First post!

The start... of a new Blog... Wait a minute, millions of blogs get started every day and nobody cares about the majority of 'em! ;) If I actually find a decent web host for cheap (or free) and get to pay for it, then I'll actually make a last post with a link to the other site, where you'll find more content than what can be here (like more free software [not really by me], and more desktop themes for all Windows versions). BUT! I will not close down the blog if I get my own domain and domain name. :D

What will be here are posts about life in the house and my puppies (basically an online version of my diary).

See you until the next post!

Introducing... the puppies!

In this post, the puppies are introduced.

Odie Dog - Odie Dog is a male Lhasa Apso puppy, 2 months old. He and Pinkie love playing with the stick toy. Odie Dog loves to stick his tongue out like the cartoon dog he's named after. ;) :P He also loves to slurp (lick) faces. ;)

Pinkie Pie - Pinkie Pie is a female Lhasa Apso puppy, 2 months old. Pinkie jumps around like the pony she's named after ;) and starts most of the fights (although Odie starts some fights too).

We don't know who's the more aggressive one, Odie or Pinkie. Pictures coming soon hopefully! (I have took many pictures with my camera but haven't transferred them onto the computer yet due to problems with the transfer cable... More about that in the next post.)

Transferring Troubles

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:24:04

As promised, here's the post about transferring troubles.

We have a HP laptop and two Compaq-HP desktops (one for me and one for my brother), and I have a Samsung camera. The camera's transfer cable (which is also the charging cable) has been worn out from lots of use, and now it has the 'hairpin syndrome' (where when connecting, you have to connect it just the right way and hold it in place, and if you move it an inch, it automatically disconnects). :(

The issue actually started on December 2014! :O And the 'best' (worst) part? Even holding it in place doesn't work now! It has gotten worse! My mother is planning to take it to the repair shop, but she doesn't know when.

Anyway, a festival is coming soon, so that'll be exciting. The next post will be about the history of my computers! :)

Computer History

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:46:47

Fun tales about my computers! ;)

Our first computer was a Compaq computer (specifically, the SR1732IL). It was my brother, Garf (only nickname)'s computer, bought in 2006 (I forget which month and day, but, the 10th anniversary was celebrated earlier this year, before I started this blog). He played DROD (a puzzle game) and Re-Volt on that computer (after finding DROD:AE on a games collection CD) and also introduced those games to me. It had XP on it at that time. When I got a little bit older (2008) I took ownership of the computer and loved it a lot! From then onwards, I became interested in computers (and XP became my favorite Windows version). :D In 2008, Garf got his own computer, which came with Vista, which was then upgraded to 7 in 2009. When 7 and 8 were tried out on my computer, they ran slowly. I was forever on XP, but...

It was not forever a bed of roses (it used to be). I got my camera (Samsung PL120)... but then, my computer became slow a lot, and my hard drive started to give out, making evil clicking noises... and my computer would restart unexpectedly a lot... One fateful day, the computer wouldn't boot; it would just say 'Please insert proper boot device'. DUN DUN DUN! :( My mother took it to the repair shop and I was without it for a month, but then it was returned and all was well. :) (Then Garf heard of Linux and we decided to try it out, so Garf installed Ubuntu and I preferred Linux Mint so we used that and loved it, using a virtual machine in VirtualBox for XP, while Garf dual-booted Mint with Windows 8 on his computer). A similar thing happened to my camera two times (one for screen messing up, another for lens not opening fully), and to that computer again another time... (I had to use a Linux Mint Live CD to use my computer) and then another time (had to use Lubuntu Live CD)!

Around that time (earlier this year), we got a HP laptop, installed Arch Linux easily and Windows 7 after a lot of AMD drivers hassle (the installation program didn't work, for one), and the laptop's what I'm using now to type this post! Yay! :D Now, Garf's computer is a dual-boot of Windows 10 (crap on his computer, good on mine) and Xubuntu, while mine is a triple-boot of Windows 10 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit and Arch Linux XFCE 64-bit. We also have an external hard drive (Seagate) for backup, and a Windows XP virtual machine in VirtualBox once more, this time on the laptop! The End! :)

The Mischievous Dogs

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:00:02

Pinkie and Odie are hilarious! Today, I remembered my mother giving Pinkie a paper for biting (but taking it away at the correct time) last month. Naively I suggested doing that now, this time sharing it with Odie too.  I gave them a paper for biting, but they TORE IT TO SHREDS before we could stop them. They were very fast. After realizing my mistake, me and mother scrambled to pick up all the pieces, but Odie and Pinkie tried to stop us every step of the way. First, when they started tearing it apart, we tried to pull it away but that made it worse, and saying No didn't help. Second, Mother kept saying "There's a piece over there!" but sometimes I couldn't see it, and I scrambled around searching for it. Third, Odie got his own piece and Pinkie got hers, and THEY WERE TRYING TO EAT THE PIECES. Finally, they lost interest for a second and I grabbed them. It was a long and fun battle :P

Also, Pinkie sometimes pulls Odie's tail, and sometimes Odie pulls Pinkie's tail, dragging them around.

Puppy Shenanigans

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:56:04

Many times, the puppies take clothes for biting and drag them to a safe place and play tug-of-war with them, saying "Mine! Mine!" Today, Pinkie took a cloth from the shelf and Odie tried to snatch it, Pinkie ran off and Odie chased her, they played tug of war under my chair (near the leg, so the chair was pulled) and the cloth snapped, Odie ran off, laid down on a safe place and started biting, while Pinkie, under my chair, was already in a safe place and bit. ;)

Also, today Pinkie and Odie have been taken for vaccination (also late last month they were taken).

More of Pinkie and Odie's Adventures

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:01:07

Recently the pups lost interest in the stick and now we are giving them balls to play with! There are three balls; two white and one green. Usually, the play with the green one since it is small enough for the pups to chew comfortably.

Also, recently ticks keep coming on Pinkie and Odie and we've been removing a lot of these things. One of them was even big enough to see without looking closely! She was grey, and she was on Odie's paw.

We've been making progress on making them pee in the right place. Sometimes they pee in my room, but other than that, usually they are taken out of their cage to pee instead of them peeing in the cage.

The puppies also chew on clothes and play Tug-of-War with them. Sometimes when we allow them to, and sometimes when they steal stuff from the shelves. When they steal stuff from the shelves, it is a huge fight to get 'em back! :P

Also, they've grown up a lot. Will be posting videos soon! :D

In the next post: The first ever video of Odie, and a picture of Odie now! :)

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