Roadblock around every corner, swimming in shit, both feet both hands in mouth

So in the past when I had sole responsibility for the dogs during a work week, I would leave work a hour early to let them out.  Even with doing that they would be holding it for damn near 10 hours.  They were fine with this schedule.

Well with the new dog bathroom reality I decided I would revert to what I used to do, drive all the way home and back at lunch time.  Yes it is very inconvenient and a gas waste but I figured it would be a safe way to avoid more unscheduled use of the house as a toilet.  After all, when Nicki does this (shits in the house) it just adds to her mental issues when she see’s my reaction to the brown land mines.

So I pull into the driveway a little after 12, open the door and again get smacked in the face by the sweet smell of shit. WTF?  Nicki dumped before I left for work yet there was another pile in front of the guest bathroom and another small muddy puddle on the bathroom mat in the master bathroom.  Argh….

I banished both dogs to the outdoors while I hurriedly did clean up duty.  Thank goodness I picked up the SpotBot from Ali’s place over the weekend, it has gotten quite the work out.  Before I disposed of the shit in the master bath I scooped some into a baggy. (yes it is disgusting)  My intent was to take it directly to the vet on my way back to be tested.

I’m annoyed with the vet.  Two or three weeks ago after this bathroom issue had already been going on for a week or so, Ali took the dogs to the vet for testing, lots of testing.  The vet ran a ton of tests but they were ALL blood tests.  She said she didn’t need a stool test.  This made zero sense to me.  If a dog is defecating in an abnormal way or frequency, why in the world would you not test the stool?? Stupid.

Ali received a massive bill for all of this blood work which revealed nothing, comforted by the fact that the new pet insurance should insulate her from a big bill.  Well the initial response she got from the insurance was not good, they were only agreeing to pay a small portion of the bill, despite us paying a large amount of money each month for a comprehensive, zero deductible policy.

Ali is going to have to take that up with the vet as well.  Apparently since the vet knew this was going to be submitted to insurance she charged full boat, knowing her reimbursement would be less than that.  Well now that insurance has not kept their end of the bargain I would expect the vet to make a significant adjustment to the bill.

So last night before bed, I had the dogs out late, they did their last backyard bathroom jaunt at something like 10:20.  When the alarm sounded this morning I stumbled into the bathroom and discovered overnight that Nicki shit AGAIN, on the only clean bathroom mat that was left.  It was a substantial pile.

I was in disbelief.  Nicki didn’t even flinch as she watched me reveal her latest actions.  She hit for the cycle when I walked over to her bed and saw she threw up on that as well over night.  I found this too disturbing to even yell about.

Regardless of whatever physical issues that could be causing her to have to dump so often the fact that she could shit in the middle of the night, 20 feet away from me and not even make an effort to let me know she had to go(crying by the bed is what she used to do) is very concerning.  It’s like she has forgotten the last 9 years of housebreaking completely.

So a large part of my morning was spent once again cleaning up excrement.  Nicki’s rapid transformation from a healthy 9 year old to a neurotic, slow moving old girl  with a disregard for housebreaking in the last few months makes me very sad.

Of course I blame the marital split for at least accelerating the change.  Nicki has never been good at dealing with change and this is about as changed as you can get from a dog’s perspective.

So anyway, I am supposed to hear back from the vet today with the results.

My mom’s Adsense account is now officially up and running.  I decided I would do the final piece of my master plan to get my YouTube channel back in the money making business, associate it with my mom’s Google account.

I made the switch but noticed the monetization tab for my account was still disabled.  WTF.

So a few searches revealed that once your YouTube monetization tab is disabled, much like a disabled AdSense account, you are basically f’d.  They won’t allow you to reconnect it with another AdSense account.  BASTARDS.

I really don’t get this draconian approach Google has chosen to take when it comes to their advertising program.  If someone is willing to provide you content that you can jam ads into, why would you turn it away?  Argh, this is madness.

So that left me with exactly one remaining option in my fight for freedom.  I would have to create a brand new YouTube channel and associate my mom’s AdSense account with it. So that is what I did.  In the process I wound up creating a couple additional Google accounts that will never be used.  This again was due to the stupid way Google locks you in.

I logged out of YouTube and then clicked the NEW USER link to create a new Google account, my thought being this new account would take ownership of my old YouTube stuff so my mom’s account can be connected to the new one.  Well the second you complete the Google account it instantly associated it with it’s OWN YouTube account, locking the two together, permanently.

You can not break the association, all you can do is cancel the YouTube account but that STILL does not release the Google account to be used with something else.  Ok this is just asinine.  Finally I managed to associate my old YT channel with a placeholder account and the new one with my mom’s account.  It was very frustrating.

There are a couple things I did find interesting about this entire process.

First when creating my mom’s AdSense account there were TONS of warnings about clicking your own ads and soliciting ad clicks.  It would be impossible to claim you did not know about this if you signed up for an AdSense account TODAY.  However when I created my account 4 or 5 years ago there was none of this, in your face, warning.

Second, apparently there is no longer a requirement for your YouTube channel to have a certain amount of views before you are offered the option to monetize your videos.  I was able to turn on monetization of my new channel immediately.

I now have a ton of work in front of me.  I need to reupload all 350 plus of my videos, as well as recreate the descriptions, tags and categories.  There will be some small perks in doing so as I will be able to better organize my content as well as add some additional tagging that should help generate additional views.  I’ll be lucky if I get it all done within a couple weeks.  I certainly hope all this effort is worth it.

Here is where all my videos will be living in the future.

Wow Mitt really has been sticking whatever appendage he has in his mouth lately huh?  First you have his poorly expressed thoughts about the Libya situation and now the video of what he really thinks about the other 47%.  Watching the attempts at damage control should be quite entertaining.  The bottom line is Mitt is just a rich doofus trying to emulate someone who really gets it. He’s doing an extremely poor job of doing so.

Have you ever read in detail about his days at Bain Capital?  When you dig into exactly how Bain worked it WILL disgust you.  He has a track record only a guy like Rick Scott could love. Slimy.