A Year on This Blog

It’s been just over a year since I started blogging on a regular basis on this site.  It’s gone by very quickly!  I looked over my posts from the past year and it looks like I made just over 175 for the year.  Not bad.  Maybe I can do better in 2009 (not off to the greatest start!), but I want to make sure that my posts have some sort of substance to them.

Anyway, thank you for reading and I hope you’ll stick with me through 2009 and beyond.

Using Mass Transit

I’ve been using the light rail here in Phoenix whenever I’ve had to go downtown. Parking, in recent months, has become more and more difficult downtown. I end up having to drive 1 mile in the opposite direction of where I’m headed to get to a park and ride lot. I think that it’s worth it though. I don’t have to worry about parking downtown, driving up and down every street looking for a spot. On more than one occasion, I’ve found myself looking fir a place to park downtown for over 30 minutes. Thank goodness for light rail and a park and ride lot close to my house.

Olive!

Here’s a picture I took of Olive today. She is 4 months old and full of energy! There have been some challenges over the past few weeks but that’s to be expected. She’s doing really well with the house training and recently learned not to bite humans (thank god!). She’s only been with me for 2.5 weeks but I can already tell she’s going to be an awesome dog. Anyway, I’ll post more photos as I get them.

The photo is a bit blurry for two reasons. One, she was just about to jump at the moment the photo was taken. Two, the photo was taken with my iPhone.

A Challenging Past Few Days

These past few days have been challenging. A new puppy is a lot of work and, as I have found, can be very trying at times. I’ve found myself taking out my frustrations on other people (sorry Mike!!!).

Some people say that getting a new puppy is like getting kid. When things are going well, things are awesome! When things are going bad, they can be really, really bad.

Anyway, I’m going to try and relax. I’m going to try to not take everything so seriously. I’m going to try and go with the flow. I will enjoy my new dog and the new adventures that I am bound to have with her.

Anyone out there that’s gone through the same thing? Tips??

New Podcast Feature

With the recent update to the iPhone software, the way podcasts are listed changed. Instead of showing the newest to oldest, we now get them as oldest to newest. Why is this such a good thing? Well, when you’re behind in your podcast listening (like me) you can select the oldest in the list and the rest will play in succession. I used to have to go back into the iPod application and choose the next oldest program when they were sorted newest to oldest. This makes things much more simple, IMO.

Did anyone else notice this change or is everyone always up to date on their podcast listening?