Thanks to Dan for reminding me that it's Wally Wednesday! Wally's hot spot is now healing and he's been leaving it alone, so he's cone free. I felt bad for him with that satellite dish around his neck, and a friend told me about a new, inflatable "cone" that goes around their neck and gives them more range of motion to eat and such, but still limits them getting their head around to chew on their body. As you can see, it looks like a life preserver:

Good idea, but it doesn't work. Not only could he still manage to get at his hot spot, but he could easily remove it. He would at least wait until I left the room, so that when I returned, I would often find him naked. The dog's regular collar gets looped inside the inflatable collar and it meant to help keep the collar on. I tried to outsmart Wally by tightening the interior collar up. It stayed on and on. Then he asked to go out and I opened the door so he could hang out in front for awhile. When he came back through the door - naked! I went out front in my garden and found his inflatable collar wedged in a space between the condo's foundation and the ground. He had shoved his head in until the collar became wedged, and then pulled as hard as he could until he got free. And people say Labs aren't the smartest dogs!

Diane posted earlier in the week about how she recently went through her CD collection to find something, only to come across some discs that made her wonder what the hell she'd been thinking when she bought them. I thought it might be interesting to take a gander at my own collection, and here are some of the things that I found in my record collection. First, let's start with the compilation records:

I didn't know where I'd gotten this until I saw my friend Robert's name written on the back. It's an actual K-TEL album. I'm not sure what compelled me to borrow it and then not return it. It features "Let My Love Open The Door" by Pete Townshend along with "The Tide is High" by Blondie. Then again, it also contains "Hot Rod Hearts" by Robbie Dupree and "Who'll Be The Fool Tonight" by the Larsen-Feiten Band (who???).



I'm pretty sure I lifted this off one of my sisters. If you look at the full size photo, you can see it actually includes some decent music. '83 was a very good year - see Adam Ant, The Police, Pat Benetar, The Thompson Twins and Bryan Adams among others. Still, I'm perplexed as to why I would want this when I have most of the albums by said bands.

Now for the Do I Really Have These In My Collection? records:

Yes, he was super charming in Moonlighting, but I actually paid for this record because I liked the song "Respect Yourself" THAT much.




This is possibly one of the most embarrassing records in my collection. First off, I didn't buy it. I can see from the smudged stamp on the front of it that I lifted it from a radio station I worked for. Which means that at the time, I was willing to lay my job on the line for a used copy of this so I could...listen to "Wake Me Up Before Yoo Go Go" over and over again? Keep in mind, I didn't work at that station until 1990.

And then there's this. Sure I was a huge Huey Lewis fan, but did I HAVE to have the two sided picture disc of Sports. You bet I did!














Finally, from the geeky but sort of cool that I still have this category, a narrated record of The Hobbit including full sound effects and soundtrack from 1977:


Since I mentioned it earlier, I might as well use it as the song of the day. "Let My Love Open The Door" by Pete Townshend off his 1980 album Empty Glass. I've never been much of a Who fan, and am one of those unusual people who prefers Townshend to Roger Daltrey. There are several Townshend songs I'm fond of, but this is the most memorable.