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So it has been a long time since I last visited my humble blog. I have an excuse. Here it is:

Harley

Harley is a seven-week-old West Highland White Terrier (”Westie” for short), and as I write this he is beside me trying to muster all the power he can from his stumpy little puppy legs to jump up on to the couch. Because he needs to be near me. Because he is a puppy. Because puppies have to be the center of attention.

So, between early morning walkings, feedings, and just the non-stop demand for attention, I find it quite difficult to blog. It makes me wonder what I’ll be like when we have a human puppy, commonly referred to as a “baby”. I have no idea how a parent would ever get anything done. I mean, he’s just a little dog for goodness sake, and I feel like I have no time.

Not that I don’t enjoy it. I want to make sure that’s clear. I like having this responsibility, because this responsibility is so cute. And it’s nice to have a little creature who actually wants to be around me, as opposed to my cats, whose normal reaction to my appearance would be, if they could talk, “Oh, you’re here? Food bowl’s over there. Thanks.”

All this to say that I will soon find balance, and I will return to my blog with religious fervor.

In the meantime, I will say that I have found a use for newspaper. I bought one yesterday, and I had to ask for help on where to find them at Kroger. It has been that long since I have purchased a newspaper. I hear there is talk of bailing out newspapers, or making them nonprofits. The government supporting news-gathering flies in the face of pretty much everything this country was founded on. The free-press is one of the things our ancestors fought and died for. Of course, in the age of multimedia conglomerates and huge advertising budgets, it makes one wonder if the press has really been free at all for quite some time.

I don’t want to sound like one of those arrogant bloggers who thinks news agencies are obsolete, but I will say the nice thing about a blog is it reminds me of a time when some guy who owned a printing press would print up a bunch of flyers derailing the tyranny of the king because he believed in what he was saying, and not because he was a billion dollar corporation trying to satisfy his sponsors with huge circulations.

I think a lot of newspapers are going to go out of business, but a lot of them will adjust and take their business online, where the consumer wants it.

However, in light of recent discoveries, I will now say that I feel a government bailout of newspapers is appropriate in the interest of puppy house training. Thank you.

March 31st, 2009 | Tags: bailout, blogs, excuse, Harley, house training, newspapers, puppy, West Highland White Terrier, Westie | Category: Life | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL