Hardly anyone has “employees” anymore, especially huge corporate retailers. I’m sure management would expain “associate” as an upgrade, making workers more of an “equal” than an “underling.” In reality, I suspect it implies “temporary” and “detached,” more of a “disassociate” really. Have you noticed we talk about a lot of things here? Some of it is related to the craft of cartooning, and often it is not related to my profession at all. I talk around it, to be sure, but in truth I am not at all comfortable talking about the creative process. In fact, I am not going to talk about it now. Next time, maybe.
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Rick, I understand about forestalling the inevitable. My mother died at 49 and my oldest sister died at 51– both with the same kidney disease as I have. I never expected to make it to 56 years old, yet here I am. We do what we can to change the expected future, when we can.
Mark, thinking good thoughts toward your brother-in-law. There is a lot of benefit to hard work and a positive attitude in rehab. I just had a FB reminder of some of my first “walking” steps in PT after my knees were rebuilt. Three years later and a good bit of effort and my knees are essentially normal. Hopefully your BIL will be able to continue to regain function and strength.
Good morning all. I’m awake, there’s a Ghost still in bed. My physical therapist hasn’t called yet so I have few minutes.
I am a prime example that things are not inevitable. I was told that I might not make it to twenty one and continued with the bomb over my head that an opportunistic virus or bacteria would take me out early. A lot tried, my life has been a round of them and auto immune diseases that mimicked even worse ones.
Yet here I am at 73 still coughing along . I said chugging and Hal got it right!!
Point, never accept the inevitable. Do not believe it is inevitable. But do what you can to combat and prevent it.
Good morning Villagers…
Mark, sending a prayer your way………Amen. And be there for your sister, it is times like these that family matters….speaking from first hand knowledge here.
Thank goodness no appts. today…so it’s cleaning time (rearranging the fur balls on the floor 🙂 ). Love my swiffer…and I don’t mess with those expensive sheets, I use old socks for swiffing and mopping.
Laura, how are you and the new kitteh getting along?
GR 😉 black or beige, but they always match…call me anal 🙂
Miss Charlotte, good morning to you.
…and Old Bear…..a GM and B’ugs at you.
Good advice Jackie….
@Mark from TTown,
Sending Symply the best vibes(the sort Oddball of “Kelly’s Heroes” would send) and hope for long lasting and Fargone good results for your b-in-law…strength to your sister.
here’s a good chuckle:
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9039693568/hEF94AC02/
Thanks for the prayers and good wishes. I was quite surprised to hear about this as I would not have expected him to have this. Doesn’t smoke, drink, overeat, not overweight and as far as I know his family doesn’t have history of stroke either.
Let’s face it, only inevitable thing in life is that no one gets out alive. All in between is variable, and we can affect what happens for good or bad.
Symply, thanks for the reminder of Oddball. Just watched that movie a couple of weeks ago, as I found a copy for sale cheap in a Goodwill store. I like Donald Sutherland anyway.
..and another one:
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9040887296/h0525CCDB/
Today’s F&E. Peace,
http://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest
Mark, it’s oddly true that many people doing the right things still have health problems, while many doing the wrong things have no apparent problems. Prayers for your family and the whole Village in this inscrutable world.
Jimmy, I agree with Chris’s comment yesterday. Whatever it is, it works wondrously and I love the result!
Mark, sending good thoughts for your BIL and sister.
Debbe 😉 Two excellent color choices, if I may say so. 😉
In my early-50s, I was hit with two serious health diagnosis in just over two years. Thanks to having spent so much time running around with cute, scantily-clad twenty-something gals (in aerobics class; get your mind out of the gutter), I was in perhaps the best physical condition of my life. Both my docs credit that with me making full and complete recoveries.
One does what one can…or certainly should.
Mark,
Prayers for you and your family.
God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
mmmmmmmmmmmm root beer floats……….
It was so funny how Janis just “click”ed and was out!
Mark, I’m sending my prayers and best wishes for your brother-in-law. I hope your sister is holding up well. It’s her journey too.
Debbe, my new kitten has reminded me of what it’s like to have one around. My hands and arms are covered in little scratches where she has pounced me.
East meets West musically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG7rjnS753s
Enjoy!
emb
If you are not watching – “The Eagles of Dacorah” is on right now on Lakeland Public TV.
Also “Super Humming Birds” follows on Nature.
emb
I an sure they will have it on again because they are “Fund Raising”
Watched some – of Eagles.
The Raptor Center is the vision of the late Bob Anderson.
They are putting monitors on fledglings. One (the first) flew all the way to
Hudson’s Bay above the Arctic Circle and back.
Trucker
About 35+ YA saw 2 big rigs ride side by side during a slowdown on the PA
Turnpike. They rode real close to the shoulder and even the shoulder riders were not stupid enough to go between them.
This had to be before I80 – Remember when Buckhorn was the only Truck Stop? And that was
a mobile home.
Ghost fed me BLT on whole wheat with low calorie bacon for dinner, key lime Greek yogurt and fresh dates for dessert. I am feeling so good and healthy, thanks to his care.
My therapist said I am at 113 degrees on knee and extension is perfect. He says my recovery has been amazing for any age.
Tomorrow is Best Friend Day. La Madeleine French Bakery is giving their loyal supporters like me two sampler platters of their salades as thanks and for your BFF. I am taking Ghost to Tulsa and we will dine among hopefully some of Tulsa’s better looking “girl friends.”
Not the kind of restaurant that attracts the all you can eat crowd. http://lamadeleine.com/
I may need to send Terrie the Leggy Gardening Wench for an audiology test. I sent her to the local feed & seed this afternoon for puppy food. She brought back a puppy.
More on that later, including the puppy’s name. A clue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPiBiMa0TU
Good morning Villagers….
Another Dr. appt taday at 9:15…..then PT tomorrow at 10:00. No rest for the ‘wicked’ or is it weary?
A Puppy??!! She wouldn’t by chance be a peroxide blonde? Dickens is not going to be happy about this new intruder…out of curiosity….what breed?
gotta go…later….
😉 🙂 http://cheezburger.com/2351877/how-wives-break-the-news-that-they-now-own-a-puppy
Laura…glad to hear your kitteh is being a kitteh….maybe you should wear some gloves.
Can any one explain what the print is on the book page…..I know the cat is a tortus, but I don’t understand the joke.
What book page? I don’t get the question?
Ghost is out on front porch walking the puppy. Yes, Ghost is a dog lover and she is a manly dog for a manly man. Yes, she is blonde.
Last night I noted I could now get up and down on my leg to go to bathroom alone. But Ghost is still having to walk his bitch to pee.