Abigail was adopted as a foster dog, so her provenance is unknown... She looks like a Shih Tzu mix, but there could just as easily be some Cavalier King Charles in there, for all we know.

The difference was quite striking, she was calm, but alert, and totally loving on her "mom."

Post Toasties: the Mass. RMV let's you order a duplicate title online for $25. I paid off the Forester 7 years ago and remember getting the original title in the mail, but damned if I know where it's got to.

Getting a duplicate may be the easiest part of the whole car aquisition process. There's still the shopping and the getting of a Loan. Lyft has changed the terms of the rental, so it's costing me like $40-$50 a week, plus I'm​ paying insurance on my own car. If I get a $10K or less car, it could actually cost me less money, so...

Now if I can just find one from 2010+, with all wheel drive and manual transmission. Is that so much to ask?

Ok, people breeding Cavalier King Charles Spaniels so that their brains are too big for their skulls, that is evil on a par with IRS scam calls and the Republican President. I mean, I'll give a pass for the first couple times it happened, because yeah, you don't know what'll happen until you try. But once the link is known, breeding for anything other than mitigating that, is evil. Fuck the show judges who skew competition results toward extremes.

Good luck with car shopping.

Gud's daughter graduating high school? Does not compute.

We got 10 offers for our house, some above asking price. And, guys, people wrote LETTERS and included pictures of themselves with their babies or dogs. We were not expecting to have to read through letters. Luckily, the buyers were all equally good folks, so we did not have to discard any of them and that left a level playing field.

At the meeting with the realtors, since all things were even in terms of buyers personalities, we picked the person offering most money and said, "Okay, this one." They looked at us and said, "Um, no, now we ask them to counter-offer." So, that's what's happening the rest of the week. BIDDING WAR.

Wow, Scrappy! That's great!

We were just hoping to get one offer, you know? So this is kind of overwhelming. But in a good way.

That's fantastic!

That's great! And crazy. I remember Betsy HP having to write letters on offers way back when.

My seller didn't even show up at closing. Never met him (slumlord.) It was me, realtor & title lawyer. And I got it for less than asking, especially after the repair work I requested. Markets so different.

I came out of GotG hopped up on happiness and adrenaline, and I put one of my favorite CDs into my new CD player in the car. My new sound system is nice. It was very hard to drive slow.

I wrote a couple of letters when I was buying a couple of years ago and apparently my letter on this townhome is what put my bid over the others she had. It wasn't about the money because she was willing to lower the price if the appraisal came in lower than my offer.