i’m not running a puppy mill but my blue heeler had a litter of pups. shouldnt be a problem. half the pups i have are spoken for.  they will go to good homes. i will keep a few of them. the humane society will spay the mother dogs.  and konugish. i dont know how he will look at me after that.  i did want to keep his blood line going. he is a special dog. he goes everywhere with me. he understands the commands i give him in potawatomi.  i will keep him as long as he wants to stay here.

i went for my scheduled doctors appointment today. i had to have lab tests done. i go to these appointments and labs just as a precautionary measure. i have arthritis which i deal with. havent had pain in along time. i had ived with pain for years. i found that i dont have any other health problems. today the doc told me i might live along time. its in my dna. my ancestors all lived alot of years, so my chances are good that i may also. so one more thing on my bucket list might be crossed off. i want to live long enough to be a crabby old man. just might happen.

i didnt have any problem like what some people talk about at the clinic. i showed up a little early. checked in. waited for my turn. i was taken care of.  i was out of there. no problemo. i have found that if you treat people with respect they in turn will treat you with respect. it was the same when i worked inside prisons. i treated the bros with respect, they treated me with respect. same as on the street. i wonder sometimes if some people get that or not.

recently i was reminded of a guy i worked with years ago out west. he didnt have many friends. he invited me to his place once. he showed me his book collection. it was a set called the great books or something. he said i have everybody–plato, socrates, all of the great authors. i asked him how many he read. he said none so far. i kinda wondered if the books were merely to impress others. but the dude didnt have many friends. so i dont know who they were to suppose to impress. thing is in ways i met other people like him since then. their trip wasnt literature though. they used other things.

the deadline to pay for our trip to peru is coming up at the end of the month. aint no thing. it is all paid for. definitely going. today when i had to schedule another doctor appointment in three months, i was asked if april 25th was okay. i said i hate to sound like a snob but i cant i will be in peru at that time. damn….i waited a lifetime to be able to say that.