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Novice Jumpers Certificate

Well let’s see what’s going on here…

Went to a NADAC trial in St. George last weekend. It was fun. Levi got 3 1/2 Qs out of 10 runs. Not too bad. We still need some major weave poll work. He finished his NJC title, for jumpers. I might even move him to open jumpers. He’s really good at it, so I don’t know if we should keep him in novice for his Jumpers. I’m thinking of moving him now, because he can probably make Jumpers Open time, and since we go to so few NADAC trials, moving up in Jumpers is probably the way to go. Only way to really ever get to Elite and have a hope of a NATCH, if it’s even possible for him. Not sure. But NATCH is just Standard, Gamblers, and Jumpers. And he can do Standard and Jumpers easy (okay not THAT easy but we can do it!). We will need some distance work to get Gamblers going, but once it’s always inside the course, I don’t see why we couldn’t do it!

As for weave polls, the goal is to take 4 polls, a couple tunnels, and Levi and hit a park every day, or almost every day, to see if I can get him to hit the entry in a different location a lot of the time. I want him to hit that entry even when I’m nervous and not sure if he’ll do it. He is really good at class and at home, so maybe going to different places will help out? I hope so!

My server is completely dead. I’m putting up temporary pages through the DNS managers to alert people of this. It’s probably part of the hardware that is fried. Not sure which, yet. I’m going to have to put sections of the burned-out server into a good computer a piece at a time to see what is salvagable. No big deal really but I haven’t had the time since I’ve been out of town. Then I think I’m going to put SuSe pro on the server next time, instead of Red Hat. I could do Fedora, but I’ve already done RH and would like to try something else. Another choice is Mandrake, but Aaron likes SuSe so I’m going to try that first. =)

Dead

Well, now it appears as though the entire freakin’ server is down. Grrr…

SQL Problems

Crap. It seems my server is having some SQL problems. And of course I can’t fix it from work, so I’ll have to fix it later. But, tonight I have agility class so I don’t know if I’ll have time to even look at it tonight. Grrrr.

I wonder if it’s time for a new server. I should look at a different operating system that is still being supported. SUSE maybe? Mandrake? Not sure. I’ll have to see how it goes.

All my MySQL sites are down today. A couple days ago, it was only utahdogs.com that was down. Hrmph. I wonder what’s up with the mySQL database. :(

10 Hr Days Week

This week I’m going to work 10 hour days and take Friday off. Oh joy. I’m getting to like getting home at 4pm. Today I’ll get home at 6pm. That’s okay, though. This weekend is a NADAC trial in St. George with Levi.

I just hope the weather is good for the drive.

Teeth

Today Angel goes in for a teeth cleaning. I hope it goes easily for her, poor girl. She also needs a major toenail trim, since she’ll be under, and I’m not sure her pupils are straight in her iris. Vet will look at that too. :)

Magnetic Motor

You gotta love it when Blogger is down, eh? And I get a zillion multiple posts. Hopefully it’s fixed now.

Check out the link in the title (Magnetic Motor). Wow, Magnetic Motors. I sure hope this takes off. Perhaps it will, and not be supressed, as have been other alternate forms of power generation. Our world needs a new power source. One that is environmentally friendly. We are sucking this world dry with the current technology.

ZZZZZzzzzz……..

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload,
And nobody’s gonna go to school today,
She’s going to make them stay at home,
And daddy doesn’t understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold,
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

Friday

Well, it’s the first day of October. How weird is that. Everyone needs to keep their black cats indoors so no weirdos go stealing them. :( I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but it’s a fun idea. I wore really dumb costumes when I was a kid, so I have issues with that, but otherwise it’s not so bad.

The website has been changed to the blue background. I probably need to clean up the HTML on my main site but no rush. Oh, and I have to change the menu items but I’ll get to that eventually, too.

I went to the Periodontist last night, and I have to get six teeth fixed up. My gums are receding really bad on two of them, and fairly bad on the other four. Oh joy. I guess I know what my December bonus will be paying for, if they don’t forget about it and we still get it. *sigh*