Friday, August 23, 2013

Myself, Dog Poop, Reenactments, Cholera, Gum, etc.


·         I hear some people use the word “myself” a lot.  I think I’ve used it in a sentence about 4 times in my life.  I just never seem to find the right moment to pull it out.  That last sentence may have been a really good missed opportunity; crap.

·         I’m encouraged by the number of responsible dog owners I watch from my porch stopping to bag up their pooches’ poop.  At the same time, I’m troubled by the number of dogs who are triggered to poop as I watch from my porch.  Is it a coincidence, or a conspiracy of local dogs with the dog-owners acting simply as unwitting dupes?  I tend to think the latter.

·         Last weekend I went to the French and Indian War encampment at the nearby historic and very popular resort town of Lake George.  That’s where “The Last of the Mohicans” was set.  The camp reenactment was pretty cool and very realistic.  With all there was to see, I could easily imagine people 250 years ago on that very spot, making and trading goods and fighting in bloody skirmishes, and paragliding and playing mini golf and eating soft ice-cream.

·         I know that I’m usually probably just being dramatic, but anytime when I start to feel in any way sick, I normally assume that I have cholera, and act accordingly.  So far I’ve been wrong 100% of the time, but I figure that it can never hurt to self-apply mustard poultices and take witch hazel baths and quarantine my house.

·         Sometimes I guess I over simplify things, but if I think that if you can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, you could first just walk to where you’re going and then chew some gum once you get there.  Of course if you had to walk a really long way, you could stop walking now and then for a gum chewing break.

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