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 ::dondon009::  ::ABOUT ME::  Name::dondon009 From::Tampa Bay, Florida, United States I love quiet walks on Clearwater Beach with my PUGS, Daisy and Muggs. I'm in love with the city of New Orleans and visit often! View my complete profile ::MY BLOGMASTERS:: ::THE JESTER::  In the history of mankind, though he risked his life, it was often the court jester who was allowed to speak the truth.
The role of the jester has been that of a sarcastic and cunning entertainer who used the guise of a fool because of the freedom it offered. His assumed innocence allowed him to speak his mind.
This freedom was often used to criticize the rules of society as well as the ruler himself. Thus, the jester could put a moral or satirical spin on most anything.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009One step forward, two steps back!yet you act like a child." GROW UP! I can't seem to get "back on track". Bringing me to Stephen.......  Stephen was one of the first persons to appear on my BLOGMASTER list. A brilliant young man living and working in New York, Steven is an artist, writer and editor. Soon after I began reading his blog, I commented on an entry he had published, and he blasted me. Steven believed that I had not fully understood the point that he was trying to make and that my comment was unjustified. Instead of re-reading the entry and trying to understand what he had written, I (Mr. Thin-Skin) stopped reading his blog. After several weeks of "feeling sorry for myself", I returned. This time, determined to read his every word and get to know this young man and his writing. What a concept! I now visit Stephen's blog on a regular basis, I read, I learn, I enjoy! This week, I received an invitation to attend a party in New York celebrating the release of Stephen's book, "Beyond Bougie", a collection of personal essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry on race, class and gender. I very much want to go to New York to meet Stephen and possibly get to meet Hikaru, a young playwright also writing and living in New York .... but this is at an inopportune time. I will of course look forward to purchasing this book, reading it, understanding it, loving it! As for the PUGS.....  I've been accused of spoiling them "to death"! Muggs enjoys his visits to the groomer but for the last two visits, has refused to allow them to clip his nails. Not a problem, I thought; we can have them cut during our next visit to the vet. Last weekend, I noticed that he was licking his left front paw and realized that his inner nail had grown under and into his paw. I took Monday off from work and to the vet we went..... Muggs showing no sign of discomfort, I on the other hand, "guilty"! The vet was able to easily clip and remove the nail and cut all the others; giving me antibiotics which Muggs has had to take all week. After which he put my baby on the scale. UUGH! "What are you feeding this dog?" he asked. Well, one-half cup of Science Diet dog food...... "good choice" he replied, to which I added "and one-half cup of rotiserrie chicken, and on weekends scrambled eggs and bacon or sausage." The vet was not amused. Beginning tomorrow, the dogs are on a diet And one more guilt trip.....  Walking to Starbucks this morning for my usual Sunday morning Venti Mocha Frappucino, I was stopped by a little old lady asking me for a cigarette. After informing her that I had only a few left and unable to give her one, she pulled out an old cigarette butt from her bag and asked for a light. I handed her my lighter, she lit the cigarette and I continued walking, past Starbucks and directly to the Smoke Shop where I purchased her a pack of cigarettes. I found her sitting at the bus station, handed her the pack of cigarettes, wished her a Happy Mother's Day and continued on to Starbucks. Someone will probably accuse me of trying to kill the little old lady with nicotine!  I am humbled 
Saturday, July 25, 2009 Three weeks from today, I'll finally be back in the city I love the most, New Orleans! Although life there as I knew it will never be the same, I'm hoping some of my friends have chosen to return and will be able to give me a better understanding and honest reactions to the terrible disaster called Hurricane Katrina and the effects of it's aftermath.Strangely, I'll be arriving at the beginning of the 2006 hurricane season which could potentially impact Florida as well as New Orleans again this year...... this is not something I want to think about although we are presently encouraged by state and local government to update our hurricane preparedness kits to include non-perishable foods, water, flashlights, batteries, radios, etc. It all has just become a fact of life but the disasters of the past year tend to make a person a bit more aware and concerned. Although I've booked my flight into New Orleans and guest house reservations have been made, I'm still not certain of my return flight to Florida. Scheduling conflicts and inadequate staffing continue to prevent me from determining how long I can be away from work, taking into consideration the fact that I will be travelling again in July. Life with the PUGLETS continues to be anything but boring.....  