Atomic Nerds

It always bites when your time is eaten up in ways that aren’t even remotely interesting, or at least that don’t make good stories to tell later. Last weekend and this upcoming are wrapped up in having guests, and while these guests are awesome, reporting on activities mostly takes the form of “And then we cooked a bunch of different awesome food, and watched some movies, and played a ton of games, and also played with the puppy”. Yesterday vanished into the void when Kang had a seizure in the wee small hours, followed by my staying up with her until our vet’s office opened in case she had another or showed some other symptom that indicated a real emergency, such as muscle tremors or dropping blood pressure or fever. Nothing very interesting there, either- she is five years old with no prior history and no history of idiopathic epilepsy in her lines or in the breed in general, so the vet thinks the likeliest explanation is she is now a bit reactive to bee and wasp stings and the seizure was a delayed reaction to a sting she probably managed to get earlier that evening. I didn’t know this was a common thing in dogs, but apparently it is.

Tank is doing fine. He’s a normal puppy and we’re going through normal early puppyhood stuff, mostly housebreaking and the long slow process of teaching him how to hang out in the house with the people without necessarily needing full attention on him all the time. He’s making slow but steady progress, mostly owing to being nine weeks old and having the attention span and bladder capacity of a baby tamarin. He’s already up over thirty pounds without much baby fat on him, and judging between that and those tree-trunk legs is liable to become a BIG dog even by Akita standards. Perhaps there’s something to that polar bear genes thing after all.

So yeah, this week is largely going down to Interesting Blogger Fail, largely due to lack of interest or blogging. If you feel really badly about going away with nothing amusing, try this instead.

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