oophorectomy etc

here are some obligatory dog snaps, taken earlier this morning, as they're getting snipped today. we dropped them off at the vet a couple of hours ago and will pick them up in another couple of hours. i imagine they'll come through the surgery okay, but of course there are always risks. general anesthesia, sharp knives. dagmar will lose his balls and i'm not sure what will happen to steve. hysterectomy? tubal ligation? what do they do with bitches?

... i just looked up spay and it means to surgically remove ovaries, so i guess that's what they do. oophorectomy. also the dogs will get microchipped, so if they get lost maybe they'll be found. we have the better part of the day without dogs. we were talking about how quiet it is in the house without them, and i like it. kara doesn't. alas.

after we dropped off the dogs we went to the grocery store across the street from the vet and got some cereal and popcorn and other things. we were looking at the nutritional content of different cereals, comparing and contrasting. it was fairly early and there were few people in the store, but for a while there it was as if there was no one else there at all. it was just us in the store and there was no one else in the world. it was kind of a nice moment. if that makes any sense.

when we got home we moved some furniture around, as kara wanted to use the tv table as her desk and her desk as the tv table. so we made the switch. that was a bit labor intensive but we got it done. and she has a paper to write this weekend, and i'm starting story #3. actually i've already written about a page.

and we're feeling good about senator obama's success in iowa. we hope he continues to do well.