Why do my psychic powers work on everything but Lotto numbers and point spreads?

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I began my first morning of 2008 with IMs to four very dear friends, old and newer.

Two of them spent their New Years Eve with crises surrounding their animal friends, one having to face the death of his dog several seconds before the ball dropped, the other facing a mondo emergency vet charge in order to revive her 16-year-old cat.

To one of these fine people, I replied, and I quote,:

it's a long tradition in this house to spend major holidays either in the ER, with a plumber in our cellar, or, on the best of occasions, both.

Right.

Not ten minutes later, I took a load of laundry downstairs, and discovered a pi-times-5-feet circle of black-oily goo surrounding the drain in front of the washer. This is the first sign of our primordial plumbing being in need of (if we're lucky) cleaning or (as we know will ultimately be needed) a complete replacement of the connection to the crumbling town mains.

Nice introduction, 2008. We're gonna get along just fine.

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mondo ER vet bill for 16 yr. cat

[(Anonymous)]

I'm Lisa, I have the 16 year old kitty (Suzie) and she's just fine this morning....???...Our theory - she was trying to get away from the dogs and had to resort to extreme measures.

Pet Problems

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I'm so sorry for the loss of the dog, and glad the cat is doing okay today. I am so familiar with humongous vet bills; I'm still paying off mine from over a year ago.

With a little luck I'll be able to access the Court documents from the recent case against the rescue group I got Izzie from and be able to ... er ... follow suit(pun intended). Hey, it worked with "that" store. (Ray knows which one).