A Mournful Occasion

I was looking at a few of my earlier posts, when I saw the post about the two most annoying dogs in the world, getting their shots. Since then, one of them died. He was at least thirteen, because he was six when my family got him. He jumped up on my bed, then died, presumably in his sleep. I only mention this now, because one of my family's two cats just died this weekend, in much the same way.
They were both good pets, and each had great qualities about them. Neither was perfect, but both were affectionate. It makes me wonder sometimes about our tendency to attribute human emotions to animals. Basic emotions have to be there, including a fear response, and I wonder since I was there for neither death, were they scared when it happened?
I hope not, I hope they just went down to sleep and never woke up.
Goodbye and Goodnight Moses, and you too Ricky, Good Boys.

It's Been Awhile

I haven't written on here since April, and if I checked it out, it would probably say something on my last couple of entries about not writing for long spans. Not a lot has happened, since my last post. This being more of a journal entry, I'll keep it short; I just finished out a 72 hour work week, with 8 hours of holiday pay for Veteran's Day. Now, I am on a nine day vacation. That's right kids; Thanksgiving Week off.

There's a lot that I have been unnecessarily putting off, and I hope to directly address all of those things. I have been planning on signing up for the gym after another too long hiatus. Maybe Monday morning I'll take my open morning and do that...My garage-into-office-and-workshop project was also held up, and I think I'll be revisiting that as well. I have a few other things, but for the most part, I haven't had this much time off to myself without being unemployed, before. I am really looking forward to it.

Here's to next time I write, hopefully sooner than 7 months, seven days maybe.