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I have a new business partner.

No, I didn’t fire Terry, although there are times, he tries my patience … but I’m sure I drive him nuts too, so that works.

What happened is that – as I may have mentioned, my wife and I got a new dog from Freeport’s Friends Forever. We tend to prefer rescuing a dog – partly because we don’t have the patience to train a puppy anymore – but mostly because a rescued dog seems to know it was just released from hell, so they are far more eager to please.

So my new partner is our dog “Bucky”. Each morning, he anxiously lays on the couch in my...