So, by now most of you have probably heard of The Puppy Cam . If not, a) you don’t know what you’re missing, and b) you have no soul. It’s an almost-24/7 live webcam feed of a litter of 6 Shiba Inu puppies in San Fran.

They’re quite adorable little furballs. They bounce around, use each other’s heads as stepping stools, use each other’s butts as pillows, and screech like howler monkeys. It’s strangely addictive, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s obsessed with them – they’ve had over 4 million viewers in 60+ countries since the stream started. But now the puppies are 8 weeks old and will start going to their permanent homes this weekend. So sad! But I think the puppies will be even sadder when they’re separated.

All this puppy love is reinforcing my desire to get a puppy. I had my own wonderful furball, Bugsy (a beagle), for 11 years before we put him down because of liver cancer. However, I work full-time at least a 30 minutes drive away, and don’t know how I could train a puppy on that kind of schedule. Has anyone else tried it? Do you have any tips?

About me: Hello! I mainly started this site to have an outlet for and to improve my writing. I was a college student with grand journalistic aspirations before I worked for a couple newspapers & quickly tired of covering local council meetings. I entered Corporate America and started missing the outlet that covering those painful meetings provided me.

So, celebrity gossip, breaking news, useless trivia – you name it and I will not only read it, but learn everything I can about it and tell the closest 500 people. Shame I didn’t put this talent to use in my organic chem classes.

About the blog: “Lorem Ipsum” is the standard text used by printers & typesetters to fill space when they’re designing a layout. It’s thought to be meaningless (and pretty much is, since only doctors, lawyers and SAT tutors use it), but it’s actually a passage from Cicero’s “The Extremes of Good and Evil”. I figure this blog will be mostly Lorem Ipsum – random thoughts that a few might find facinating. I hope you’ll find something fun & interesting here – suggestions appreciated!