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I'm happy to report improvement in the little dog I rescued. His respiratory infection was not quite finished when his antibiotics ran out and it came back but I got him on stronger antibiotics and he seems to be perking up. He has been slowly putting on weight and you can tell he is feeling better. He can now hop up on the sofa all by himself. He is pretty good about using the dog door now too. He was horrified of it the first time I pushed him through it. He tested negative for heart-worm and other worms. He needs a dental desperately but I am not ready to put him through anesthesia just yet, per the advice of the vet we will wait until he has more weight and is feeling better. I fear it will be rather costly. One of my puppies didn't lose a couple puppy teeth and having them extracted cost over $1000. Thankfully his health plan picked up a lot of it. This old guy can't get onto any health plans so it'll have to be out of pocket. I'm not looking forward to that bill.

In other news, I have started a new semester at school and I hate it. Hate isn't even strong enough a word. I'm at a new school and everyone else has been there the whole program and I'm a transfer student so everyone else knows one another and knows the program and I have had totally different classes. It is really hard to transfer in. It is far from where I live and the parking is a nightmare. At my last school the parking sucked too but I found some pay parking meters right by my buildings so I considered it well worth the $3 to pay to not have to drive around looking for a parking spot for half an hour. At this campus there are no pay parking meters. Just acres and acres of parking spaces and they are all full.

I'm also a total dumbass A few moths ago I got a broken tv on Craigslist and soldered some new semiconductors to the board and fixed it. Yay for me. I set that TV up in my workout room with my Wii fit thing and was just beginning to enjoy some winter wii games when this huge storm hit. It was bad, the house we were buying had a tree blow over onto it and smashed it. (Really, smashed it) and I LOVED the tree. It was the biggest mesquite tree I have ever seen. The same night as the storm hit and destroyed that house it shorted out some wiring in my current house and we had a teeny tiny electrical fire and no power in my bedroom or bathrooms for a while. My husband actually got all Bob Villa on it last weekend and fixed it. Yay for him!! While that was happening, I thought I smelled fried semiconductor. I wrote it off to the little issue in our bedroom.

Later when I tried to use the Wii to weigh the dogs the TV would not come on. I took it apart and noticed a couple of fried resistors. Replaced those, same problem. Tonight I was telling my husband how frustrated I was that I couldn't find the problem and how I was going to have to set the wii up in another room. He wanted to look it over and see if I missed a solder or something. I was mildly offended but let him. As we went through it together, I found the problem! I somehow forgot to screw one of the semiconductors to heat-sink when I replaced them! The one overheated and I can tell it is bad. I could totally hit myself I feel like such a dumbass!! Thankfully the part only cost $10 including shipping but I just can't believe I did something so stupid. At least I found the problem I hope and I can get back to wii sporting and keeping up with the dogs weight gain as he gets healthier.

Well that's all for me for now. How are things going in your world?