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So I get the feeling that Meatball (my boss) is going through some changes. For instance, she started drinking coffee about a month ago and spending the day eating several huge servings of Honey-Bunches-of-Oats out of her green, hand-crafted clay slop bowl.

The old Meatball preferred several bottles of Dean's 2% chocolate milk chugs and at least a half-dozen toasted English muffins with un-refrigerated cream cheese and big hunking slabs of deli-sliced ham as daily sustenance -- in-between meals, that is.

Just when you thought you knew someone...