MetalMouse. Happy Birthday!
Howdy all, happy Moanday. SSDD. Staying home as usual.
I hope everyone is safe and well.
I just heard something I never have yet heard.
I have a very simple flip phone, While I’ve heard it ring, or beep with a message notice, I just heard a very loud ringing that sounded twice before I picked it up.
The message said “EMERGENCY” and is for an Amber Alert. I’m in Kansas, but this was for a reported location in Nebraska. It was for a town/city/area called Tekamah, and gives details on a vehicle involvec.
I didn’t know Amber Alerts would be spread that far. Whatever is going on, I hope things are safely resolved.
My bank notes a $653.80 deposit IRS Treas 310. I googled and found that’s the stimulus check. I didn’t expect the full $1200, but what’s with the $3.80??? I had no clue that 4/20 has anything to do with marijuana, and don’t care. My drug of choice will always be cigarettes, even though I haven’t smoked since November 2, 2019 at 10:30 am.
Back from grocery shopping. When I was checking out at Kroger, the cashier pulled out plastic bags (I had my own on the belt) and I said “Whoa”. She told me that groceries couldn’t be bagged in anything else for now. As I questioned that, her manager had come to relieve her for break and told both of us that we could use cloth bags if the customer bagged groceries themselves. I have no problem with that, given that some folks don’t wash their bags, but, given that their plastic bags were as much a danger to me as mine were to them, I was prepared to walk off without groceries and go to the Pubic Sto’. I bag my own at Aldi anyway, and when I do it at other stores, groceries are bagged the way that I want them to be. 
Happy Birthday Metalmouse!!!,
Y’all harshing on my mellow with all the loud Birthday greetings. Chill out, man!! :D.
Nothing exciting happening here today. I’ll wander out to the garden and check my poor seedlings. They drank too much this past weekend. The suns out. I hope they dry out.
I didn’t walk as much as I should have the last few days. Too much rain. I’m attacking it with new resolve. I shall even walk uphill.
My Yorkie needs her grooming. Not happening. The groomer is not essential. I can bathe her and tie her bangs up in a bow. I wish my own hair could be handled as easily.
FCM…I meant to ask, how is FCDs surgery plans? Is it still happening this month?
Cupcakes, looks like there was a child abduction in Nebraska, but I’m seeing reports that the kids have been recovered in Kansas, they are OK, and the Bastich who took them is in custody.
Red, I still use plastic, but these days I usually go to the self-checkout so I’m the only one handling them.
FCM, good luck with the bread. May your buns be perfect…
Nut, glad the bees are fine. Semi-serious question, when you say the may be ‘staging a revolution’, you don’t mean consciously, do you?
And my thanks for all the B-day wishes. Have dined on a ham-n-cheese sub and chips (w/Pepsi) for my Birthday meal and feel like…not doing muc of anything. Will finish off the first season of The Grand Tour on Amazon shortly.
Everybody take care now.
Thank you for letting me know that. Ugh, people who take little kids.:mad:
**Beck **- his surgery was rescheduled for May 12, but it all depends on how the plague progresses in Baltimore, which is where he’s having it done. I won’t be surprised if they delay it again. He’s already talking like he wants to cancel it… yeah, right, like he can live the rest of his life in this kind of pain. For a smart man, he can be pretty stupid about some things.
Buns are now formed and in the rising stage. When the timer beeps, I’ll glaze them with egg, then pop them in the oven. We shall see how it goes.
I looked on line to get fresher bread flour, but apparently it’s as rare as TP. I hear yeast is hard to come by, too. So plague makes people want to make bread? Or will the landfills be full of flour and yeast in a few months?
Back to my book…
Why not?
I just read an article that said that people who will get checks by mail will receive them in ‘reverse “adjusted gross income” order’, so I’m not expecting mine until sometime in June.
I want a stimulus check.
Mr.Wrekker says we won’t get any. Dang it. I never qualify for anything fun.
To Metal Mouse, bodacious birthday greetings!
FCM, I made hamburger buns using my bread machine to make the dough just last week. They turned out GORGEOUS, and tasted wonderful. I don’t think we’ll ever get store-bought hamburger buns again.
Beck, just buy the damned bread machine, stimulus check be damned!
~VOW
I just got off the phone with my mechanic. He says I can bring my '66 MGB in anytime to have it converted from two 6v batteries to a single 12v battery.
Last year there was a '73(?) MGB parked at a local gas station with a sign on it warning the owner that the car would be towed if he didn’t pay his parking fees. It had new floor panels in the cockpit, waiting to be installed, and a new stainless steel exhaust system. Apparently it did get towed, and my mechanic bought it for $100. :eek: A stainless steel exhaust system sells for over $400, and the floor panels cost $200 each. The thing is, the original floor panels don’t need to be replaced! My mechanic said he spent about half an hour on it recently and got it running. He doesn’t know if he wants to fix it up, or just sell it as-is. It was been repainted burgundy at some point. I suggested he restore it to its original colour – Mimosa Yellow (aka ‘Mustard Yellow’, ‘Baby Shit Yellow’). He did not seem to like that idea.
