Use of Weapons

Shorter version of today's Girl Genius:

Hitting things with wrench: $5.00
Knowing what to hit with wrench: PRICELESS

Day 6

We're only a few days into Gracie's healing regimen, but she does seem to be improving. She's gone on walks without demur the last three days; the prickles in her ear - presumably allergic in origin - seem to have vanished; and the genital inflammation seems much better.

The vet mentioned that one of the pills would probably increase Gracie's thirst and urination. :sigh: This prediction has been validated.

I said before that Gracie would take pills from my hand without reservation. This is no longer true. She's made the connection between Baytril and feeling urpy, so she spits out the pills if I just hand them to her. Fortunately, peanut butter is an adequate mask.

(As an aside: giving peanut butter to dogs provides multiple sources of entertainment. Setting aside the roof-of-the-mouth problem, watching dogs try to lick the last of the PB off your fingers - with tongues that, coated with peanut butter already, do no more than spread it around - is pretty amusing.)

Nomenclature

Now, that's odd. I'm reading Jack McDevitt's Odyssey, and there has just been a mention of a starship (one of many in the book) called the Chan Ho Park. It happens that I know of only one person by that name; he was a major league pitcher for a number of years, playing for, among others, the Padres, the Mets, and the EBE. As major league pitchers go, he was decent, sticking around for more than ten years. He wasn't, by any stretch, someone who'd have a starship named for him centuries in the future. (His only uniqueness, AFAIK, was that he was the first South Korean-born player to make it to the majors.)