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blogging instead of studying

This morning I wondered why this place doesn't have laundry-mats. They have dry-cleaners but no public places to do laundry. I think it would be a big hit, as long as the price was affordable for regular guys. Most students do their laundry by hand in the dorm and lots of other people do the same in their homes. Maybe I've hit a goldmine.

Dogs in this day and age like to be socialized. I'm not sure who first decided this but it's all over the internet dog sites. Your puppy needs to be socialized with humans and other dogs right away. Well, dogs are becoming more and more popular as pets here (and less popular to eat) but the socializing concept hasn't hit here yet. There's this one dog that I often see outside and Sukey always wants to "socialize" with him but he's so scared he just fidgets and shakes. His owner doesn't like it either because this morning after the appropriately polite amount of time of letting her dog have a panic attack they went home. Poor Sukey.

To our family who decided to move their pictures and posts to Blogger...I'm sorry to tell you that we have to find a new way to see Blogger. Obviously, I can still post but I can't actually see my site or anyone else's. So, we'll hope that our lovely access to Blogger will start working again or we'll find a new way...

Yeah, take that!

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