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Hello, friends, and happy Monday to you. The Dot Net Gazette is back in full swing after a breezy post-birthday week. In the foreseeable future, you can count on Five Chunks of Fun, Five Times a Week right here, Monday through Friday, 10 am at the latest. Tell your friends!

It’s time for a long overdue update of the Southpaw Jones Virtual Excursion des Pieds! I must admit, I’ve been slacking lately. In the week before my birthday celebration, if I had to quantify it, I got approximately ZERO exercise. It’s a shame.

Last week, I got back on the horse, which is to say my horse, which is to say myself…I got back on myself to gallop 13 miles outdoors. Yee-haw! So let’s take those 13 miles and add them to my virtual efforts to cross the state border…

Week 1: 30 miles to Taylor, Texas
Week 2: 27 miles to Rockdale, Texas
Week 3: 20.7 miles to Caldwell, Texas
Week 4: 22.3 miles to Bryan/College Station, Texas
Week 5: 21 miles through Gibbons Creek Lake
Week 6: 24.4 miles to Hunstville, Texas
Week 7: 22 miles to Trinity, Texas
Week 8: 24 miles to Crockett, Texas
Week 9: 16 miles to Kennard, Texas
Week 10+11: 30 miles to Rusk, Texas
Week 12+13: 28.6 miles to Mt. Enterprise, Texas
Week 14: DUD
Week 15: 13 miles for a total of 279 miles to…

Lake Murvaul, Texas!

I tell, you what, beautiful Lake Murvaul sits in Panola County. It’s got a surface area of 3,397 acres and a maximum depth of 36 feet. That’s deep! Here’s some fish that live in there:

• Largemouth bass
• Crappie
• Channel catfish
• Flathead catfish
• Bluegill & redear sunfish

Humdinger! As far as fishing goes, you pretty much have to follow state regulations, but there is an exception on this here lake. You can keep bass that are 14 inches and less OR 21 inches or more, up to five per day. Enjoy!

You wanna know the largest fish ever caught out here? I’ll tell ye! It was a flathead catfish, snatched by a man named Jack Bishop. That wriggler was 48.5 inches long, and it weighed 76 pounds! That’s heavier than Nicole Richie!

Exercise is fun!

Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Time spent anxiously in the military.
Highlight here for answer: [nervous service]

Online Museum of the Week
Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine:

From PLAN 59: THE MUSEUM (AND GIFT SHOP) OF MID-CENTURY ILLUSTRATION

Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.
Ted Mann, Deadwood

Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett:

Thank you, come again!
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