SIL helped me empty the attic, and I was amazed at the stuff that he brought down! So much stuff I’d forgotten about, and some stuff neither of us recognized (Where did that red cooler come from??)
The truck is now full of discards, there’s a pile waiting for thrift stores to reopen, there are 5 boxes behind me that will be explored, then emptied or tossed, and there are a few things that will go back in the attic. Luckily, we don’t have to put up any floorboards - there is enough up there. So one side will be for our crap, and the other side for their crap.
And I FOUND MY SLIDERULE!!! WOOHOO!!!
Having a lunch break now, then SIL will help me put the stuff back up there. While there was lots more than I expected, it still wasn’t as bad as it might have been. No dead critters, for one thing. And daughter found her Barbies and her kindergarten journal! Great fun!!
It’s a cloudy 54 degrees outside.
Supposed to be raining according to my phone, we also have a freeze warning according to my phone.
Waiting for my son to get ready so we can go get groceries.
Congrats on the weight loss FCM
Your governor is lightening up, Swampy, ours is cracking down.
I got a message on my FB from the city asking us to report offenders.
Imagine, the government asking us to snitch on our neighbors.
I’m not sure if I should respond with Jawohl, or Da Tovarishch.
Happiness in Maryland is when you are sitting in your living room, with your Wife and children, reading Pravda and drinking state produced vodka. There is a knock on the door. A man in a slouch and an sunglasses asks you, “Comrade Pushkin?” and you respond. “No, comrade, he lives two flights up.”
The tax guy called. Looks like I owe about $1,250 to the Feds, and $375 to California plus probably $600 to the tax guy). And I’m under the limit for the stimulus check, so I should get the full $1,200 in June or so.)
I worked three hours in the studio this morning and read for another hour. Once lunch is done, I’ll go clean up the car and take Nelson on a walk down the greenway. I ordered a new vacuum cleaner from Tar-jay and it should arrive Friday. I had the option to pick it up, but the store in my town didn’t have one in stock and I would have had to drive to the 'Boro to get it.
OMG - the stuff I unpacked!! Like my certificate of graduation from Sunday School, dated 1960! I found my bootcamp company picture, the paperwork from when I went off active duty and into the reserves, my recorder (flute-like not tape-like) and tons of old sewing patterns going back to high school! Patterns are free to anyone who wants them - ALL - just split postage with me. I put a thread in Marketplace.
I also found a lot of knitting and crochet pattern books, and tons of paperbacks that I’d forgotten I had. Much reading ahead. YAY!
SIL just got back from the dump - just in time, because the wind has kicked up something crazy. I think T-storms are about to hit.
I’ve got a bunch of stuff to go to the thrift store when they reopen - assuming they’re closed. I need to check. So the attic is a lot emptier. It’s been a productive day.
I understand Mooooommm, I’ve had to go through about everything in the last couple of years as I remodeled, so I too found stuff (especially pictures) that I hadn’t seen in decades. Hope the storms aren’t too bad.
Red, I’m waiting on Best Buy for a couple chargers, due to pick them up on Firday. Hopefully your vacuum will arrive on-time.
FCM I just recently ran across my old slide rule! I’ll have to teach myself how to operate it all over again, and then I’ll get a kick out of showing it to the grandkids!
Back in the Stone Age, when I went to the Big U, the Chemistry Dept let us use slide rules to do the mountaneous calculations that go with Chemistry. I had a one dollar cheapie that kept sticking. When I complained to Daddy, he ran right out and bought me the hotsiest-totsiest slide rule made by POST! It has bamboo sliding surfaces, so it never sticks. I never did learn all the tricks it does!
You had to understand a helluva lot more math to use a slide rule than to operate a calculator!
~VOW
Last night I violated the low-carb diet (again – I haven’t weighed myself in weeks). There was some Trader Joe’s pizza dough that wanted to be used, so I made a pizza with pepperoni and sweet Italian sausage in a 12-inch cast-iron frying pan. The two of us ate the whole thing.
If I ask Mrs. L.A. what she wants for dinner, she’ll probably just shrug. If she doesn’t suggest something, I might just make fajitas again.
**VOW **- mine is a cheapie plastic one, but it’s all I could afford. I used it for my first semester of engineering, then my folks gave me a calculator for Christmas - this was 1976 - calculators were EXPENSIVE!!! The one in my purse now that cost me about $15 is more powerful than the one my folks spent a lot more on way back then.
Once the plague lifts, I’ll take it back to where I used to work and show the young 'uns how we did it old school!
Oh, I know what those early calculators cost! The Book Store was selling those engineering calculators for $800, and the engineering majors were lining up to buy them!
~VOW
I got my first calculator in jr. high. It could add, subtract, multiply, and divide. That’s all. It had an eight-digit nixie tube display, and I think it took four AA batteries (maybe 8) that were consumed very quickly. It cost $99.
I RENTED one of those at the Big U for $30 for a quarter-term. I was taking a statistics class, and I DID NOT want to use one of those big honkin’ “calculators” that’s covered in number keys that they provided in the stat lab!
~VOW
When I first went to school for 1st grade- there was no kindergarten then- we used an abacus. Probably in other grades as well. And that is how old I am.
We have ordered and are awaiting delivery of supper from the good place. They need to come on. I have a hungry headache. Or a sinus headache.
Alex Catt ls lying in the litterbox. I wonder if this is some sort of protest.:dubious:
Making a martini, and waiting for the Orange Rally to start on C-SPAN
Refresher Course.
You could play “1969’s Rocket Scientist” with Roxy now(short sleeve white shirt and buzzcur optional :p)
Well crap - I was just informed that my sign language class will finish via Zoom. My computer doesn’t have a camera or a microphone. And I don’t have a smart phone. And my tablet screen is too small. I think I’m out of luck. Dammit.
WOOHOO!!!