A Beary Special MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Oh, man, I would love it if we had central heating/air. Really just air right now, though… I would leave the heat off.

Speaking of dance, I can’t decide whether I want to take Ballet I next semester or an advanced Spanish comp/conversation class. Ballet will count as my “activity” (Phys Ed) class for liberal arts core, so I may go with it. I’d really prefer to take modern, but I’ll never ever be able to take a class offered afternoons Tuesday/Thursday, because of my stooopid chemistry labs every semester.

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Goood Moorrrnnningggg Mississippi!

Looks like I will be here an extra day, the plane broke. Between the overflowing toilets and broken aircraft, it’s been an odd vacation. Still I got to see my uncle and aunt who I haven’t seen in 20 years. Also there are many cute dog photos, which I will put on my photobucket account, as soon as I get home(Hopefully before the sun burns out).

Mika, you should have named the fish after your landlord, then gutting and eating it would make you feel that much better. :smiley:

FCM, puggy, I feel your heat. The A/C at my apartment died once, it was not fun Of course, I didn’t have to pay for it all at once.

ellen, glad everyone is on the mend.

{{{{{Tel}}}}}

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FCMom, if the gag had ended better, the perfect name for your boat would be The Spam Ferry…

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meh, still awake here. I have a sinus/tooth ache, and my ears and eyes and nose and breathing are all allergic right now. We had a pleasant sunny day, cool temps in the mid 50’sF, tomorrow is supposed to be more of the same, with a heat wave which may reach temperatures in the low 60’s. Then more rain. The paper yesterday said that this July is in the top ten rainiest Julys (Julies?) on record. I can’t remember where it ranks specifically, but the weather channel told me today that we are just shy of eight inches of rain this month.

I just deleted a big whine. I will instead tell you that while the light outside was dimming I looked at my perenial bed. Everything is healthy and growing, and has that scrubbed freshness which comes after a long wet spell. A deep breath reveals air heavy with scents of damp soil, grasses, and the tang of the sea. In the liquid light the deep blue of the delphinium glows softly against the different shades and textures of it’s gardenmate’s foliage. I love nights like this.

I should probably turn the internet and tv off, and maybe lay down and read, perchance to sleep. Good morning to all of you in the earlier time zones!

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In other news, my stalker is going bug nuts, because I’ve changed all 3 phone numbers to the most restrictive kind of unlisted, nor have I honored any of her requests for my new address. In fact, I lied to her, and told her we were moving to a town about 30-40 miles east of where we are.

Her only means of contact is the old e-mail address, and that is close to going poof. VWIfe’s computer dest is almost done, and when I set up her computer, I’ll have my new e-mail account set up and the old one killed. Maybe tonight, most likely by tomorrow night.

She’s resorted to laying on the old Jewish guilt. “Whoever said Big Girls Don’t Cry, lied.”

Boo hoo frakkin hoo. :rolleyes:

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As do I. I lived on 9P on Lake Saratoga for nine months back from June 1984 to April 1985, while I was going to school over in Ballston Spa. We went to watch the horsies too. I didn’t bet, but my roommates did.

Of course, that’s only true if your brother was successful in those positions. :wink: But we’re doing that too. The house we got for about 1/5 of it’s market value, so we’re adding a few score grand onto the refinancing amount so that we can get a new roof and a few other things (including replacing the ancient A/C system). And we haven’t decided if we’re going to put a pool in or a tennis court. I’m for the pool, because I don’t play tennis and I figure swimming is easier on old bones, and the GF wants a tennis court because she plays tennis (infrequently now) and can’t swim.

And thaks for the belated birthday wish.

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So, last night, as expected, the doctor told me I’d have to see an orthopedist for my wrists. Not as expected, he also gave me an anti-inflammatory prescription, which I picked up this morning, and told me to get better wrist braces. Oh boy, did I. I can barely move my hands at all. It’s kinda cool, actually. Only I’ve discovered that my forearms are too fat, so I can’t close them down the bottom. Meh.

I was going to say other stuff, but I’ve managed to forget what it was. sigh

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Yay for getting rid of stalkers! Go Bob!

