I’m at work until 0530 my time or until the next guy gets in.
Then i get to run the gauntlet of drunks, truckers, and critters on the way home.
“Begin the excrutiations!”
Happy New Year, folks.
Had a very nice “surf & turf” dinner at home, this evening. Everyone but me was abed by 11:30pm. Didn’t even break out the Beaujolais. Maybe after the 2014 elections are over...
Enjoying two weeks off work over these holidays; rather dreading going back, but can’t really feature not the way my tribe burns through the capital.
I said`to Lady HK the other night, “It’s as if I can feel the weight of all the crap that’s happened to me in my life.” Bilbo, I think, expressed it best when he spoke of feeling “thin...like butter scraped over too much bread.”
The dogs got a great Christmas present, this year; while Lady HK was out buying rawhide chews for them, my 13y/o lab they ripped a hole in the fence, both dogs went on walkabout, and we had to buy them out of hock at the freakin’ pound. For $400!
So, I made them another present just from me: a gang tie-out chain. Staked at both ends, the chain is about 15 feet long and has a pair of two-foot leads attached to it. During the day, when it’s decent weather, the dogs can go out and be all buddy buddy on their gang chain. They can sit, down, worry on their rawhides, walk around a bit, and fraternize all they want, but they can’t touch each other, they can’t go assault the back fence, and they cannot escape until one of their two-legged gods appears to release them either to play, to go eat, or to go in the house and be with the other gods.
I expect earthshaking stuff will begin in 2014.
Tolerate the ignorant.
Do not suffer fools.
Keep your powder dry.
Watch the East.