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I tuned up for the football game by going to the horse expo. I'm diverse like that. Mom managed to lose her ticket in the 12 feet between me giving it to her and approaching the ticket taker. Otherwise she wasn't too bad out there. After a great deal of prodding, I was able to get her to buy a present for my sister-in-law (Mom and I don't wear ( Read more... )

'twas a fine day at the fair, if underattended. Only little kids, and the only people between 15 and 60 were the parents of said little ones. Also grandparents with little ones, and a lot of seniors and special needs adults. I was decidedly an oddball at the fair.

At any rate, I met a lot of critters and gave a lot of nose pats (and in a couple ( Read more... )

I took the day off. Mom is babysitting. The plan is to go to the State Fair and get my fill of animals. No horse racing tomorrow, but several horse exhibitions, lots of goats, and maybe alpacas. Then to the store to treat myself to the DVDs of Homeland. And home to watch whatever I darn well feel like, because Mom isn't home. And I seem to have ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen the first 3 eps of Dexter Season 6, run, run away! Quickly!

OK, for starters:

( Spoilers Abound )

And while I'd like to call it organized chaos, organized is too kind a word. The Dogfest was held on a steeplechase course, which means a lot of space and a lot of hills and parking in a different zip code. Mom was pooped half an hour in and had to go sit for a while ( Read more... )