Drae, practice your Stiff-Wristed Jedi Wave. I’m sure the wrist braces will improve it.

Too early. Back later, after tea.

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Morning all. I spent a wonderful night with the AC cracked as low as it could go, since welbywife was staying over with some friends in Maryland. The kids whined a little about it being cold and what-not until I pointed out that they are of age to rent thier own place. :smiley:

Today I’m going to the post office to pick up the certified mail that the “HOA” sent me. I’m sure it was sent to let me know that they’ll be filing a lien against my house because I refuse to pay my dues. I can hardly wait! This may strike some as odd, but I’m waiting for that so that I can drag thier dumb asses into court and get rid of that little group of busybodies and be done with them forever.

In the mean time, I filed a complaint with the city about the HOA that runs one of our rental properties because they ain’t doing what they should do. See, the rental property is in a neighborhood with mostly renters, mostly Hispanic, and mostly dumber than Paris Hilton. They have no concept of “trash day.” Instead, they leave open bags of trash throughout the neighborhood. I assume its so that they can nurture the rat population or something. Since I’m trying to sell the property, this naturally has a deleterious effect on that endeavor. (Big words, let me know if you need help translating them Ex)

So I filed a complaint with the city and county, and will probably wind up in court with them as well. We’ll find out after I go to the August 3 HOA meeting.

I hate HOAs.

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Good morning all. Hurray, it’s Thursday! That means tomorrow the weekend begins! Yay!

kai, I’d love to “visit” your island but wouldn’t want to live there. Jeesh! I’m wearin’ my winter coat here when it’s in the 50s. :smiley:

bobbio, won’t your life be kinda boring without your stalker? :wink:

We got another quote from the Heating and Air Conditioning guy. this one was still a Trane but about $1K cheaper than the first one. Mr. Anachi is pretty sold on the Trane so now we just gotta figure out the financing. This home ownership business continues to be muy expensivo.

In other news, the tile guys are finally coming back to start laying the tile. Maybe I’ll actually have a new Master Bath in, oh, six months. :rolleyes:

That’s all I got for now.

Tupug

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That’s why I moved to Mayberry. The trash is collected whenever I pile it on the trailer and haul it to the dumping station.

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Puggy dear, there are times that a boring life Is A Good Thing. :stuck_out_tongue:

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My headache’s gone, thank everyone. I left work and killed myself at the gym. I put on the I-pod, and do my workout in blissful, anti-social-ness when I’m there. By the time I finished, I realized it had just gone away. Ta, and da.

Now I’m tired.

The concert on the hill last night was actually very good. Every once in a while, they get band there that’s worth remembering so we can catch them somewhere else. I think this band is one of them. Nine pieces, kind of a Motown-ish/Santana-ish tinge to their music.

Now, off to work…

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'Kay. I’m confused. I’ll get back to that in a minute.

Boy, howdy, do I know. The meet used to be just for the month of August, but for the last fifteen years or so they’ve cheated the schedule a couple of weeks in either direction. I rarely go, because I hate crowds. And the traffic. Hard as that is to believe.

I like the steeplechase races, because some mook always falls off his horse. I just go to the races to watch jockeys crash. Don’t look at me like that. Deep inside, you think that tumbling midgets are funny too.

Did you wear an enormous elaborate hat? Cute girls at the track are required to wear enormous elaborate hats and floaty little sundresses. Try to get back for Umbrella Day, because you get a cheesy cheap umbrella with your grandstand admission. So at least you walk away with something.

If you got out of there only down twenty bucks you did well. Give yourself a pat on the back. Seriously, though, it’s something everybody ought to do at least once, and I’m glad you had a good time.

Now we come to my confusion:

There’s a college in Ballston Spa? I know SUNY Albany, I know Union, I know RPI, and I know HVCC, SCCC, St. Rose, Russel Sage, and Fulton-Montgomery, and I would love to know about another one, because everybody likes to make a spare dime teaching night classes now and again.

Or were you talking about SCCC? I thought that was in Scotia.

