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Nov. 27th, 2018 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI overslept by about an hour this morning. I remember both my phone and my alarm clock activating, so I must have turned them both off. Without Miriam's graciously dealing with the dog, I wouldn't have made it to work on time. I ate a piece of leftover pizza, put on the clothes I left out last night, and dashed to the car. I even made it to work in time to open the library, if only by a few minutes. I'm annoyed that I had to drive, but maybe I'll bring some more books home with me.
Rufus is doing well and has been seizure-free for a while now! I wish I could get him to stop peeing on things. It's probably marking behavior, so I hope getting neutered will help. In the meantime, we're keeping him on a leash.
I read through all of the monks of New Skete's "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend." A lot of training described there is difficult to apply to Rufus both because it's winter and I can't take him outside and because he's just so small that I'm worried that any kind of traditional training collar will hurt him. I'll have to do more reading. There are other attitudes and actions in there that I can and will use with him, and I feel like I got a lot of value reading it. I'm going to order some of their recommended reading list too.
In the meantime, I'll do some reading here too. https://www.chihuahuapuppytraining.com/
I bought a second one of those old Radio Shack electronics project kits from a thrift store lately. I spent some of last night organizing the wires and parts from both of them. The first one I got was missing its crystal earpiece and now I have one from the second kit. That's extra nifty because they can be useful in troubleshooting other electronics too. The second kit is newer than the first one and includes two ICs. One is a dual op-amp. I hope a number of the projects use it because I really want to understand op-amps better.
Some evenings in my near future will be spent building some of these circuits on my workbench next to all my test gear until I have a deep understanding of them.
Rufus is doing well and has been seizure-free for a while now! I wish I could get him to stop peeing on things. It's probably marking behavior, so I hope getting neutered will help. In the meantime, we're keeping him on a leash.
I read through all of the monks of New Skete's "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend." A lot of training described there is difficult to apply to Rufus both because it's winter and I can't take him outside and because he's just so small that I'm worried that any kind of traditional training collar will hurt him. I'll have to do more reading. There are other attitudes and actions in there that I can and will use with him, and I feel like I got a lot of value reading it. I'm going to order some of their recommended reading list too.
In the meantime, I'll do some reading here too. https://www.chihuahuapuppytraining.com/
I bought a second one of those old Radio Shack electronics project kits from a thrift store lately. I spent some of last night organizing the wires and parts from both of them. The first one I got was missing its crystal earpiece and now I have one from the second kit. That's extra nifty because they can be useful in troubleshooting other electronics too. The second kit is newer than the first one and includes two ICs. One is a dual op-amp. I hope a number of the projects use it because I really want to understand op-amps better.
Some evenings in my near future will be spent building some of these circuits on my workbench next to all my test gear until I have a deep understanding of them.
