Dragonherder's Ruminations

That's bad. That's good. In Taos!

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:24:25 GMT

So. Wednesday we went out and visited the Taos Spa and Tennis Club and actually worked out! I spent thirty minutes on an elliptical (good for my knees for a number of reasons) and played on some wieght machines and Tia worked out too!

That's good!

We came out to see that one of the people in the parking lot had their window smashed out so that a thief could get their purse.

That's bad.

A police officer was already there! They said that the burglar had already been caught.

That's good.

We found out that the thief had stolen my laptop and Tia's purse (with her expensive and rare knitting needles and yarn and digital camera).

That's bad.

We got a call late Wednesday night that some of our stuff (including the laptop that I am typing on currently) had been recovered!

That's good.

When we went down to the station today we found out that the jerk had apparently thrown Tia's expensive and rare needles and yarn into the trash somewhere.

That's bad.

So, all things being equal, we were very lucky to get most of our stuff back. Still the darned idiot (and the inclination is to use MUCH stronger language here) did cost a *lot* of people (including ourselves) time, money, anguish and frustration. He did his little bit to make the world a colder place. They did catch him dead to rights and he should spend some little amount of time wasting his. If nothing else, the time spent in jail is time not spent stealing. That's good.

What a mess.

David

It's Snowing!

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:11:18 GMT

'Nuff said!

David

Hooks....

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:45:43 GMT

Plot hooks are intriguing ideas designed to draw you into a story. They catch your mind and worry it and gradually you are invested into the story. Very interesting things, plot hooks. The kind of things that make you go "Hrmm".

Captain Hook is interesting, too. We all know that the Crocadile Tick Tock is just swimming around waiting to get the rest of the Captain. Interesting things, hooks.

And then there is the hook in the ceiling of the bedroom of the house we are renting. It is a big hook, probably big enough to hold quite a weight. It appears to go into a major support in the attic.

I really don't know who installed it or what they installed it for. I imagine that they loved hanging plants and were inspired and wanted to be able to support a hanging rubber tree. Or something. Something pretty heavy. I imagine a lot of things, but know very little.

Hooks in the ceiling. One of the many things in life that make me go "Hrmm".

David

;-)

Out to frustrate the credit card companies!

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:08:33 GMT

Here in Taos I no longer have the easy access to cash that I did at the store.

If I needed to go to pick up a cup of coffee, I could sign out a small amount of cash from the store, walk up to the 7-11, and buy a cupa.

Here I am forced to rely on that enemy of all mankind, the credit card.

So, I am making sure that I pay them. Regularly. Daily.

I spend $17.15 on dinner for my wife and I, at the El Taoseno (I took both red and green sauce, so that I could see the difference). That evening I use the free online banking service to send that amount to the evil empire(s).

Given that both the charge and payment are processed electronically, I am not actually burdening some poor employee with additional work.

David

Its been a very busy few days

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:26:46 GMT

And thus I'm gonna be very quick tonight, though I'll try to expand things later!

We've made it to Ranchos de Taos.

We now, finally, after many adventures, have internet!
We have set up a bank account here. Every Wednesday they give away free chocolate chip cookies. We intend to indulge....
We've bought groceries!
We have our utilities.
Tara has does an amazing job getting boxes sorted!
We've returned the rental truck, after traveling 749 at approximately 11.5 miles/gallon (in diesel). The top speed of the truck was 70 mph (for perhaps four minutes). Going up the mountains I was sometimes "flooring it" and reaching a blazin' 30 mph.
The trip took fifteen hours +/-.
All animals are doing well.
We have hot and cold running prairie dogs! Alright, we can't tell their temperature, but they are running. And this is great for a guy like me who has always liked prairie dogs.

We could not have done it without a GREAT DEAL of help from our friends! Thanks!
We appreciate the sense of humor of whomsoever carefully wrapped a paper coke cup! Really!

Tara is feeling much better! Yay!

And once again it is time to go to bed!

Good night my friends!

David

There's tunnels under the street! Part the first

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:34:33 GMT

It was a tough day in Taos.

February 15th, the day after Valentines Day, and rather than staying abed with my wife and waking gracefully, I had gotten up and dug into the lease that we were sent by the owners of the first choice for our home rental.

It was grueling. Leases are not my favorite reading materials first thing in the morning. But, if we were to find a house during our visit it had to be done.

It was a damn silly lease. I cut. I added. I added again. I sighed and sent it off to the landlord and waited.

We had spent most of the day running around. We waited to go visit Angel Fire, the skiing community of the mountain from Taos. We made an appointment to see our second choice for housing. The agent couldn't see us until two. Then she agreed to meet us at one. Then she showed up late and forgot the key.

