TURBO

It's 9:15 a.m. and Earthdog Patrick is asleep at my feet on his afghan.

Anybody who lives with a Jack Russell Terrier knows what you're talking about if you mention TURBO mode. It doesn't take much to set them off--then it's ZOOM-ZOOM-ZOOM!

They scramble around at full speed, bouncing off the walls, leaping off the furniture--anything short of swinging from the chandeliers!

Patrick is no exception, and he is a creature of habit. When I let him in from being outside, he hauls ass into the Living Room, jumps up on the top of the back of the sofa, pauses a moment to survey his domain, then leaps over the coffee table, and scoots towards the dining room at full speed. At the edge of the living room carpet, he propels himself skyward so as not to touch the dining room wooden floor, landing elegantly on the carpet, like leaping over a chasm with a little river far below. Then he waits anxiously, tail wagging furiously, for me to follow him, so he can get a dog cookie from his jar in the kitchen. If I don't come right away, he scurries around me, to herd me on.

It's the exact same pattern every time. He never tires of this game. I think a lot of the times when he begs to go out, it's just so he can go Turbo when he comes back in and get his dog cookie. Which brings me to this "Matt Lauer", if that's really his name, goofball on TV. When I was in J-School they didn't teach us this stuff. I guess he's and entertainer, not a Journalist: Since when are these self righteous slobs supposed to DEBATE the people they interview??? But I digress. Tim Tebow's getting a hell of a lot of BIG PRESS in the Forida newspapers, and deservedly so. Whenever he's on the field , it's TURBO time! Hope the Gators heads don't get too big for this trip to Alabama.

Go Gators! Beat Auburn!

So, Ranger, have you checked out Fashion House? Poor Number Ten Bo Derek still can't act her way out of a wet paper bag, even after all these years and all these tries...And what's up with Kim Delaney or whichever Dana Delaney she is, on CSI Miami or Temple Terrace or whatever it is. She's just as hot as when she was on NYPD. She even overshadows the little North Carolina blonde babe(who needs a nose job, why won't they tell her.) Don't these babes ever age?

NEWS FLASH: JUST CONFIRMED I AM TWO DEGREES FROM RACHEL RAY!!!!! THAT GIVES ME A LOT MORE THREE DEGREES FAMOUS PEOPLE!

Tody's photo is one I found of some Leopards I found, for you cat lovers. Oh, and that's J-Lo with them.