Summer in Montreal

This article is part of the meta-post 3000 Words after Wordcamp or how I didn’t watch Rocketboom. This article covers my summer until now in Montreal with my dog Spike.
I was walking Spike yesterday night. It was nice and not too hot. There were a lot of crickets about. It’s funny to hear so many in the city. I live a few minutes out of the downtown core, about 2 minutes exactly. My condo development is right next to a canal. The cricket sounds are interesting, every time you think that you are near a cricket it stops and another one takes up the slack, it’s like a constantly expanding and changing Doppler field.

 

For some reason, dogs are preternaturally aware of their surroundings and other sounds. Spike gets easily distracted. Most distressing is when he gets distracted when trying to do a number 2. It’s a whole ritual.

 

Here is the program for his behavior:

 

 

The description of the event…

Sniff sniff, pee, sniff, sniff, turns around a few times, scratch, scratch, sniff, sniff, pee, scratch, scratch, looking up and getting distracted. And then he starts all over again.

 

function sniff

do sniff;

function scratch

do scratch;

function pee

do pee;

function turn

do turn;

function distracted

do get_distracted;

function poo

do poo;

function number_2

{

from i to 20 do sniff;

if sniff = 1 do pee;

if pee =1 do scratch;

if scratch = 1 do turn;

if turn =1 do distracted;

if distracted = 1 do;

else do poo;

}

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It is also part of the meta-post 3000 Words after Wordcamp or how I didn’t watch Rocketboom.

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