Mine ended in 20 cents. I know the amount drops by some amount for every dollar of your AGI over $75,000 - I foolishly expected they might have rounded to the nearest dollar.
More happily, I was able to get through the IRS site and enter PWAISDN’s bank info (he normally pays his taxes with paper checks off his business account) so he should have a deposit soonish. I have no idea how long it takes from entering info to getting funds, and they didn’t say. 
Ooh, we’re on to the tricky questions now…
Certainly if they ‘want’ to make a new queen, they’ll have started a new queen cell by next time I go in there, there’s definitely a drive there, but who can say if it’s conscious? I’ve worked with people I wasn’t fully convinced had a consciousness, I ain’t prepared to vouch for bees.
It may be triggered by pheromones, but all the reasons that the bees decide that the queen ain’t good enough and decide to make a new one aren’t fully understood. I’ll check again in a few days, and if there’s one new queen cell being made again (I accidentally squished the one they had made, they’re very soft at that point), I’ll let it be. If there’s several queen cells, that’s a swarm, and that means splitting the colony to stop 'em clearing off.
I did notice there seemed to be a disproportionate number of drone cells, which might mean she didn’t mate all that well, though you would expect a fair bit of drone brood at this time of year. How the bees pick up on that I don’t know; I can compare to other years, but the queen’s the only one that can live even one year. Is it just cos the drones do no work at all in the hive so they’re getting all worn out early?
The buns are done. They smell good, and they did rise, tho not as much as I’d thought. And they’re mostly misshapen - I think the dough was a tad too dry when I was forming them. But I’m pretty sure they’re edible.
We shall see come supper time! 
Happy Moanday to all! I’m a Doper, not a doper. Like almost every kid who wasn’t an Osmond, I tried weed back in the day, but I got a panic attack, and that was the end of that.
My sister says they’re transferring her husband back to the nursing home today. No change in prognosis, but there’s nothing they can do for him in the hospital, especially since he’s DNR. I hope this doesn’t sound terrible, but I hope he goes quickly, as it’d be easier on my sister.
I had a little scare when I saw that oil prices had dropped into the negative range. Who knew that was even possible? My state pension is from Wyoming, which gets most of its revenue from oil and gas, but I inquired and found out the pension shouldn’t be affected. Still, sucks for all those oil industry and related industry workers.
swampy, I almost–almost–didn’t recognize you, dude, with all that stoner talk. 
Nut, I’m captivated by the idea of weighing bee medication. I have an image of you adding pollen flavoring and forming teeny, tiny pills. I know that’s inaccurate, but I like my illusion, so don’t go harshin’ my buzz, man.
flyboy, given the date and the topic of this week’s MMP, I missed the “dill” in the recipe and read “weed,” but I knew you wouldn’t mess with the flavor of that lovely bechamel sauce.
Cupcakes, I’ve had a few of those. Dang, they’re loud! I jump every time. Glad those particular kiddos are OK.
red, help me out here, please: how is the cashier putting your stuff in a (new, I hope) plastic bag worse than her putting it in your own shopping bag?? I had the same experience you did, and like you, I didn’t mind packing my own bag, but since it was resting on their counter, I figured my bag was probably at least as contaminated than the plastic bag, even though I’d washed the bag and wiped the cart with a bleach wipe. What is my little pea brain missing?
Beck, no stimulus check at all? Hardly seems fair. Of course, maybe they figured you were plenty stimulating on your own.
]Happy Birthday, MetalMouse! Come on over and I’ll toss you a cake from six feet away, but you have to blow out the candles first.
YAY! The car started!
After letting it warm up a little, I turned it off, disconnected the bad battery, and put the charger back on. I moved the Prius onto the lawn so that Mrs. L.A. can give me a ride home in her RAV later.
In honor of today, I was apparently high twice, and not from the Wacky Tabacky.
The first time, I took a new cold medication (Actifed, if I remember correctly) and shortly afterwards realized that things were “not quite right.” I felt very odd, my movements were delayed, and I giggled a lot. Kopek took one look at me and told me I was high. The effects lasted only until the medication wore off (6 hrs., 12 hrs.?). Never took that medication again.
The second time was after having outpatient knee surgery with full anesthesia. On the way home, I apparently demanded that we stop at Wendy’s for chicken nuggets, many chicken nuggets. No, McDonald’s would not do, they had to come from Wendy’s, damn it. I vaguely remember that and he told me I had the munchies. He also told me I was singing Grateful Dead songs, but I think (hope) he was exaggerating.
I told him both times that if that was being high, why on earth would people want to feel that way, and pay good money to do it?? I did not like it one bit.
A tweet from the Nebraska State Patrol:
Nebraska State Patrol
@NEStatePatrol
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JUST GOT WORD! The boys are SAFE and the suspect has been apprehended in Kansas.
Will provide more details when possible, but wanted to share the good news immediately.
Thank you to all for sharing and helping spread the word!