1:30 am

I can't sleep.  I was but then Paco went crazy.  I awoke to him wrestling something, maybe a halibut, and then dozed off.  Then I awoke again when my wife asked, "Jared is he choking?" and I found myself standing over the successfully removed blockage.  It was a variety of things, some lint, a rubber band and that dog mucous goo that comes up when they start doing the deep dog hack.  People don't move much faster than when a dog starts doing the vomit cough.  The dog is going through some major health crises and the more evolved species usually responds by throwing him outside. 

I imagine Paco's stomach resembles a wall in a TGI Fridays.  An accordion next to some antique sporting equipment  and a family picture.  It'll all have to come up sometime. 

Check the papers for a garage sale in Englewood. 

Update on Friday, July 28, 2006 at 06:52AM by ewy

My brother sends encouraging email:

Are they not the greatest things. just wait until you cook a roast, the dog eats the strings out of the trash and you have to pull it out of the dogs ass (true story). Same will go for christmas tree tinsel (out of a cats ass). The furry ones can be big pain in the asses, but they will alwasy be there when you need them. You know i would have more if i had the space and the way to keep all of them from harm. If you checked out CNN.com yesterday there was the amazing story of the dog the was being put down in South Carolina in a gas chamber. The process takes 30 minutes using carbon dioxide. Well so much for that, one of the dogs lived. It has now been rescued. Pretty damn amazing. 

Blue the Groiner

My sister has this dog.  I'm not sure where she got him, but I think at one point he was an integral part of a lesbian militia.  Blue, the dog, does not immediately take to men.  Especially husky men with loud voices.  He's a scrotum biter.   His trick, if that's what it can be called, is to balance 'them' on his nose.  Like his more sane, less dangerous counterparts, the ones that patiently await their master's call to flip the milkbone off their snouts and into their mouths, Blue scoops up the groove glands and pauses.  Apparently laughter does not set him off because that's what everyone does watching me frozen in fear, hoping my beading perspiration does not drip and startle my intimate  friend.   I've seen certain species, sequoia for example, stand as still for as long as Blue, but never have a I worried that a slight breeze could mean parting with the package.   He looks up from beyond your rumpled pants and watches you.  It's as if he's getting off on seeing the "superior species" play the role of a nut puppet.  I'm happy for my sister that she has found an animal that will protect her at any cost.  But maybe she can teach him to how to nibble my ears or spoon me before he goes after my crotch.