Bucky Balls!

Work was interesting today. I was having one of those days where I just could not do a single thing right. I would start a test, and after continuing with the test for 30 minutes or so, I would jolt up from my chair in the sudden realization that I'd forgotten to adjust something before I started the test. I'd fix whatever it was, start testing again, and without fail I'd realize I'd forgotten yet another thing. After 5 or 6 (or 7?) such mistakes, I told one of my friends that the silver lining of all these mistakes was that I was pretty sure I'd made all the mistakes I could. I hoped I'd finally get some good data so I started testing again. After a little while, my boss wanders in and I quickly happened upon the discovery that while I had used up all my possible mistakes, he had made a big mistake that made all the data useless anyway. We managed to sync up our bad days!

Then Timmy showed up! He went to work with the company he contracts for, which is about 6 miles southeast from where I work. He biked to my company, played with the pond for a while, and then we biked home together. It was fun! We were hungry when we got home so we played with Navi while making an early dinner of penne with vodka sauce. Tim played tug of war with her and the boiled wool toy my mom and dad got from Carmel when they came to visit. My mom was convinced the toy would be very short lived but it's still alive and gets played with every day!

That blue fishy toy is a free toy my mom got and sent to Navi a while back! I think she was at a book fair in NYC and a stand was giving these dog toys out for free. My mom grabbed this little blue fishy, and another one that looks like a lamb. They are little plushy toys with a hard chewy part in the middle made by kong; I guess kong is trying to branch out from all their tough chewy things. I thought the toys were cute because they were plushies with some weight to throw, and Navi loves them! After dinner, Tim and I played a game where we threw toys at her and tried to get one to stay on her back. I'm not sure what she thought of the game, but after a few minutes she decided she was fascinated with a toy rope ball that she has never, ever shown interest in before. She was a frenzied demon chasing after this ball wherever we threw it. Eventually, that grew old, and she migrated to her toy that reminds me of a bucky ball with extra pizzazz thrown inside.


Then she rolled upside down with her bucky ball and played like that for a while.


Then she gave me a little shock and threw the ball at me.


I'm pretty sure she knows exactly what she's doing.