We had a jrt named Fiendly. Very clever boy. My friend Conan the librarian used to fancy rings and wore more than one. When Conan first met Fiendly the first thing Fiendly did was steal one of Conan’s rings right off his finger. I was impressed Conan was not. Does Bagel have a rap sheet by now?
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Bagel is a sweetheart actually. Very needy and clingy. I question his loyalty though. In public he must see his new best friend every minute. I think he’d just abandon me to happily run off somewhere where nothing is waiting; but where he finds everything there waiting for him. (Until bedtime and he wants his treats hidden under the pillows. )
I had dog once who was a crafty troublemaker. If he was human he’d surely have been doing LWOPP.
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HA HA HA. My first dog as an “adult” and I use that term very loosely was an earth dog. Her name was strudel and she was a slutty little mini doxie. She came into my world or rather I came into Hers for a tragic reason. The tragedy happened long before I was born. My grandmother lost her three year old daughter suddenly to illness, one of the worst things that can happen to any one. Her catholic faith saved her sanity. Barely. A son was born, Tommy, and fast forward a few years. My grandfather brought home a dalmation puppy and hid him in his coat pocket. Men’s coats had huge pockets back then. My grandfather Joseph sent Tommy to fetch his pipe from his coat pocket so he would discover that puppy. The joy and delight of that puppy healed the family as much as these things can ever be healed. I know, long post, but my dad was feeling a void and got ambushed while stuck at a light in Doylestown Pa. Three doxie puppies were playing on a lawn next to a “puppies for sale” sign. He came home with Strudel who loved everyone and would happily go anywhere with anyone. Such a little HO. My dad knew from his childhood that dogs are magicians.
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Yes!
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Would you make scrambled eggs with your espresso machine? I’m gonna say, I’ll pass.
Buh buh where is your sense of adventure?? Want to start a new topic in not about food or something but not sure where it would go. If I can even figure out how to start a new topic. If I eventually figure it out sometime in late 2023 I will call it “One Arm As Long As The Other” My grandfather always used to say that about being a guest. Never ever show up with one long as long as the other. I think he usually brought a good bottle of wine to dinner or even lunch when he was invited. Do people even have people over for a home cooked meal anymore? If so do they bring a “hostess gift” even if they are told not to bring a thing? Of course if this practice even exists it goes without saying to not expect the wine/candy to be opened that day as it is a gift. People be very grumpy lately. Many bad things going on so I thought a more shallow topic might be good. Paying fifty dollars at Costco to fill the tank on my sedan did not improve my mood so want to think about trivial things from another time when CDC meant constant dining companion.
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This comes closest to what my ideal place of living should be.
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We enjoy it! (most of the time…blizzard season not so much 
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I’ve not heard your grandfather’s expression but think it’s a good one. I like it. And yes, I would always bring a gift when visiting a friend’s home. However, I rarely visit anyone. (Yes, I do get invites, btw!!! 
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Buying gas for a vehicle is so complicated anymore with having to prequalify with a mortgage lender first. What type of interest rate did you qualify for…and did you go with 15 or 30 years? Asking for a friend.
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Hahahaha! It’s almost true lol - thanks for the laugh! 
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Ha ha ha ha! No fair jabbing yourself and beating me to it. it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, I know the price of gas is hurting people but I used it to win an argument with my fiend er friend Conan the Librarian. He is a taker and raised by his parents to take and take and take. But I gave him a hard nope on something he expected from me automatically because of the price of gas. Conan totalled his mom’s gorgeous ragtop over a decade ago and has not pumped or paid for gas since. So he is a little out of touch. After that “discussion” I finally stopped in to the local gaming shop to hang out with my true peers, a bunch of obnoxious politically incorrect gamers. I fit right in. I even threatened to “cut” someone attempting to mansplain something obvious to me. It was all good, no blood and he is a friend. Conan’s dad is buying a brand new Lexus to replace his “old” one soon but his mom managed to scrounge a last minute Thanksgiving dinner invite from a former student. Mom, dad and son came home with a trunk full of leftovers. Did they bring candy, flowers, a candle or wine? Nope. Worst of all Conan’s grandmother always brought flowers to her daughter for even the most casual lunch. Think supermarket premade hoagies on a chill January day. So she was raised to have some manners. I was appalled. Sometimes the apple falls far from the tree.
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Wait. I thought Conan was a dog 
I gotta pay closer attention 
Side note: I hung out in the same general crowd as Sandahl Bergman in high school haze days long ago
She went to SME and me SMN.
Never the twain shall meet.
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No one from my high school went on to fame. Actually the only excitement out there was when James T-Bone Taylor was caught in a cornfield a few miles west of our place while running from the police.
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I had gym class as a sophomore with Dr Phil, along with all the Biffs who were senior football players.
Dodgeball was a torture exercise. Cannon fodder.
My most famous classmate would be pro bowler Bob Handley. Make your own conclusions.
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bbq boy that is not a ridiculous assumption. Conan (not his real name) is very very hairy. Even the back of his hands sport reddish hair. And he is very good at giving the puppy dog eyes to manipulate people. He doesn’t steal my food but if I get up for a very quick trip to the ladies room and there is an abundance of wine left from the byob feast at a restaurant no matter how fast I am the wine bottle will have mysteriously sprung a serious leak. Plus he loves werewolves in d and d and card games etc and really wants to buy some red tinted contact lenses someday. He is housebroken though.
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Werewolf or swearwolf?
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I often cringe at what I have written. It isn’t that I am illiterate. It is that I am hasty, and SpellCheck is instantaneous but incapable of believing what I tried to type.
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Nevermind.
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Okay; NBA finals.
Were heh heh heh