We then decided that we should just go ahead and rent the first house, our first choice.

The daughter of the owner was overjoyed. She and her mother (the home owner) were leaving the next day. She to Argentina. Her mother to Florida. Oh, and the lease changes were just fine. They would go ahead and print them out and meet us at 4PM to sign them over at her mother's apartment....

Well, we met about 4:15. I took out the lease and started to look it over. I was the wrong lease. It was the original, pre surgery. I looked at the daughter and told her about the error and she was horrified. She didn't have time to run home. We needed to make the deposit by that evening. She and her mother were leaving the next day and she needed to run by the bank and run errands before departing.

A brainstorm. Why not have the people at the bank print up the lease?

We went to the bank and after more hoops we got the lease printed up and signed.

Whew.

No Angel Fire, no quiet day. But the exhausting day left us wrung out and exhausted, but with a house.

More later,

David

SPIKE'S BACK!!!

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:44:05 GMT

For those of y'all who don't know, two days ago our cat Spike made a break for it.

We had Tia-tarina's parents over this weekend. While cooking a meal the fire alarm went off, Tia-tarina's Parent's Dogs started barking, Dulce barked as well and Spike ran out the open door.

We didn't discover this for about twelve hours.... Spike is usually VERY shy around people and often hides, so it wasn't until bedtime that we started wondering where the cat was. The next morning we really started worrying and canvased the neighborhood callling Spike's name. Today we made up flyers and handbills and started handing them out.

Tonight, at 10PM, I had to go into work. Instead of driving, I went ahead and walked figuring that cats are nocturnal, it was a somewhat nasty night, and by calling softly I might catch her attention. No luck.

On the way back I took a different route and near our house I got a response. Four soft meows! Well, I couldn't get any other response for the next five minutes, but with some trepidation I went and got my wife (trepidation because we have been very stressed and I didn't want to offer false hope). We called and called with no luck.

But, when we gave up and went up to our house, Spike ran up to us!!! We grabbed her and ran inside and then probably scared her by paying much more attention to her than she wanted.

So, Spike is back. Everyone is happy except for LeeLoo (our other cat) who was pretty happy being "top cat" in the house.

YAY!

David

(Whew)

Tia_tarina and the 'Hoff

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:11:40 GMT

Tia_Tarina has hit the big time with her pictures. Yesterdays entry on Tia_tarina's painting a day Flickr account has been picked up by thedailyhasselhoff.com !

It is a pretty darn good Knight Rider (classic) painting!

David

Whoo Hoo!

I can haz houz

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:55:54 GMT

We have found a house.

In Taos. Actually Ranchos de Taos.

We've spent the last two days running around Taos going from place to place trying to set up appointments to see houses. We've had very poor luck, though we did find two places that would work. One was a sort of faux-adobe. The other is a nice house down in a deep valley where our neighbors will be very ecclectic and we'll probably have sheep and cows grazing in our front yard.

Fortunately we avoided the faux and look forward to living in the other house for at least a year. Whew! We had some issues with the contract, but the landlady was very agreeable and we came to a good arrangement.

The road down to the house is dirt (mud right now) and something of an adventure to get to. But I think that it will work just great!

Best to everyone....

Visiting Santa Fe and Taos

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:57:36 GMT

Well,

Here we are in Taos.

Yesterday I spent three hours off loading a 26 ft UHaul. It was, ah, interesting to drive the "pig" (I refered to it as a small continent myself). I hired two nice guys to help move and they did a fine job, but boy I was tired afterwards.

So, I went to return the UHaul. Now, in my own understated way, I had managed to get UHaul to price match another company. But then, after finding out that the "continent" got only seven miles to the gallon, I decided to return it to Santa Fe instead of Albuquerque. I had called to make sure that this would be alright and was told that the cost of the change would be (probably) the difference between the cost of taking to SF and the cost of taking it to Albuquerque.

Not so. The interesting company wanted to charge me more than $200 for the change. Fortunately, though after blood pressure raising effrontary, calm polite phone calls prevailed. (Though the last person I spoke with wanted me to "Tell the people at the drop off point that I said to waive the charges." I'm sure they would have believed me...but I made him tell them himself (nice people at the drop point, just hampered by the higher ups).

At Enterprise there was no car waiting for me. But the wait was not long, and they waived about $50 of fees and gave me a free tank of gas. So all was well there.

Tia_Tarina and I are enjoying the visit, and house hunting with moderate success. More, probably tomorrow.

David

(Tomorrow I hope to remember how to condense the posts. Sorry about that!)

