I have this thing with Pizazz Mini Fruit Slices from Cavalier Candies Ltd, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 (Product of Canada, obviously). Yesterday I received a 24 oz. package of these delicious candies. I ate most of them yesterday and finished them off this morning (no, I did not eat them for breakfast, but it was close).

Then this afternoon I put together a new playlist on iTunes containing some of the songs I like best. It a couple hours, but I’m fairly satisfied with the results. There is a lot of old (and not so old) stuff, like: Aker Bilk, The Beach Boys, The Beatles (of course), Billie Holiday (no relation), Dave Edmunds, Duke Ellington, Elvis Presley, Etta James, Lionel Hampton, Marty Robbins, Pete Seeger, Roy Orbison, The Sons of the Pioneers, and Vic Damone. There’s some new stuff, like: Scotty McCreery, Lyle Lovett (he’s a bit old to be new), James Blunt, and Diego Garcia. Then there’s the Spanish language stuff, like: Conjunto Primavera, El Tigrillo Palma, Gipsy Kings, and Mocedades. I am working on learning the language. Luckily, I found out I’m learning Castilian Spanish now, which will help with the last two. Once that’s out of the way, I’ll have to go back and learn Latin American Spanish, which will help with the last two and others.

I am working on Hercules III, but it’s slow going. Some days, like today, I’ll do everything I can not to work on the latest chapter. It’s the everyday challenge of dealing with the depression. Oh, that I could have a sunny day more than once in a while.

Oh, by the way, my son bought a puppy in January. Last Sunday was his 6 month birthday. He weighed in at 65 pounds. He’s a German Shepherd dog (for some reason you have to specify that it’s a dog and not just a shepherd). Interestingly, his mother was impregnated in Germany and flown here to give birth to four bundles of joy and weirdness. My son named him “Rambo”. Since he will be neutered we didn’t have to go through the AKC registry and name him Lorenz von Waldberg. If it had worked out, I chose the name Lorenz after Lorenz Hart (of Rogers and Hart fame). The kennel deals almost exclusively with Shützhund dogs, but Rambo won’t be doing that either. He’s a skittish with vehicles driving by and he doesn’t do well in crowds. Some days, he just doesn’t like women, period.

I get to buy my dog sometime next year. She’ll end up being spayed (no puppies for us). We simply don’t have the room for two BIG dogs and a bunch of puppies.