Blog Number 264

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I am a little tired this morning as I did not get home until around midnight.  The men of our ABF had a Texas Hold 'Em party last night.  I was the 5th one out of the game (out of 8 of us).  With my stack dwindling, I went all in pre-flop with and Ace-Seven and wound up loosing my 113 chips to a low pair.  Such is poker.  The losers could then go try their hand at Wii bowling (which I fared much better at with a 194).  All in all, it was a great time (even though some 12 year old won the poker game).

OK, now on to some griping / ranting.  One thing that I have never liked is when a family pet is called by the family last name.  Veterinarian office's are very fond of doing this.  I can understand the need.  When the attendant comes into the waiting room and yells out the patient name "Fido" there is likely more than one patient with that name hence "Fido McAllister" narrows it down quite a bit.  This reason does not make me like it any more.  I have not gone to the vet with Gabbi (our lab/spaniel) so you may wonder why I am even thinking about this.  Well, I am glad you asked...

You can't quite make it out but this pill bottle says Gabbi Dieterman in the patient space (she was recently spayed).  Listen, I married my wife and she became a Dieterman.  My son first and then my daughter were a product of two Dietermans and as such qualify to wear the moniker of Dieterman.  Gabbi, well she looked cute for 5 minutes at just the right time when the kids were trying to pick which puppy to pick from the litter and then she has really done nothing but eat, process waste, and destroy anything left in the back yard (including a badminton net).  She has not earned or inherited the privilege of being called a Dieterman.  Honestly I don't think she cares but the wife will call her Gabbi Dieterman at times and I never fail to correct her that (like Madonna) she only has one name.  For a dog that is sufficient.  The canine brain only has so much space for data and allocating space for a second name means removal of the data currently occupying that spot.  This could have bad results if that space is being held by some binary code that helps said dog remember where (and where not to) pee.  So I think everyone can now agree with me that dogs only get one name and ours is called simply Gabbi.  If you will excuse me I need to get some white-out and fix the misprint on Gabbi's pill bottle.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon