… My wife and I just used our new dishwasher for the first time this week and I was commenting on how quiet it is. She wanted to know how to determine when it's done. "What does the manual say?" she asked. "Not much," I replied. "It just sits there on the counter." … Our dog was fixed this week. He was very happy when he was getting ready for the ride to the vet's. Life is like that. One day you think you are off for a joy ride and the next thing you know you are missing ... oh well. … An opera fan asked what I thought of Wagner’s "Siegfried". "Oh, I loved them," I replied. "But it’s too bad they had to give up the act after the tiger bit Roy." "No, No. I meant the Ring Cycle." "Wring, they don’t do that with clothes anymore. That’s so old fashioned.” “No, no, like with the Rhine maidens.” “What are they, girlfriends of the Rhinestone cowboy?”