I’m going to miss Oy.
Oy is a “billy-bumbler”, a character in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. It’s an “other-worldly” type creature, very much like a dog, but also very capable of emotions and cries with real tears, and he laughs if you’re of its “ken”, but many times more vicious than even a pit bull if you’re not on his side.

This is not a spoiler by any means. But I am reading the few remaining Dark Tower books in the series, and so there’s no choice regardless, in saying adios to all the characters.

Note: It’s almost a curse that each time a D.T. book came out, I was also in the middle of learning something new, or otherwise already busy. When I bought both book 6 and 7 of Dark Tower I was knee-deep in Internet Marketing ebooks (95% of which is total crap - i just wanted to learn how to optimize my for-fun-only sites) and forums.

When book 5 was out, I think I was I trying to learn Python.

Book 4: I remember having to refresh my MFC (C++) knowledge for job interviews, but I chose to read Book 4 instead. I don’t remember what happened with the particular jobs. But Wizard and Glass was pretty good (that was book 4).

I will need to say “no” to fiction for a long time, now that I’m finishing this series.

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