Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 13, 2016

Hi Bev! Are we the only ones up? Everyone must be at a party!!!The car is packed, Kat and I are exhausted, it’s going to be 94 tomorrow, and we better sell a load of stuff!

That’s not thinking or sleeping. It’s the eight month of election coverage.

I’ve heard of a thinking cap but never a thinking bib.

I was thinking drooling was the reason Jeffrey chose a thinking bib instead of a cap.

He knows just how …um… trance-like he can get sometimes.Why, just yesterday he was thinking super-hard about how to solve the world financial crisis….and he got so far into a trance, Melanie said he snored.

Now that’s some deep thinking!BTW… I myself was not in a trance when I didn’t show up yesterday.

I do most of my posting at night, right after the “turn,” when the new strips appear…But Thursday night, just as I was about to post on the Friday strips, my internet and phone service went out for hours.

And as I don’t get a 4g signal at home, but use my cellphone on wifi…I lost that too.

A quiet night on the old homestead….sigh….

For the Monkey….

The Monkey figured he wouldn’t be caught… heWrote in Monkeytalk, but forgot weSpeak it too… So it won’t doFor hiding words that are too “knotty.”

Jeffrey thought he would take a nap.Jeffrey was correct.

I think like that all night long.

Beviek – that kisses dog made me laugh out loud. Funny! Rose – good luck. Hope you sell a lot before it gets too hot.

He’s “deep in thought”.

Jeffrey can call it “trance-like” if he wants. He can call it “wood-working” if he wants. I call it napping.

Bev, you HAVE to watch out for her!

Don’t let her age or size fool you!It’s a good thing she can’t do magic like …um…. you-know-who.

As for Thursday night…sleep?What’s that?

PerkyCat says I need to get away from gadgets.Problem is, I didn’t know it was my provider’s fault…I spent the time trying to find a broken wire or connection, to no avail.

ChessPirate…. you’re not in CA by any chance?

My cell went out because T Mobile hasn’t expanded 4g service enough in my area…it’s coming, meanwhile, subscribers can talk and text over WiFi, which most companies don’t offer.

I pay half what I paid on Verizon, for far more minutes and data, and they’re much nicer to customers.

But when DSL is out, so is my WiFi.

Annette…. my “bundle” is from a local company…. just land line and phone.Best deal anywhere, for anybody who can get service from Sonic.net.WAY cheaper and better than AT&T.

They’d gladly give me a dial-up number for back-up… but modern laptops don’t have modems that support them.

I’d never go back to a 1990’s or early 2000’s computer, and use dial-up again, just to miss the rare few hours a year of DSL outages!

Landline and phone???

Of course I meant internet and landline phone.

DSL as fast as your local lines will bear, and real phone service, not VOIP.

This is the proper way to think.