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Last night we had to have Abner put down.

I went downstairs to let both dogs out yesterday morning and Abner was sluggish and reluctant to get up. He wouldn’t eat and just sat around all day at home. After I got home from work I took him to the vet. Dr. Ziess said that it felt like there was a large tumor on Abner’s spleen and that it had ruptured, filling his belly with blood. He drew a syringe full of blood to confirm it. I asked about treatment options but none of the options provided him with more than a matter of months to live. At ten years old I didn’t think that putting him through all that surgery and discomfort was worth just a few more months.

Traci dropped the kids off at the neighbor’s house …read more »

I was contacted recently by Bo Vance, former guitar player for Dead Ant Farm of the Nitro music scene some years back.  He provided me with some additional information on some of the bands, plus some bands that I either didn’t know about or had forgotten about.  Check out the Bands of the Scene section for more.

Traci and I just saw Sweeney Todd tonight and it was excellent. Bloody and depressing, but excellent. It was adapted from a musical but the movie ran like a play so the singing didn’t really seem out of context.

Oh, and our ten year anniversary was on the third. It’s hard to believe we’ve come so far in ten years.

So the new baby is here and things are going well. It took a couple days to get back into the swing of things again; it’s been three years since we had a newborn in the house and one tends to get a bit rusty. Regardless, it’s sort of like riding a bike; you never really forget. After a couple days struggling with the tiny diapers, thrashing legs, and limp neck it was business as usual.

What I found interesting about this baby is …read more »