Fear is the root of Tyrrany

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:28:55 GMT

Fear is the root of tyranny.

It is where it gets it strength.

Fear of some unknown catastrophic event that wipes out lives and purpose.

Fear of the government.

Fear of restrictions upon travel and personal freedom. Fear of the loss of wealth or property. Fear of incarceration.

Yesterday Justice Scalia stated that it might be legal to inflict torture to gather information as long as it was not done as a form of punishment. How comforting this must have been for those who tortured our servicemen during bygone wars. How comforting this must be for those who we, as a nation, tried for war crimes? How nice this must be for other governments, those that we have censured in the past, who have inflicted torture. Surely they could have used the same justifications.

He used that oft quoted tool of Fear, the "Bomb", an item that might or might not even exist to justify such torture. Such a mythic construct, the possible existence of that thing which *might* do damage or cause death, is a simple thing to call up Fear in those listening. After all, surely anything that the government does to stop a "Bomb" from going off is justifiable.

So simple. So black and white.

Surely those who would want to stop such questioning are wrong. They are dangerous. They must be restrained. Anything is justifiable to stop a "Bomb". So the government is justified in jailing those who disagree with them. Such sad, deluded individuals must be unpatriotic.

What is the loss of freedom compared to safety from the "Bomb"? And if we suspect anyone of doing unpatriotic things, we should report them of course! Suspicion of others is patriotic, da?

Isn't Fear fun?

So, I Fear. I Fear restrictions on travel. So I am silent. I Fear restrictions on my wealth, so I do not speak. I know, you see, that even a posting such as this could result in my being placed upon a list of people that are not permitted on airplanes. It has happened in the recent past. I will hurt my business if I am placed upon such a list. So I Fear.

I Fear the loss of my country. I Fear the loss of self-respect. I Fear the loss of freedom.

So how can I not speak?

Torture is wrong. Those who committed torture MUST be prosecuted. We must not give up our country because of Fear.

Please do not be silent.

Posting in spite of Fear, I remain,

David Wheeler

First internet sale for Tia!!!

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:39:28 GMT

Tia_tarina has been attempting to sell art on the internet since she started painting again.

She has had several pieces for sale at Etsy.com.

Today, she sold three of those pieces, the first three pieces that she has sold via the internet.

Soon, I trust, she will be able to maintain me in the style to which I look forward to becoming accustomed to!

Seriously, it is a great step and very encouraging!

Best,

David

Crisis can be a blessing....

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:19:50 GMT

It tends to place things into black or white decisions.

A slow decline, a few sores here and there from trying to move more when the back legs don't work and you have to push yourself around, constant panting (is it from pain or just the effort of moving, but it goes on and doesn't seem to stop). The realization that more food is entering the body than is leaving it. Soft wimpers.

These are harder to judge. At what point is life more painful than death. At what point is it better to close things down rather than to extend it without any hope of an improvement tomorrow?

Remedil, carts (my attempts to interest in these began to cause her to tremble), a great deal of carrying and cleaning up after. The decline does not seem to stop. Pain seems to increase. Extension is noted in the belly, presumably from unpassed waste, this will not have good results.

So.

Today I put Arrow down. It may not have been a good decision. She might have lived longer. Maybe the panting was just hot flashes.

But, today my best decision was to go ahead and do what I felt needed doing. Please note, how I mealy mouthedly avoid saying that I killed my dog. When it comes down to it, my friends, that is what I did.

But she was a good dog. A very good dog. And I will miss her very much.

There is more, of course. A world's worth of self-justification. A bit of self-loathing. A prayer that this entire post is not just greater self-deceit.

Enough.

Please do not comment on this. I know that I have your support and prayers. Right now it would be painful to respond to posts. Maybe later.

I am glad that many of you got to know and play with Arrow. She loved to jump and catch bubbles, you know, once upon a time. She loved to chase the stick and run in tandem with her bothers to bring it back to me. She went to sleep, that final time, with her head upon my leg and snoring to beat the band, as always. She always wanted to go to the store with me, and I'm glad that she did many times.

Enough.

She was a good dog.

Best to you all.

David

My wife's adventures! In Art!

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:45:43 GMT

Please feel free to visit my wife's art page here

http://www.dailypaintersguild.com/dailypainterslist.html#Anchor-

Push her name, Wheeler Tara.

Thanks!

David

Ha Haha haha! Happy New Year to all!

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:57:27 GMT

Hello everyone!

Just a quick jump in to wish everyone a good year! (I think I may have gotten to this before anyone else - I guess everyone else is still recovering from last night!)

