Argument, translated from dogspeak

Nacho: Lick my wiener.
Beemer: I don't want to.
Nacho: Do it!
Beemer: No!

Random thoughts

1. So much for watching this week's episode of "The Office." There is a bad storm moving into DFW, so the weathermen on ALL of the local networks have pre-empted regular programming. The commercial free, self-validating marathon of the storm's progress is complete with 4-D computer graphics showing lightning strikes as they happen. If you look closely, you can see little erections just south of Dallas county.

2. I went to a neighborhood meeting last week and realized I am out of sync with my neighborhood. People were up in arms about a proposed homeless assistance center 2 miles from my house and about a rash of daytime burglaries. The vast majority of my neighbors either want to hire off-duty police officers to patrol the area or install citizen-monitored security cameras. I am opposed to both options.

3. Speaking of the proposed homeless assistance center, I’m not really clear on what it is, except that it would be located where the decommissioned armory is, which is across a highway from my neighborhood and close to the DART rail station. The location makes sense to me since the assisted homeless would be able to get around and find jobs and eventually (hopefully) not be homeless. I am clear, however, that my city council representative is an idiot, since he was shocked to learn that a U.S. military installation is a federal facility.

4. Nacho is doing fine. His six weeks of post-heartworm treatment indoor confinement ended today. He only peed in the house once, and that was just a little bit.