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The weekend started out badly; Friday night we went out for seafood and I was sick all night from it. I didn’t know it was possible to puke and poop for 35 minutes, continuously. After that my innards calmed down and I woke up every 20-30 minutes to get rid of stuff in on manner or another.

Ignorance is Bliss

Ignore any formatting that looks weird. I have the code in correctly, but for some reason Typepad is not interpretting correctly. Kind of makes the Goodly Editing post a little strange (it was fine the other day).

I will try to write a post and get it up tomorrow, but I gotta head out and take care of pet-sitting duties, so it won't be today.

Wishing

Now that I have Internet connection, I would like to wish my Father, Cop Car's Hunky Husband a

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Some Light Changes

Some of you may notice that I have turned off comments. This is the result of several days of people with less than savory sites leaving comments just to get their web-address out there. So, for the next several days there will be no comments available. However, if you really feel that you must contact me, just click on the "email me" link, in the upper, left-hand corner, and you can do so.

New To Me

I have added The Monkey Cage to my More Blogging Goodness links list. I went over there a while back on the advise of another blogger, who shall remain nameless to protect the innocent because I've forgotten who it was, and thought to myself, "What an interesting site, I'll have to go there some more."

In my old age, I forgot to save a link in my Favorites Folder, as well as who had provided the original link. Mr. Monkey has visited this blog once again, so I followed his link and remembered why I wanted to visit on a regular basis. While, the memory was less than 2 seconds old fresh, I added him to my blogroll.

Goodly Editing

One of the local papers, The Contoocook Valley Villager, which for some reason I have been receiving for free the last month or so, published this wonderful story in this week's edition:

There she was (We trust you'll pardon the discrepancy in the above picture.) standing along side the road Wednesday morning as we drown to the office. How do we know it was a "she"? Well, she had a calf in tow. And that was an experience as we sat in our convertible sports car wondering whether mom would take offense at our presence.

We stared each other down for a few seconds before she decided we didn't pose any danger and trotted across the road into a nearby field, youngster alongside.

It was a chance encounter we won't son forget. We've seen our share of Moose, but to have a youngster as part of the package was a real treat.

Oh yeah, the unfortunate caption for the incident should be: things you see when you don't have a camera.

There was a picture of a bull moose above the Editer's letter (yes, that was how "editor" was spelled).

First, I was wondering why they were drowning to the office (I actually had to read that part several times before I figured out it was "driving"). Then, I wondered how they could possibly forget the encounter "son". I also noticed the terrible use of a punctuation mark or two. Then, last but not least, I saw that someone treated a parenthetical section as a full sentence. Actually I saw a couple of other nit-picky things, but let's not get into that.

I guess I'm beginning to see why they have to give this paper away!

Linkage

I found some gems as I was strolling through the blogosphere today and would like to share a couple with you:

Broad at Bat had a harrowing experience with spiders - in her purse no less!

Greg, at Borzoiblog, has a gratuitous picture of Lacy up. What a beauty (duh, she was only at Westminster stupid!).

Then there are more pictures from Chuck (what a group he has!).
Fred also has a great picture up - but not of his pup.

Foolish Me

You would think that without 5 days of posting anything meaningfull, I would have a bunch of stuff stored up to write this morning. That is not the case. I actually thought about writing about Bike Week in Laconia, but the Weekend Pundit has the full scoop (it's in his neck of the woods) and he has pictures. So, I won't write about that other than to say we will probably pop in tomorrow for a short time, then get the hell away from the crowds and go to see some friends at The Pig Roast in Franklin.

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Ever notice that you think of the weirdest things when you are really tired and are just about to fall asleep? I haven't slept well all week - waking up several times during the night all week. Last night I couldn't sleep, so read until 11:30, then went to bed exhausted. While I was laying there, wishing that sleep would come, I thought, "Why don't we sneeze when we are sleeping?"

I have never heard the Wonderful Spouse sneeze after he has fallen asleep. I have never woken up because I sneezed, or needed to sneeze. However, I have no trouble sneezing shortly after I get up.

Can anyone explain that to me?

New Vehicle Maybe?

I'm thinking about getting a new vehicle. My present one is 9 years old. It is still in decent shape and could probably go another 4-5 years (with a little money dropped into it), but if I wait until this one falls apart, then I figure that the Wonderful Spouse will be needing a vehicle by then, and I would rather pay for one vehicle at a time.

I'm thinking about a Toyota Highlander, but I don't know much about them (except what I have read for revies online). Does anyone have any experienc with this model? I've loved the two 4-Runners that I've had and really like Toyota's as they just keep going and going (kind of like the Energizer bunny). There are two reasons I am thinking about a Highlander instead of a 4-Runner: 4-Runners have gotten a bit bigger than when I bought the first one in 1987 (both size-wise and in the engine, which can only be had in a 6 cyl. now instead of a 4 cyl.) - and I really don't need anything quite that big; and Highlanders are a bit cheaper (even if not by much).

My biggest complaint is that it seems as if standard transmissions have gone away and everything is automatic now (even the 4-Runner). And what is up with the all-wheel drive? I've heard one person complain that it's not much good in the snow until you put it in 4-low (which means top speed is 20 MPH) - of course that is on a Blazer, so Toyota's might be better.

So, has anyone had any real-life experience with a Highlander that they would like to share with me?

Bad Week

Another blogger has lost a pet; Buffy has lost Defer. Go over and leave your sympathies.