Buddy's Blog

Did you see the planets this morning? All in a line, looking southeast, from right to left, Saturn, Jupiter Mars, the moon and Venus. All very clear. Mercury was below the tree line, so I couldn’t see it. It was really spectacular.

As for my tune-up, I’m pretty sure I passed. The head psychologist asked me a bunch of questions. I did ok. Then I had to do a bunch of multiple choice questions, pages and pages of questions. Stuff like “Are you going to kill yourself tomorrow?” and “Can you read other peoples’ minds?” After that another gal had me shuffle around blocks and connect dots and stuff like that. I think I did good. The Birds! The Birds! urk! urk! urk!

In for my annual tune-up. Tomorrow I’ll tell you how it went.

In the meantime I have three stand-alones to finish off the week. From 2013:

You know, lately I’ve been posting on Facebook, even though I don’t think I like Zukerman much. But I’m there anyway. Mainly what I do is post the same strips that I post here. But I’m friends with a few of you. I get lots of friend requests, too many to deal with. I mean a couple thousand. If you would like to friend me, shoot me an email and put in a friend request. I’ll try to get it done. I’m not good at it.

Hello.

Here’s what else Frau G just downsized:

It’s got to0 be good and wholesome. Look at the ingredients:

I checked the best by date just to make sure it was still good to eat:

Looks mighty tasty! (Actually, when I opened the can, it reeked. I’ll bet Nosegirl eats stuff like this. If you didn’t know, Nosegirl lives in Tokyo.)

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads like U-No-Hoo. No matter how old they get, you still worry, don’t you? Loinfruit is 36. I have this on my refrigerator:He sent it last week.

I hate this luncheon invites, don’t you?

  Even though it’s Saturday, there are still three more days to this story.

Speaking of Frau G’s old newspapers, she also came across this issue from the Florida Flambeau, Florida State University’s student paper. It’s a summary of the 73-74 academic year. We were a highly respected and renowned educational institution when I was there.

My friend Wieckowicz and I were sitting on the lawn in front of the library when the blind guy streaked by us tapping his cane.

Yesterday I said that I’d mention something about Winston Churchill in Comments, and as I mentioned, Frau G has been downsizing lately (my toasters, remember?). Churchill passed away on January 24, 1965. Frau Grace (Not Frau Grace at that time, she was still a fraulein) happened to be in England. She saved a big tribute from the Manchester Evening News and Chronicle.

Now for some important stuff. This was the American replacement for yesterday’s strip about Quacko pooping in the yard:

This is the one I use mostly. It’s a Westinghouse (AC only):

I also have two of these in the box:

But my pride and joy  is a 1940’s Toast-0-lator. I’d show you a photo, but Frau G has it hidden someplace.

BTW, I just got a friend request on Facebook.

She’s self-employed and lives in Las Vegas.

This didn’t appear in US papers. I’ll post the replacement tomorrow.