It is good to have good friends and I am very thankful!

Happy New YEAR!

David

It's silly, but pretty much right in my case

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:59:25 GMT

I'm a pretty happy guy!

Yay!

David

I'll have to see if I inserted the picture correctly.

But a personality test with yes/no bollian answers? Sheesh.

Your Social Dysfunction:
Happy

You're a happy person - you have a good amount of self-esteem, and are socially healthy. While this isn't a social dysfunction per se, you're definitely not normal. Consider yourself lucky: you walk that fine line between 'normal' and being outright narcissistic. You're rare - which is something else to be happy about.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

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I'm a pretty happy guy!

Yay!

David

I'll have to see if I inserted the picture correctly.

But a personality test with yes/no bollian answers? Sheesh.

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Why I haven't been responding to my email....

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:02:25 GMT

oneworldhosting

These overly optimistic gentlemen and ladies committed to moving their servers two weeks ago.

They didn't move.

So, they decided to try again this last Friday. They are still trying and my and many other people's sites are sitting in limbo.

I'm sure that these good people are trying their best. I suspect that they will lose enough customers from this fiasco to sink the company.

So, if you haven't been able to contact me via email, now you know why.

We will be migrating away from them early next week, and competently, too.

And next time you are looking for a new hosting service, choose someone else.

Best,

David

(ARRRGH!)

Go to 1worldhosting.com and check out their overly optimistic views on when my site will be up again. At one point they reported that 85% of their sites were live, but as one of the supposed 15%, I'm dubious as to their accuracy....

Tia_Tarina recovering at home -- Billy Goat Pub

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:57:03 GMT

Tia_Tarina is recovering at home. She has three little bitty holes in her from the surgery and still is in a bit of pain from it, but she is getting better. We have been making a few outings to bookstores as the doctor has proscribed light walking to help her lungs. All in all, things are looking up!

Thanks to all the people who sent flowers, care packages and helped out! We really appreciate it!

The Billy Goat Pub.

When we visited Chicago, we found ourselves near an underground pub called the Billy Goat (okay, okay, we sought it out, but still...). The Billy Goat is where Saturday Night Live got the "Cheebouni, cheebouni. No coke, Pepsi." skit from. Supposedly Bill Murray went there and started taking other cast members there. And a legend was born.

So, they got attitude. We went in and it must have been obvious that we were looking for the "Billy Goat Experience". The bar was dimly lit and articles on the wall had the dusky appearance given by long exposure to grill smoke. The men behind the counter, one young, the other older and grizzled, were friendly. They attempted to upsell us as they were expected to. "You no want single cheeseburger. You buy double."

When we went to pick up our order, the older gentleman, with a kidding scowl, refused to hand me my order first. "Ladies first" he intoned. I responded with "Always" and he handed me both meals with a smile.

Alas for the poor Chicago Cubs, they did not fair so well with the Billy Goat. It seems that the owner once had a Billy Goat (hence the name) and took it with him to a Cubs Game. Well, they refused to let that goat in, and as a result the team was cursed. Later years the Cubs attempted to end the curse by appeasing the owner, and seemed to, but the Billy Goat just wouldn't let go. At one point the Cubs brought the goat (IIRC) to every game and the Cubs had a great winning streak, but they wouldn't bring it to the Championship and thus they lost the pennant (stories that I would relate better to y'all if I was a baseball fanatic, I'm sure).

An interesting trip!

David

(Using his extra hour today to write in livejournal!)

Tia_Tarina visits St. Davids, trades appendix for jelly....

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:51:10 GMT

Hello everyone,

My own Tia_Tarina is stuck in St. David's tonight after having a sudden appointment with a surgeon.

We went in this morning at 3:30 AM and she was parted from a vestigal part of her anatomy about noon Tuesday. She is recovering well and should be going home tomorrow. She will have to take it easy for the next three weeks....

She had three itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny incisions cut into her abdomin and the offending bits of tissue removed.

Thanks to everyone who offered to help and offered sympathy. All is very appreciated! Thanks especially to S.P. who went over and took care of our dogs today! Thanks! Woof and purr!

Any cards should be sent to Tia via Dragon's Lair

6111 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78757

We've had quite an interesting time of it. Tia was also in a small but, ah, interesting fender bender earlier this week and I have been having a heck of a good time working with old friends and making new ones over at Scare for the Cure. I'll have to tell y'all of my good times there when I have energy.

As for now, I'm off to sleep beside my wife at St. Davids.

Best,

David

Please pardon spelling errors. I'm a bit tired.

