Are Arlo and Janis retired? Technically, no. Although home undeniably has become the focus of the strip lately, they still have comic-strip jobs, traditional jobs where they go to a brick-and-mortar office, put in a day of routine work and collect a regular paycheck. In other words, jobs that hardly exist anymore outside comic strips. Perhaps I’ll explore this area in 2016. I’ve thought a lot about it. Heaven knows, their resume needs updating.
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220 responses to “Office Favorite”
Just read the today strip. I think I live in Janis’ dream house. Total square feet in half I live in is about equal or less than my third floor master suite in my big Houston waterfront husband dumped in one of those downturns in life. We referred to the HGTV show we were going to film as “Small rooms with low ceilings and crooked wallls” plus 37 windows, none the same size.
This is a rebuild, still ongoing. Same issues. But danged cute. Mark and Ghost might bump their heads?
I have to admit…this video fooled me. My first impression was that this is Hugh Hefner and his current Playmate “girlfriend”. See what you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jxSOxtYHs
37 windows, none the same size. Sounds like someone else’s grow-the- house with the family project. Or maybe they just got a good deal on used windows from a salvage firm?
Ghost, that clip was spooky. The old guy looked much as my dad did in the last few years of his life, except for the suit.
Ghost, can I assume it’s done about the same as getting into a locked filing cabinet?
Today’s ‘Dustin’ is delightful. Peace, emb
http://dustincomics.com/
GR, I’m a little disappointed in your lack of a reaction to my link to that photo of a truly wonderful woman, Lynda Carter. Did it not work?
Oh, TR, I had a reaction to it, I just didn’t document the reaction due to time constraints! 🙂 More later.
eMb and anyone else: go to eMb’s “Dustin” link and click on the word “sex” printed in blue as a category below the comic. It goes to a total of 3 or 4 older “Dustin” strips thus described. The bottom one, Jan. 16, 2011 [if memory serves], is a real hoot!
Oh, Debbe — I am so sorry about your hurt finger! And the index finger is the worst one, of course. You are a very brave woman. Hoping for you to heal up as fast as possible.
Sorry Jackie, I am a bit behind reading the here. I thought you might have difficulty crossing the border with Dickens. I would have assumed some kind of quarantine might have been required. If you make it to upper state NY (say the Ogdensburg area), I might be able to meet you part way.
Dear Friends…..please pray….the Avian virus is within less than 7 miles from my hen house….I am really scared (someone asked me if I worried was because I’d loose my job!!) NO….I will loose 79000 plus pullets, I’ve cried and cried, and prayed…and I only prayed when I hurt my finger….finger is fine…but I am so worried.
Please….pray for my girls
https://duboiscountyherald.com/b/avian-flu-found-in-dubois-county
Debbe: Hope they succeed in containing the flu to that one farm.
Less important but still sad:
“JASON RECKER and WYATT STAYNER . . . . farmer Steve Kalb said this afternoon the birds were raised on a farm run by he and his father, Dan.” “. . . by he”? Really?
Recker and Stayner are paid to write, no? That’s a grade school English flub. The paper has a copy editor, or should. Peace, emb
Dickens has been to every state or province in Canada, some more than once. You have current papers done by a Certified US Federal veterinarian within so many days of entering Canada and they can’t expire on you while you are there. I’ve never had mine expire but some people live in Canada seasonally and I always get instructions from my vet who is one of a small group of approved vets in Oklahoma. That’s why he was so mad at me for liberating the cats and transporting them without papers. He has forgiven me and neutered two rescues for me today. His wife had best hold on to him. He would like to travel.
Put a long post together explaining the history of my house which began as a one room boat shed and bathroom in 1960s and has evolved to a street to street complex. I gutted it in late 1990s and took it down to foundation and some studs. It matches now but it was three different lots and I tore it almost all down Personally with a wrecking bar and sledge. Very soothing.
That must be in moderation I guess.
Debbe I am so sorry. I will ask for prayer for you and I never do that.
Debbe, I took it as encouraging that your hen house is outside the radius from the infected houses in which they are testing. My thinking is that if no other infected flocks are found in that radius, your house would be at no greater odds for exposure than any others (i.e., from migratory birds). Meanwhile, hugs and prayers, hon.
