Yes, There Are Some Things That Actually Make Me Happy…..

I complain a lot on this blog, and there are many things that frustrate me about this world, especially the common social rituals that I find to be absolutely pointless, but there are actually a few things I enjoy about this great world we live in.

Grumpy Cat:

There’s just something that is incredibly funny about Grumpy Cat, that half annoyed, half depressed look on her face, I know it’s just the way her face happens to be shaped, she’s not really angry all the time, but it still looks funny, especially once someone makes a meme of her with a sarcastic saying. Grumpy Cat is one meme series that never gets old for me, unlike some other meme series that have come and gone.

Control + Z

Whoever came up with the idea deserves some recognition. All you have to do is press the Control button and Z at the same time, and whatever mistake you made while typing something is undone. I especially appreciate this, because I use Excel often at work, and if I happened to accidentally delete a cell on a spreadsheet, or type something else in it’s place, that I shouldn’t have, a press of two simple, easy to remember keys will undo it. It’s a wonderful invention.

Pit Bulls

I have discussed on the blog in the past how I can understand dogs much better than people, and I do enjoy most dogs, especially large and medium size dogs, but I really have a fondness for pit bulls.

 They are the most misunderstood and maligned off all dog breeds. Yes, they are much stronger than other dogs, and can do more damage when they attack, but unless one has been abused, trained to fight, or not properly trained from a young age, they truly are no worse for aggression than other large dog breeds like Labs or Collies. The best proof of this is that the CDC recently finished a study of statistics from localities with and without pit bull bans or extreme regulation of pit bulls, and found that pit bull bans did absolutely nothing to reduce the frequency of dog attacks overall.

Dogs are Much Easier for Me to Understand Than People

From the time I was born, to the time I was about 16, my family always had at least one dog in the home. I’ve talked about Suki the Pug, but my family had two other dogs at various times, and sometimes overlapping. Katie, a Shetland Sheepdog, which is more commonly known a “Sheltie” or “Miniature Collie”, because they look just like a standard Collie, but are about half the weight.

 I used to joke that she was about 25 pounds, and about half of that was fur. In later years, my family had a dog that was Yellow Lab and Chow, named Rose. She looked almost exactly like a lab, but acted like a Chow, which is a bad combination.

She was 75 pounds (I have noticed that when other large breed dogs are crossed with a Chow, the resulting dog ends up becoming larger), was very tall, if you measured her height when she was standing on her back legs, she would have been somewhere between 4’6 to 4’9

She was a massive dog, larger than an average Lab, which most people assumed she was fully Lab, and when she would jump up on the fence facing the sidewalk (my parents still live in that house on the corner), the 4 foot fence would only come up to her chest, and she would let her legs dangle over the fence. When people would walk by, she would bark, and wag her tail, and when people would see her sheer size, and hear that deep bark, they would walk across the street, rather than pass by her.

The cruel irony of it (at least for Rose), was that she enjoyed having random people pet her, but very few people were willing to do so. She loved people, especially children, but with having a typical Chow personality, she was very territorial, I remember my neighboring having a pit bull that both he and his now ex-wife pampered, she was the happiest dog around, and Rose returning her high pitched pit bull yelp with a vicious growling that convinced me that she would kill her if ever given the opportunity.

She could also get violent if you tried to force her to do something she didn’t want to do (which is why my family ended up giving her away, we warned the new owners about that), or when she would get scared.