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.
Office Favorite
By Jimmy Johnson
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220 responses to “Office Favorite”
-26 F now, hi expected today -6, lo tonight -23, hi Mon. -1. Hey, that’s a warming trend!
Last coupla wks in Jan. are, on average, the coldest. That’s when -40 and even -50 used to be common. Don’t think we’ve officially hit -30 this winter.
Stay warm, emb
Good morning. New minion fell at home and injured hand. They are hard working. Rats.
Today I stay home and work. After I go back to sleep for awile.
THE SKY IS BLUE AND THE SUN IS ORANGE !!!Auburn has knocked off the mighty Kentucky Wildcats for the first time since 2000! WAR EAGLE !!! IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!!
God bless us every one.
Jerry and Debbie: I’m reminded of our last conversation with Bob’s grandmother. She complained that life wasn’t any fun anymore and we shouldn’t have to hang around if we couldn’t have fun. Her body hung on, though her memory did not, for several more years. I was the one who took the call from the doctor asking whether her life should be artificially maintained or she should be allowed to go (Bob wasn’t home and his parents were on the road home from south Florida, pre-cellphones); the memory of her words made that decision much easier.
domaucan1, and Tuscaloosa’s Deontay Wilder held onto the WBC Heavyweight title. Put the Polish contender down for the win in the 9th round.
You realize I don’t have a clue what Mark and Doum are talking about but they are happy, happy and that makes me happy because that is what friends are for.
Go War Eagles! Go WBF and Whoever! Mark, you watch boxing?
Debbe, too funny. Thanks. I am still hoping for the best for your girls.
Cletus Boleware, a local arm-wrestler, won two out of three of his matches at the Suds & Buds Bar & Grill last night.
Watching what so far appears to be a football clinic being put on by the Carolina Panthers.
Here’s a shirt for Jackie and some of the other Villagers (not including Mark, domaucan, and Ghost) – http://theawkwardyeti.com/happy-sports-weekend/
Jackie, only this fighter, because he is one of the local folks. I think what Domaucan1 was talking about was the Auburn basketball team winning against the odds.
A friend of mine who loves classical music sent me this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OYkWSW7u4k
Share and enjoy!
Sideburns, awesome. I recognized the music, can’t put with composer but I have to send that one out.
For 48 years I have slept through sporting events if a bed was available or gone into office. I am happy others enjoy it although I think athletes get paid too much and it fosters an attitude of entitlement among young men who are good at it in teens. So few reach the super star status and when it falls apart they rarely have other resources.
Although I had a stimulating conversation about the Houston ballet with a star football player from Tulane. Wait, that was Tulane.
Brother Dave Gardner said:
“I some one lives his life to the tenants of his religion
and still goes to He11 who is he going to blame?”
Loved Brother Dave. Because of him talking about laying a rose on Jack Daniel ‘s grave I went, in 1972, to do just that. Well, also influenced by their ads in New Yorker magazine. I’d do anything that magazine said. It’s how I knew about barbecue from Calvin Trillin and the coon dog cemetery in Alabama.
Anyway, following things Brother Dave said got momentous adventures and that was one. Of course Disney bought it so it’s all Disneyfied now. Hate that.
First I’ve heard of this: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/01/15/yosemite-famed-sites-forced-to-change-names-due-to-trademark-dispute/
How does a private company get away with trademarking things it doesn’t own, didn’t build and didn’t pay for? Things that belong to the United States itself? Instead of going to court, it seems to me the goverment could just invalidate the issuance of the trademarks to this company.
Mark: That raises the question of who really runs the country. Sorry, cannot go further without transgressing into politics, but might suggest that, when the transfer is complete, there will no longer be politics, except in-house. Also, as Polly Adler said in her book title, “A house is not a home.”
Peace, emb
Just who the hell does Delaware North think they are, anyway…China?
Every notice how much Chinese military equipment looks like that of the US? It’s like they just found all the plans in a computer, or something.
Off topic – A picture of Thunder. I almost had her completely healed, and when she was out yesterday, she got into a fight again. No more outside time. (Besides it being too cold.) I just hope the outside kitties, get to go in tonight.
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Okay, one more. 🙂
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LOVED Ghost Chickens and laughed hysterically, Debbe. We are hoping and praying for a happy outcome for your girls—in spite of ijits like that teen!!!
This was in the weekly AWAD mail, # 707, which just came. Peace, emb
‘A lot of politicians on the Sunday morning talk shows use “reticence” incorrectly, as meaning “reluctant” — “the senator is reticent to sign that bill.” Drives me crazy.’ [An AWAD blogger, not me.]
Using “reticence” incorrectly is certainly not a good ideal.
‘Ghost Rider 6 on 17 Jan 2016 at 7:05 pm # Just who the hell does Delaware North think they are, anyway…China?’
No, they are a private capitalist co., probably a corp. They perhaps feel, as many in the top 2% do, that only capitalists, not govts, should own things. Govt. is bad and should only exist to provide them, and maybe others when not too busy, police protection. Also, when they can get away with it, subsidies, because of cheap foreign labor [which they themselves use when it pays]. It gets the money for subsidies for those of us unable to get away with not paying a fair share of taxes. But only govt. is evil.
Some of us feel that it is govt’s job to represent us, however awkwardly it does that, and to have title to the names of the things that Delaware North et al. ‘doesn’t own, didn’t build and didn’t pay for.’ The fed. govt. should hold title to those things because we own those things, and the fed. govt works [or should] for us. The FBI probably has me on a list somewhere. Peace,
Here are two of the cats my wife and I had. The one on the left is Bama, on the right is Lucy. Both were rescues. At his peak, Bama weighed over 16 pounds. A woman who worked in downtown Nashville had found him wandering the streets as a kitten and took him home. She already had a dog and a cat, but Bama wanted to be boss, so she took him to a vet to see if he could help find a home. Ilene and I were at the vet’s office to see if he could help us find a cat, so Bama became our number 1 cat in 1996. In 1997 we decided Bama needed company and Ilene found a cat rescue who had kittens for adoption. The foster family had named the mother cat Desilu and the four kittens, Ricky, Fred, Lucy and Ethel. Where Bama never met a stranger, Lucy never really got that friendly.
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