Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 04, 2013

This one makes me crave a hogshead of mead.

As I said somewhere else tonight, it’s not how you win or lose the game that counts. It;s how you beat the spread ! Baltimore not only beat the speread but covered the over/under. The ole Capt. is buying tonight. Set ‘em up Fenton !No not for me… I’ve got to go do a little collecting.BTW Red, I don’t particularly like either team. I am, first and foremost a New Orleans Saints fan, and a Patriots fan second.In the words of Latimore “My Give A Damn Gave Out ( A Long Time Ago)”!

Hullo all!

Didja miss me?

No computer access last night… and the one I’m on right now is pretty old and very slow … with a difficult keyboard and an uncomfortable chair….

But …..big sigh…. I will suffer just to have a drink with my Ballard Street neighbors….LOL…

If anybody’s still up!

Hey!

I’m not a sports fan whatsoever…..BUT….. be careful….This is 49er territory…

If the occupants of this house discover anti-49-er words have sullied this computer, they may decide to boil it or something…

and then it’ll be even slower.

There was a birthday party here today for a 12-year-old boy, with six pals and his brother attending….we had enough Niner energy to almost shake the roof, though it didn’t seem to help.

Oooh… Much obliged, Ling.

A single will do for me… but same scotch, no rocks…you know what I want Fenton….thanks…. OK, OK, I won’t say “good dog.” No, I suppose it’s not funny.Sorry. Honest..

Cheers, all!

I’m sure Eldo is deleting his own comments … he knows we can’t see them in the forums anyway.

Your profile shows your last ten posts…GoComics doesn’t lose track of any; they just drop off the bottom of the page as you make more…so when you delete one, there’s room again for an earlier one at the bottom of the list.

Delete all ten and the ten before those are now on your profile….His new comments appear until he deletes them to bring back earlier posts.When he gets better and we get GC to let him back, his old comments will be visible again, but not the ones he’s deleted.

Thank you Red…. good to see you too.

By around the turn tomorrow night I should be back on my own computer….though it acted up again right before I left yesterday. I sure hope it’s OK.

BTW… it’s not that Micky isn’t pretty ferocious even without the mask….

But he’s convinced that when you only weigh four pounds, no one takes you seriously.

He came to my salon for a makeover, bringing along a picture of a well-known canine actor with the haircut he wanted….

It’s so hard explaining to a little dog (or a grown woman, come to think of it) that not only do those Hollywood types have an army of stylists standing around to fluff and tease and gel any hair you have into an impressive, gravity-defying do….

But…. and here’s the important one nobody gets (are you listening ladies?):

I just can’t cut your hair longer .

Can’t cut chihuahua fur into a mane; can’t cut the half-inch-long disaster you got at *-Cuts into a page boy.

wow I put 5 asterisks and GoComics decided I only needed one.

“Please sir, may I have some more?”

Sigh…. I guess I’m lucky I got any.

The little dog who cried wolf.

Me too, pcolli. He has pulled himself out of this state before…

It’ll probably take a letter-writing campaign, though, to get him un-banned from the forums.

We’ll all be willing to do that, as soon as he takes the necessary steps to get back on track.

Do you hear that, Eldo?…. you know we’re behind you (and in front of you or wherever you need us to be) ..But you know what you need to do, and to stop doing.PLEASE take care of yourself.

pcolli…. sorry I couldn’t answer about the Groundhogs. That was funny.

I just finished morning citrus and keeping up with morning news show while catching up w/toons. I’ll be back when I spot anyone here in the Tiki.

I have a Maltese/Peke cross named Mikey. He had the same issue going out side. Two (very friendly but fierce acting) dogs will always run up on him barking fiercely. Mikey would drop his tail and wimp out. The other day they ran up and surrounded him. Mikey lit up like a big ol’ dog causing the two of them to run. He now struts about the area tail and head up. Makes growling sounds just to make sure no funny business is started. I admire the mask. Little dogs need sometimes to be feared.

ow mah hed…… (snik*)tew much stuper bole…. (flush……..)hay, wuts wit awl these suit bags stacked at mah tiki…??Is terh a Samsonite kunvenshun in town…???(smells lak a kat box round hear…. naw not THAT kind)

time fer a ’nanner power shake in teh grinder…

I’m starting to try some of the new diet but I will not be on it full time until after I have all the testing done on the 14th. Since the testing available to me just happens to be on Valentine’s Day, I will have a special dinner to selebrate my LAST meal as a meat eater. Small but perfect, I’ll have a whole oz of Sturgeon caviar mixed with my favorite Greek yogurt and chopped watercress stems (and a smidge of raw onion) and follow that with about 3 oz of perfect filet mignon with my Bearnaise sauce. With any luck I’ll share that with my lover by Skype and he may have the same. We had similar meals while I visited at his house, but this will be special as it will be my last meat for a year. I will shop this week and get everything so I can eat other parts of the filet sooner and just save the most perfect cut. One filet provides 2 or 3 servings for me.

That remings me of a comic character from when I was a kid. He had a turnip for a head and for some reason that worried me. I think I was about 3 or 4 and some bad people threatened to mash his head for some reason.

There is no way I believe that I need to give up all yummy foods for the rest of my life. As my new Dr said today “we have no idea of the cause of most illness” and although some may feel that deprivation is the way to health, I think it is just DAMN Deprivation! It will take a whole lot to convince me that I should never again eat any foods that actually give me pleasure.

Sometimes, Mickey just calls a friend over to help him out….

PLEASE……PLEASE ……….Little Mickey, please put the fake dog head back on!

@ Bev, There are no special rubs needed for folks in many areas!

Dazz just as a sidebar, and a source of humor perhaps, my dad chewed snuff since he was like 16. He was born in 1913. His doctor told him to stop chewing snuff. He never did. He was 94 when he passed away, sharp as a tack living in his own home! I figure, as my mom used to say," when it’s your time, it’s your time" and she was a VERY DEVOUT CATHOLIC!

Oh, and the snuff had nothing to do with his passing. And I know he would have laughed his butt off about that one!

beviek, thanks for the welcome and help with my luggage. I’m so late, it’s tomorrow already. No time for Tiki tonight.

Susan Sunshine, Hopefully I’ll get here earlier some night.

Hello everyone ! Fenton, I’ll have my usual Irish with a wee splash of water…Don’t know how long I’ll stick around. I have had one of those days !My sense of humor isn’t at its finest tonight, I fear. Perhaps a couple of attitude adjusters will take care of that.Glad to hear the GC has resolved the problems. Strange, they always seem to occur on the weekend…. Just sayin’

Peekin’ in…..Just got back to Ballard Sreet and tossed my stuff in the door at my salon…

Raced down to the Tiki to see if anybody’s here cos it’s time to go round the turn…..

Off into tomorrow….wheeeeeeeeee!

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