My puppy got very ill last night.
Reaction to a vaccination.
I picked up a trace of it today. It was a fear. Even with oral chemo your resistance drops and your immune system has bigger things to worry about.
It's okay.
I'm greatly concerned about my NFL football picks.
A long time ago my wife was always excited. There's a local paper in LA and they ran a weekly contest for picking the winners of 25 college games a week. I could pick college winners at a near perfect rate, even against the spread. So she was always winning free dinners, movie tickets and the like.
It was a 3 month ritual. The paper came out on Tuesdays and she would follow me around the house, newspaper in hand, and dutifully record my picks.
Then on Saturdays she would watch all the scores with rapt attention. Frowning at me if I missed the point spread.
Some how she won about 2/3'rds of the time.
When I would lose she was very disconcerted and actually questioned whether or not I was paying attention!
This year I'm doing an NFL thing.
You would think that with the pros the picks would be cleaner and more subject to analysis. Maybe they are, but not for me.
While it's easy to assess match-ups and emotional turns in college ball I'm bewildered by men who play for the money.
I think I lost over half of my picks for this past weekend.
The NFL! When it's good it's the best, but I still can't predict the games.
So in real life my ride home from work didn't show up so I had to walk the 8 or so miles home. It was dark and it was raining.
My puppy and I were having a pretty good time. I had a couple of dizzy spells and I get aggravated that there aren't any sidewalks most of the time, but we found some dead things and other interesting road side oddities.
After about 4 miles of exploring Dr J happened by. I didn't see here but I heard the car skid on it brakes and then roar in reverse back towards us. It was her.
She yelled, "What in God's name are you doing walking in the rain! Hello Shelby!" Shelby is my puppy. I liked that she didn't get yelled at.
So I got a ride home with a lot of lecturing I didn't pay much attention to. I was thinking about Pearl Jam and the Grunge scene and the Foo Fighters. And I still prefer The Alkaline Trio.

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