Guy's blog about life with pets in northern mich.

There are drugs in our drinking water supply? I just saw a commercial ad in which I saw the talking gecko catching a buzz, at a drinking fountain! Shades of the sixties, when Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, supposedly were thwarted in a plot to turn-on millions of people with LSD, by dropping vials of it in municipal water supplies. Nobody was ever in danger of being drugged by them, because they would never waste all their precious LSD on straight society. It may have been a facetious topic of... Sign in to see full entry.

I just returned from visiting my father for the biggest part of nine days. I spent a lot of my time cooking meals that he can microwave and eat, in individual portions. Dad now has something like fifteen hearty meals that he can heat and eat, but if it will sound good to him or if he will take it out of his freezer, is the big question. My aunt had led me to believe that there wasn’t much food at his house, but there are dozens of well balanced frozen meals in his freezer, from before I arrived,... Sign in to see full entry.

I just wrote to my stepbrother Paul in reply to his offer to take my Dad and me for a lunch at the word famous Starlite Coney Island. I said that I was worried that Dad may become seasick on the boat ride out to Coney Island. I don’t know if Paul has been told about my peculiar sense of humor, yet. If he has not been told, he will find out when we have a visit together at Dad’s. He may conclude that I played a lot of helmetless football, or chased many parked cars, when young. That will be my... Sign in to see full entry.

I have written about how I would really, really like to quit smoking tobacco. I lost four uncles and an aunt to cancer caused by it. Our family is destined to die of lung cancer if we fall victim to it’s siren song. When I began smoking, JFK was president! It may be too late to quit, now! Still I should try. I saw a program devoted to tobacco on the history channel, about a week ago. I learned that 25% of cigarette tobacco consists of additives, including ammonia, licorice extract, chemicals... Sign in to see full entry.

I am much relieved about how my dad is doing, after talking with my sister last night. She told me that Dad is eating well again and in good spirits, joking around with the hospital staff. He gets his sense of humor from me. In return for my having given him his proclivity for teasing friends and family, he keeps trying to turn me into a Repugnican. Thanks, Dad! What a pal. During nightmares, I dream that I awaken to find that I am a politician or an accountant. I can think of few things that... Sign in to see full entry.

Despite the temptation to just give in to an increasingly attractive option of becoming a babbling idiot or a homicidal maniac, I remain cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. Cabin fever sets in about this time each winter, and this year is no exception. I always dread the arrival of the three-month long stretch of misery between January and March, called February. Somehow this year, the season of February is going into an unprecedented fourth month. Weather forecasters are trying to... Sign in to see full entry.

On the nightly news, the commentator asked the question, “Is posing naked (!) in a magazine, the best thing for Lindsay Lohan to be doing, just after leaving rehab? Stick around, because after the break, we’ll be debating this.” GAG! Better questions are, “What business is it of YOURS?!! Really, what’s it to you? Why does anyone, NOT named Lindsay Lohan or related to her, even have an opinion on this?” Alec Baldwin, Britney Spears, Alicia Keyes, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Anniston, Nicole Kidman, Tom... Sign in to see full entry.

The basis of this first joke originated from a posting by Alien Female. I always fine-tune the delivery of any joke that I retell. My apologies and thanks to her. A boy was riding his bicycle home from school. A sparrow flew into his helmet and dropped, quivering to the ground. The boy picked the sparrow up and, because it was badly injured, he took it home with him, hoping that the bird might recover. He got an old canary cage, placed the unconscious bird inside, with water and a piece of... Sign in to see full entry.

Last night, just before bedtime, Ivy came out of the bedroom and announced that she was bleeding from the back of her neck! She had nicked it or scraped a scab loose, who knows how kids do these things? She did not know what happened, but was frightened because she couldn’t see the source of the blood, it being on the back of her neck. I was uncharacteristically mischievous, ( YEAH!) and seeing that she wasn’t really hurt, I couldn’t resist blurting out, “OH MY GOD, LOOK AT ALL THE BLOOD! She is... Sign in to see full entry.

Mario Puzo or perhaps it was some scriptwriter who said in The Godfather III, “Crime and politics is the same thing. Vito Corleone” I would take the thought farther. Crime, politics, religion, and government are all about the same thing, CONTROL. All these entities want to control your money and your behavior. Control and money are about the same thing, POWER. Threat is implicit in how these things are obtained and maintained. Crime lords and all governments threaten to take away our lives or... Sign in to see full entry.