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Yesterday, we had Meg's Dad and my parents over for dinner. Mom also brought dog nail trimmers and helped me trim Penny's nails. I learned a few things:

• Penny doesn't like having her nail's trimmed.
• My mom doesn't like Penny trying to bite her.
• Penny definitely needed her nails trimmed, as the scratch marks all over my forearms attest.
• When a dog is scared and held down, it will struggle
• When a dog is struggling, cutting their nails can result in a bit of blood-letting
• Mom can be a bit of a MacGyver, as she turned her sock into an effective muzzle.
• Penny doesn't like muzzles.
• Meg and her dad don't like the sounds a dog makes when it's crying in fear through a muzzle.
• When a dog is really scared, they spray their anal glands.
• Being colorblind is a good excuse to not have to clean up blood stains.
• If you are planning on covering up a bloody murder, or cleaning up after trimming your dog's nails, OxyClean helps a lot.

Next time, we're getting a professional with some powerful anesthesia to do this job.

Went to the Y for the first time in about 2 weeks on Saturday. I had slacked off because I was trying to recover from a pretty nasty headcold, and Saturday was the first day that I almost 100% again.

I started off planning on doing a 15 minute run on the treadmill, but my lungs had other ideas. After about 7 minutes I started hacking up all kinds of cruft from my lungs, so running will have to wait for my lungs to decide they are over this sickness too.

I did my normal weight training as well, but was able to add some more reps, which felt good. I also did some inverted sit-ups (not sure if that's the right name, but you lay back at about a 45 degree angle hook your legs into the table contraption and do sit-ups.) Ouch. I was only was able to manage about 10 of those.

In the afternoon I went to the driving range with Gail, Bryon and Meg and hit a few golf balls around. While not exactly a lot of exercise, it did work some more muscles, and I learned how to actually hit the golf ball so it flies instead of rolling off the tee and down the hill. So I got that going for me.