Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 19, 2013

HEY GUYS — c’mon back, there’s new comics !!!

Andrew’s not the only one !

What you to do? What you going to do when they come you?

Sorry, but someone had to say it.

Don’t ya just hate it when you walk into an room, stop and say to yourself: " What the hell was I going to do ? "

Now, why did I wander into this forum?

Seems like I had something to say……

Hmmmm……

I suppose everybody knows by now that there’s an actual scientific basis for our feeling that Walking through a Doorway Makes Us Forget

Hey Dogsniff…. good to see you around….

And X…. did you mean this song from Bob Marley?

Oh … hi Red…. just dozing back here by the fireplace.

I’ll have one with you, please…. and then head off to bed myself.

You seem to be here early AND late…. dunno how you do it.

I said I’d buy everybody a beer tonight but they all disappeared before I got here….

So of course if you’d like one that offer still stands….I’m going to repeat it tomorrow.

It’s some new beer I got to try out for the Tiki.

Just a suggestion for the Monkey, of course, cos it’s his bar…. but we’ll see if it’s any good first.

Cool label……

Um…. g’night Red……..

Oh … Red…. missed you again…

I was back at the salon all ready for bed, when I saw something on BCNC ( Ballard County News Channel)….

Hadda run back here and leave a note for the Monkey…..

Monkey!

I think you need to investigate this dangerous and probably illegal use of a giant daiquiri grinder!

I came back here to check, and no, they didn't take the one from the Tiki....But even if it's their own.... this just isn't right!

Blender fighting!

Susan ☼

Andrew’s roommate, Cleo, on the other hand, always has a very full schedule…

Essex I’m with you!

Susan, thanks for the Doorway article. I’m going to post a note on every door that says, “STOP! Why are you going in here!”

Beer is only for hot weather in my world, and probably not at all anymore. I’m following through with my lover’s idea that I was drinking too much and now hae kept to one normal drink a day, but now he’s saying that even that is too much. He IS really always good for me, but if he can’t be happy with that progress, I may go back to my 6 or 7 per day (or sometimes just 2-3) when I’m back home. The soonest I can see another trip up here is April.

I have made various changes to improve my high BP (his is very normal) and he insists that he remembers mine being lower than his when we were in our 30’s. I didn’t care about it back then (we just took it now and then while buying vitamins at a Walgreens).

I seldom have trouble with memory and I have no noticable symtoms even though I often get readings that indicate I should be in ER.

I too, would ask a lot of myself….but it would only leave me with more questions….like, what, and how, and when,,,but mostly its, why?

Wow, I got halfway through that video and two questions sprang to mind:1) Why don’t people signal when they’re turning / overtaking2) How many people have cameras in the front of their cars?.It really annoys me whan people turn into a side street and only signal half way through the turn.

It’s not the alcohol that kills people…it’s the drinking of it..I seem to remember a friend at school telling me a long rambling joke about a man walking in the desert with camels and gradually shooting them….something about “It’s the tobacco that counts”.

Hey, I know a long rambling joke about a camel… but it’s in a city…and nobody shoots the camel…No, it has to do with a tourist asking the camel driver for the correct time….And if you’ve already heard it, you can now laugh out loudor chuckle quietly….or roll your eyes…

And if you DON’T already know that joke…sorry…I’m not about to tell it here!

I’ll check in with current doctor when I return to AZ, but I will live my life as I like. Not going to take medications or change my lifestyle drastically (cutting back to 1 a day is tolerable.

Good Evening Fenton, how was your day Sugar? Really? Susan really needs to take the capuchins in hand. I bet you anything she has been keeping a close eye on them, but if you want me to spread the word about the banana thefts, I will. Oh, o.k., you and the sheriff know best, he has them in his sights, so I wont worry about it. Now, may I have a Mad Monkey? The beer, not the sheriff, sweetie. Thank you. spitting a stream of bad brew as far as the expletives can spew itOh, Fenton, that stuff is horrid! May I have an Amaretto to cleanse my pallet? Then just bring me a bloody mary please. A glass of water too if you please. I have to rinse that stuff out…

Fenton, hush sugar. A mad monkey IS a bad monkey…m, b, its my bad for the error and I bet you a whole box of milk bones no one would have noticed but you….sheesh, I gotta get that trampoline installed next week, so you can destress on it and I can see if that makes you less anal retentive….Maybe I need to step back and take stock and look things over again here….Dont get that stoic Boxer look with me Buster, this hasnt been one of my better days and it looks like you want to make it not one of my better nights too!….be very careful here Fenton…

Oh Fenton, really….you know I cant resist you licking my cheek that way…Yes, I’m sorry too….please put a plate of yak ribs on my tab for you to enjoy after your shift…and yes, I will have another bloody mary….thanks, sugar….

