Colonel Angus wrote:
HappyHour Jason wrote:
I lopve the word rotund....
Where have you been? I see you're still a little drinky-drinky...
I just wrote 3 paragraphs and all the sudden it is gone. Damn. Where have I been? on the couch. In the last year I lost my house, my dog, and my job. So I have kinda lost interest in stuff. Animal Planer is very cool. Cashh Cabb is stupid. I had no idea that black widow spiders were 6 times bigger than the male. Lobsters take advantage of "drafting"to get to the reef. Yes, this is a drinky post. Gibbon monkeys swing from tree to treee and can leap 30 feet in 1 swing. The green tree snake in Indonisia flies from tree to tree, like a parashuting snake. They have thin wing like folds of skin on their sides to help them fly. Watch out for Devil Fish. An octopus has no bones.
In June I went and looked at over 100 dogs at 4 shelters. What I find alarming is that the staff there feel those dogs are adoptable. Yikes. Lunging, trying to bite, no thanks. Picked out 4 dogs and told the spouse we were going to look at them. The spouse says we are in no way taking a dog home on that day and by 6 Oçlock Iggy was happily on the couch with me. He was found in Kentucky and weighed 60 pounds, by the time he got to Chicago he weighed 50 pounds. By the time we adopted him he weighed 44 pounds. Yellow lab/greyhound mix.
I don't think I have posted this but there is a HUGE dog influenza epidemic going on in Chicago. It was in the trib a couple of weeks ago, sneezing, snorting. No cure, it is new this year. Pills were cheap, Iggy had it, as did every other dog at the shelter, it is airborne.
So, that is what I have been doing. The unemployment office is like a NA meeting but worse. I wouldn't even sit on the furniture there. Yuck.
If things wern't bad enough my check engine light went on and that was 600 bucks and then 2 weeks later wake up tp a flat tire which I was unsure how to fix because it is a different car, I have changed the tire a few times in my old jeep but this was new. So, a part of having to keep myself busy I was going out to lunch with Iggy on nice days and we would sit outside, have lunch and I would bring my book. Then I get a call from my doctor that my cholesterol is off the charts. That completely hijacked the lunch thing, I shouldn't eat practicallyt anythin g that is in a restuarant. Bastards.
Then I satred sleep walking which I am not very good at and messed up my shoulder.
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Then my mother drops off her dog as she assumes I am available for free babysitting. Moses is 14, bind, deaf, irregular heart beat, has some of his spine fused together, has a mass in his lung, and barks non stop. Anybody want him?
Then the spouse's company is laying off 7,000 people, that is comforting.
Then my mom, who hasn't worked since 1966 tells me I should try the internet to look for a job. REALLY???? My aunt calls and says I should try the newspaper. You have gopt to be fucking kidding me. I never thought to look.
Okay, off to watch Law and Order, you just saved me 100 bucks in therapy.
HHJ
Sorry to hear about all that, Jason. I understand what you're going through with the job search stuff. It's a pain trying to find work. That 
