.
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On Saturday (21 Jan), I went to the Detroit Auto Show for the fourth consecutive year. I always have a good time there – checking out the concept cars, sitting in vehicles I know I can’t afford, and hanging out with friends. I took some photos (HERE) but certianly not as many as the previous years (2005 and 2006). This wasn’t intentional – heck I brought two cameras! … Just had some bad luck. The batteries in my Olympus D720 died about 1/2 way through the event. “No big deal” I thought, “I have my backup Canon!”. Unfortuneatly, when I dug the Canon out of its case, the LCD screen had a very large crack in it. I could still use it, but the veiwfinder is pretty pathtic so I decided not to deal with it.
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According to the news feed on Insight Broadband, another Bengal’s player was arrested this weekend, this time for drug possession. Do all NFL teams have as many problems as our fair city? I remember when St. Louis first got the RAMS, there were quite a few drunk driving arrests, including one player who plowed over and killed a pedestrian. He got a slap on the wrist and I believe was arrested sometime later on another drunk driving stop.
People wonder why I don’t like sports – I vew these players as ambassadors to society- children (and adults) look up to them and they need to remember this and act accordingly. If we are willing to pay them the salaries they feel they deserve (and by “we” I mean everyone else who buys mechandise, tickets, etc. since I don’t own anything like that), then those players need to wise up.
They make decent enough money that cab fare should be a drop in the hat. Or heck, have the teams pay someone a mediore salary to be an on-call designated driver! Sign me up, I can handle that one! I’m sure the coach would rather get a call at four in the morning from a drunk player (or other methods of innebriation) than from the team’s lawyers or local PD annoucing their arrest.
Do other professional sports leagues have these problems or is the media “out to get” the Bengals?
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