TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
The Journey started a little over two years ago
Morning Bench-markers and Testers,
Ken-Dogger: Petie, what are you doing?
Petie: You’re goin’, I’m goin’ too…
KD: My golf is cutting into our time isn’t it?
P: Ya think? So, I’m joinin’…
KD: Can’t Petie, we’re just adjusting times now, I’m playing the Champ Course today.
P: You ready?
KD: It will be fun, it’s just a benchmark.
P: What grade you think you’ll get.
KD: That’s the cool part, now I just do Pass/Fail.
SEEING SMILES AND SMILING EYES
Ken-Dogger: Morning Yeller, you’re looking excited.
Yeller: Dude, the anticipation…
KD: Oh, you mean the season…
Y: Yes Bro, the season of joy and giving, and children laughing.
KD: Children do get a kick out of this time of year, it’s nice to see smiles
Y: But you can’t see smiles this year, masks you know?
KD: You can’t see those smiling eyes?
Y: Yep, there ain’t no way to hide those smiling eyes…
Morning Peeps,
THIS CHRISTMAS, I GAVE YOU...WHOA, NELLIE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Nellie, what you up to this morning?
Nellie: I'm singing, "Deck the Halls with Balls of Holly..."
KD: WHAT?
N: "Deck the Halls with Balls of Holly..."
KD: Hey girl, I think it's Boughs of Holly...
N: I thought so too, but then ya just don't know what these songs say or mean anymore...
KD: I hear that, go ahead sing on...
N: Okay, don we now our gay apparel...
KD: Nellie, you sure can pick 'em...
KEEPING A TENUOUS HOLD ON REALITY
Ken-Dogger: Morning Dixiee, how you doing this fine morning? What's that concerned look on your face.
Dixiee: You seein' what I'm seein'?
KD: What's that Baby Girl?
D: Those dogs there on the cookie sheet, they weren't....
KD: Hold it right there BG, you think Daddy would bake your buddies?
D: Wasn't sure, sometimes reality is tenuous.
KD: Dix, they're just Christmas cookies, here, have one.
D: I'll pass, homies ya know...
THE MEANING OF THE SEASON
Ken-Dogger: Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, WTH?
Nellie: Don't ask, just don't ask...
KD: But hey girl, what the hey
N: I know, I know, there's just so much controversy now over Christmas, thought I'd eliminate some...
KD: Nellie, that's the trouble, everyone wants to eliminate everybody else's stuff...
N: Seems like peeps need to stop doing God's job and start doing God's work...
KD: There, that's the meaning of the season...
GET TO THE SUBSTANCE
Ken-Dogger: Hey Guys, already tussling today?
Chewy: He called me Red.
Bacca: Well, he called me Blue.
KD: Sheesh, you guys too…Stop the name calling, you’re more than that.
Chewy: Wha…
KD: You guys have more to offer than just labels, can’t you see that?
Bacca: Dude, I only see things in red and blue.
Chewy: Me too…
KD: Then we’ve got some learning to do, you’re missing the spectrum and the growth.
Ken-Dogger: Hey Dak…
Dak: Dogger, what is going on with the economy?
KD: Really? You’re concerned about that?
D: Dude, my stocks…But really, inflation up yet we’ve lessened the deficit by 17% from just last year.
KD: We’re in strange times, we haven’t done a pandemic before…
D: Well, we better start figuring it out.
KD: Who you kidding, we don’t figure anything out anymore, we just pass stuff along.
D: We’re getting to the point where pass-alongs don’t have pass-along catchers.
JUST WHO IS IT ALL ABOUT, ALFIE?
Ken-Dogger: Whoa, Nellie where you headed?
Nellie: Supreme Court Bro, everyone’s headed there…
KD: Everyone?
N: Well, okay…But I’m seeking redress.
KD: And for what?
N: I don’t make enough purchasing decisions, I’m inserting myself into the process.
KD: Is there a problem with purchases?
N: No, I just like being in the middle of stuff…
KD: So, it’s all about you…
N: Um, hello, duh…Go Nellie…
BE PUPPY CUTE, IT WORKS
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bucho, you better be careful under the tree.
Bucho: I got this...The Mikster's cool about this.
KD: Really, you got that on high confidence?
B: Yep, listen here's the deal...I'm cute, no wait, I'm more than cute, I'm puppy cute
KD: ...AND, you think that wins the day?
B: Hopin' so...and just in case, I've got ribbons and bows on, you can't go wrong with ribbons and bows...
NAMES HAVE MEANING
Ken-Dogger: Hey there UPS, what’s wrong, you’ve got that look?
UPS: What look?
KD: Well, like you’ve done something bad…
U: Moi…oh no, just chillin’ here, by the way, why do you call me UPS?
