Dad Says I'm a Real Hero

Yes this is the Anipal Super Hero #pawpawty and we are all dressed up as Super Heroes. I am dressed up as the Greatest American Hero for the pawty.

But this week dad says I was a REAL Hero!

On Thursday I smelled smoke and I knew it was dangerous. So I had to convince dad that there was something wrong. First he thought I was telling him I had to go out but he reminded me I had just been out. But I just got more and more agitated and would just not leave him alone. I was whining and started trembling. I think the trembling was what did it.

So dad got up and when he walked in the other room he smelled something burning. He ran downstairs and there was two feet of smoke up at the ceiling all the way down the stairs. My grandma had left a pan on the stove with three hot dogs in it. All the water had boiled away and the hot dogs were ready to burst into flames. Smoke was pouring out of the pan. Grandma was asleep.

Dad says I may have saved the house from catching on fire and maybe even burning down so I am a real hero! Maybe I was a Dalmatian in another life!

DJing for Pawties

I have been a DJ for several #Pawpawty and other anipal events now. It is a rush!

I usually use blip.fm for my spinning but this time I checked out Grooveshark. It was slick. If any of you anipals are interested in DJing, I will pass on my limited wisdom.

Maybe some folks are better than me at this, but I believe that planning is important. First thing I do is think about the pawty's theme. Like #dudefest or the Halloween #pawpawty, you try and think up songs that fit the theme. One caution - remember that other DJs may be doing the same thing so you have to be extra creative (and it doesn't hurt to listen to the DJ before you to avoid duplicates). It is all just fun, but I am a perfectionist.

When I use blip, I turn off the Twitter service, find the songs and add them to my play list. When the pawty is on, I turn Twitter back on and reblip them. I use two sessions going - one for the song I'm playing so I know when it's time for a new one, and the other queuing up for the next song.

Grooveshark was pretty nifty because it is not set to tweet automatically. I developed a play list and then when I was DJing I started the song and clicked on to share with Twitter. Grooveshark lets you have multiple play lists too.

One thing to watch - make sure you don't forget the hash tag for the pawty!