The dog did it......

For starters, another complaint about our entertainment provider, Comcast.

I enjoy all they offer and am usually very happy with the service. Having said that, why is it always our fault? All of a sudden I can't watch on line movies. I was able to, now I can't. What I can watch is a dark screen and that's pretty boring.

Last night I went to the on line Help Forum to hopefully, get some HELP. I soon discovered people all over the country are having this problem. And, how does the HELP.......help? By having people download things, change settings, read articles, update programs, all for naught. No one from Comcast thought to write......Hey, maybe it's us?

In the past I would go ahead and do all of these gyrations and manipulations to maybe get things working. I would be sure each new procedure would bring positive results. I was always wrong. So, now I am not going to unplug my modem. I am not going to crawl under the desk and look for a switch. I am not going to do anything at all. And, I'm not going to worry about this.

If I can't watch movies on the computer......I'll watch them on the television. All of these extra things we get with a cable subscription are nice, but, only if they work.

Jill the cat is again licking my left hand as I try to type. Yesterday Karen, one of our good friends.....like what other kind of a friend would we have, a bad friend? Or, maybe an OK friend ? I just remembered Facebook actually has various categories for friends. I don't. Karen left a comment that maybe Jill needs more sodium in her diet. She wrote it tongue in cheek, which is what I wish the cat would do. So, you need to take the comment with a grain of salt. Get it? salt.....sodium, ha ha ha ha ha.

Karen.....remember, this is the cat that eats toilet paper.

By the way, Jill and Casper are starting to show their age. Jill, is around 15 and Casper is 16 or 17. We picked up some canned food the other day thinking they would enjoy it. I guess a cat is never too old to turn up it's nose?

Look.....it's not fun and it's not funny but occasionally I need to scream, can you hear me?

Parents set their kids up for disappointment.

Jimmy Kimmel, a late night TV show host asked parents to give their kid an early Christmas present but make it something lousy, or as he said, something the kid wouldn't like. Record them opening it and upload it to a site he listed. I watched two of these so I would know of what I speak. One child opened an almost empty bottle of juice another a semi rotten black banana.

We see many commercials for "blazing fast" speed on our smart phones. Lot's of commercials show some kind of embarrassing situation a friend or family member uploaded to a social site like Facebook.

I guess it's socially acceptable to embarrass friends and torment your kids now. As long as you share it with the world.

A duck hunter in Utah is recovering from minor wounds he suffered when he was shot in the buttocks by his partner's dog over the weekend.

The 46-year-old man was out hunting with a friend and his friend's dog, a yellow Labrador retriever. The two hunting partners had stopped their boat in a marsh area where their duck decoys were placed to retrieve a duck they had shot, and the man laid his 12-gauge shotgun across the bow of the vessel and stepped into the shallow water.

The dog jumped into the boat was stepping over the shotgun and made it discharge somehow.

The stricken hunter was taken to a local hospital, where medical personnel removed 27 shotgun pellets from his backside. He was released a short time later.

I think the dog was probably fed up with all the jumping in the water, swimming, fetching etc. and saw his chance. In the past I've said I think duck hunters have an unfair advantage and should only be allowed to hunt with a sling shot, while naked. Maybe if more dogs start shooting them in the ass they'll leave the ducks alone?

I also need to add that another sports fan was beaten and hospitalized. A New York Jets fan was (according to the article) jumped by seven people after the Jets K.C. game in New Jersey. His sister said, "He's hanging in there." after the first surgery to repair a fractured jaw, cheekbone and other facial fractures.

Maybe all those cameras people use to embarrass their friends will do some good here.