The transmission in my wife's car is acting up. I checked the dipstick and the fluid smells burnt. I give it a week until the pump goes out or the con...erter comes apart. God knows what I'll do then. If all that ain't enough my wife of twelve years has decided that she needs to lose weight. After trying several diets to no effect she found some diet pills that seem to work for her. She has an exercise bike in the living room and she practically lives on the goddamn thing. You ever try to watch. " Arnie said as almost a non-sequitor. It was the question he was going to ask her no matter what she had said."I have plenty of fun Arnie, we just don't hang in the same circles. Besides I'm underage to drink so you wouldn't see me at frat parties or in clubs."Selena you know that's bullshit. We don't check ID's at frats and I've seen you at Shillelaghs before, WITH a drink in your hand." Arnie answered."OK Arnie, cut to the chase. I'm not trying to give you a hard time, it's just I don't have. . uh... hmmm," Jacen was at a loss for words. Here was a half-naked replicoid willing to'serve' his every need and his mind had suddenly gone blank. What should he do with her first? Play holochess? Go to the zoo? Show her his cagedToydarian Furr'bi creature in the corner of his room?Nah... forget those things."Come here and suck my cock," Jacen commanded.The replicoid responded obediently by stepping forward slowly towards Jacen, swinging her curvaceous hips as she walked. She halted when she. The easy part was that most of the ‘hidden’ sugars ended in ‘ose’: Fructose, Sucrose, Dextrose Maltose, but the tricky one was HFCS – High Fructose Corn Sweetener. The more I read about it, the less I liked it. While some scientists even claimed it was just like sugar, if you looked at the studies which found beneficial effects, they were funded by the people who grew corn that made the HFCS.I went through the cabinets of food that Louise brought how and came up with two big bags of groceries.