Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks or it will digest itself.

Everybody has to pull their weight around here.

It's just shy of 10:00, which means it's just shy of my bedtime. So I hope you weren't holding out for a lengthy post.
Tonight was our elder meeting, which is why I'm only now typing this. I just got home.
I enjoy our elder meetings. I am blessed with a very competent and qualified group of colleagues and we work easily together, even on tough things. Some good stuff on the horizon. Watch this space for an announcement in the near future!

We didn't stay up to watch, but I was happy to hear that Stumpy, a Sussex Spaniel, won the Westminster Dog Show's Best of Show. I'd never seen a Sussex Spaniel before and they're cool looking. But what I liked is that Stumpy is 10 years old, the oldest dog by two years to win the top award. That's 70 in dog years!

Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball is "heartsick" over the A-Rod revelations.
Right.
Because there's no way the owners or the commissioner could have known that baseball's stars were using illegal performance enhancing drugs. Managers didn't know, coaches didn't know, trainers didn't know...nobody except the players knew. That's because it was never talked about in locker rooms. Soaring stats were due to global warming and players putting on 20 pounds of lean muscle happened because of the fresh green salad they served in the players' lounge.

A winter storm moved through last weekend and in today's clear air we could see snow on the tops of the mountains just north of our house. Very pretty.

I worked on gathering all our tax info this morning and filling out the 12-page form our tax guy uses. I dislike that task, but the worst part is that it serves as a harbinger of bad things to come. I dread the news he'll give us in a couple of weeks.

I thought I had someone interested in buying the motorcycle but he seems to have dropped out of the discussion. Bummer.
Want a really nice BMW bike? Goes fast! And when people see it in their rear view mirror they pull over to let it pass.

Maybe you caught the news story from a few days ago about the hotel in Beijing that burned down. The cause of the fire was illegal fireworks that set off the blaze. They just celebrated Chinese New Year - the beginning of the Year of the Ox - and the celebration involves lots of lanterns and fireworks.

Here's a link to some cool pictures of the celebration with a couple of photos at the end of the hotel fire.

Lantern Festival

This is all I have tonight. I've got to get some sleep. Lots on tomorrow's to-do list.
G'night.