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1 Feb 29, 08 A list of sorts, 1- Several people have written to express their frustration over the fee to get into SXSW to see my panel next week (I totally understand), so right now I’m trying to arrange a meet-up somewhere in downtown Austin, probably at a coffee shop, for Saturday morning (March 8th). Once I know the specific details I let you know the when and the where. 2. Coco pooped in the car yesterday. In the car. While we were driving. 3. I have …

2 Outsourced Caring (Post Re-Opened for Comments)
It’s been several months since the last installment of hatemail, and now I’m starting to get hatemail about not posting enough hatemail. I would have posted some sooner, but recent hatemail hasn’t been very clever or passionate, and I didn’t…

3 Jan 09, 08 Smelling of puppy breath
Last night it was my turn to take over the night shift with Coco, which means I had to sleep in the spare bedroom next to her crate and be available to take her outside when she needed to go to the bathroom. We know she is capable of going several hours without needing to go out, she did it the first night she was with us, slept nine straight hours and woke up refreshed and chipper and so incomprehensibly …

4 Apr 07, 08 Exclamation Point, Summer 2007
I know that this is breaking every rule of the Daily Chuck, this photo of a dog that isn’t even mine. But I don’t think I’ve ever taken a photo of Bo that captures his spirit quite like these do. A wrinkled, mischievous old man, a seal with legs. © Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. by dooce in Daily Chuck

5 Apr 23, 08 For all the new people visiting because they saw tha…
Every night we have a ritual where we eat a pot of edamame and watch the national news. Yesterday after I posted a portion of a grocery receipt I got a lot of concerned email wondering just how much edamame we go through on any given day. And the answer is a lot, probably more than is safe, and if I die from eating too much edamame I hope they point out in my obituary that at least it was …

6 Aug 24, 07 Five years of dealing with my crap
Five years ago today I eloped with this man on a cliff at Yosemite National park: To celebrate we saved up some cash to buy a gourmet coffee machine. Those of you who are single might not know this, but…

7 Aug 04, 07 Newsletter: Month Forty-two
Dear Leta, Today you turn forty-two months old. Something happened this month, some switch was flipped, and your personality now resembles more a three-year-old and less a toothless, arthritic geriatric. Suddenly we are parents of a kid who will not…

8 Feb 22, 08 Yeah, oops on that one, too
Instructions for looking after baby A collection of educational graphics detailing the right way and the wrong way to care for a newborn baby. As I scrolled through this I felt myself going, wait, you mean the vodka was a bad idea? It’s just, the things you do when you haven’t slept in six weeks. I’m totally feeling for the people in these graphics. I want to hug them and tell them that it really does get better. (via hicks …

9 Aug 15, 07 Thank God for bandwidth
It’ s been almost six months since I wrote anything for AlphaMom, and now that a few of my deadlines for other projects have passed I’ m excited to start up again. For the foreseeable future, I’ m going to concentrate on finding…

10 Feb 11, 08 Bulb
I’m not exactly sure where I took this photo, but if I had to guess I’d say it was while we were eating lunch at Sea World in San Diego. This picture is a good example of what our new telephoto lens can do for an ordinary object. © Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. by dooce in Daily Photo

11 Feb 11, 08 This is just crying out to be tucked inside the Vale…
So we decided to have a little fun and instead of setting our hair on fire we thought, how about something that won’t require reconstructive surgery? And that’s when we broke out the creamy peanut butter and spread a heaping dollop on the top of Chuck’s nose. We had no idea that Chuck could contort his tongue in so many different ways, and so this week I’ll be featuring a different picture every day of him trying to get off …

12 Feb 13, 08 Damn you, condiment!
At this point he’s just getting angry at the peanut butter, and I can kind of see where he’s coming from. I’m always angry at the peanut butter, too. © Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. by dooce in Daily Chuck

13 Dec 11, 07 Captured by cameras for the first time
The last time Leah came to visit overnight we forced her to watch three-days worth of “The Dog Whisperer,” and by the time she left she was poking us in the neck with her thumb and forefinger to get us to stop chewing on shoes. We have since seen every episode of “The Dog Whisperer,” twice, and now our new obsession is “Planet Earth,” an 11-part series about our planet, filmed over a 5-year period in 200 different locations. We …

14 Mar 26, 08 Chuck’s heightened sense of AWESOME!
Last week I posted a picture of Chuck with a round swath of soot on his forehead and explained that for the last two weeks he’s been standing with his head inside the fireplace for hours every day. But because we couldn’t hear anything or smell any rotting carcass I just assumed that it was a new habit of his, an adorable habit, and when I walked into our bedroom to find him just standing there silently, his entire head …

15 Mar 26, 08 Tweet, tweeted, have done tweet
Have you ever heard of Twitter ? It’s an online application that describes itself this way: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? It’s basically micro-blogging (every tweet is 140 characters or less), and it is totally addicting, especially since you can send tweets from your cell phone. I’ve been using it off and on for several months, …

16 Oct 24, 07 Reading the fine print