Mike’s Doghouse

Yesterday, Lorna, Mike, and myself went to visit friends. We’ve known Lori and Gary for many years but had yet to meet their pup, Jack (an Aussie Blue Heeler mix). After meeting for dinner in Black Mountain, we headed to their house. Gary brought Jack out so the two could play outside for a while. We were afraid it wasn’t going to work out but they eventually decided playing was more fun than growling.

It was good to see Mike playing with someone new. He is a great runner and can jump fairly high and long. He also got to meet 3 new cats. What was good, too, was to see him interact with Gary. Being a lesbian couple in a rural area, we don’t have many men friends. It’s good for dogs to meet people of different genders, skin color, and vocal tone than their owners. Gary is a gentle man and Mike fell in love. Better still, both Gary and Lori fell in love with Mike.

The only bad thing about the trip was Mike peed in the car again on the way there. Peed when he got out of the car (we thought at first it was submissive pee in response to Jack but it wasn’t). He peed and pooped while out running. Inside, he promptly peed three more times. I took him out, he peed again. Inside, he peed yet again! Lori is a veterinarian and was concerned with his obvious incontinence. So, yeah, back to the vet’s office we go!

We need to work more on RECALL. He did do a SIT for me, though.

Currently, Mike’s photos are kept at an odd place, URL wise. I didn’t think about it when I set it up and, technically, it shouldn’t have worked. The address is photos.mike.holyroller.org. HolyRoller.org is my original website and hasn’t been active for a long time (since 10/2006). I need to re-do that, I know. Anyway, this site (where you are right now) is a sub-domain. My website host offers “one-click installs” and the gallery is one of them. In the options for set up, it is assumed you would make the gallery a sub-domain of its own. Normally, that’s a good thing. However, I accidentally made it a sub-sub-domain. I can’t get to there from here. I can do the admin stuff from the site but I can’t get there via FTP. It doesn’t show up anywhere in the root directory even at the topmost level. It is annoying as heck. And yes, I have control issues.

I know, I know, who cares, right? Without FTP, I can only upload via the admin section which limits me to below a certain size. There’s some other stuff that I won’t bore you with that has to do with the look of the gallery (which I hate).

So, to end this long story of a short beginning, I am going to be moving the photo gallery. I love the software, ZenPhoto, but I want it somewhere else! That’s why there’s been no photos recently. When I get that set up, I’ll let y’all know!