I love this cartoon that my brother sent me because I’m so sick of the allegations against Obama that he’s advocating Socialist policies (i.e. redistribution of wealth). What the hell is Medicare? I pay money into it every paycheck but all that money goes to other people; that’s but one example of redistribution of wealth in this country that you don’t hear Republicans complaining about.

I can’t believe how busy we’ve been since Saratoga came home three weeks ago; so busy I forgot to post here. She doesn’t have full use of her back legs yet but with the 3x/day physical therapy that we’re doing with her she’s improving just a little almost every day. She can already hold her weight on her back legs for several seconds which is huge considering she barely had any feeling, let alone muscle control or tone in her back legs when she first came home.

I found this Flash-based lite RPG/combat game through my favorite geek clothing vendor J!nx today and it’s quite fun considering the small amount of effort needed. Try out Talesworth Arena and you might like it. Using that link will add my user as a friend on Kongregate (the host site) but MrJinx is the account for the game’s creator.

Our sweet little Saratoga (who is only about five years old) has been in the hospital for five days now with a spinal cord injury. She had premature calcification of her backbone and something caused multiple discs to herniate and damage the spinal cord. The news was grim and we ended up driving an hour away to get an MRI the second day and the results from that were so bad that the next day we decided that the kindest thing for her would be to let her go to a better place. She had no feeling in her back legs and no bladder or bowel control.

We went to say good-bye yesterday and it turns out that we missed a phone message from the surgeon saying that she had improved dramatically since we had last talked. She had regained her deep pain sensation in her back legs which we were told was a night & day improvement so she actually stands a chance of walking normally again. She will stay at the hospital a few more days for observation so they can (hopefully) watch her get better day by day.

We miss you Sara and need you to come home soon. Keep fighting girl, you can do it.

Somebody at work forwarded a link to this picture of the new Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru Lars action figures from Star Wars Episode IV. I should have guessed what it would be from the names of the characters. This would be an easy one to make at home: scan an existing card, tweak the text & picture and add a couple of melted figures of your choice. The original image is from smugbaldy.com by the way.

I got this link on a technical e-mail list where several of the members are located in the Houston area where hurricane Ike went through recently. These are before & after aerial photographs of the Bolivar Peninsula area of Texas. Pretty dramatic although not as bad as the before & after photos of the big typhoon a few years ago (I think that one was in the Indian Ocean).

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ike/photo-comparisons/bolivar.html

 

I understand that if your dog has injured feet or is a resuce dog working on hostile terrain that you’d put boots on for protection (the dog, not you) but these people bugged me with all their laughing at their poor doggie flapping around trying to get the boots off.

I have found that the Battle College site has some great information for Warmachine players. Lots of reviews of units as well as faction tactics (including specific counters against other factions). Oh yeah, it has Hordes info too which is nice because probably close to half of my games have been against Hordes armies so far.

I ran across this $400 LEGO Death Star kit at Gizmodo, it looks simply awesome. Too bad I don’t have that kind of money to drop on a one-time build that would probably just sit on my shelf. Dare I say it’s actually cooler than the action figure-scale Death Star I had back when I was a kid (although nothing will compare to the rubber Dianoga (trash monster to us kids back then) and foam-rubber “trash” in the trash compactor of that playset).

While I was at GameInk I had to laugh when I came across this one: