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Friday’s is here and another cloudy morning, I will say this the afternoons have been pretty nice and we don’t have that really bad heat. Yesterday Ruby’s sister Nelida had surgery on her hand; due to the difficulty in translating some of the medical terminology I really don’t know the whole problem. It has something to do with the thumb I’m guessing sort of like carpal tunnel syndrome but not the exact same thing. It was a three hour deal but she was home last night and everybody went over to see the cast on her hand and try to make her feel good. It seemed to work, at least for awhile, but the thought that she’s going to out of work for a couple of months at least is a little depressing for her. You see they don’t have disability down here and for the matter they don’t have paid vacation either, that’s the big disadvantage to this work contract thing they have here. I’m guessing it’s the only way to keep the majority of the people off of any social programs that they might have down here. It surprises me that the people down here are always so happy Americans would be jumping out windows with this system. They’re so used to having the Government there to assist them when things go wrong like Nelida’s operation up there she would have disability to help her down here she has Jeff and Ruby because they both love her and do what they can to help. Well one thing I know for sure it’s nice to have a family to fall back on in tough times anyhow it’s nap time CIAO.

Today I decided to do an interview type blog with my buddy Jeff so he could say a few things about his new book so here goes nothing.

Me – Jeff why did you decide to write a second book was the first one that      successful

Jeff – I didn’t do it because it was that successful I just felt good about the experience of writing the first one and decided to keep on writing till it’s no longer exciting for me or I run out of ideas

Me – So tell us a little about the second book

Jeff – Well I don’t want to give away to much but I can tell you this I introduce a new group of characters as well as continue the development of the old and we also have romance in this one as well as murder.

Me – Tell us a little about the romance angle

Jeff – Well again I don’t want to give away the whole thing but the romance is between Tac and Jazz Tac being one of the new characters and a member of the cat people Jazz as you will remember if you read the first book is a Werewolf so we have the cat and canine thing going the other romance is sort of weird, and I’m still trying to figure out where I’m going to go with it, is between my Android detective ILF and the half wolf half human Cleo. Now before you ask as I said I don’t know what I’m going to do with these characters.

Me – Do you think your reading public is ready for a human robot love affair.

Jeff – First Ilf is an android and second it has been done somewhat on one of the Star Trek series. So I’m not worried about that I just have to decide how I want to handle it.

Me – Do you want to give us a hint or two

Jeff – Not at this time

Me – Well Ok then I think that’s about it for now we’ll catch up to a little later   when you are closer to a publication date.

Jeff – Ok sounds good I would like to say thanks to everyone who has read the first book your support is greatly appreciated and as Flounder would say CIAO

Me CIAO

It’s Wednesday and I decided to take a look at the headlines that make no sense to me. No. 1 Ashley Judd Senate do we really care about some over the hill country singer running for senate she’ll right in with the rest of the brain dead in there. No.2 Radcliff gay love scene I always thought Harry Potter was a little gay, but how is this a headline news story. No.3 Arnold loves Maria yeah right that’s why he slept with the maid and she had his kid again this is not a world news story. No.4 Chuck Schumer photo bombs the President OK this was not an assassination attempt and since it wasn’t what the hell is a photo bomb and who cares. Now if you look at the headlines you know I could go on and on but I’ll stop here for now. It’s cloudy again down here and that’s another headline you don’t need. The weekend is coming that’s a good thing and so far it looks like a quite one, Jeff will have to tell Ruby if she want s to anything it has to be this weekend because next weekend is Super Bowl and he plans to watch the opening kickoff if nothing else. I’ll have some news on Jeff’s new book, maybe tomorrow if I can get him to open up a little bit in the mean time I feel like I have to cough up a fur ball CIAO.

Well we made it through the Presidential inauguration and all the BS that comes with it, but you know what I found interesting is how they change everyone birthday to fit their own needs. Look at Martin Luther King his birthday is Jan 15 (Capricorn just like Jeff) and they could have celebrated it on the 14^th but they chose to move the holiday to the 21^st so it would coincide with Obama’s second term inauguration, pretty sneaky if you ask me. I wonder if I could get my birthday changed maybe take a few years off, what do you think. I understand the desire to make three day weekends it gives the government and the banks a chance to make more money off you, but why do this wouldn’t it serve the same purpose to keep the date original. The banks would still make interest everybody else would actually save money as well because they would take trips that they really couldn’t afford and maybe just maybe they would do what the day off was intended for rest. Look at me I’m beginning to sound just like Jeff, I have to stop reading the news and looking at the calendar. Well it’s another cloudy morning down here and it actually did rain for a change, I hope it means the real hot weather is over for a little while although Hader says you only get about a month of really nice weather then it either rains or get really hot. I haven’t seen Hari in awhile hope it clears up later so he can visit. Jeff second book is 25% done, according to him; he’s looking at late March or early April for publishing. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t have a rush of enthusiasm and inspiration and finish the book sooner. Ok I’m done time to take a nap talk to you all later CIAO.

