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Happy Towel Day!

Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams(1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.

It's time again to celebrate Towel Day.  Official site here.  I'd say something witty, but Douglas Adams (may he R.I.P.) has said it all. 

Now go write some Vogon poetry that disinspires the masses. 

And remember...42

Alas, I have no toe nails.

My lack of writing has gotten me on the extreme disapproval list for the McKoala challenge, and Goblin has arrived to snatch my toe nails!  Le sigh.

I am presently forced by the nearly continuous rain and the thin "sod" that is my newly fenced, 100% shaded, side yard is a churned up mud pit and I can't let the pups into it until, at minimum, I get the whole thing dug up and a gravel base installed.  I still will have to pave it all, except for flower beds, before snow falls, though.  

On a different front, I am missing my writing, but a few other commitments in my personal life have cropped up and are taking what time I do have away from being a dog mommy.

I didn't even post a happy mother's day here, so I hope all you mothers and dads too had a great mother's day.  Madre scored from me, including jewelry.  I generally always get her earrings or a necklace of some sort because what do you get someone her age that she really needs or wants?  She has it already!  But I did get her gormet coffee and a mug that says "The best child has four legs" and "Dog Mom" on the other side.  It seemed oddly appropriate given our pet-centered lives.

Except for the nagging, pernicious cold that I have which has lingered as sniffling and mild chest congestion for two weeks now, I'm doing great.  And it appears that some work changes are going to cause me to actually not get scheduled to work every day this summer, which means....maybe some writing gets done (after yard work!)

 

As I'm heading off to work...

Guilt trip achieved.

I know it's poor quality, but the intense staring was highly cute.

Book recommendation for the politically weary

"Discourse?  That's too civilized a term for what we hear when we watch cable tv or log onto one of the innumerable, foaming, partisan Web sites-- a hectoring cacophany of mistrust and ill will, usually uninformed, always vehement."  from the foreward to Wingnuts:  How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, by John Avlon

Avlon is a long time writer for The Daily Beast, an online rag.  The book is insightful (and centrist to my way of thinking, anyhow.)  I wish President Obama's plea for rational discourse and a spirit of genuine cooperation between the politicos in DC had been heard.  But, short of that, perhaps an informed public can bring attention with their votes, calls and editorials?  Dunno.  But one can hope.

If you are both sick of and confused by the rabid, fear-mongering and hateful "discourse" that has become our national political "debate", you need to read this book.  It helps one see through the morass of crap that's being flung by the monkeys in the political zoo. 

Luger at 6.5 months

We go most mornings before dawn, just enough light to see, and go to the park so they can run amok in a fenced area. They are a lot calmer for it!

He's much better looking now...before his features were a touch mongoloid, what with small eyes, narrow head and the ginormous ears that made those feathers seem even more out of proportion.

 

Chance at 6.5 months

 

Ignore how the cats have destroyed my expensive chair.  Someday, when the pups are older, I'll reupholster in leather.  At least that will last.