{"id":16703,"date":"2015-05-29T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16703"},"modified":"2015-05-29T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:27:07","slug":"spam-and-ramps-and-trams-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16703","title":{"rendered":"Spam and Ramps and Trams, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday and today the comment spam folders at my three blogs were less than a quarter full\u00a0—\u00a0not that they’re of a fixed size, but in comparison to the daily volume of spam the blogs\u00a0have been getting. Is it too soon to hope the bots have decided to write pwoodford.net off?<\/p>\n

It’s a sad fact that of late I’ve had to empty the spam folders daily. The\u00a0host server keeps sending “disk full” warnings, and I don’t know what else could be causing it.<\/p>\n

Of course I could always close comments again, but that wouldn’t be any fun.<\/p>\n

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Schatzi’s recovering nicely from the surgery on her back. Once in a while her left rear leg folds\u00a0up under her, but it happens less and less often. Donna took her for a walk yesterday and said she’s pretty much\u00a0her old self.<\/p>\n

The order of the day is “no more jumping.” Both pups took to our\u00a0homemade\u00a0ramp but are distrustful of\u00a0the pet stairs\u00a0from Amazon. The\u00a0steps on the Amazon rig fold\u00a0down to make\u00a0a ramp, but it’s shorter and steeper than the ramp we\u00a0made and might simply be too much for them.<\/p>\n

We’re using the steps, at least temporarily: we arranged them, along with the ramp\u00a0and coffee table, to make it harder for the dogs\u00a0to leap\u00a0off the couch. Of course all that goes by the wayside when\u00a0a stranger comes to the door. We have to watch those dogs every second.<\/p>\n

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Dogs, dog couch, dog ramp, dog stairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Don’t worry — if you come visit we’ll move all that stuff and\u00a0you’ll have a place to sit. Hope you like\u00a0dogs, though, because they’ll be on the couch\u00a0with you.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of visitors, we’ve had houseguests for the past month: first Polly, then our niece Rebecca and her husband Nate, then Donna’s sister Georgie. Georgie flew home early this morning and the house is empty again, though I don’t know for how long. Polly has literally nothing to do in Ajo, where she lives with her boyfriend David, and she’s desperate for a job. The nearest\u00a0jobs are here in Tucson, so she may come stay with us temporarily while she looks for employment. Then again,\u00a0maybe not\u00a0—\u00a0yesterday she phoned to say she’s volunteered to give swimming lessons to kids at the\u00a0public pool in Ajo. She sounds excited about it, and if it gives her something to do we’re all for it.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been conducting indoor walking tours of the hangars at Pima Air & Space Museum for four\u00a0years. I still look forward to going in every Wednesday, but it’s time to take on a new challenge, so I’m transitioning to the tram tour team.<\/p>\n

To be perfectly honest, it’s not just saying the same things about the same exhibits week after week that’s motivating me. Three hours on those hard concrete hangar floors\u00a0make my feet scream bloody murder, and it’s not just me being fat and out of shape — Donna and Georgie came along on\u00a0just one of my two walking\u00a0tours Wednesday, and they both mentioned\u00a0how much their feet hurt afterward.<\/p>\n

I’m riding down to the museum this morning to pick up a tram training manual. I’m only on the walking tour schedule twice in June\u00a0and\u00a0can start\u00a0training right away. It’s probably the worst time to check out on the tram; these guys work\u00a0outdoors in the fierce southern Arizona\u00a0heat and sun, but as you can see the trams\u00a0are covered so they’re\u00a0in the shade most\u00a0of the time. I’ll need a bigger hat, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

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Pima Air & Space Museum tram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did I say it’s going to be a new challenge? There are more than 100 aircraft on the tram tour route, and I’ll have to be able to say something intelligent about every one of them. Then again, learning about a different set of aircraft will\u00a0inspire me to write more air-minded posts. It’s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday and today the comment spam folders at my three blogs were less than a quarter full\u00a0—\u00a0not that they’re of a fixed size, but in comparison to the daily volume of spam the blogs\u00a0have been getting. Is it too soon to hope the bots have decided to write pwoodford.net off? It’s a sad fact that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,555,2,6],"tags":[1748,523,356],"class_list":["post-16703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-flying","category-local-color","category-personal","category-a-series-of-tubes","tag-comment-spam","tag-pima-air-space-museum","tag-schatzi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16717,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions\/16717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}