Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for December 05, 2010

I don’t know why she thinks people want a picture of her dog. I mean, get a grip! Not everybody are dog lovers.

Since I don’t like dogs anyway, I can say things like…

“Staple It’s Tail to the Damned Carpet!”

Besides, photo xmas cards are just cheesy. Buy a pile of the same cards and mail them to everyone. Save time and trouble. They’ll just end up in the recycling come Jan 1.

This is an example of the use of the Critical Path Method for carrying out a project. There are all kinds of things to be done, and some are more critical than others. As Cathy so clearly explains, she can’t address her cards until she has taken the photos. All the activities in between are on the critical path. Each activity depends directly on the previous one, and must be done on time, or the whole project fails.

There are other activities, but they are not on the critical path, so they can be a bit late. For example, buying and wrapping the presents don’t seem to require the dog to sit.

Yeah, I don’t want to see people’s dogs either. I only send photo cards since I have children. I want to see my long-distance friends’ kids and they want to see mine, so it works for us. But once they’re too old, we’re back to regular cards.

Last December it snowed here. I took pictures of our front door decorated for Christmas with snow on the ground. That’s going to be my photo card.

Pictures of pets or kids are ok if they aren’t all lined up staring at the camera. A thoughtfully composed photo of them enjoying the season could make a nice card.

I have only slightly less interest in seeing photos of people’s children than I have of reading lame pre-printed Christmas letters.

I’m a huge dog lover so I don’t mind Christmas cards from people with pictures of their family dog. Kids are okay too. But I absolutely can’t stand pre-printed Christmas news letters; they’re the worst.

Meanwhile … Cathy can go ahead and buy her cards in advance because she controls whether the picture is horizontal or vertical. Given the way she’s holding her camera trying to capture Electra’s picture as she runs after her, trying to get her to sit long enough for Cathy to take it, the picture will be horizontal. As many photos as she takes, you would have thought she’d have that figured out by now!

I always enjoy seeing photos of my friend’s dogs, not so much their kids though. Probably because the dogs are a lot more fun to be with and don’t cause the problems and heartaches that the human offspring seem to cause.

Yeah….anytime you want to send me a family photo with a canine, young or old, I’m happy to receive it.

I agree absolutely about not liking the pre-printed family “brag letters”. Really lame and mostly untrue and offensive.

WOOF!

Cards, pfft. This is 2010 – I just shoot them an e-mail or pick up the cell phone and call them!

with some of the people the family gets cards from, I’d rather see the dog