Crates make me cringe. The damned things became especially popular during the Covid outbreak -- you know, that Chinese lab thingie. People forced to work at home bought pets, and then when they returned to their offices months later their Best Friends were often stuffed into crates, carriers or cages and left to their own devices (of which there were few to none). Few thoughts make me as claustrophobic as the mental image of an animal trapped in a human-manufactured device too hideous even to hold humans.
Did Rover, Spot or Fido Hackman die of dehydration, as initially suspected? A terrible, slow way to die, hardly fit for a dog or any creature confined by the hands of a person.
Yes, I know crates are necessary in a variety of circumstances, but I wish they weren't -- and certainly not in an instance where strange things happened to the Hackmans who couldn't come to the rescue. We don't know, but I suspect, that the unfortunate canine received the worst of the deal in that house. Damn crates, damn them all.
So to lighten things up I'll take this brief opportunity to include a photo of cats in a friendly pose, though for all I know they both died in a crate and their bodies were staged for this picture. Arghhh! There I go again. . .
Justin Trudeau's Revival: Ooooh, lookin' good again now that mean old Trump threw up tariffs after first referring to this fool as governor of our 51rst state. Canadians, please! You were ready to bounce this fool out of your government forever -- don;t sacrifice the opportunity because you hate Trump. Everybody hates Trump. So what? If Canadians keep this jerk around, it can only be because they enjoy him in blackface (hmm, I wonder if he saw Blacula?).
Dead computers rarely return: My main computer remains lifeless and will be fed to scrap metal-eating vultures as I continue my quest to find a crummy used device that only I can appreciate. My formerly new PC lasted 10 years, assassinated by winter cold, winds and multiple power failures. Sorry modern times, but it's going to be another Windows 7 Pro or nothing at all. I don't plan to live long enough to pay those licensing fees which came about later, originated as far as I can tell simply because they added higher numbers after "7." Nevertheless, artificial super intelligence will kill us all anyway, so what does it matter?
