Marley listing to the Met Opera...
I don't think he's much of an Opera fan

The biggest chew stick ever!

Here's Marley with a 3-4' chew stick my wife got him...
awesome.
Just had TWO hernias repaired today. I must say that the process is slick nowadays.
I need to keep up with 'modern developments'. There's a lot of good old
fashioned knowlege that many kids today don't 'get', but that's no excuse for me
falling behind the times...  Plus ca change, la meme chose or something of that ilk.
anyway. GIANT CHECK STICK

A Guid New year to yin and a''

I had a bunch of 'healthcare account' $$ to use up before 2014.
I know that up to $500 will roll over now, but that won't happen until
3/31/2014, so I decided to use it all up before EOY.
My wife and I went to Riteaid last night and bought a bunch of stuff
that's eligible, First Aid Kits, Epsom Salt, non-prescription reading glasses,
'Diabetic' socks, but for some reason, Band Aids were not covered. :(
Still, we have enough to give almost everyone a First Aid kit.
Oh, and they didn't cover walking sticks - I guess you need a prescription for those.

Now over the counter medicine is not eligible. It's strange that you can't
get Band Aids and Triple Antibiotic cream.. Oh well.

Looking forward to new challenges in 2014. 
The account I work on is winding down so I'll be doing some more interesting
work I hope.
It's really doesn't matter to me, as long as I can develop a positive attitude to
what I do. I hate stuff that's obviously useless, like checking TZ dates in Unix
(Unix uses Universal Time - to the system date doesn't change).
Strangely, I can reconcile with ISO/ITIL so a certain extent - there's a reason
behind it all, e.g. Change control, make sure you have a written plan of what you
plan to do, have everyone agree on when it should happen, etc.. etc...

OTOH, filling out a standard template because someone didn't think to use a database
for formatting the data...  eueww.... idiots