So after the flurry of posts last week I ...stopped posting for no reason whatsoever.

Frisket is fine. I picked her up Monday the 18^th from Monstermutt. We kept her to just her normal food, no treats, no strange items off the street, to try to keep her stomach settled down. We all think that this incident was a combination of her normal dietary indiscretions combined with being upset at being left at the kennel for several days. We are going to try some things to get Frisket less attached, I guess, to me as well as to the house since we can't always take her with us. We have four weeks until the next long trip (Austin and Pittsburgh for me at the end of October).

We spent the weekend in Amagansett, attending the Rosh Hashana services at The Jewish Center of the Hamptons and consumed many excellent meals of food over the course of the three days. It was a little rough for Frisket, this was her first trip out to Amagansett since the death of Coco. Since most people seem to think I'm insane, I have no problem admitting that I took Frisket out to the back yard, sat her down and tried to explain that Coco was not there and would not be there (If you speak dog or have spent anytime with Frisket, you'll understand the phrasing: Coco no Coco. Coco closed.). And, admitting I could be interpreting far too much, Frisket seemed to get it at some level. She wandered around the yard (this was late Thursday night) and then slumped down next to me letting out a solitary whimper.

While Frisket did wander around the house, she did not do the manic-looking-for-Coco which she has done consistently for the past 4 years. So, I don't know whether or what she understands, but she was sort of down all weekend.

This week, in addition to various work-ish things, I'm having lunch with Pete Fiorese today, am going to the Wired NextFest preview day on Thursday, and am planning to go to part of Bar Camp NYC 2.

Oh, and the MAPW 25th Anniversary reunion is on in Pittsburgh, PA the 27th-29th October for anyone interested. What? You have no idea what an MAPW is? Well, let me tell you: it was (is) the a three semester graduate program at Carnegie Mellon where I learned everything I needed to know as a professional, technical writer for Corporate America: how to use NROFF and TROFF, Scribe, emacs, vi, Aldus PageMaker and Microsoft Word version 3 for the Macintosh. And I picked up a little bit about writing, which I've since obviously forgotten.