I seem to be a little testy.

Krl and I have been having a conversation. She tells me, "it is time". Then she nods at Prissy. I am having a real dilema with this because Prissy is suffering from nothing other than old age and its maladies. She is arthritic, sometimes senile, often sedate, but every once in a while, she will just floor you with a spurt of activity. When we go to get our morning meds, she stands nearby, ready for her Bufferin. Krl is also giving her Cranasure and some vitamins. You can watch her in the afternoons and it is evident when she is ready for her afternoon meds.

Don't get me wrong, I have made the hard decision numerous times before. I have carried animals into the veterinary office, some I have held as they went to sleep. I have even had to shoot a cow that had fallen off a bluff into a creek. (There was an undomesticated cat in the mix).

My big thing is that these other animals had problems. Broken back for the cow, kidney failure for some of the dogs, hemorrhaging for Prissy's sister last May, strokes for Prissy's dad.

Krl says that Prissy is not happy.

I can't see penalizing her for being old.

As you can see, we are split on this.

I saw on the Internet yesterday a story that the State of Washington has a death with dignity law going into effect this Thursday. An individual who is diagnosed to be terminally ill with a life expectancy of less than six months to live, can request a life ending prescription from their doctor.

They say that physicians may be more conflicted than their patients. And of course there is the Hippocratic oath. Do no harm.

Once again, I can understand pain and suffering, with no hope of relief.

I don't know the answers.

I know a man who has been put into a nursing home. Some days his mind works perfectly, but his body fails him. Other days his body is fine, but his mind is not. It just seems that he can't put it all together at the same time. I can only imagine his frustration.

I guess we are lucky we have the government and legislators protecting us from ourselves.

I had a brain fart yesterday. Fortunately, it was not fatal.

I was doing some things on my laptop when all the sudden it dawned on me that the W-2's and 1099's have to be mailed to the IRS and Social Security Administration today. We always print them and mail them out to the employees and contractors, but we wait to mail the government copies just in case someone discovers an error. So, it will just be loading the appropriate forms and pushing print. (By the way, we only had one contractor call and apparently their job manager cashed some checks instead of forwarding them to their office. They weren't happy, but couldn't argue with cancelled checks.)

My bad.

Well, I ran into another glitch with my four port hi-speed usb hub. My desktop can't locate a driver for it. I have been looking around the Belkin website but so far I haven't found one. I did see in feed back where if I can find the operating system software, I can go in an have it download drivers it normally restricts. But, that could be a can of worms I'm not qualified to do.

I watched NASCAR until Kyle Busch took the lead. That ruined it for me. I can't argue he is talented, I just don't like him. He had qualified on the pole, then Gibbs racing had to change engines in his car which required him to go to the rear of the field to start the race. So he came from dead last to lead and eventually win. It was at his home track in Las Vegas.

Well, I am done. All in, all done. Have a day!

FATHER, bless this day.