It’s been ages since I’ve used my camera (not counting last week ’s trip to see the pups ) so I took Cadbury to the little dog park here at the apartment complex to get some photos of him. I’ve already got about 3.6 trillion* pics of him on my phone but I rarely get photos of him with my camera. Firstly, I don’t really want to lug a DSLR around with me when I take him for a walk, and secondly, my DSLR spent two happy years in Britain because I couldn’t be bothered carrying my camera bag onto the plane. I only brought it back to the US in November last year. *This might be a slight exaggeration. And not having used it in so long, it’s been a learning process just getting it into burst mode or changing the exposure level. Which are two of the things you need to know when trying to photograph your dog when he’s running around with a tennis ball in his gob. But one of the things I came to hate about carrying a camera around everywhere is that you end up seeing so muc...

Off to the annual Pet Days event at the OC Market Place today to check out the puppies. Not that I’m in need of another dog, although there were several pups I’d happily have taken home. Here’s hoping they all find forever homes.

Sorry about that. Anyway, the original PlanetMut domain expired two years ago and is now apparently a Malaysian gambling site or something, so my advice is don't go there. I managed to backup the 10 years' worth of posts on the original PlanetMut to my hard drive, but I have no idea what to do about getting them back so whatevs. I'll give it another go and I'll be adding some of the same stuff back (the Mexican advent calendar springs to mind) as soon as I can work out how to, well, work it out, let alone actually actually be arsed to do it. So, as you can see, PlanetMut II: The Planeting is on a free blogging site. There's a few reasons for this, but to be brief: 1. I can't be arsed shelling out on another domain name and hosting. I work in community newspapers, do you think I have money? 2. The old PlanetMut was on WordPress, which I loved, but I wanted something a tad simpler because laziness. 3. Speaking of laziness, I cannot stand the though...