Pluto back to being just a dog.

Well, it's official.  I know you were wondering, and now I can confirm it for you: Pluto is no longer a planet. 

Myself, I'm not too phased by it.  Back in the mid 90s, Jeff Kennett—the Premier at the time of the state I live in; Victoria—went about closing down and demolishing hundreds of schools that were struggling to stay alive.  Sure the government had the money to help, and then some, but it was better suited to his grand plans for the state that they be knocked down to make way for apartments, offices, what have you.  Fair enough, I can live with that.  If it sucks for me at all, it's merely the fact that one of the 4 primary (elementary) schools I attended no longer exists (though they sure are pretty apartments!). 

Of the 13 houses I'd lived in while growing up, 6 of them have been demolished and replaced, or renovated to the point of unrecognisability.  As someone who very much likes to go for drives to the places I lived and frequented as a child, it's a shame to think that almost half of those places don't exist anymore.  Not as I remember them anyway, and isn't that the point?

Anyway, my point is that removing Pluto from the Sol System's planetary list is just another example of my childhood being knocked out from under me.  I'm no stranger to that!