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Filler: Beach dogs

I took a random day off work recently and took the dogs to the beach.

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Yaris, the princess dog, is as photogenic as always.  But really, I quite like this picture.  It’s my new phone lock screen background.  I find it very soothing and calming.  Actually, there are several things that Yaris does that I find very soothing and calming.  I should register her as a service dog so I can take her into more public places with me (no, I would not actually do that because it’s a jerk thing to do and muddies the waters for people who legitimately need service dogs).

WP_20160127_13_05_15_Rich_LIHorse looks like a doofus per usual.  It’s quite difficult to get a picture of him when he doesn’t look like a doofus.  He enjoyed himself though.  He walked into the water to see what it was like, he got to sniff lots of new smells, but he had to stay leashed the whole time.  Horse is not good with recall and he’s not terribly bright.  He would run off and not know how to make it back.  I don’t trust him off leash.

On chocolate

I think it’s been well established that I like chocolate (and pizza).

So recently, I started playing a lot of Candy Crush.  Actually, that’s inaccurate.  I recently started playing Candy Crush (late to the party, meh).  And I’ve been playing it a lot.  Mostly because I was trying to find a fairly mindless match 3 type game to help me disengage…and apparently I need to disengage frequently?  Anyway, Candy Crush makes me conflicted about chocolate.

If you play/have played Candy Crush, you know that the chocolate pieces spawn new chocolate pieces if the previous turn did not actively destroy a chocolate block.  That means the chocolate is like an insidious disease slowly taking over your entire board.  And that’s sad.  Because it’s chocolate and chocolate is delicious.  I don’t want to think that chocolate is a disease that’s slowly taking over everything.

But then again, what if actual chocolate would spawn new block of chocolate in real life?  But I don’t mean like this.

  1. Because that’s white chocolate and white chocolate is only a marketing ploy.  It’s just fat and no chocolate.
  2. This doesn’t actually work.  You obviously lose a minuscule amount of “chocolate” each time you do this.

I’m saying, if you didn’t eat a block of chocolate one day, it would automatically generate another block the next day, assuming turns are by days.  That means you could have a never ending supply of chocolate!  That would be one of the best things ever.  EVAR.

But I wonder if this is something that happens for all types of chocolate (minus white).  I mean, I don’t really want a never ending supply of milk chocolate.  Milk chocolate is good now and then, but I really prefer eating dark chocolate.  And I would like baker’s chocolate to have the same spawning properties.  Think of all the chocolate desserts I could make!

Sugh.  If only…but no.  Chocolate is an insidious disease slowly taking over my entire board.  Yay.

I should probably find another (more productive) means of disengaging.