Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Tech Terrier


Border Terrier, Sadie has been having trouble remembering when she's been fed.  An hour after feeding she seems to forget that the satiating episode happened and she begs another feeding.  I thought it might help for her to learn how to create a spreadsheet and chart in Excel to keep track of her meals.  We spent a good three hours going over the basics of Excel and then worked on making a glorious chart.  She thought it might help to make the meal category labels each a different color, and chose magenta for breakfast and lavender for dinner.  She also made a key for the kinds of food she eats.  Well... there's exactly one kind... but she thought that it would be good to at least plan for the possibility of variety.  Who am I to stifle creativity and forethought?  Dog food is represented by a tangerine diamond.  I have to say, she is a great student.  She listened intently and insisted on "driving" the keyboard after the first few minutes of demonstration.  We'll be looking at Wordpress templates next week.  Here she is working the mouse with remarkable accuracy.