Again, it's been a while. I'm starting to feel the crunch of getting a Ph.D. in the next year and work is ramping up. If I could just finish what feels like an almost incessant amount of preparation for the paper that is currently in the works, maybe I'd have some momentum going.
To update you on life here: Jax graduated from puppy class two weeks ago. For the final session we just played games in a semi-competitive atmosphere. Jax took second place in the agility category. If he hadn't been quite so spastic we might have taken first. As it is we got second even though we had to try the L-shaped tunnel about 6 times because he couldn't, as it were, "see the light at the end". So, we just played peek-a-boo with him running in and out of the tunnel. Besides that he has phenomenal speed, and he's plenty smart. We made a short video of him doing obedience exercises the other day. We'll try to post that soon. He now knows: sit, down, stay, wait, shake, roll over and up (which is to get him to step up onto a platform). I've been experimenting with teaching him to discriminate his toys on command. So far it seems that grammatically he's hooked on verbs. Nouns haven't quite clicked. That is, he always seems to equate a command with DOING something. I can tell him to find his squeaky toy, but if I'm holding two toys, he is almost as likely to go for the wrong one. I have theories about how to overcome this. More soon.
Oh, and I've noticed that I'm oddly polite to the dog. When he does something wrong he gets a stern "No, sir!" Don't ask why. I dunno.
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Your lectionary readings are woefully out of date. Come on. That's embarrassing.
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