8th Times A Charm

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Our beloved (oh for a sarcasm font) Doberman (Nina) is supposed to be transitioned to sleeping in our son's room. This works fine as long as 1) she is let out around 10 pm and 2) if the son's door is kept closed after the dog is back in the son's room after 1) occurs. Lately (for reasons I will not go into) the son has decided that he does not like his door being shut at night. Due to the canine's natural inability to mark time passing, Nina will come into our room every hour or so. There are various theories as to why she thinks that she will be welcomed into the bed but I think she has heard the story of the women and the unjust judge and has taken it to heart. Typically we use our mean voice (or at least the vest version of it that we can muster up at 3 AM) and tell her to leave and she does so quickly. The floors in the hallway and in our bedroom (and in the son's room) are all wood so he nails betray any kind of stealth entry that she may have planned. I did break down at 4 this morning (aka "the 8^th time she came in) and with a click of the tongue and a small leap, she was settled in for the rest of the night.

The neck is still sore, but better. I did go to the chiropractor yesterday so hopefully I am on the road to recovery and we are only supposed to get 1" of snow today / tomorrow so I won't have to shovel. The rain we have had over the last few days has melted most of the previous snow and even the icicles are gone. I do see a coating on the Buick though out my front window. Well, it seems that I am running out of time to get ready for work so I have to sign off for now.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon