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Using that logic, the White House should be demolished tomorrow.

Went to my friend's record store Saturday and walked away with a haul. Got new 180g reissues of Who's Next, The River, Hotel California, Morrison Hotel, and The Ramones.

Found this in my local record store the other day- It's a compilation of Johnny Winter stuff recorded between 1961 - 1964. Record is in great shape, sounds good.

My lab-pit mix partially tore his CCL over a year ago and one of the best vet ortho surgeons in eastern NC wanted us to wait because he is so muscular that she didn't want to do surgery unless she was absolutely certain it was completely ruptured or torn. A year later, and while he never displayed any outward signs of pain, he was nearly lame on his left rear leg when we took him back and had the surgery. The important thing here is the dog will never tell you he's in pain. They will simply compensate and try to carry on. We knew he was in need of the surgery when he would just stop and either sit or lay down in the middle of our trail walks. But, I'm here to tell you, the surgery is no joke. I don't care that it cost me about $3700, but keeping him caged for the first 4 weeks after surgery, having to sling-carry him down the steps to the backyard a few times a day, coming home in the middle of the day and having him wake me up between 2-4 AM every night crying to go out. All the pain meds, antibiotics and sedatives are diuretics and he could pee for a minute. The hard part while he was on the meds was his personality was gone; he wouldn't wag his tail, didn't talk to us like he normally does and was in sad shape. He's just started week 9 of his 12 week recovery schedule, had his 8-week x-rays last week and the vet says his bone is healing great. He walks like he never had surgery and he's actually going a couple miles 2-3 times a week (on a leash). He finished all of his meds around week 4-5 and his personality came back and he's almost back to his usual self. There are 2 different surgeries for canine CCL and the vet we used will only do the TPLO surgery and not the tightrope. TPLO requires the bone to be cut and a metal plates is used to permanently stabilize the joint so there is no lateral movement. TPLO: Tightrope: Anyway, I've been through all of this over the past year- if there's anything I can help with, let me know.

My youngest (4) hangin' on the couch. Quite the life...

It may very well be, but it's not some random decision by a minimum-waged retail stocker to put certain items into those security containers. Inventory, cycle counts and turns (how much of the stuff goes missing without being paid for) is how that's decided.

The "invasion" has begun!!! It's from Guatemala!!!

Only record these guys did... and it's really fugging good...

And with that, I'm off to Mexico for a few days...... hasta la vista!

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