Back story: Annie is the daughter of my nephew Brians girlfriend. I've watched her grow up and was her bus driver for one school year. Shes a smart, talented watch out world girl.

My thirty year old truck made it to her half way mark today, in Huntsville, AL.

Lily opening her keyboard birthday present.

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Just playing around...

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My eyes have been kinda messed up lately so I deviated from my general philosophy of no doctors and went to the Vision Clinic. I thought I had cataracts and it turns out I do, but the problem is something else called Central Serous Chorioretinopathy, a build up of fluids under the retina which occurs most often in Type A young and middle aged men. I'll be seeing a specialist next month and they gave me a sucker and a sticker for being a good boy.

Drove down the road to Pulaski this morning because I've never been there before. Nice little town with lots of cool places made from bricks.

Melissa stopped to let me take a shot of this tank today. Pretty weird...

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Hung out with Melissa and the girls today:

Piper's been using the corner of my bed as a scratching post, so I bought her one today. I slathered catnip on it and put it at the corner. What did she do? Ate all the catnip and then scratched around the post. I love her but she aint the sharpest tool...

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Went to Dillans birthday party the other night. I didn't know most of the folks there. Still don't... Click on Lily in the cage to see some more shots.

According to my DNA my ancestors migrated to Tennessee from Europe back in the early 1800's. Which means I'm now living in the area that my ancestors founded. There's got to be a spiritual reason for this...

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Went to the local county fair tonight and hung out with the family. I took a couple shots along the way, starting from the time I walked into the fairgrounds, and I'm sharing them here. Click the photo below to see them (along with a couple of videos at the end :-).

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This reminds me of the first time I tasted hormone free - free range chicken, it's the way it used to be. I just bought and installed into my setup the best PC keyboard in the world, by most counts, the Corsair K70 RGB mk.2 mechanical gaming keyboard. It has real keys that feel like the best of the many mechanical keyboards I have used over the decades. Real keys made with state of the art components.

This keyboard is a premium mechanical gaming keyboard with an aluminum frame, 100% cherry mx key-switches and per-key dynamic back-lighting. It has a braided cable coming out of the back which contains the USB 3.0 connection and a 2.0 pass-through. They had me at the cable...

  ↑ Yep, that's the space bar.

Piper got a Happy Birthday email this morning from her Vet in Idaho, so I took her to the local pet place for a much needed bath. Tina the groomer was lovely, called me sweetheart, and Piper is now very clean, the clumps on her butt are gone, and her nails are trimmed.

She's also flea free, which was the main reason for the visit. Piper's never had to deal with fleas before, being a Rocky Mountain girl, but she got jumped on here. I also picked up some expensive stuff that I put on the back of her neck to keep them away.