The Hutch

One week

It was last Sunday that Chewie threw up his food after finally eating a little, and I told Melinda that I thought he was sick. The next day she took him to the vet and began the little adventure I’ve been chronicling. It’s not even a week, really, though we’d been worrying a little over…

February 23, 2013

Chewie in Recovery

Or…The Adventure of Chewie Hutchison and The CONE of SHAME! On Thursday morning, I awoke to some terrible pain in my guts. I called in to work and took the day off. At first, I was worried that I was taking a sick day needlessly and it was just a little intestinal fit. I needn’t…

February 22, 2013

Gasp! Not Dr. Wertham!

Oh. Turns out Dr. Wertham lied in that testimony to Congress.

February 22, 2013

Chewie is out of surgery

Chewie’s anesthetic started around 4PM, and Dr. Corbin called at 4:10 to give us a final preliminary report before she started. At 7PM, she called us to let us know that his surgery went well. While they had him open, they did a test of a tiny scrape of his liver. The liver had appeared…

February 21, 2013

Chewie: Good news and bad news

The bad news: Chewie has cancer. The good news: It is on one of his two kidneys. Tomorrow, surgeons at the University of Minnesota will operate and remove that kidney, and so long as the cancer is confined to that one kidney, that’s the end of it. Short of “turns out Chewie just had a…

February 19, 2013

Please pray for Chewie

Our 3 1/2 year old standard poodle, Chewie, is in the hospital. He had had an eye infection 10 days ago, and our vet noticed that he had lost about six pounds. She asked us to keep an eye on his eating. After a week of his appearing listless and having little appetite, Melinda took…

February 19, 2013

Podcast 7: Our 2009 Christmas Gifts (Lost Podcast #1)

In January 2010, Erik Burnham and I recorded a fun discussion of what we had gotten for Christmas. And then, for reasons technical and personal, editing took forever and then they fell by the wayside…but were not forgotten! Just in time for Valentine’s Day 2013… it’s “What did you get for Christmas 2009?” This is…

February 14, 2013

Still cold

Man, is it cold in Minnesota. Too cold to walk Chewie for more than 5 minutes.

January 16, 2013

Obama Wins Reelection

An interesting thing about Democrat reaction tonight. NOBODY loves Obama. They just hate Romney. You know…I could understand the seething loathing from Democrats if we were running someone like Reagan-on-steroids, but in the last two elections our candidates were two of the most middling, almost-a-Democrat, reach-across-the-aisle non-partisans you could hope to find. One was a…

November 7, 2012

That wage question

The sad thing is that the “women earn 72% of what a man earns for the exact same job” factoid is peddled by professors of women’s studies who earn the same amount as for a professor of something useful like astronomy.

October 18, 2012