This Damn Dog Owes Me a Viral Article

The Mad Ned Memo
8 min readOct 24, 2021

My new writing career collides headlong with Pandemic Puppy

Kind of bad selfie of me and my office mate. (Photo by author)

The lobbying for another dog started long before the Pandemic. My wife and two (adult) kids were all on board with the idea that our current dog, a 13-year-old Lab mix, was lonely, and could use some companionship. It had been several years since we were a two-dog house, and our one dog had been managing quite well in my opinion as the…

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The Mad Ned Memo

I am Ned Utzig, a lifelong computer gamer, hacker, maker, and engineer. Here for nerdy tales and discussions of computing technology — past, present, and future