When your Ferret goes to the dogs

Maybe Chloe is weird. But to this day, she's never eaten any of the ferret foods I see at Petsmart. And all those treat bags with the cartoon ferrets on the front, wearing a cowboy hat and a neckerchief (Bandit treats for your little bandit!), she's refused every one of them. Her foods of choice? Occasionally, blueberries and grape tomatoes, but Cat food for the most part. And sometimes dog biscuits. Only thing is, full size dog biscuits are difficult for her to break up. So, I was at Target one day and saw a new line of miniature dog biscuits. Actually, the smallest dog biscuits I've ever seen. And they work perfect for Chloe, as you can see in the photo above.

A fantastic new business idea: Rent-A-Rim

I never would have believed this one.

I went to visit my mom yesterday (I live in Wake Forest, North Carolina and she lives in Fayetteville, NC, about two hours away) and, after getting off the interstate, I decided to cut through a section of town to get to Toys-R-US. Wouldn't you know it, my car engine temperature shot up and I got to find out what its like to be sitting in 95 degree heat with a car that won't go. Fortunately, I was able to get it off the road (to be repaired sometime today, likely the clutch fan from what I'm told).

On the bright side, though, I was able to get this pic. Wow! For two hundred bucks a month, I can "rent" twenty inch rims. And for a bargain price of nearly 300 dollars month, I can "rent" 22's.

Really, what kind of idiot does something like that? Apparently, enough to keep these guys in business.

So far, I have resisted the entire "rim" thing. I did put new rims on my jeep grand cherokee, but I only spent about 400 and they actually look pretty good (they're the "drifters"). And on my WS6 Trans Am (2002 model, with 325 HP and only 7000 miles on the car, still smelling new and only coming out of its protective cocoon once a week, if that often, and never never never being driven in the rain), I have decided to forego buying the "torque thrust II's in favor of staying with the stock rims.

Do they get extra credit for hosing down the deep fryer?

I've seen this phenomenon elsewhere: a fastfood restaurant getting more than a hundred percent health department rating.

Ok, even if I was on acid and the possibility seemed to real to me that a burger joint could get a perfect score...even then it wouldn't seem likely that they could get more than a hundred.

BTW, this snap was taken at a Hardees drivethrough. As far as fastfood burgers are concerned, this chain makes the best. I try to stay away from red meat these days (carcinogens, inflammation, all that), but every once in a while I hear the hamburger sirens calling to me and like the friends of Odysseus, I find myself heading toward the rocks.