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Rogue defined
noun
- a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
- vagrant, tramp
- a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel
- a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant, faulty, or unpredictable way
- an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation
- an inferior or defective specimen among many satisfactory ones, esp. a seedling or plant deviating from the standard variety.
intransitive verb
- to weed out inferior, diseased, or nontypical individuals from a crop plant or a field
adjective
- resembling or suggesting a rogue elephant especially in being isolated, aberrant, dangerous, or uncontrollable
- corrupt, dishonest
- of or being a nation whose leaders defy international law or norms of international behavior
11.14.2009
Flyball Tournament
Flyball is a dog sport in which teams of dogs race against each other from a start/finish line, over a line of hurdles, to a box that releases a tennis ball to be caught when the dog presses the spring loaded pad, then back to their handlers while carrying the ball. Flyball is run in teams of four dogs, as a relay. [wiki entry]
11.13.2009
9.16.2009
Part 3: How the United States is like a Third World country
"For the tens of millions without insurance coverage, we're Burundi or Burma: In the world's poor nations, sick people pay out of pocket for medical care; those who can't pay stay sick or die."
9.13.2009
8 Mile
Today we took a long walk, something we haven't done in a while. The destination was Rosedale to go to the Apple store to see the new iPod Nanos, but, of course, the journey was the best part. We saw wild turkeys, a chipmunk, talked to a guy about carbon drive bicycles in the pine forest.
We also "rescued" a dog, a year-old, blond Lab mix. He had obviously strayed from his home, but he wouldn't let us get close enough to him to read his tag or grab his collar. He kept walking ahead of us. He was a scamp. He was unneutered. He knew no commands, but he did tilt his head when we asked him if he wanted a treat. He kept marking his territory and pooed in someone's flower bushes. We were afraid that he was going to head right into traffic on Snelling, which is a very busy, large road. Luckily, a block before Snelling, he was sniffing around someone's fence. And X. had the idea of opening the gate and putting him in the yard. When I opened the gate, he walked right in. It was smooth move. The owner of the house was home and she had a dog, too. In the yard, she was able to read the address on his tag after he had, of course, peed on one of her tomato plants. She leashed him up and the three of us walked him a few blocks to his proper home. Actually, he pulled X. all the way. And that is our story of meeting Moses Dog Miller. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a photo of him.
At Rosedale, we almost ate at California Pizza Kitchen, but when we saw the menu at Flame we decided to try that. We had a great late lunch consisting of shrimp and scallop ceviche with tortilla chips, their Firecracker Chicken (rotisserie chicken tossed with buffalo sauce, celery and bleu cheese rolled in a crispy egg roll wrapper), and three beers. It was a lot of food. And because it was happy hour, it was only $20.
We then ran into someone from our neighborhood, but we couldn't remember her name because it is so plain–Jane Anderson.
Yes, the new iPod Nanos were very cool. The video and voice memo features make it really useful.
We didn't walk back, so it took 3 buses and over 2 hours to get home (under 4 miles per hour).
Heartening: Seeing six kids walking on the trail in the park with no hovering parents around.
Musings: President Obama should grow a big, ol' moustache.
The wild turkeys from a distance.
Closer.
Retreating to the woods.
Turkey trot!
McCarron's Vineyard
Cool graffiti
On the trail
70s courtyard
Twin Hondas - same color, year, model
Peppermint Patty at Rice Park
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