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Godzilla vs. Kong vs. the Four Questions

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a blue T-shirt and light gray shorts.

How does Dave feel today? Dave is content.

What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood today? After a long week, Dave is lying on the couch, watching mindless teevee, and there’s a dog sleeping on top of him. It’s heaven.

Did Dave make a lot of typos today? Yes. Dave can’t seem to type for siht today.

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The Four Questions Will Trade Their Fourth-Round Draft Pick for a bag of Bugles and a Candy Bar to Be Named Later

What is Dave wearing today? Fire the cannons! Dave is wearing a Bucs polo shirt and light gray shorts.

How does Dave feel today? Dave is a bit sore but very relaxed.

What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood today? Dave just had a very intensive massage to help with the tightness in his left leg (because running) but, once the deep tissue work was over, Dave got to zone out for a while.

What is Dave doing now? Dave is puttering around with his phone while the Complimentary Spouse watches the overblown, overwrought, unnecessary faux-spectacle that is the NFL draft.

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Running

My Fine-Feathered Friends

I see these birds all the time on my morning runs. I have identified them in the past as double-breasted cormorants, but people seem to insist they are actually anhingas because their beaks are straight and not curved. I stand by my belief that these are cormorants. They clearly have had nose jobs because plastic surgery is quite popular here in South Tampa.

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Nolite the Four Questions Carborundorum

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is keeping the blue flag flying high with a Chelsea T-shirt and gray shorts.

How does Dave feel today? Dave is concerned.

What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood today? Dave just watched the season premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale and he doesn’t think there will be a big musical episode this year.

What song would Dave put in The Handmaid Tale’s musical episode? Dave would choose Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad June Rising.”

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The Four Questions’ Guide to the Galaxy

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a pink T-shirt and shorts.

How does Dave feel today? Dave can’t complain.

What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood today? Dave began his day with a sunrise run and ended it with ice cream. If you subtract the time spent working, it was a very pleasant day.

What happens to Dave’s missing pens? Dave believes in this crackpot theory from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy:

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.

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It’s a Good Time for the Great Taste of the Four Questions

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a Nirvana T-shirt and shorts. He was wearing entirely different clothing until he got ketchup on himself about an hour ago.

How does Dave feel today? Dave feels relaxed and peaceful.

What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood today? Dave is relaxing on the couch and there’s a sleepy doggo curled up at his side. Who wouldn’t feel great?

Did Dave see anything cool this morning besides the dolphins? Dave also saw two pretty cool birds.

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Running

They Call Him Flipper, Flipper, Faster Than Lightning

I saw lots of dolphins on Bayshore this morning on my run. They weren’t close to the balustrade, but you can see them frolicking in this video.

I really hope these weren’t the dolphins from Treehouse of Horror XI. We live close to the water.

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The Four Questions Didn’t Bring Your Breakfast Because You Didn’t Eat Your Din-Din

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is dressed in his most glamorous T-shirt and shorts for tonight’s Oscars.

How does Dave feel today? Dave is happy he’s still alive.

What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood today? Dave braved the suburbs today. It was two hours of sheer terror.

Does Dave really want to watch the Oscars, as he has seen none of the nominated films? Dave would prefer to be watching old episodes of the Muppet Show on Disney+, but the Complimentary Spouse is closer to the remote control.

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Travel & Food

I Thought This Song Had Been Outlawed by the United Nations

The Complimentary Spouse arrived at our fancy-schmancy dinner last night and heard the tail end of this song being played in the bar. Listen for a few seconds and you’ll recognize it. Is this really the right tune for an expensive steakhouse?

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Hear, Hear! It’s the Four Questions.

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is dressed to kill in a grayish/blueish button-down shirt, a pair of tan khakis, Van Gogh socks, and a nice pair of tan shoes.

How does Dave feel today? Dave is hungry.

What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood today? Dave had a mind-numbing morning and early afternoon, but he and the Complimentary Spouse have fancy dinner plans tonight.

What kind of socks is Dave wearing? Dave is wearing Van Gogh socks. He already told you this. Are you deaf in one ear?