Saturday Morning Open Thread

Joe is in NYC with Carlos, attending a friend's wedding. I'm getting ready for a trip to Chicago to take Sasha to my sister while I head to the annual Netroots Nation blog conference in Vegas, and then off to Chris' place in France to do my annual house sitting and cat sitting for him and his wife while they're away on vacation. Lots more planned, so now in my usual pre-travel freak out mode where I try to go through the list of everything I may ever need in various climates. It's almost a year ago that I was diagnosed with my torn, and tearing, retina in Paris, and then had fantastic surgery at 1/10th the cost of what they'd charge here. Hard to imagine time has flown so quickly.

In other news, it's now been three months since I've had a complete night's sleep, thanks to Sasha the wonder puppy. Don't get me wrong, she's adorable, and full of spunk, but my God, it's like having a kid who just doesn't stop. This past week Sasha has unilaterally decided that she no longer wants to sleep in her crate at night, so about 3 am she wakes up and starts barking, non-stop, for a good two hours or so until the normal time I let her in my bed (don't want her there full time for a variety of reasons, including potential allergies). Man I hated her at that hour. But then she tries to attack a dog on TV while I'm watching Stargate, and she's my adorable little puppy all over again (see video below). My favorite part was when she went around and looked behind the TV to see where the dog was hiding.