The syringe is loaded.

Someone ate a stick of butter.  It wasn't me.  The empty butter dish was found lying on the kitchen floor... licked clean.  I checked both dogs for butter breath... no luck, only the lingering scent of Gravy Bones biscuits.  Unsolvable?  Most likely.  Neither is about to point the paw at the guilty party.  Good thing I have 2 other sticks in the fridge, otherwise I'd be in a butter free zone.
I did sleep late this morning.  I turned off the 0500 alarm as it started buzzing on the dresser.  There was no need to get up for work.  Sleeping in is good, I told myself.  I'm still in the recovery stage.  A bit about sore throats, bacterial vs viral.  Let's use Strep throat as an example.  With Strep, you are contagious for quite some time after symptoms show up which is why you want to have it treated with antibiotics as soon as possible.  Strep is considered a very contagious bacterial infection.  A viral infection, like what I had, is usually only contagious during the incubation period, they are sneaky that way.  The average person will recover from both Strep throat and a viral sore throat on their own, Strep taking usually 3-5 days.  Within 24 hours after taking an antibiotic the contagion level of a person with Strep drops drastically, to almost zero which is why it needs to be medicated as soon as possible.  The co-worker who shows up with Strep is a volcano of infection, where as someone like me?  I was just a nuisance because of my whining and complaining...
In 4 days the Democrats take control of the House.  From what I've been reading, the Idiot Jerk is totally unprepared.  What's so surprising about that?  Not much.  He's always been more of a wanna be pseudo-business man then anything else.  He points fingers and blames, cites statistics no one can verify.  Democrats are responsible for 2 children dying because they didn't give him what he wants, a wall.  He is a fat, ugly man with the maturity level of a twelve year old.  He epitomizes the Republican thought process using his Twitter account to supplicate his base.  The Idiot Jerk doesn't understand that Pelosi is going to say "we are not going to give you what you want just to satisfy the 31% of Americans who kiss you ass."  Well, she may not exactly use those words.  However, that is what he's doing, giving a minority group of racists what they want.  The fact that those swing states which helped him get is electoral victory have swung back to favoring Democrats is beyond his comprehension.  He is a lot like a bacterial infection, contagious until the antibiotic hits.  His brain is way to self-centered to even consider what's going to happen in 4 days.  Prepare yourselves.  Nancy Pelosi is going to be a double shot of penicillin in his ass and his disease will start exploding out of every single orifice.  It will be ugly.
 

Floppy Eared Dogs

Well, today is my... I guess you might want to say Friday, since I'm off tomorrow.  Of course I do get to work the next day, New Year's Eve (like I go to bed around 9:30 PM anyway), but then I have 3 days off in a row, which is the equivalent of a long weekend for a lot of you.
The HR position I did for almost 5 years opened at my store.  I did not apply, though a number of people did, two from the Flooring Department.  Neither got it.  One of them didn't want the job, the other, whom I'll call #2 did.  #2 is an older person who embellishes his work history.  He is a older and desperately trying to be important.  When I told this #2 they had announced the name of the applicant who got the job he said "(the store manager) had told him 'you were our best applicant until (so and so) threw her hat in the ring at the last minute.'"  Well, that's a lie.  #2 wasn't even in consideration... I know (ha ha) because, even though I am no longer a confidential person, people still confide in me.  There is going to be another supervisory position opening up in about 2-3 weeks and #2 thinks he's got a great shot at it.  He doesn't.  I do know who will get promoted.  Since I don't like #2 I would sincerely like to tell him he's going to crash and burn.  But I'm a nice guy, you know?  And I don't even need to tell management #2 is shit, they already know.
I saw where the TSA is going to change the breed of dogs they use from German Shepherds to a dog with 'floppy ears.'  Floppy eared dogs are less scary and come across as being much less aggressive.  This is true, I know, I have floppy eared dogs.

I don't know how other doctors work, but with the VA I always receive in the mail detailed information and diagnosis after every visit.  Yesterday I received the print out from my last visit, for my 'viral infection.'  The diagnosis:  Acute Viral Pharyngitis.  For those counting, this is day 12.  Just think, if it had been Strep they could have given me an antibiotic and everything would be cleared up by now.