News and Views From my kids accomplishments, to my heretical perspective of the world

I’ve been summoned to jury duty tomorrow, Wednesday. I called in this evening, and was told that I should appear.

This will be the first time I have appeared for jury duty. I have been summoned 2 or 3 times before, but in the phone call the night before was always told that I wasn’t required.

It’s with the Arizona Superior Court, so it could be interesting. I’m looking forward to it, which some of my friends think is strange. I guess a lot of people work hard to get out of jury duty, but I’ve always wanted to serve.

I’ll report back once I am free to discuss it.

Devon has accepted a position with SubSurface Exploration Company, in Pasadena. SECo “provides high quality seismic data acquisition and data processing services to clients in the oil and gas industry.”

Devon will be a Geophysicist, utilizing his expertise at signal processing and mathematical physics to help interpret reflected and transmitted sound waves and analyze the underground structure.

He starts on July 2, plans to stay with them for a year, and then in the fall of 2008 pursue a doctorate in Physics, college TBD.

This morning I got up and saw lying in the back yard the bottle of insecticide that had been up out of Apollo’s reach — or so I had thought.

The bottle was almost empty, and there was a hole chewed in the bottom. There was a new puddle on the porch of unknown composition, but undoubtedly the insecticide.

Apollo seemed to feel fine, but we called the vet anyway, who told us to rush him to the veterinary emergency room.

They fed him activated charcoal to soak up anything remaining in his digestive system and kept him for observation. Symptoms to watch out for are vomiting, diarrhea, agitation, tremors, and convulsions. He seemed a little agitated while we were there, but he is an excitable puppy anyway so not sure if that means anything.

The vet was optimistic that he hadn’t eaten much and probably would be fine, but they are going to keep him until this evening. The insecticide was specifically for spraying on dogs to treat mites (from his early puppy-hood), and was quite dilute. Hopefully it didn’t taste good either.

Apollo is still growing. I don’t have a picture — I’ll try to get one up, but he isn’t visibly much different from the one a month ago.

Still a very good natured dog — I’ve never seen him angry or upset, though he does get very excited when it’s time for a walk.

Everywhere we go people exclaim over what a beautiful dog he is. “Gorgeous” and “Beautiful” are the most common adjectives.