{"id":686,"date":"2009-02-18T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2009-02-18T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T13:33:49","slug":"daily-dose-02182009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kemar-k9s.com\/HoundBlog\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Daily Dose 02\/18\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up to rain this morning &#8212; the weather forecast says drizzle, but it was doing a bit more than that on the drive in. Not much more but definitely more than just a drizzle. Dogs aren&#8217;t happy about it as they all pretty much hate water much like cats, but there was no real reason to leave them crated for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I leave on my trip and I am still pretty excited over it. I have my casual clothes packed and a pretty good idea of the show outfits I&#8217;m going to take with me. I originally thought I would take the 3 suits, but think I&#8217;ll opt for a slacks outfit instead for one of the days as it&#8217;s outdoors and I haven&#8217;t checked to see what the weather will be on that day in Valdosta. If it&#8217;s raining, there&#8217;s no point in wearing panty hose and a nice suit.<\/p>\n<p>Ken wants me to cut his hair this afternoon when I get home from work, so guess I will forego the gym so I can get home to do that. It&#8217;s the least I can do after he plotted and printed the mapquest directions from site-to-site for every stop on the trip. I also want to do a last load of laundry. While I did some laundry yesterday and changed the sheets on the bed as well, I want to make sure there&#8217;s a little as possible to do when I get back. There&#8217;s some other miscellaneous cleaning that needs to be done, too. We never get through cleaning, do we?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have plans to leave at the crack of dawn or anything, but want to have plenty of time to make sure I have everything I&#8217;ll need for the trip, get the dogs bathed and birds settled. I have little slips of paper everywhere with lists on them of things to take. \ud83d\ude06 You would think I had never gone to a dog show by myself&#8230;well I have never planned to be gone on one for nearly a week before anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve neglected <a href=\"http:\/\/eyespi20.com\">eyespi20<\/a> these past few days &#8212; for one thing I haven&#8217;t had a burning topic to write about and for another, I&#8217;ve had both a poem and a short story percolating in my head and it&#8217;s hard to disengage my brain when it&#8217;s working on something creative like that to focus on more mundane things. Maybe during the down time between shows I&#8217;ll find time to put to paper (or screen) what is coming to gel in the left side of my brain \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also neglected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msns-blogs.com\/blog\">Travelin&#8217; Show<\/a> as I haven&#8217;t uploaded any new photos all week. I&#8217;ve TAKEN photos, just haven&#8217;t edited them and put them on the blog. Bad me. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I got a book in the mail yesterday that has me excited. No, it&#8217;s not a new mystery or anything any of y&#8217;all would be remotely interested in &#8212; it&#8217;s <em>The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit<\/em> by Ralph Kimball. I&#8217;m excited about it because I&#8217;ve been wanting to create a data warehouse for CFR and this book will help me accomplish that, but also because I got the book for $5.99&#8230;.yes, you read that correctly &#8212; $5.99! It cost more than that to ship it (and I didn&#8217;t pay nearly what it cost the guy for shipping either! I feel kinda bad for him but he SHOULD have sent it media mail, not first class).<\/p>\n<p>I bought it from half.com where I&#8217;ve bought other technical books from but this is by far the best deal yet. This is a $40 book brand new. While my book shows a tiny bit of wear, it&#8217;s plenty good enough for my needs and still has the CD in the back that was never taken out even once.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured though, that I will not be taking this book with me on my trip &#8212; I have 3 others that will accompany me that are MUCH lighter reading.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve nattered on long enough &#8212; I think you can tell how I feel about these next few days \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p>Love to all,<\/p>\n<p>Margaret<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/452f6419-6550-4b05-9f72-dfdcd8fbc7a0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=452f6419-6550-4b05-9f72-dfdcd8fbc7a0\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up to rain this morning &#8212; the weather forecast says drizzle, but it was doing a bit more than that on the drive in. 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