First load of wash in the dryer (still) second on the lines (nice breeze today) and third in the washer. Listening to ABBA on Alexa. Exciting morning at FairyChatEstates.
Roxy found my recorder in the box o’stuff from the attic. Oh, yay.
Horns and grandkids, does not compute.
I got the grand-wreks each a kazoo once. I took them away in about 10mins.
At least it wasn’t a drum. The recorder is easy to hide!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Laundry today.
I hope you know Tom Lehrer’s New Math. This is as funny now as it ever was.
The best part is when he says* “The important thing is to understand what you are doing, not to get the right answer.”*
I just found an article about my mechanic that was published in our local free paper in mid-February.
I take my MGB and my Jeep there. I’ll need to get the bikes in when I can afford it.
Miscellaneous comments because I can’t be bothered to go back and quote:
Swampy, there’s a separate thread going about Brussels sprouts. You might like to give your opinion there, no matter how wrong it may be.
I love Tom Lehrer. If you haven’t heard The Vatican Rag, you have been deprived. Who else could use the word “transubstantiate” in a song?
We are expecting a high of 48 degrees here today. I am not amused and am damn tired of being cold.
In a normal world, we (emphasis on the “we”) would have been leaving tomorrow morning to head for Knoebels. This makes me very sad and unhappy on so many levels.
I found out last night that one of my coaster club friends passed away unexpectedly Monday night. Ken & his husband Joel just got married in July at Kennywood and we were at the wedding. I feel so bad for Joel – they were so excited to finally get married even though Ken looked absolutely terrified, which everyone teased him about afterwards. 
On a lighter note: I went outside yesterday because a very large and loud freight delivery truck had pulled up out front – it was my neighbor’s new chicken coop being delivered. The neighbor who went outside to get it told me that they just bought six chicks and that their big dog and two cats are terrified of them I should see if they’ll put it at one end of their yard so that Phoenix can watch the chickens from her cat tree in the dining room window. Surely their main goal in life should be to amuse my cat, right?
Back from the post office and Food Lion. I got a nice head of cabbage, so we’ll be having stuffed cabbage tomorrow or the next day - depends on when I feel like making it. And I got a couple of racks of ribs that were on sale. It was a productive shop.
I was going to get **FCD **some lunch on the way home, but it was almost noon and every drive-thru had at least 8 cars, some had more. Instead, I made sammiches at home. But I think we’re doing pizza for supper tonight, just because.
**Miss Owl **- sorry you won’t be coasting as usual. And so sad about your friend. Yet another reason 2020 sucks.
Meanwhile, except for bringing in the jeans on the lines, I’m done with chores for the day. Yay!
i have booked the family on this cruise to South America and Antartica, with full solar eclipse.
I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time. It may not work out. Who knows what the CoVID situation will be then, but I have plenty of time to cancel. I am really, really excited - did I mention that? 
I had a runny nose and sore throat for a few days, but allergy pills have solved that. Phew.
We’re making progress on Akiko’s bed guarding issue. When I go to sleep, she stops the puppy from approaching me. Apparently it’s a common behavior. Last time it happened she scared the puppy so bad he wouldn’t even come back into the bedroom. He spent the night in the bedroom last night, and he’s hanging out with me now.
Why is it the first cup of coffee is fine - necessary even - and the second cup takes me straight to jitter land? I love coffee. 
I’m sorry about your friend OW. I’m glad he and Joel were able to have a wedding somewhere that meant something and that their friends were able to share their joy.
I got a call this morning telling me not to come into the plant today. There’s been a case of COVID19 in the production part of the plant, so we’re closed (again) to be disinfected. The department that the person who tested positive will be on quarantine for 14 days, so only part of us will return once everything is cleaned and fumigated. The last case we had was 5-6 weeks ago in the front office. The employee had just returned from China and they closed the front and upstairs offices for working from home. For my position, my office is out in the production/distribution area and I can’t do my job 100% from home, so they’ve put us on half hours from irk, half either from home or on call. Most of the rest beyond security have the same setup. They pay us what they call CTO (Covid Time Off) for the hours that we aren’t working.
Oh, well. Nelson will get a walk on the greenway again today. 
**Sunny **- OMG - I want to go on that cruise, too!! But I’m not booking anything till **FCD **recovers from his surgery.
Just finished a bit of raking. I couldn’t find the outlet from the drain. What I may have to do is take up the grate and push the hose down till it stops, then turn it on full blast. But not today. I’m done out there.
Back to my book - I’m almost finished with the 397 pages. :eek: and this is a big hard-back book, not a wimpy paperback!
Ugh. Instacart screwed up again. Plus sides: very quick service today, and I can forgive the Lysol already being out of stock an hour after I placed the order. Minus: for a diet cola, they substituted NON-diet, ignoring my standing substitution for a different variety of diet and with no communication with me about it. This is a problem for my resident diabetic. I can drink the regular, but will have to make an extra stop to get the diet DH needs. That’ll cost the driver part of the tip I’d intended to give them.
Afternoon all. Lawn has been mowed and two bags of clippings put on the corner for pickup. Most of the clippings are still brown and dusty, but more green is showing and hopefully the whole lawn will be looking good come May. Dishes have completed washing and been put away.
Sunny, I want to take a cruise like that in a couple years. I’ve made it to the other 6 Continents, so I figure for my 70th birthday I’ll visit the 7th. looks like a great itinerary, hope it comes off.
OW, sorry about your friend; at least he lived to see an age where he could marry the love of his life. And concur with Tom Lehrer-my favorite is Poisoning Pigeons in the Park; And I need to find this book:
Red, take care. The masks I ordered from amazon 2 weeks ago are no-shows, if they don’t arrive by the 24th I get my money back…but no masks.
Everyone take care now.
Thanks. They met at one of the parks, maybe even Kennywood, and I was so happy for them when they finally got married.
I’m pretty sure I have a copy of that book here somewhere. You can get it from The Jungle for $21.00 or supposedly as a free pdf download from scribd.com (Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer | PDF) although I didn’t try it.
Played in the studio, worked on the MS course, took Nelson for a walk on the greenway (we met one of our neighbors with her 3 year old son getting out of the house there too. He petted Nelson ), I read a couple of chapters in the book I just started and Nelson played with the neighbor dogs. Now, it’s time for supper.
Y’all stay healthy!
eanette
My oldest daughter graduated High school in 1988. I am 67 and graduated in 1971. I finally got through Algebra one on my third try in summer school. I took Geometry one and made it through the first time.
As a working electrician, I use math and geometry pretty often, but it still does not come easy for me. My conduit bends are well done, but I do it mostly by eye. My voltage conversion equations are no to hard anymore.
Jeans are in and hanging in the closets. Pizza has been ingested. I need to start the ice maker and load the dishwasher.
My daughter will let me use her computer to Zoom my ASL class - that should be interesting.
Rain coming back tomorrow afternoon, but at least we got some sun today.
My husband is an electrician himself (just off work while recovering from a broken leg). Math isn’t that big a problem for him, but he says he learned more about conduit bending once he was out of trade school and on the job. For him, hands-on works better than classroom.
Dinner has been consumed and looks like the rain has started, so mowing the lawn when I did looks like it was a good idea.
FCM, good on daughter for letting you keep up with the class. Now no peeking at her files, now!!
Hippie, I’m a class of '71 too. Graduated something like 138 out of 871 (it was a BIG High School).
OW, I’ll look into that! Much thanks.
Good night everybody.