The Little Things

Jen just sent me these.  They’re great!  

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -Ann Landers

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -Ben Williams  

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. -Josh Billings  

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -Andy Rooney  

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made. -M. Acklam  

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. -Sigmund Freud  

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. -Rita Rudner  

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. -Robert Benchley  

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. -Franklin P. Jones  

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. -James Thurber  

If your dog is fat, you aren’t getting enough exercise -Unknown  

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. -Robert A. Heinlein  

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain  

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’ - Dave Barry  

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. -Roger Caras  

If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. -Phil Pastoret  

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You get so busy you cant blog and things start becoming irrelevant.  But sometimes certain things must be shared no matter when they happened.  An unposted kid quote:

"Santa should get a discount at the toy stores." ~ Gary

This is from last weekend.  All on Saturday actually.  You can tell that the weather in the northeast finally got cold.  It has been now for about a week.  It's about time!  We picked one of the coldest and windiest days to get outdoors.  Not just outdoors mind you but to The Top Of The Rock.  That's the top of Rockerfeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan.  Gary was in his glory and Katherine… well she thought it was ok.  Kris was happy to finally be visiting NYC again and just walking around.  For me, it was kind of a goodbye to NY.  I worked in NY for the last 17 years but I started my new job in Irvington on the Monday after this.  (more on that in a later post)  We visited the Chrysler Building, St. Patricks and Rockerfeller.  There are a few pics below but more on my Flickr page.

 "I hear that train a coming, it's rolling round the bend."

 See the Empire State Building, Gary and Kris in the back.  We were inside nice and warm and out of the wind where Katherine liked it most. 

 Alright, I made him pose for this.  He's actually leaning on a very thick piece of glass.

  See!  I told you it was cold!

 We went to a hibachi place called Fuji Mountain in Larchmont for dinner.  They make a lovely flaming volcano out of onions.  The faces are priceless.

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I start on Monday.

Next on The Little Things.  A series on joblessness, aka how not to stress out so bad that you get yourself so constipated you end up in the hospital.

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work:  The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.  ~Fred Barling, "Humorscope"

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.  ~Doug Larson

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.  ~H. Jackson Browne

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.  ~Robert Frost

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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Well, thanks to the suggestion by Andy we're now using Flickr to host our mobile pics.  I've even gone and uploaded some of the old ones that used to be on my Textamerica account.  They're on the flashy thingy up there on the right sidebar or you can just go visit them at your leisure.  Thanks, Andy!

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.

-William Feather

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I've mentioned my wife's love notes before.  She used to send them with me to work with my lunch.  Well, out of work as I've been for the last couple of months I wanted everyone to be assured the that love notes didn't stop.  For every interview I went on, there was a love note strategically placed someone within my suit or cell phone or briefcase that I would find.  The past Thursday I had 4 interviews and… 4 love notes.

So, on that day with 4 love notes warming me from my pocket while waiting on the train platform to head into a very stressful day of interviews in NYC, I got a phone call to return to a local advertising agency for a 3rd rounder. 

More to come in the next few days. 

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