dogs, weddings and keith olberman

first, congrats to the new orleans saints and their fans for beating the dog piss out of atlanta. i wish that john carney would've kicked two more field goals (fantasy football implications...i lost to my brother.), but i'm glad they got the win. after what the team and the city dealt with and is dealing with, good on them.

i missed the majority of the first half because i was taking two of my dogs (mugsy & lokie) to the vet (franklin road animal hospital. can't recommend it enough.), to see if we could draw blood from them to give to one of our other dogs (sadie). we don't know what's wrong with her, but it's either anemia, erlikia (don't know how to spell it, but it's a blood disease), leukemia, or cancer. she's been on antibiotics & steroids since friday, with no real improvement, so the vet said we should try a transfusion, since she's obviously losing blood somewhere. anyway, we drew blood, i took the dogs back home, with a stop at sonic for ice cream treats for everyone, and bwe stayed with sadie at the vet until 10.30 or so while they put the new blood, fluids and other things into her. she was at the vet for about 6.5 hours yesterday, i think without a break. sadie still isn't acting much better today, but i'm hoping that the medication has her feeling badly while she gets better. if things aren't noticeably different by thursday, we go back. i can't imagine doing this with kids. i'm a "hope for the best, don't worry about what you don't know" type guy, but even i'm worried about this.

while brooke was at the vet, i was at home, working on music for a friend's wedding. i'm playing in it. no, i don't know why he picked me. yes, he's heard me. it's a non traditional wedding (kind've), so i'm playing a couple of hymns, a couple of songs by hem, an atrocious bill gaither tune and "no depression" by the carter family, among others. i got almost all the songs charted last nite, which will be a big step toward not being the embarrassment of the wedding*. if you guys want a good laugh at a bad vocal arrangement, check out the gaither tune "tho autumn's coming home". i can appreciate the sentiment, but the vocal makes me want to bust into "my way" about halfway through.

after working on the tunes, and partly while working on them, i caught countdown on msnbc. boy lemme tell you, keith olberman was spitting nails last nite. he had an editorial at the end of countdown regarding chris wallace's (fox news) sneak attack of president clinton regarding his record on osama bin laden et al. once he got done with wallace, olberman turned his attention the commander in cheat himself, w. olberman ripped the pres for, among other things, sending a moron (wallace) to do a man's job (slandering former president clinton), dropping the ball on bin laden, and generally being a blight on the american presidency. right on, keith, right on. as soon as i can find a video of olberman's editorial, i'll post it. if you haven't seen chris wallace get what for from president clinton, check it out here.

all that said, i'm pretty stressed out about the situation with sexy sadie. say a good prayer for me, bwe and the dogs tonite.


*(chad, if you're reading this, DO NOT PANIC. we've actually got a good handle on things and i'm only exaggerating for the good of the story and the reading public.)

edit: condi does the dance for the w. wonder if she's gonna wind up dancing her way on top of a sword. or, for you snl fans out there, s words.