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If you come to our house for a visit be assured that you'll be leaving with more hairs on you than you came in with. We have dogs and cats and no matter how diligent we are with our house cleaning we seem to be in a perPETual shed around here. But so what, pets are good for you. They grow on you and they shed on you too. And, when they end up leaving you, you shed too. Albeit tears that is. The only reason I'm blogging tonight is simply because I wanted to use the word albeit. I think I may have used the word albeit one other time in a blog. I'm not really fond of it but I think by using it, I may stop it from becoming extinct. The other day I read in the newspaper that a particular cougar has now become extinct. And I thought, holy fuck, we have become a careless people. But words are not beings. As many times as I say cougar, cougar, cougar I can't bring that particular cougar back from extinction. Of course, contrary to the scientific article the cougar may reappear some day....albeit unlikely. There was another word I heard today in a song from a currently popular folk group and when I heard the word (giddy) I thought, now there's a word I don't hear that much anymore. And then I thought....it may be more popular in Britain. Giddy is probably a word I've never used until today. It's a word that seems more feminine than masculine, but that's probably a dumb thing for me to say because I think we all know a lot of giddy guys out there. But, I'm quite sure that a lot of medicines out nowadays have pretty much gotten rid of giddy. All this makes me wonder...to make your horse go...do you say...giddy up..or gitty up. And if I were to bring a horse into my house, I wonder if it would shed.