A cool thing about my job is that my wife can call me. This, of course, is what she did… with a grocery list (she made chicken parmesan, by the way… excellent cook that she is…) So, after work, I headed to Wal-Mart.

Low and behold, someone is out in the parking lot giving away free puppies.

Now, here’s the deal with me: I’m not an animal lover. I really don’t get attached to creatures that have four legs and wag their tail.

But I have to admit that these puppies were just too darn cute.

My wife and I have been talking about adding a dog to our little family (I was against it for a while, but see aforementioned sentence), so I called her up and asked her if she wanted a puppie.

Of course… she said “yes.”

He’s now sitting at my feet.

We named him “Blue.”