Thank goodness Rosie gets a few inches of the dog bed

Id like to post snow pictures but its still coming down very cold & wet so im just grateful the dogs are willing to run out & back & the cat isn’t trying to sneak out with them

Got this for Rosie (apparently it retains & reflects back heat) but she prefers the couch

We went out for a walk while we still can and a lady actually pulled her car over to say how cute Ollie was with his snowman, he won’t leave the house without it. Note-Rosie is in every way just as cute if not more cute

Happy to share my recent peer commentary in AJOB Neuroscience, "From Moral Duty to Legal Obligation: A Constitutional Basis for Supporting AI-Enhanced Veterans" doi.org/10.1080/2150...

My priorities in the right order for the snow apocolypse

Guess I can ditch my Apple Watch, Rosie has taken to getting me up & away from the computer after an hour in the strongest possible terms-so we are taking a little break-she seems quite happy for me to hang put in the living room with no screens

Apparently the full restart of the semester with, for them, six hours in day care is exhausting

So annoying— series 2 ended on a very carefully constructed cliffhanger & the show was not renewed www.imdb.com/title/tt1419...

Behind in highlighting @melodyschreiber.com’s fantastic reporting on the cancellation of this unethical study

Relatively new that Ollie has taken over Rosie’s bed in my study & abandoned his basket-guess i need to bring in an additional bed

Someone must have told them about synchronized swimming so this is dry land practice

Its been a long time since a show held my attention like this one about to leave Netflix www.netflix.com/title/81668082

Probably time for a visit to the salon-before his face becomes a giant ball of fluff

Finally some sunshine & Rosie now willing to wear her matching high viz orange coat!

My Cricket-a red Golden Retriever- absolutely could do this, know her toys by name & color & learn new words without direct instruction, but I was such an inexperienced dog owner I took it for granted Dogs Build Their Vocabularies Like Toddlers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...

This is important-it is hopefully going to persuade these companies to back off from these chatbots that are luring not just teens but vulnerable adults towards self-harm Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/t...

4 words-“what could go wrong?”

It’s plain wrong that infant/child deaths from disease that are now preventable were rare in whatever counts as “living memory”—more to the point it wasn’t something discussed or even known about beyond immediate family-social circles were smaller before the internet

This is such a big deal because if the 2nd Circuit didn’t uphold the District Court’s interpretation that the rider (condition attached to annual budget approval) prohibited across the board cuts, the Supreme Court likely wouldn’t have either

Good news! as @gostin.bsky.social and I predicted in jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... The 2nd Circuit unamimously upheld the Dist Court that unilateral cuts to NIH indirects are unconstitutional-(reading now for details) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

100% this-

The best reporting about this assault on children’s health is by @melodyschreiber.com in @us.theguardian.com

Such good advice

This is all reminiscent of how people with stomach ulcers were treated before the fairly recent discovery that ulcers are caused by a bacteria & cured by antibiotics— the assumption was that they had ulcer personalities & were encouraged to drink milk which only made things worse

I knew things were too quiet-found this outside with nuts & candy strewn everywhere, son’t think much was eaten but Ill be watching Ollie closely

I yield to no one in my opposition to setting off fireworks in residential neighborhoods, my small block has a dog, a baby or both in almost every house, however uncharacteristically it doesn’t seem to be bothering Ollie

This couch is way too big for my living room, it’s a wreck under the cover-I got it in 2009 on clearance for a rental house and it’s been moved at least seven times & yet its low enough for Rosie to climb up on & has become Ollie’s home base

Making fun of people who are taking effective methods not to be infected by the viruses exhaled by others is like making fun of people who wash their hands www.npr.org/sections/goa...

With flu, measles, and other airborne diseases spreading out of control, and 40+ million Americans with Long Covid, joking about people wearing masks *in December* isn't just mean. It's outrageously dumb.

I have not been following this closely enough and have about 1 million questions, what do you mean it’s a completely private company? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

Hard not to compare how Rosie is now the rock & model for Ollie-a role Cricket once played for her

To stop the ongoing search for things to open & scatter bird feeder youtube has again come to the rescue

Well, it finally happened, he unscrewed the lid of the treat jar-im going to have to move to locked steamer trunks

No good vantage point for both dogs & river but it was an unseasonably beautiful day for an expedition

Is there a Christmas cactus re-distribution system? This was on the ground in my parking spot when I went to the supermarket today & I couldnt leave it there

Not asleep, not hungry, just thinking

Closing out night eight-

Rosie is in perfect health, but lately Ive let all standards drop & rather than throw away a stale baguette I gave it to her-she’s made off with enough of them that I dont think its a choking hazard

Haven't seen Rosie toss around l Lambchop in a while —she likes the snow!

Yes to this 👇🏽 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Wishing everyone light at a dark time

Double decker dogs redux

Apparently Jasmine is part Snow Leopard

ollie is ready for the storms in a new coat!

What a fun & thoughtful gift!!

Double Decker Dogs!

This hearing, live now, is an important example of the attack on the Affordable Care Act www.youtube.com/live/i6-Kn5i...

Last of the tomatoes—it was a really good run!

An index shot post-grooming to have a record of Ollie’s actual color when not coated in mud