The shits keep coming, bright Dark Knight, gassed in more ways than one

So when I got home Friday I was worried that Nicki once again shit in the house.  However I didn’t want to create more stress for her.  So I let the dogs out front and then took them into the back yard so I could search the house without them watching me.

My hopes were high, I started at the front of the house and worked my way back, no piles to be seen anywhere.  Then I look in the final room, the master bathroom, bingo, a small pile stared back at me. Great.

So I go about cleaning up the mess before letting the dogs back in the house.  I made sure to not indicate anything negative to Nicki as she came back in.  I could tell she expected me to scold her for her dirty deed.  Instead I acted like everything was wonderful and Nicki seemed to respond positively.  She ate her supper Friday night right away which was cool.

However she again shit in the house Saturday night while I was out.  Again I cleaned it up out of her view.  Obviously this behavior has to be stress related but I don’t quite understand why it is so bad all of a sudden.  I have had the girls out at the house for extended periods of time several times since the split and it was totally fine.

I saw the Olympic opening ceremonies Friday night.  To be honest, I thought they were stupid, a feeling I saw echoed among a number of my friends. Specifically the Queen tie in with James Bond and the Mr Bean/Chariots of Fire thing were just horrible.  I didn’t think the ceremonies were anywhere close to as good as what we saw in Beijing four years ago.  I did see a few people that more than likely have more evolved taste than I do say they liked the show.

Saturday morning I headed into the office early to do a server migration.  I thought it would be fun to bring the dogs with, it was.  Both of them were very excited to explore the office.  I opened up areas I didn’t even need to get into just so they could explore.  They seemed to love it. At one point they even decided to wrestle while in my office, it was cute.

I had to run into the bathroom and take a leak.  While I did I left the dogs out in the main hallway.  When I cam back out I looked at the far end where the automatic double doors are.  I assumed the doors were locked off business hours.

Well I see Sadie standing outside on the other side of them.  Evidently she triggered the doors and she walked out.  I hurried down there and called her back in.  She came in with a big dog smile, almost proud of what she managed to accomplish.

There was another funny moment when I was in the server room.  The door for the room remains locked but there is a motion sensor inside that will unlock the door when you approach.  When the door unlocks it makes a noise.  Well Sadie would trip the sensor and then be amazed by the noise.  Time and again she would walk through the sensor field and then be surprised by the noise.  It was cute.

Eventually they settled down and just hung out while I worked.  I was in the office until close to lunch time before I finished up.  Before I left I let the girls do one more exploration run.  It was so funny to see how excited they were.

On the drive home both of the dogs seemed pretty pooped.  However before Sadie laid down she assumed a position she never has before.  Her body was wedged all the way under the bed with her head popped out.  The expression on her face made me laugh out loud.

Once I got home I busted my ass getting the grass handled, both via the tractor and weed whacker.  It was a sweat fest.  The reason I hurried was because I was going out to see Dark Knight. I was seeing the movie with someone else and had to pick her up beforehand.

I thought the movie was really good albeit a bit drawn out at parts. I really liked the way they tied things together and the ending was really well done.  I’d give it an A and you might be able to talk me into an A+.  I think I still enjoyed Avengers more though. I was surprised when I looked at my watch to see the movie was well over two and a half hours long.

Sunday morning I got up super early to go do training bricks with Tom, he has a tri coming up this weekend and wanted to do speed intervals.  The plan was to do a 20 minute ride at near race pace and then immediately do a roughly 10 minute run, again at near race pace.  That doesn’t sound too bad, right?  Well Tom wanted to do this 6 times.

I was already not well prepped for the effort.  I didn’t carb up like I should have the night before and I got very little sleep.  I figured I could still hang, which I did, for awhile.

Tom does a ton more biking than I do. He has been riding over 100 miles a week, I ride 12.  He also has a tri bike.  But he is also 62 years old so I figured that evened things out.  I kept up with him for the first 4 riding segments, although it was hard work, and the running part of the bricks was no problem for me.  However during the 5 th ride my legs simply died.  Both my hamstrings and calves felt like they were on the verge of cramping.  I told Tom to go ahead and I cut the loop short.

I had to get out of there anyway because I had another thing to do late morning.  I was totally gassed and extremely tired.

I decided this weekend that the online dating world is now offline for me for the foreseeable future.  It seems like until either more time passes or my marital status changes officially I am going to be running into unwanted problems.  If something comes to be in a “conventional” manner great, but I am not going to be placing my face on an online billboard, it just hasn’t been worth it.