Muggs has fully recovered from the infection he had in his front paw after being on antibiotics for the past 7 days. Muggs is a charm when it comes to taking medication because he'll eat anything! I coated each pill with peanut butter just before giving them to him and down they went, unlike Daisy who ran from the kitchen each time she saw me take the peanut butter jar out of the cabinet. As for Muggs eating anything, soon after I adopted him I remember the day I arrived home from work and took them out to relieve themselves. After Muggs was finished, I looked down and noticed two shiny objects in his stool. My boy had eaten a nickle and a dime. I found this quite amusing until I realized the potential damage these coins could have caused. I scooped the poop but left the coins on the ground. The next day they were gone.... Some lucky fella found himself some cash! Speaking of the pugs.... I was awakened at 2:45 AM by this godawful noise coming from the living room and Muggs sleeping soundly on the pillow next to mine. I got up to find Daisy in the middle of the living room floor mad as all hell, holding one of Muggs' teddy bears in her mouth and slamming it from side to side on the floor until it was almost empty of stuffing. It appears that Daisy had left the bed in the middle of the night to find one of her toys and came back to see Muggs sleeping on her pillow. You just don't disrupt Daisy's life without expecting that there will be hell to pay; as Muggs soon found out. I picked Daisy up, carried her back to bed and onto her pillow. Muggs by this time had returned to his spot at the foot of the bed. The teddy will be repaired. Life as we know it, has returned to relative normalcy in Pugville! Looking for signs of intelligent life on the political scene......  Proving again that there's no success like failure, George W. Bush has once again topped himself when it comes to people saying he sucks. A new Harris poll shows the hated president can now claim "job approval" from just 29% of Americans. Only five months ago, Bush was polling in the low 40s. It's even worse when broken down by his administration's sundry and staggering failures, scandals and crimes. Only 13% -- apparently the last psychotic members of the collapsed and heartbroken Bush cult -- can pretend to approve of Bush's handling of the gasoline crisis. That's eating away at what's left of the "Republican base," along with a White House immigration policy that is probably the only rational policy in the Bush Administration's history, but one that utterly ignores working-class Republicans' intense fear of Mexicans. As for Iraq, even the most fanatical couch warriors have anything good to say about the prospects for anything beyond a long, bloody and humiliating defeat. Congress is more despised than even Bush and his royal court, probably because there are so many more people to hate in the House and Senate. The almost-daily indictments, convictions and whore-bribery scandals aren't helping, either. But the lame and criminally complicit Democratic Party shouldn't be celebrating. Their "leaders" are about as unpopular as Bush himself. According to yet another new poll, Hillary Clinton is in the best position -- with a pathetic 34% approval rating. The last two losers are much worse off, with Al Gore at 28% and John Kerry at 26%. What the hell are we gonna do?
Saturday, March 21, 2009Remembering JR on this sad anniversary.....from 3/21/2005 JR died today..... The call we all dread arrived in the form of an email. It was from Chris and simply said "call me, URGENT." I saw that Chris was on-line and sent an instant message. "what's up?" I asked. "Call me" Chris wrote. Meanwhile, I saw another instant message coming in from my godson Jay. I asked Chris if I should respond to Jay's IM first and he said NO, call me. I called Chris to find out that my big baby, my best friend (Chris's brother and Jay's father) had died earlier this evening as a result of an automobile accident. JR.....In dying, you are not alone. A part of me has died with you today. Original post 3/21/2005
Friday, September 28, 2007OUT WITH THE OLD ~ The relationship is over. After six wonderful years, it was "time to say goodbye". I have mixed emotions about letting the old girl go, but she's been steadily declining over the past year until finally last week, she crashed. KABOOM.......... the party's over! Now, the real fun begins as I look for a replacement. I'm looking in the direction of DELL.... but will investigate other options as well. In the meantime, I will continue to post but not as often as usual and I will, of course continue to visit my blogmasters!
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