Gee it looks like Monday and it might rain but guess what I don’t care. Well the two teams are set for the Super Bowl and I don’t think anyone outside San Francisco or Baltimore really cares, I know a lot of people will watch to see the new commercials and hear Beyonce perform and Jeff will watch at least the beginning just to keep his strike alive (he’s watched every Super Bowl so far). But nobody I know has any real interest in it, the media will play up the fact that it’s brother coaching against brother the only one who really care about that are their parents. This weekend is the Pro Bowl which all of two people will probably watch the rest of the husbands will be doing Honey do lists so the wives will leave them alone during the game. Not much going on this week at least so far but this is Colombia and you can never tell since most decisions are made moments before. Speaking of which the sun came out I’m headed to my window seat to get a little vitamin D CIAO.

Well its Sunday the going away party for Maritza went great she didn’t cry but laughed a lot. Jeff and Ruby got home about 3am slept till about 9am got dressed went shopping came home went to sleep again so if you were wondering why there was no post yesterday that’s why. I had Jeff include some of the pictures in today’s post. Today is an NFL Sunday so Jeff has the popcorn and drinks ready and starting at three plans to vegetate the rest of the day, not that’s much different than any other Sunday. The week ahead looks like a return to normal Ruby will be leaving early to go babysit Hari Jeff will show up later after all he has to help me write this dumb thing and comb, feed, and make sure I’m happy before he goes anywhere. It’s actually a little cool down here today probably only in the 60’s I think its because there’s no sun today and it looks like rain, of course as soon as were done here the sun will come out and it be in the eighties. Well I out of stuff so we’ll post the pictures, the whole group is on Facebook already, and then I’m headed to the couch (I have my own now) CIAO.

It a sad day in Bello Nelida’s daughter Maritza is leaving to go back to Sweden tomorrow and there having a going away party tonight. I don’t know the reason for her living in Sweden but she has a good job and is in school there so I guess it’s cool. All I know was she knew not to pester me when I was resting and always had a big smile on her face so I for one will miss her a lot. I don’t know when she’s coming back or if she is there has been talk of her mother moving there. Now the family would definitely miss her a lot but if it was better there for her we would all support her decision. If she doesn’t go will Maritza come back to stay I’m not sure but I think not, she has more going for her there then she would here after being gone for awhile, but you never know about these things. In other news there isn’t any LOL so I’ll have Jeff take a lot of pictures and I’ll make sure some get posted here CIAO.

Ok it’s the day after grump’s birthday and he survived cake and ice cream and hearing happy birthday in Swedish and Spanish and far too many times. I survived to many relatives and too much laughter. Now it’s time for the old man to start getting in shape finish his second book, in other words get his ass in gear. Well for those of you who care the sun is trying to come out today don’t know if it will succeed we’ll have to wait on that one. Ruby left early today and left the mess from last night in the kitchen sink so I guess the birthday is officially over. Fats better hurry up and clean my litter box or he’s likely to find a surprise in his chair latter today. I don’t know what else to tell you guy so CIAO.

It’s the grumpy old man’s birthday and he’s at that age where he says he doesn’t want anything and then when he doesn’t get anything he sulks, he needs to grow a pair. Anyhow today is a lot like yesterday with not a lot going on and it looks like rain again. It hasn’t rained in awhile down here and with the sun here you can watch everything turn brown virtually overnight. The southern part of the country is experiencing a drought and there have been a number of forest fires and of course the food prices will start to go up. It seems everywhere you go as things seem to be improving Mother Nature comes around to screw with the economy. But down here people just smile have another beer and get on with whatever it is their doing. I guess that’s OK I mean up there everybody gets excited and starts blaming this or that while like I said down they just roll with the punches. Well once again I’ve run out of stuff so I’m going to go to the closet so I can stay away from grumpy and we’’ see you tomorrow CIAO

Boy it gets harder and harder to come up with something for this dumb blog, I don’t know how Jeff does writing his book he’s on his second and already has an idea for a third. I have trouble coming up with a few lousy lines for you guys to read hopefully something will happen soon so I can write about it. you see down here vacation time is coming to an end and everybody is sort of down in the dumps, there’s no soccer of any importance so the sports scene is quiet and fortunately nothing bad is going on. Even the weather is gloomy not too much sun after the last few days. That might be a good thing keep the fire to a minimum. Well that’s it I’ve run out of BS so CIAO.