Guard Dog

Wow ktchong you are just obsessed with this s--t.

Stress, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder I guess. Still seems trivial to me though. Stress is a registered letter from the IRS. Stress is trying to make payroll with insufficient capital. Stress is bills you can't pay. Or a phone call from your doctor after your last blood test. Stress is watching the river next to your house rise out of it's banks. Or watching that Cat 4 hurricane coming your way. An nothing you can do about either. Slow wi-fi and broken phones? That does not even register on the stress meter IMO

The floor in my house is a vinyl version of pergo/laminate/wood. The nice thing about vinyl is large sections make it mostly waterproof. In Tommy's last days he wasn't able to hold it well if you know what I mean. Plus it has a textured surface so it's easier for them to walk on .

Poor babies: https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-millennials-life-more-stressful-than-ever-before/

#2 McGwire hits 62 Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa didn't just chase Maris's record of 61 home runs in 1998. There was so much animosity following the strike and cancelled World Series it would not be a stretch to say they saved baseball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN6FoxNIqcQ

So Donald Trump is threatening to have Saturday Night Live "investigated" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6819181/Trump-threatens-Saturday-Night-Live-federal-investigation-Sunday-morning-tweet-storm.html He really has no clue what he can and can't do does he?

Don't you guys know those "ancestry DNA" tests are a government plot to get everyone into CODIS? They can't take it from you without a warrant so they trick you into giving it to them as a "genealogy test" and to top it all you're PAYING them to do it to you!!!! Now when the time comes to round up the "deplorables" they know who, where, and what you are! And now they have your DNA. They can frame you for crimes and lock you away and everyone will think it's your own fault! Well... they are not going get ME so easily! They can swab the cheeks of my rapidly cooling corpse! In all seriousness I've never understood the curiosity behind these tests. Heck I don't need to know where my ancestors came from. I am my father's son, my dogs best friend, and the smartest and best looking man currently living between Cold Creek and the Hatchee River! That's good enough for me.

#3 Roger Maris hits 61 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI9jGRPZNSE

If Hannibal ever actually said that it would have been in Punic. He spoke and wrote latin but hated all things roman so fiercely I expect he would only have used the language grudgingly.

Me too

Gotcha. I did remember an application to Harvard was one of the early instances she told that particular whopper. I didn't remember if it was for work or for admission.

Elizabeth Warren told CNN she had zero sympathy for the people arrested for the college admission thing. Correct me if I'm wrong here but didn't her whole American Indian lie come from her trying to get special consideration for law school? Irony is my favorite form of humor. Hypocrisy is a close second!

It was a long day but the garden is planted. Well... mostly. I've got a patch reserved for strawberries but they don't go in for a little while yet.

Steroids didn't make him a great player. He did that himself. Steroids DID keep him playing the game longer than he likely would have otherwise. Records like this are about skill. But they are also about longevity.

#4 Barry Bonds Stands Alone Bonds hits his 756th HR and breaks Hank Aaron's record. He ended his career with 762. This record could be broken. There are four players now who are of the right age and ability to challenge it. Giancarlo Stanton has the best shot. He's 28 and has 305. Mike Trout is 26 with 240. But staying healthy and avoiding decline is the key. Of course, Bonds did not do the latter without some "help" so if anything he did could be said to be tainted it would be this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL3vNXIsEPM

#5 Hank Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth's Career HR Record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjqYThEVoSQ

Injurai that went right over my head then!

OK, this was f-----g funny! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHiZ1hglY8

I didn't do this today. It was actually a few days ago. We are in the middle of a major reconstruction project on the Dunlap-Robinson Bayou levee. I was there on Tuesday and took some pics of the ducks that were trolling around. I watched them for a good five minutes and thoroughly enjoyed every one of them

Rule changes coming this year and next: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rules-changes

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-Subway-Poster-Deface-G-Train-New-York-Police-Hate-Crime-507098591.html $50 says this was done by someone whose politics are well left of center and wanted to make their "enemies" look bad.

Beto O'Rourke is in : https://www.apnews.com/3508c56887c54a5e869d4258c9a2773d