Yes, once again I have let my blog lapse, both of them in fact. I haven’t posted any reviews up on AzureScape lately either. And now, as if neglecting two blogs isn’t bad enough, I’m adding a third to the mix: MyGuideDogBlog.com.

Thats right, it’s official! On January 5th I fly up to scenic San Rafael for several weeks to undergo extensive training in the care and feeding of a guide dog. I’ll be blogging extensively about the entire process, both here and at the aforementioned site.

I’m fortunate to have a leg-up (no pun intended) on the process, since my lovely girlfriend Sarah is a Guide Dogs for the Blind alumna. I’m receiving some intensive pre-training from her great yellow lab Kodak, and I’m looking forward to partnering up with an equally beautiful bundle of joy and energy in a couple weeks.

To answer everyone’s most pressing question: no, I don’t know my dog’s name, breed, or gender yet. I won’t find that out until I meet my dog on the fourth day of the program. D-Day, they call it. But it’ll likely either be a black lab or a golden lab. I’ve received some preliminary lecture material from them, which I’m listening to with great interest. I’ll post about that in more detail soon.

It feels good to be blogging again. It’s like exercising, or eating healthy, or any of those other lovely things. You get out of the habit of doing them, and when you finally get back to them you feel so exhilirated you wonder why you ever stopped in the first place. Life is funny like that.