My office for the next few days:
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Got off work early, so I did an impromtu trip to Effigy Mounds Monument. Good way to spend an afternoon and I just spent an hour going over Rue Dog with a fine tooth comb to check for ticks. He is on monthly preventative, but it never hurts to double check. I sheeted out his undercoat while I was at it. Rue just snored the entire time...
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So far, I'm trying to fill in a glaring plot hole in a story I'm writing. Pass the caulk-gun, please. (I'm going to need more duct tape!)
A mystery was solved for me today. A few days ago I was eating a piece of my angel's delicious home-made bread pudding, which always contains large quantities of mixed dried fruit, when my teeth hit something that seemed too hard to be a piece of dried peel. When I took it out of my mouth I identified it as one of the nylon replacement feet that I had stuck on the bottom of our food mixer when a couple came off. My angel gave me no explanation for how it had got into the pudding but just nonchalantly remarked that it wouldn't have done any harm if I had swallowed it.
Today at lunchtime my angel was eating another piece of the same pudding when she found the other replacement foot in it. This time she explained that when on a previous occasion she had noticed that the two replacement feet had fallen off the mixer she had put them in its bowl so that they wouldn't get lost ... Evidently they didn't, but it seems that they did get forgotten about. Nevertheless the bread pudding was just as delicious as ever.
Roughage. Clean you out, my man.Quote:
...but just nonchalantly remarked that it wouldn't have done any harm if I had swallowed it.
I'm starting a new Meade today. I haven't made a really good one yet. I'm going to use a ton of sugar and honey this time, and bitter it with some green tea. With lemon for a little zing.
I'm drinking my Dopplebock / Eiesenbocks that I made last month. They are almost too strong. Each glass has the alcohol equivalent of 3 glasses of ale. It's certainly a dessert beverage. So, now I have dessert more often ;) .
And then there's folding laundry and watching baseball. My team is 7 games back for a wild-card slot. Not much of a shot, but...
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It's the third day for my son at his new job. His friend got him a gig working as a dishwasher. Some friend, eh?
Oh, but I'm digging on this. Good, honest, hard-work for the lad. My boy's not complaining. I suppose he's working pretty hard. He said a customer at the bar saw how hard he was hustling, and asked the owner to give him a $10 tip.
He confessed he spent $3.50 of the tip on 2 McChickens yesterday. He's saving the remainder for milkshakes with his girlfriend.
I'm lovin' it.
It has been a long, frustrating week...and I don't know if my cat is simply weird or actually has a sense of humour because he seems to be channelling his inner Turtle.
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Slightly eerie side by side of my Book Cats, past and present. Who is Master, who is Apprentice?
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Our newest family member. Meet Dakota. Malamute and German shepherd mix. (Ashtray is not mine. I quit a few years ago).
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I just finished, (rough draft), a book on spirituality, meditation, and contemplation. It's called, "Inhale Peace; Exhale Bullshit." It's slightly irreverent, maybe even slightly sacrilegious, but the info is solid and very real.