marshall

Yes, I know: `neurotic cocker’ is redundant.
Marshall’s getting a bit more crazy and I’m not entirely sure why.  I’m not surprised…. after all, he’s the third black neurotic rescue we’ve adopted.  I guess he just wasn’t as overtly nuts as the others.
I’ve heard stories but they usually take place while I’m asleep.  My wife tells [...]

Yes, we somehow got the Smart Cocker.  It’s not so much a bad thing as a weird thing, as the previous ones were, well… cockers.  This one is not only adorable, he’s terribly smart.  This tends to cause trouble, as sometimes he’s smarter than his people (or at least more tenacious).
This morning he drove to [...]

Sex at my house is not a normal event.
Don’t run; I promise not to get into any gory details.
It was just such a great line I had to use it.
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All sorts of interesting things tend to happen coincident with and around sex.
I’m in the bedroom and notice my wife picking up the remote control.  Since [...]

Marshall got a haircut last week.  Against my wishes, he got cut way too short.  I have very loosely specific ideas about how a cocker should look.  The official Cocker Cut makes it look as if the dog is wearing a dress.  I’m sorry, not even if my dog was female would I suffer a [...]

Twice a year we are treated to the Philly Guitar Show.  Today was the fall show.  Unfortunately our usual Bizarre Weather<tm> kicked in to make it more like the Frozen Tundra edition.  Yes, technically winter doesn’t happen for a month but you can’t tell Philly weather anything.
Off we went, at some terrible hour of the [...]

My wife is visiting family, deep in the mountains of Pennsylvania.  When I first saw it, I exclaimed that if you got lost, they wouldn’t find your body for months, if not years.  And the people there make me look clean and respectable.
For some strange reason I couldn’t go along.  It must be because I [...]

Ok, I’ll admit it. They say that the first step is to admit it.
My dog, Marshall, is powerless over the effects of cat food.
There, I said it. I feel a little better now.
We discovered this quite by accident. Ren (the cat, aka Satan) gets fed in the kitchen, behind louvred doors. [...]

Marshall the cocker has become a bit more hirsute of late so off he went to the groomer today. He came back a new spaniel.
The best part of this has nothing to do with Marshall. The biggest fun is always when Satan (Ren the cat) gets a look at Marshall coming in the [...]

I did some amp mod work for a friend and he turned up with a nice little present; a Telefunken..umm… home radio(?). Roughly 2.5′w x 18″h. He said it worked wonderfully until he took out an EL84 for his amp.
Pretty cool radio. Inputs for tape and turntable, nice wood, [...]

My cat, Satan (aka Ren), has bedeviled (as it were) my wife and me since he was a wee kitty of six weeks. You can read about that earlier on in the blog. It’s very difficult to piss him off - I’ve tried. Yesterday I exacted some small amount of revenge.
Unfortunately I [...]