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.livescience.com ^ | October 5, 2018 12:57pm ET | Brandon Specktor

[Silentgypsy]

Frappy Eyeday Heave to y’all!

[Monkey Face]

If gas was $1.88 a gallon, I’d think I was in the wrong country.

[Monkey Face]

Can’t do it today, Bob. I’m in no mood to deal with gubmint offishuls. Tomorrow will be here before you know it! And my vehicle and I will be legal in the state of Utah for as long as we live here. ;o]

[Monkey Face]

I’ve given up trying to find the things I want at Walmart and Ace Hardware, so I’m going to find some large cup hooks so I can hang the curtains in the bedroom and kitchen. I need to get a longer rod for the living room, but I suspect it will have the brackets.

After I get the BB SUV legal and get Beaker fixed. The latter will happen on the 9th.

I also need to get a plastic rug protector before I put the rug down. That should brighten this place up a bit.

[Tax-chick]

You don’t have $1.88 gas? I went to Lowe’s and got five new house keys made. Now all the parties have them, and if they forget them and get locked out, they can be fined or evicted.

[ArGee]

That should brighten this place up a bit.

Yes, there's nothing like a plastic rug protector to really make a place feel like home.

[NicknamedBob]

"... there's nothing like a plastic rug protector to really make a place feel like home."

Cold on bare feet, though.

[Monkey Face]

When I filled the tank on payday, gas was $2.81

I always got my keys at the kiosk in Walmart because they were cheap and available when Wally’s was open. I didn’t look to see if this one has a key kiosk.

Oh, goody, fined or evicted? Why not “and” evicted? ;o]

[Monkey Face]

The rug, which isn’t possible to put down without the rug protector, will brighten the place up with its light color. :o])

[Monkey Face]

I wouldn’t know, Bob, since I have peripheral neuropathy in all four appendages. (Another thing brought to me by CFIDS.) If by chance, I can feel the cold tile or the texture of a rug, even for just a split second, I am elated beyond words.

The neuropathy is why I no longer go barefoot, even though that is one of my joys — feeling the different textures with the soles of my feet.

[NicknamedBob]

Just putting it out there.

There are reasons other than temperature to not go barefoot.

[Monkey Face]

And I think I found every one of them before I realized my feet were numb!

[ArGee]

I don’t go barefoot because the Dept. of Environmental Protection keeps getting called when I take my socks off.

[Monkey Face]

Heh-heh! Good one!

[Tax-chick]

It depends on the circumstances. I can’t evict Vlad: he’s only 12.

[NicknamedBob]

Vlad’s kinda special status anyway, having been born between planets, like the Heinlein story.

[Monkey Face]

LOL! My bad!

Welp, this is about the end of my day, and if I hurry, I may be able to relax a bit with some mahjong before the evil sleeps come to take me away.

Tomorrow is DMV day, and I want to look human when I get my mug shot done so I’m outta here!

May your night be a good one!

[Monkey Face]

Ah. Yes. We were on the move at that time, weren’t we? So Vlad was born under an auspicious circumstance, wasn’t he? And he’s 12, now? My goodness! Time flies, and all that. Or we were flying at the time. Whatever works, I say!

[Tax-chick]

Vlad will be 13 on January 30. How time flies!

[ArGee]

I want to look human when I get my mug shot done

Seems like a waste of a good opportunity, if you ask me.