(Those of you furriners who think there a lot of places around here called Somethingorother Springs or Someotherthing Spa, you’re right. There were a lot of those 19th century health resorts because the water has a bunch of minerals in it and supposedly has magical healing powers. If you ask me, I’d just say the groundwater in Saratoga county has way too much sulphur in it.)

Ex - your friendly neighborhood curmudgeon.

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Hi, everyone!

**FCM and Pugs ** - I’m in the new HVAC club with you guys! From what I’ve been told, be sure to ask how loud the system is! One of my neighbors has one that sounds like a small plane is taking off in her basement. Our current system is the original, which makes it about 40 years old. It works, but any day could be its last (cue ominous music). I just wish someone had warned me before the first estimate came in just how high that number was going to be. My eyeballs rolled back into my head and I could barely breathe. But we came to terms with that. Of course, as I’ve pointed out here before, there’s never just one thing to do in the house. So, while the new system just hangs out and waits, and while I still don’t have central air, we had to have our electrical system upgraded. And that wasn’t free, either! Someone remind me why I don’t live in an apartment, please!

Mika - did you get anything in the mail from me yet?

**Lissla ** - do you happen to have a Fire-Fighting Husband? He could lend you one of those coats they wear into fires while you master your new belly dancing skills! Better safe than sorry! :wink: I’m signing up for a swing dance class at the community college for the Fall. I’m sure either I or those around me will need safety gear!

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I only plan to go twice more. Once with the SO, and once I simply must go see what I call the chariot-races - the ones where they have the things behind them. I can’t remember the real name.

I wore a sundress but I own no hats that I would wear there. I’m not very much a hat person. But I did see the ladies with the HUGE hats - mostly it wasn’t the cute ones, but the grandma ones, but there were a few that would make any man turn his head.

And remarkably, it wasn’t too crowded. There were a lot of people, but it wasn’t more than half full…actually, there were a lot of people outside, where they couldn’t even see the races (what’s the point of that?) but not that many inside the bleachers.

I don’t think curmudgeons are suppossed to be friendly? I mean, that’s kind of the point and all. Besides, the occasional curmudgeon keeps everyone else’s feet on the ground.

working hard today, since I missed yesterday. Unfortunately i don’t remember which college it is in Ballston Spa but I think there is one.

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Nope, and I just checked this morning, too. Perhaps today? I did get my new blood donor card (my old one was from 1995) and my new Price Chopper Advantage card (my old one was slowly splitting in half). Woohoo!

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What’s a HOA? It sounds like the noise you make when you throw up. :dubious:

It was such a struggle to get out of bed this morning. Especially when I remembered what day it is today. I didn’t even have the satisfaction of today being the last for the week. I have to get through today AND tomorrow. Blech. On a brighter note, the grown son of the family I’m staying with and his wife are visiting this weekend, and they are bringing the game called SceneIt. I have never played this game, but I am rather good with movies, so I’m eager to see how well I stack up.

MBG, I envy you. If I have a headache, exercising just makes it worse. I don’t work out if I have a headache. Santana = good music.

VBob, good for you for getting rid of Creepy Old Stalker Lady. In your position, I’d be laughing at her as she desperately flailed about.

These are not the wrists you’re looking for …

And now, a pun.

If you don’t get this one, you’re out of touch with pop music, and it’s not my fault you’re such an old fuddy-duddy. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I guess I’m an old fuddy-duddy, then, Spats.

Hey, a poll for the MMP’ers. How many of you can fold your pinky against your palm without bending your ring finger? I can touch every other finger to my palm independently but the muscles/tendons on my pinky fingers and ring fingers are somehow interlocked so I can’t bend that one independently. I asked this once before on the boards and it was interesting…thought I’d ask here, too.

Also, another interesting fact about my hands. If I lay my hands flat on the desk, you can see that my middle fingers are pointed very slightly toward the pinky. I mean, the whole bone. I asked my doctor once a long time ago, as I have never broken anything so it can’t be a setting issue, and he said that I must have had my hands crinkled together in the womb when they developed, so I have that permanent every-so-slight tilt.

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Sulkies. They run at the harness track, which is a different place entirely. You could also go to the casino and play the slot machines (which is all they have).

Wut iz yoo tocking abowt, misstr?