Jun 24 - 30

Ok. So a few years ago I wrote that Heaven handled so many souls that it had had to have an administrative department, and that I felt the most logical group to run it were deceased DMV workers.

Well, what if I was wrong? (Don’t answer that.)

Now it seems more likely that that administrative dept would be AI. So if it is AI, did God go away to start 10,000 other planets and leave everything here to be run by an old Mac.

This is why you do not drink before you go to bed, because these are the dreams you come up with.

Jun 17 - 23

So there is good luck and bad luck and there is Cooper luck.

So on Saturday we had it arranged that our sitter would take the kids to Golfland / Sunsplash for 4 hours so we could get a break. We planned to go out to lunch which we hadn't done for months. Well just before we left I took Cooper out side with me to clean the pond. I tied him up under a tree for about 20 minutes in the shade where I usually have a pole to tie him too.

Everything was fine until we got inside and he suddenly started to howl. I couldn't see anything was wrong, and as i held his head he started shaking it and ran away. I found him upstairs on our bed with his head between 2 pillows, so it was apparent he got something stuck in his ear.

So, off to the emergency vet I go and get home just in time for my wife and I to have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before the kids got home..

Jun 10 - 16

Vacay in Santa Cruz

Ok, so my wife took the 2 darling children down to Aptos on Tuesday, while I stayed home all week and took care of business and all the animals. On Friday morning I got up early and started to get everything ready. I played with Adam the hamster. I played with Stanley the cat, I played with Jake the parakeet and of course I played with Cooper all morning. I had a large list of items I had to pack and getting Cooper ready before  someone came by to keep an eye on all the animals, was stressful. In the middle of all this I am answering text from everyone about everything at work, but I finally get the car packed knowing I forgot something.  I get in the car and head out driving the electric Mustang with a full charge, and feeling pretty good about the trip. I turn on the radio and almost immediately this commercial comes on I just can't stand. It is a jewelry store that has locations in the Bay Area and Sacramento, and is on every channel I listen to. 

So I tell Siri through the car to play my music. Son of a gun, the phone won't connect. What? Why won't it connect? Duh, because I didn't bring it. I turned around and went back and got it, but if it hadn't been for that commercial I would have gotten across Sacramento before i realized it.

I still hate those commercials though.

Jun 3 - 9

I apparently suffer from goose envy. 

So we are out in the country and we have a small pond and our neighbor has a large pond. Our pond is also surrounded by trees, where as the neighbor’s pond is much more open. Consequently, when the geese fly over they always go next door, leaving me feeling like the kid no one wants to talk to. Well, last week a couple family of geese must have flown into their pond but one of the teenage geese landed on my side. It started  crying because the rest of the family was living the dream in the fancy pond while this guy was stuck in the slum pond. Well it was driving me nuts that he was crying and I didn’t understand why he wouldn’t fly over. So I call my friend Tom who works with all the nature preserves and ask him what to do. He of course said you do nothing. This is nature.

Ok, so I am sitting out there while this guy keeps crying, I even put a ladder over there to no avail. After about another 45 minutes I went over grabbed the stubborn thing and threw it over the fence. He immediately joined his family and they all rejoiced. Every day since, I see what the rich side of the life is like, while I am gooseless. Well, today they all came into my yard and I now feel like I am on top of the world.

Except that I got up this morning and all the geese were staring at the neighbor’s pond thinking “OMG, we made a big mistake?"