At first I decided to just abandon this blog after I started getting hammered with blog spam, aside from just losing interest as I often do. I've resurrected the blog, however, because I wanted to start posting some photos of my ugly dog, Bodie. I got him just before Christmas and what a little bastard he is. First of all, just looking at him makes me want to vomit, so I initially felt like it was a mistake to buy him just before Christmas, what with all the Christmas dinner and snacks and everything. After a couple days it was apparent that he was never going to let me sleep either, so that's when I started beating him on a daily basis. And man is he ever stupid. That photo on the left is him. I had him about two days when that was taken and he was just past eight weeks old.

Ok, so maybe he's not that ugly. And somehow or another I managed to start liking the little guy after a few weeks. But I'm telling you he has the demon in him and he can still be a bastard. The beatings are only necessary every other day now. Overall he's turning out to be pretty weird. Sometimes he just completely freaks out and goes haulin' ass around the house like he's possessed. But most of the time he just chews on people's hands and any other stuff he can get in his mouth. But hands are his favorite. Especially children's hands. The fingers must be like little vienna sausages to him. Mmmmm...those are good.

Finally he's able to go out and be around other dogs since he's had the last of his shots. He couldn't get the bordetella immunization because he apparently already had kennel cough when I got him, which doesn't say much for the breeder I got him from (she breeds dogs in addition to children, all sick with kennel cough). So that's why he's just now allowed to be around other dogs. I've been trying to get him used to riding in the truck too, but most of the time he just pukes on the front seat. Usually it's just wood chips that come out, but still.

Oh, and everybody asks about the name Bodie. Well first, I just like it. I don't know why. Probably I like it because I have some secret man-crush on the character of Bodhi from Point Break (I must say, I did think Patrick Swayze was awfully cool in that movie when I first saw it), but if that's true I wasn't aware of it at the time I named my dog. Actually the Bodhi Tree is the tree Buddha sat under when he attained enlightenment. Now I'm not Buddhist, but I do respect a lot about that religion and have learned a little from it. So did the tree have anything to do with Buddha gaining enlightenment? Well I don't know, but he specifically sat under that tree, and for a long god damn time too. So my rationale with the naming is that sometimes it takes a puppy or a child to bring all of one's thoughts and philosophies full-circle to reach the realization that it's only life, after all, and life is just not as complicated as we sometimes make it. Most things that seem messed up can actually be pretty funny if you look at it objectively and think about how silly we all act. And of course you can't control anything; there's going to be vomit on truck seats, and chewed up fingers and shoes and that's just how it is. My dog Bodie gives me all the enligtenment I need. Oh, and in the end I named him Bodie instead of Bodhi to tone down the pretentiousness of putting all that thought into a dog's name. Maybe I should have been like all the rest of you lemmings and just named him Max.