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Ya cain't bring a beer to jury duty in Texas!?!?

My wife took the last two dogs to their final vet visit. It was time for both of them as you could see they were suffering. On the way, she stopped at McDonalds and got both of them a large order of Chicken McNuggets. She said they both gobbled them up and looked happy. She's a sweet woman.

I forgot about those...They are great. When I initially read the calorie count, I promised myself, "ok, this is a once in a lifetime treat, so go for it! " And I've been true to my word...if I was a dozen cats...

A friend of my wife has buried 5 horses on her 5 acre property. She just had one pass away last week...Cost her $400 for a guy to come in and dig the hole with a backhoe. But, she says she wants them near her always...

Dogs and cats are a reasonable price for cremation and the box to put the ashes in...less than $100 if I remember right... Horses are a whole different story...

Yeah, I have 3 wooden boxes sitting on our mantle. The ashes of 2 dogs and a horse (well, SOME of the ashes of a horse...the whole thing would have required a box 3 feet tall and weighed 70 lbs). Shows what a softie I am for them...

I hope so...we play both Purdue and Ohio State at home, so I would hope it would be on one of those two dates...

The obvious choice for me would be Portillos. A Chicago institution. Reasonable prices and good burgers, Chicago dogs, Italian beef, and if you can find one with a Barnelli's pasta attached, some pretty awesome pasta dishes (the Peasant Pasta and the Chicken Diavolo are both excellent). Very comfortable place to take kids too. And their chocolate cake is killer...

There's a lot of great pizza in the Chicagoland area. We use to go the the HR Inn in Lemont, and on Friday or Saturday it was an hour wait. I'm just happy to get their frozen pizza ( at HEB along with Nick and Vito's too) down here in Texas. Damn good for frozen.

Had to see what they had for Illinois. I figured it'd be Nick and Vito's. Good, but my favorite is Home Run Inn. When talking deep dish, they mention Geno's and Pequod's, but I think Lou Malnati's is better than both of those.

My DVR is 67% full of things I've been meaning to watch

Like others, Baseball and The Civil War. Interested in some of the others mentioned, but between, work, family, and farmette, it's difficult to find the time...

The cat in the my pic above (with her gelding boyfriend) is The Queen of the Mousers in our barn. The other barn cat (male) is a sissy. Won't go near a mouse.

Well, current count... 3 dogs 2 cats 3 horses 1 bird Just a sampling...Don't want to crash the server

Buy those people this...

I don't have any to add, but I will say of all the far-fetched futuristic stuff I've ever seen on TV, the Star Trek Teleporter is the one I'd like to see actually developed. Says it all about what I think about air travel.

People who leave their shopping carts in or in between parking spaces when a buggy corral is only 10 steps away.

Anything I buy that is hard to unpackage or has crap instructions for assembly.

X 100

People who allow their children to run amok in restaurants and then look at you , smiling, like "isn't that cute?" I love kids. Have 3 grown of my own, and a 9 year old grandson. And I'm not talking McDonalds or Chucky Cheeses...Everyone's all Happy Mealed up and supposed to be having a good time in those places. But when I'm in a nice, sit down restaurant, wanting some time with my wife, don't let your children run around the place like you're at home. We literally had kids hiding under our table at a nice seafood restaurant the other night...servers having to dodge them running around. And mom and dad just sat there with those dumb grins on their faces. I finally asked them to not let their children play under our table. You would have thought I was the Grinch who stole every holiday for the rest of those kids' lives.

Love Daly's racing garb and car 😀

Rooting for JR Hildebrand and Pippa Mann.

Thanks mile. In 2020 I'll have 40 years in the aviation field. Loved every minute of it.

Still the best music video ever I might be USAF all the way, but even I would tell you the Blue Angels are the best flight demonstration team there is.

I was an air traffic controller in the USAF from 1980 until 2000. They had us out in a truck trailer once that had 2 radar scopes because they were installing PIDP (Programmable Indicator Data Processor...the first air traffic automation I ever saw) in the Scott AFB RAPCON. Anyway, one morning about 8 AM, an F-4 from the Springfield Air National Guard came down to shoot some approaches. He shot two (we were 250 feet away from the runway so when he went missed approach it rattled the trailer) and was being vectored for a 3rd when the phone rang. A general's wife had called base ops and said the F-4 had woke her up and he needed to quit making so much noise. When I explained to the pilot, he laughed and said, "ok, clearance back to Springfield it is!"