First, something possibly edifying:


 "" There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:
This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you."

--- Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter"
http://en.thinkexist.com/

And then something....

borborygmus
grumbling of stomach, intestines, etc. Our dog Daimin has this in a big way. It showed up tonight just after he ate. I’ve never heard anything that loud coming out of any animal, humans included. At first, I didn’t realize it was coming from the dog. It sounded like kids talking outside or something. When I realized it was coming from him, and just about every five seconds or so, I got scared that he was going to let it rip any second, from one opening and/or the other. As I listened, the thought actually occurred to me that he’d swallowed some small rodent without killing it and that the little Jonah was yelling for help. With further listening and thought, I ruled out that hypothesis and went to get the leash to walk him.
He showed his usual elation at the first hint of going for a walk. We strolled around the block and he showed no signs of anything wrong apart from the car-wreck sounds emanating from his posterior half. There was no pooping or even flatulence, as best I could tell or smell. We got back home just as large rain drops began rattling the leaves. I put him out in the back yard as insurance against any untimely evacuation. He has a dry house that he uses and apparently likes, but he’s out there giving me his let-me-in bark right now as the rain abates. After I go chase my own tail on the stationery bike at the exercise center, I’ll give him a listen to see if the storm has passed, so to speak.

Borborygmus: Bowel sounds, the gurgling, rumbling, or growling noise from the abdomen caused by the muscular contractions of peristalsis, the process that moves the contents of the stomach and intestines downward. The plural is borborygmi.

Bowel sounds are normal. Their absence can indicate intestinal obstruction. Bowel sounds may also be temporarily absent after abdominal surgery.

The word "borborygmus" has been rumbling around the English language for some 200 years. Its earliest known use in English dates to 1796. The word arrived from New Latin, but traces its way back to the Greek "borboryzein," which means "to rumble."
[New Latin, from Greek borborugmos, of imitative origin.]


12:42 a.m. on the next day. Getting ready to shut down the electronics as the thunder rolls. Daimin the Noisy Dog came back inside soaking wet after his temporary exile, and was thankfully boroborygmus free.
This post is just what happened to get written today, apart from a few e-mails. I’m in the midst of the first thorough reorganization ever organized in our Shady Lane home since we moved here a dozen years ago. More on that, and the philosophical, economical, and taxonomical ramifications thereof, later.