Jose Santiago @slider7420@qoto.org

Its... HOT.
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#Rufus living his semi-best life...
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Good morning!
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Me as a Panda

It cracks me up that #Rufus has a "What is he up to?" timer when he hears me in another room and I have a "What is he up to?" timer when I CAN'T hear him in the other room!

The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved in return.
~Christian, Moulin Rouge

I owe you nothing,
and you are nothing to me.
Thank you for curing me
of my ridiculous obsession with love.
~Also Christian, one hour and fifty minutes later

I took #Rufus outside and I got swarmed by bugs. I used the junk mail I had just gotten to swat around my head and face. Rufus looked at me confused as if to say " What are you doing? Were you a bad boy or something?"

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#StarWars

Now this is sleeping!
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Disney dates & shifts a ton of films:
DEADPOOL 3 - 5/3/24
CAPT. AMERICA BRAVE NEW WORLD- 8/26/24
THUNDERBOLTS - 12/20/24
BLADE 2/14/25
FANTASTIC 4 - 5/2/25
MOANA - 6/27/25
AVATAR 3 - 12/19/25
AVENGERS KANG DYNASTY - 5/1/26
STAR WARS TBD - 12/18/26
AVENGERS SECRET WARS - 5/7/27

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#RUFUS UPDATE:
Last night Rufus was clearly uncomfortable and I decided I would get him to the vet in the morning. Overnight he chewed a nasty wound onto his leg where he has a non-cancerous tumor. It is affecting his ability to walk because of discomfort. At the ER vet they cleaned his wound and gave him meds. They advised against surgery to remove the tumor because of his advanced age and comorbidities.

We got home and my wonderful neighbor TJ Nave and her sons helped me get him out of the car and he was able to get up and walk. He went inside and went to sleep. He woke up and walked on his own from my room to the office where I was working and went back to sleep. This is when I noticed he was breathing heavily in his sleep. Then he woke up and and was breathing very heavily [80 breaths per min]. Out of an abundance of caution we headed back to the ER vet.

The second exam showed all his vitals were good and he was not in distress. We suspect a possible reaction to the medication and we are altering and monitoring the meds to see how he does.

We're back home, and he is home and resting. We are hoping for mild improvement, but the conversation has shifted to quality of life. The vet believes the end is not imminent, but that this is the time to spoil him, keep him comfortable and happy.

Difficult days lie ahead.

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I reached the point I either need to make something out of this beard or get rid of it. Thoughts?

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Finally watched the #supermariobros movie, and I completely understand this #RottenTomatoes score. The movie is only mildly entertaining if you are not a Mario brothers player. It relies way too heavily on nostalgia, and a lot of the things that happen in the movie mean very little to me out of context. So given that the core audience consists of people who played the game (which is a massive swath of people, admittedly), or parents looking for something for their children to watch it makes sense that the audience score is so high. But when solely judged on it's merit as a movie it falls short.

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I laugh when people get scared of #Rufus, and I know it is only because I know him so well. But Rufus is a fairly big dog and strangers see him and are often intimidated. If they only knew all he wants is butt rubs and treats and that he could not chase them at this point if his life depended on it...
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#PoliteSociety is a fun movie. It is kind of like a B-movie/Kung Fu/Bollywood version of Scott Pilgrim if the story was about sisters instead of a relationship.

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