The Windy City

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:34:42 GMT

Well, Tia_tarina and I just returned from Chicago. We had gone up for business reasons and decided to start a trend that we hope to always continue with, that of extending business trips for a couple of days to enjoy the strange places we find ourselves in.

We visited the Art Institue of Chicago. Tia_tarina has been painting lately and wanted to see in person some of the Georgia O'Keefe paintings that she had seen only in books. We arrived, paid the $18 parking fee (!! (&(&^^@@!) and went in. We split up. T and I have completely different museum wandering styles. She arrows to what she wants to see and only suffers something to deviate her from her chosen path if it really, really catches her eye. I visit every painting, figuring that if it took the artist a month or two to paint (at least) and if someone thought it worth preserving for, oh, a few centuries, that I should at least give it a look-see.

Sheesh, what a lot of art! It was fascinating to turn a corner and be confronted with a picture that I had seen multiple times in books, or movies, or the like. I checked, these seemed to be the real things! Not just prints on the wall, no sir!

They had quite a few Monets, some Van Goghs (don't I sound sophisticated) a very famous Surat, and that picture of the Moulan Rouge. I also found that I quite liked art by a painter named Camille Pissarro (enough to write down the name).

After a couple of hours, I had visited about a quarter of the museum and felt quite disorientated. Tia_tarina was livid. The museum had about seven O'Keefe's and only three were out for viewing (one elevated nine feet off the ground). Alas, the one that she really had come to see was not one of the lucky few. We looked at some Remington brasses and oil paintings, examined some marbles (statues, darn it!)

And staggered back into the sunlight.

More later,

David

Next, the Billy Goat and the curse of the goat!

Stardust - GO!

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:18:09 GMT

That's it. No more puff or promotion.

I know that many of my friends would rather hear nothing, so nothing it is.

But go.

:-)

David

Albuquerque and Home

Tue, 29 May 2007 00:23:58 GMT

Our plan in Albuquerque was to visit a few stores and then make a good push for home so that we would not be too stressed the day before I had to return to work.

We started looking at stores about ten in the AM. We quickly became so interested in the process (or at least I did and Tia_tarina was willing to go along with the plan) that we ended up visiting every store in town and waiting until those that were going to open on Sunday opened. I took detailed notes, as is my habit.

We left Albuquerque about 3PM and began a long drive home. We entered Texas again

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/tia_tarina/Doodles/Texas.jpg

and drove through Lubbock, passing the Stars and Stripes drive in, where they were showing Spider-man III on the big screen. Last time we had passed through we had seen them showing the trailer for Happy Feet. Someday we will get there early enough to actually catch one of the features!

Although we had intended to go to Abilene, we decided that Lubbock was far enough and called it a night.

The next day we had a relatively sedate drive back to Austin, stopping at Cooper's Barbeque and sharing a celebratory lunch.

Total miles driven, 2242.

Whew!

But fun!

David

Bonus picture

Tara and Dulce at the Continental Divide

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/tia_tarina/Doodles/CD.jpg

And David and Dulce visiting the exterior of the Robert E. Howard house in Cross Plains (which we visited on the way out and I forgot to mention).

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/tia_tarina/Doodles/REH.jpg

Towel Day!

Fri, 25 May 2007 05:46:21 GMT

Today (Friday)

is towel day in memory of the original hoopy frood, Douglas Adams.

View details at

http://www.towelday.kojv.net/

David

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Watch 'til the end of the credits. Nuff said.

Fri, 25 May 2007 04:16:20 GMT

And Stan Lee doesn't appear at all.

David

Dulce goes West! (and then North, and then South, and then a bit

Tue, 22 May 2007 05:13:44 GMT

East.

Oh, and we go with her.

After checking Farmingham for its comic store (which we fail to find, btw) Dulce (oh, yeah, Tia_tarina and myself as well) head for the four corners region. Dulce decides to conquer all four states at once, while insisting at the same time that, "No, her a** isn't that fat!"

Ahem....

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/tia_tarina/Doodles/D4C.jpg

We met some very nice, very German tourists and a surprising number of Australians visiting the site and a very nice German group took our picture as well....

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/tia_tarina/Doodles/TDD.jpg

and, an overview of the site

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/tia_tarina/Doodles/4C.jpg

We then decided to start heading back towards Texas.

Swinging south to Gallup, which we had never been through before, and weren't terribly impressed with, we ended up in Albuquerque. Exhausted, but pleased that Dulce seemed undaunted by the previous days adventures, we collapsed.

As I am about to do now.

Best to those of you still following our journey. Tomorrow, the ten comic shops of Albuquerque or Spring Roles and comic books!

David