hmmm?,,,what spelling errors?…Fenton, get off my case…pallette, pallet, palette…who freaking cares?….Call the Polish Food Taxi for me please….I am going home…you can join me or not later for a movie while you eat your yak ribs….the fireplace will be burning if I am still up…if not, see you around 9 for Sunday breakfast and have a good night….if you can….

in the Polish Food and Taxi going home, I nibble on a Pierogi and think vicious thoughts…that dawg just thinks he knows English Lit….I can spell, I just dont proofread as much as I should…dang it, a dawg aint never gonna bring me to shame and grief….stupid dogs cant even outsmart JVA, and aint no dang way they gonna get this Texas gal out of her smug, supierior beingness….dang them all…they just aint right….oh, Fenton, do stop being such a dang Boxer….so smug, so superior….we dont have to butt heads on this issue….and if we do, I dont have the skull for it….Uncle, you win….when you get through serving all those bad/mad monkeys, come on home sweetness…the milkbones will be in person, and Shane on dvd will be waiting and yes, me too…no one else licks a cheek like you do…

I’d fold now except the thought of you winning all those puppies and kittens and the alligators, well…I going all in with with my duck tape.I could use some new boots. Anyone need a handbag?

Not to be all braggy, but on Thursday I got my 25-year safety award.

Hey….. I just got here….nobody told me we were playing “Cute, Cuter Cutest!”

I need to play MINE….though everybody’s just gonna fold when they see it….

How do you ever beat THIS???

Yeah, it’s only TWO otters…. but I think you get extra points for otters.

Congratulations, Brian!

Nobody (sniffle) seemed to like the Bad Monkey beer….hope the Monkey isn’t disappointed.

I just thought it looked so perfect for the Tiki…and it was highly recommended on a beer rating site….

But then…. maybe they were all monkeys…I didn’t check.

No offense to any monkey, least of all our Monkey….but they do tend to appreciate a …well….a riper…. no… a fuller taste than what humans do.

Hey, can I play, pleasseee

Sure, little bunny….. just be sure to stay away from x_Tech’s alligators…

Hmmm…. maybe you’d better come over to my house instead….

I’ve got ♪ baby carrots….♫ ♪

Oh, look Munkey’s niece, Amelda May, has come for a visit.

Awww…. ain’t she gonna be a heartbreaker….

(Joking aside, that’s an expression I’ve always detested, BTW….Is what you hope for your daughters that they grow up beautiful and cruel, to toy with hearts?)

Anyway, sorry, X…. when the game gets to be so rapidfire, it’s hard to follow.Especially as I wasn’t here yet.

Bad Monkey beer?

Hi Red… probably missed you again….

But I like the way you think. LOLCheers!

Early for me, but I need to sleep too…

G’night, all……

You all posted some of the cutest pics but I think X Tech’s pic of little Amelda May wins hands and feet down!Briatollah…WTG on your 25 years of safety award!…Essex’s pic reminded me that you are in Utah and have to deal with winter driving and winter drivers. That makes your award even better in my mind! Again, WTG BRI !!

Introducing Instant Kitten In A CupJust add milk

You’re too kind.

awwwww who could even think of microwaving those cuties?…I am all verklempt….murphy, shawna, meow, my purr babies….purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….

I think X Tech rocks major BS waves….

Darn! All I had was a pair….

Good night, everybody!

(BatPug is still my all-time favorite!)

good night….again!

Bev, left you a message at today’s (Sunday) Buckets.

Sorry Susan, but I found this little scamp filching your baby carrots.You may not have many left. I think he invited friends.

There’s a female arctic explorer named Anne Bancroft. Some girl asked her how they go to the bathroom in the Arctic.Ms Bancroft’s answer: “Very quickly.”

Oh yeah and ponchos.

Oooh…. sounds like my kind of expedition!

Gotta be sure we can get 4G, though….

Congrats Bri! I’m glad that my guy does all the driving here. I moved to escape shoveling stuff or driving in it!

He came home from work just as I was finishing that last comment earlier, so I did not even close my ().

I had no drink yesterday (not even one with dinner) and still went right to sleep without, even the normal activity. (Made up for that in AM). We spent much of the PM at a bookstore (after picking up another filet mignon and good sturgeon caviar at Whole Foods) That will be for tonight, as I have to return home tomorrow.

Thanks for all the good wishes from my friends here; he is also concerned (we have both been taking BP readings during this trip) and he found me a book on Dean Ornish’s “Reversing Heart Disease” diet (which I will start as soon as I finish all the great Green & Black’s chocolate I still have. I will continue to treat my health alone (taking my Dr Weil’s vitamin regimine and now a pretty strict vegetarian diet that I have decided to use for a year at least. I will miss the meat, oils, egg yollks and chocolate more than my gin, but I’m willing to give it a try (and I NEVER cheat)! At least, it will not limit my physical activity (that’s only limited by the distance that I put between the man I love and myself). I could never sell my lovely house with the gardens and waterfall as it is my major investment so I just have to commute for what I reallly want!

Musical time again!

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