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I received an email at work this morning, following up on a recent article. The email starts, “Hey, half-bald motherfucker.” I love hearing from fans.
The dog is recovering from her health crisis a month ago
Minnie has made a great recovery. She’s eating regularly and gained back a bit of weight. She seems happy and alert.
When she got sick, I cut her back from our usual  3-1/4-mile morning walk to about 1-1/4 plus another third of a mile at bedtime. She seemed to be feeling pretty good this morning so I increased her to more than 1-1/5 miles and she did great — even had energy left over for zoomies. I don’t know if we’ll ever get back to 3-1/4 miles — but I don’t know that we won’t.
Our time together is limited. She’s a 13-year-old medium-sized dog with kidney failure. But we’re enjoying the time with her while it lasts.
A friend who started following me on Facebook when Minnie was a puppy told me he did not realize, at first, that Minnie is a dog. He thought Minnie is my wife. He saw me post about how Minnie puked and it was disgusting and he thought it was disrespectful to say such things about one’s spouse.
Cyclosporiasis would have been a great name for a 70s jazz fusion band.
The discussion around the Odyssey movie has led me to realize that I have not actually liked most of the Christopher Nolan movies I’ve seen. I liked “Inception” and “Interstellar” a lot, but the rest of them – including the Batman movies — seem like the work of a man who’s dealing with issues that are alien to me.
“You either die a hero or live long enough to be a villain”? No, that’s not true.
I am not trying to disrespect Nolan or his fans. Taste is subjective.