We will give all the moral support we can dear Debbe.
Don’t let that finger get infected. Get some latex (or non latex)
gloves – keep it covered. Chicken dust is insidious.
TR, Lynda Carter may well have been the perfect choice to portray Wonder Woman on TV. Even though I would have never wished WW any harm, I’d have been sorely tempted to fire some rounds at her whenever I could, just to watch her using her bracelets to deflect the bullets. 😉
https://sloe.co/hdpictures/uploads/lynda-carter/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman-miss-world-fb4c0258bfcc67164bb1de097e22627a-fullsize-77071.jpg
But the photo of Ms. Carter in that lovely pink creation outdid the one of her in her WW costume in two respects. (Hint: Sounds like “hokies”.)
Debbe 😉 More Motown in memory of my sister…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdDnqSFYXFs
Debbe, I put up an appeal on my Facebook page under my name for prayers for you. This is not my norm, I don’t say post Amen for anyone. I did ask for prayer and a pass over for you and the girls. And that of course is the meaning of passover, a miracle from the Almighty that saved the Jewish people. Not saying you have Kosher flock but asking for your miracle darling. I love and respect you completely without reservation.
Jimmy Buffet, on this Partying Day in History:
1996: Jamaican authorities fire upon the seaplane of music star Jimmy Buffet after mistaking it for a drug trafficker’s aircraft. Buffet, well-known for promoting a partying lifestyle, is unhurt in the incident.
And, perhaps somewhat ironically considering the above, on this anti-Partying Day in History:
1920: Prohibition, which prohibits the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, goes into effect.
For some reason, I continue to think of Lily Black, and Lyle’s lyric “…there’s not so much I haven’t done or seen…”
Good morning Villagers…
Jackie, thanks you for the prayers, and I am a firm believer in the power of prayer. I am blessed to have a boss who is good standing with the Lord, he is very strong in his faith.
The Boss and Jonathan have set up barricades at all entrances to both hen houses. Before I even cross the bridge over the creek onto the parking lot, my car and tires are decontaminated, there are only three parties allowed on my hen house property…Jonathan, The Boss and me; the feed truck and the truck that picks up eggs…..all vehicles are sprayed down before entering property. Which should be interesting come Sunday as temps will be in the teens and like 2 degrees that night.
This strain is not the same as the one that affected the poultry business in 2015, it is a highly pathogenic strain, H7N8. Every poultry business within a 6 mile radius is under quarantine. My hen house is 6.2 as the crow flies. I pray they keep it contained on that turkey farm.
Emb….yes, not only do they write that way, they talk that way. I cringe every time I hear “they was”….the teens are the worse, I’ve asked them “do you pay attention to your English teacher?” And, yes, I do correct them in mid sentence….idgets!!!
Old Bear….I have large latex gloves at hen house that will fit fine over my re-bandaged finger. I have waterproof bandages and an antibiotic ointment that I will put on before I leave for work.
Miss Charlotte….brave, sometimes….stupid reactions….many times. I’ve definitely learned a lesson this time….I don’t care what falls into a moving auger, it’ll stay there, even if it’s a feather.
GR 😉 Our hens have been swabbed twice….once on Thursday, and then the Boss had to get out and start swabbing at both houses very early yesterday (6ish) morning. The Corp said to keep the weekend help out of the houses.
Ya’ll have a blessed day….it’s Caturday too 🙂
JJ you’ve done it again. Last night we were at a birthday dinner for my DIL ( who will be celebrating another birthday in about 2 weeks) and we updated everyone on the move. Still a garage full of boxes, but fridge is installed and today the garbage disposal. Someone asked “Anything left to install?” And I said “Oh the hot tub” “Your getting a hot tub?”
With that comment, cue the eye roll from my wife.
Rick: When something outrageous occurs, what is one to do? Well, if one is a songwriter, one writes a song about it, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsKZewdhDtk
Terry, as you may know, “lilyblack” (or some incarnation thereof) has returned to The Dark Side, where “she” is “fomenting dissension among the ranks” (never difficult to do over there) by once again pushing her “sex is icky” meme.