KD: You’re brown and UPS is brown so it fit, also I figured if I called you that, I could just say U and you’d come, I could say U P and I’d be taken to the accident site, and if you heard U P S, you’d know I found it…
U: Oh…good to know
REMEMBER WHO IS NECK
Morning Heads and Necks,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Brin
Brin: Hey Dogger, I’m just wakin’ up, but a question…
KD: Don’t you want to finish waking up first?
B: Naw, done it before, it’s muscle memory now…How do I get to be a Head?
KD: Wha…
B: You know, head of the household, I want that role?
KD: Whoa, means you’re takin’ a mate, and starting a family.
B: Got it, I want to be the Head, the decider.
KD: Just remember, you might be the Head, but the woman is the NECK.
IN SUPPORT OF MORE MUTTS
Morning Mixed Breeds,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Django
Django: Morning Dogger, how did I get like this?
KD: What is this?
D: Well, kinda hard to say, but I’m mixed.
KD: Oh, you mean you’re not a purebred.
D: Yep, guess my dad was a rover…but it has taught me acceptance.
KD: No kidding, more accepting, maybe we need more mutts in the world.
D: Bro, there isn’t enough time…
KD: Django, let’s just use the time we have.
LET ME PLUMP, LET ME PLUMP, LET ME
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bella…
Bella: Yo Bro, tis the Season…
KD: Yes, it is getting to be that, what are you most excited about?
B: All of it Bro, it’s just filled with activity…Truth be told, It’s the Christmas baking I love.
KD: Whoa, can’t tell that.
B: What do you mean? Oh, the poundage…Yes, haven’t missed meals lately.
KD: Should be an interesting year, peeps going into the Plumping Season already pandemically plump.
B: Plump this, pass the cookies…
FOR THE BANNERS
Morning Structured Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey BG
BG: Dude, morning, what’s a schema?
KD: A what?
BG: a schema, not a scheme, a schema
KD: Oh, well it’s a framework for storing your info.
BG: So, it’s a classification method?
KD: Yes, something like that…it helps you make sense of your world.
BG: See, therefore I don’t worry about banning books.
KD: Why’s that?
BG: Dude, they’re focused on content, not structure…They can never ban all the content.
DON'T MISBEHAVE INTO COOLNESS
Ken-Dogger: Okay, thanks guys...oops, he did it again.
Petie: Did what?
KD: Bowser had his eyes closed again...
Petie: C/mon Bowser, every freakin' year dude, every freakin' year
Bowser: Can I help it if I have a blink response when photo'd?
KD: Maybe shades next time Petie...
Petie: Well then, it's gonna be shades for all, Bowser is NOT misbehaving into COOL
WORK TO DO
Ken-Dogger: Morning Roscoe
Roscoe: Dogger, I was thInkin’ of younger days when living for my life was everything a dog could do…
KD: That’s changed?
R: Well, I was never told about the sorrow…
KD: Some days you get sorrow, some days you get joy
R: How will I know which one I’m getting?
KD: Here’s a hint, most days you get to choose it, you can direct it…
R: So it’s my work to find the joy?
KD: Bro, each of us has work to do…Internally and Externally
R: Let’s get to it.
WRAPPED
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Frisco…
Frisco: Hey Dogger, I was listening to my Spotify Wrapped playlist.
KD: Oh, you have a playlist?
F: Yep, I call is Pup-tunes for Peptides
KD: My, my, you’re into peptides…
F: Well, you know I stretch before walking, I also build my amino chains for my skin.
KD: But you’re so young, why you worried about your skin?
F: Bro, health routines start early, get them down and it’s easy sailing.
KD: Good to know, Frisco, good to know…
TIS THE SEASON
Morning Gratitudinous Celebrators,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Nikita
Nikita: Hey Bro, you remember when Mikster was talking about gratitude the other day?
KD: I sure do, being thankful…great message, why do you ask?
N: Well, it just seems this ought to be the time of year when we see a lot of it.
KD: You’re not seeing a lot of gratitude?
N: Not yet…
KD: Well, guess that’s something we all need to work on…
N: Tis’ the Season…
B IN MOMENT
Ken-Dogger: What up Gertrude
Gertrude: Hey Man, I was just thinking of Christmases past…
KD: They are special aren’t they?
G: Yep, family getting together, exchanging gifts, and just being blessed.
KD: It’s gonna be a little different this year.
G: IKR, peeps gotta be cool about gatherings, probably some sadness.
KD: You know, we often want what we think we miss instead of being in the moment we have.
G: And we’re gonna make more special moments.
KD: Yes, yes we are…
CUTENESS...IT DOES A BODY GOOD
Ken-Dogger: Hey Pascal, we gotta talk
Pascal: What up bro?
KD: You saw me working in the yard yesterday, you didn’t help a lick…
P: Love your observational skills dude
KD: Well, things are gonna change or heads will roll
P: Really, you never heard of cuteness
KD: Cuteness?
P: Yep, It’s a pup’s ‘get out of jail(work) free’ card, and it works
KD: Yes, yes it does little buddy.
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017