New family member

My wife and I had been talking about getting another dog for a couple months. We wanted to give our dog gizmo a friend and we needed to shake up our life a bit. Paige had wanted to rescue a dog if we could find one that fit with our family. Yesterday we went to the SPCA to see what dogs they had, and we left just not feeling a connection to any of them. So went over to the Richmond animal shelter, and there we saw a 6 year old pit bull/terrier mix of some kind. Paige said she just knew it was the dog for her. The SPCA said he had been there for a while, he was a calm dog that just didn't have the flash people were looking for, such as an interesting color. We adopted him and took him to petsmart to get some supplies. There an older gentleman checked us out and after finding out we had just adopted him, told us that god meant us to have this dog, which was kind of cool and made me feel a little more calm about the whole thing. So let me introduce our new family member who we are going to call Gadget.












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About me

If it weren't for me George Washington would not be on the quarter. That's right I was the vote that put our first president on our 25 cent coin. If it weren't for me Grover Cleveland would have been put on it. I also don't think you may know this but I was suppose to be the first man on the moon but I had a hang nail that week and didn't feel like putting my space boots on.

So what else do you want to know about me? How about the fact that I was the number one eagle scout in America before I was thrown out for using a lighter to start my campfire and light my cigar. The cigar wouldn't have been as much of an issue if it hadn't been a Cuban.

Or how about the fact I wrote the song "dude looks like a lady" one day in the lunch while watching Agnes the lunch lady serve Mac and cheese with a 5 o'clock shadow. Steven Tyler stole the song from my back pack at the pizza barn, while I was playing ms. Pac-man.


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To my health

So this is a story from a week or so ago but I thought I would tell it here. I work with a man named stuart. He is in his mid-fifties and has Down syndrome. Stu was already working at the pharmacy when I started there in 2001, and lot of other folks have come and gone, but stu and I are still there.

Stu is my buddy, he greets me each day with a bear hug or hi-five, asks how I'm doing, tells me about his girl friends and what sport he's doing that weekend and then goes on about his duties. Stu lives on his own and the county has bus service that brings him to work each day. When we have store functions like Christmas parties or baseball games I usually am the one who picks up stu and takes him home, basically he's my bud.

One of the medical issues my bud has is the occasional case of gout. To help prevent future attacks stu isn't suppose to have sodas. Standing at the pharmacy counter all day I often have a coke sitting there that I drink throughout my shift. In the past few months stu has brought it to my attention several times that I had better be careful with my soda or as he says I'm "gonna get the gout.". The other day he stepped up his concern for my health a notch.

I stepped away from the counter for a few minutes the other day and when I returned my coke was not where I had left it. The technician on duty told me that stu had taken it. Ooookkayyy. Stu comes to the counter at lunchtime to get a dose of medication, so I asked him about my soda. He told me not to worry about it he was taking care of it. Ooooookkkkaaayyy. I then went off to lunch and when I returned my coke bottle had been returned....sort of.




Stu had replaced my soda with water. I couldn't believe it. It made me feel so good that he cared that much about me and my health. Sure I'm out a coke, but my buddy cares about me not getting the gout. Thanks stu, I'll try and do better.

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Man time

Time to activate the man gene for a home repair.



Our garbage disposal went belly up after it tried to eat a spoon. The project involves plumbing and electricity a combination that shouldn't go together, so the breaker box is my ally today. Now, MAN-GENE ACTIVATE!!!

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Some unfacts about me you should know

Here are a few unfacts about myself I thought you all might be interested in:

-I have an extra toe on my left foot with exactly 13 hairs on it.

-my great uncle played the role of the skipper on Gillian's island.

-I know the words to every song ever written, I just chose to sing them in the version they should have been written.

-my middle name is leviticus, I came from a very religious family

-every bird my family owned while I was growing up was named "Arnold" after the restauranteur on "happy days"

-if you crack me open I have a gooey Carmel center

-I have 5 tattoos that reference farm animals


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More interesting stuff

-5 US presidents had daughters named Beatrice

-before he was the dog whisperer, Caesar was a tree whisperer

-the word taxi comes from a gaelic term meaning "to take your pig to market"

-while only 10% of babies are actually cute 98% of parents are told their babies are cute

-president Grover Cleveland suffered from debilitating painful nipples

-in the year 2017 the trademark on the McDonald's golden arches will expire and they plan on changing their logo to a blue parrot

-if life is ever found on mars, England will win a bet with the US and the US must give England Texas



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More fun facts

Here are some more fun facts I might have made up:

- one out of five prostitutes recommend crest toothpaste

-12% of kindergartners would eat tripe if offered it right now

-the elephant is the only other animal who sees the color orange

-in Latvia it is tradition to offer guests toe nail clippings as parting gifts

-the doughnut is the state food of Michigan

-of the 17 different species of turtle found in Ohio, only one has a shell

-the word "Poker" is found in every known language, with meanings ranging from a type of sweet bread to a derogatory term for bald men


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List of untruths

Here's a list of some of the untruths I would like to spread:

-the average dog has 7 ponds of undigested bubble gum in their colon.

-the three stooges used stunt women for all of there slap fights

-the second most popular name for girls in the world is Helga

-Mr. T's gold chains were made of milk chocolate

-the president of the fuji corp is the grandson of Allan Hale, who played the skipper on Gillian's island

-17% of Americans believe that the yeti would beat big foot in a presidential election

-the Swedish national anthem has 17 references to fish.


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