A Mountains, Furniture, and Dogs MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Blech. Fermented couscous. Yuck!

And blech to our AC – it decided to quit a while ago. I was sitting here in my office getting warmer and warmer, with the AC supposedly running – but I was still sweating enough that I’d turned a fan on so I couldn’t hear the compressor (which is outside near one of my office windows) – and then I checked the thermostat to see what it was doing and to my horror found it was 80° in the house and the AC wasn’t responding at all.

Fortunately, it had cooled down enough outside by that point that we could open the house again. And at least we should have a couple of good weather days to get it looked at before we need to turn it on again – at this point, we should be okay till Wednesday. But, of course, this house is a rental and our landlord is currently serving a tour in Iraq. :smack: So we shall have to see which of his family members we can get hold of to figure out how to deal with it. Other than getting it fixed ASAP, obviously – I cannot work if it’s hot and humid and we have no AC!

Stoopit machinery. Grumble grumble…

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donkeybear, I so do NOT want to know how you inferred step five! Please don’t tell me, okay? I’m better off in ignorance on this one I’m so sure. :eek:

Hi, Phil! Try Powell’s, it pretty much has everything, including used books. It’s local for me and I can and will vouch for it. Best bookstore in the world…

We had steaks for dinner, grilled–these were especially nom nom since I really didn’t like the steer it came from. The fucker was noisy and an escape artist and I had to chase him home from my friend’s house more than once. He’d leave poo puddles in bad places, and tried to butt me a couple of times. For all of that, he turned out to be quite tasty and tender! Baked NOT alongside, Eskimo Pie Crunch bar for dessert, life is good.

Mowed the front meadow today, yay me! Still have to clear a million miles o’rhizomes out of the herb garden but at least I made a start. Now if it would just STOP RAINING so I could take care of it! Snarl, grump. Found a really big garter snake out there today, sure hope he slithered off before I went over that area with the mower! I like snakes–this time of year they’re all over the bike trail and the dirt trails on the butte trying to warm up enough to go catch lunch. SpaceDawg always lunges at them but she doesn’t like the way they smell so she lets them go.

Ooh, that reminds me–daughter’s dog caught and slaughtered a big old possum this week! Poor girl had to go out and shovel it into a bag and CallieDog was quite upset and confused to see it go in the garbage. I don’t think she had plans for it, per se, but I think she wanted to keep it around as a trophy. Himself has now pointedly reminded me that Widget is the only critter around here who remains unblooded. I’m really okay if it stays that way–he’s my widdoe pooky boy, not an efficient possum assassin like his girlfriend, the hoyden!

Dang, beebs, that’s quite the list of angry persons there. I don’t think I’ve started as many threads total as the lowest number of Pit threads on that list! Guess I just don’t have that much to complain about. :stuck_out_tongue:

Happy anny, Mahna[sup]2[/sup]!

tosses large economy bottle of bubble bath to rigs

DoRe, tell Mr Blaze that next step is THE COLLAR if he doesn’t lay off the stitches!

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I’m bored.
Me thinks a fluffernutter is in the future.

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I THOUGHT that couscous tasted funny. :eek:

Irish lamb stew and pots de creme turned out wonderfully. Was a huge hit. Food followed by alcohol and discussion of art and death.

Off to bed.

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Morning all. Busy weekend and I have no hope of catching up with you lot now!

A few points I did catch:

phil417, firstly welcome to the MMP. {{{phil and family}}} for the SIL coming down with Reye’s - it sounds like a sucky disease, and I hope the diagnosis is early enough for him to be treated and come through it okay.

snowbunny, that is one mean looking swan!

bonkeydear, couscous made properly is delightful - what you described sounds like an abomination! :insert pukey smiley here:

Summer is definitely going to be nasty this year. It has been disgustingly hot this last week. Yesterday we had a high of 107°F/41°C, which translated into an apparent temperature of 115°F/46°C! :mad: <- this is the colour I turn when exposed to any temperature above 77°F/25°C for any length of time! Sigh, my “English rose” complexion does not work well with the blast-furnace heat of the Gulf! :wink:

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I am displeased with the spousal unit. He woke up around 3 for some reason and decided to go watch TV. Not a big deal, except he turned on the kitchen light. Said kitchen light reflects off the mirrored closet doors in the hall and enlightificates our bedroom, especially when the bedroom door is left open. So I got up and turned off the light and crawled back into bed.

Shortly thereafter, he decided he was tired enough and came back to bed. And snored. And twitched. So I still wasn’t sleeping. And just as I was dropping back into blissful slumber, the damned cat tried to jump to the windowsill, making a gawdawful clattering noise with the blind.

I gave up just before 5. I’m up. I took the doggies out and was perplexed to see the Beetle - turns out it was a slow night and SIL was sent home early. On his second day on the job. He’s not scheduled again till next Friday night. I’m thinking this job will be replaced right soon. He’s got several other applications out, and there’s a job fair on Thursday. At least he finished his thank-you notes…

Caffeination in progress, tho I don’t hold out much hope. It’s gonna be a loooooooong day. <yawn>

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I didn’t sleep very well last night. However, my back won’t allow me to stay in bed any longer… So, here I am! I’m contemplating breakfast as to whether it will be Bagelfuls for me and freezer waffles for TVMan. Or if I should be the ‘good’ girlfriend and make pancakes and sausage. Stay tuned to find out what this crucial decision will be!!! :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

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I’d go with bagelfuls and frozen waffles CutiePie but then again I ain’t been up long and don’t wanna cook. I’m considerin’ a bagel and cream cheese shortly. Right now it’s caffiene time.

Well, let me add to the above… I have to make many chicken sallit sammiches in a bit. Ok, that’s not a bad chore but still, I gotta do it, purtify for churchification and then go do the ush thang. That makes it sound like a bad chore.

Have I sung the praises of aloe vera gel yet? Thanks to this wondrous product, my red belly, shoulders and back are not hurty and itchy. Mayhaps I should not spend time out in the sun this afternoon. We shall see. Supposed to be mid nineties today with all that wondrous south Jawja hyoomidity thrown in. It feels like it’s at least mid seventies out right now. Summer has definitely arrived.

Ok, off to make sammiches.

Later Y’all!

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I’m up and about to go wreak havoc in the garden for a little while.

GT

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Discworld novels should be available (used and new) through Amazon. And I agree, they’re great.

Bob, that is an awesome photo of you. You look very handsome.
We [DEL]looted[/DEL] brought some stuff home from my aunt and uncle’s house. We now have an unreasonable number of very pretty chopsticks, a bunch of Asian bowls and plates (little ones) and some serving dishes. And a frying pan.

Her sewing desk still has a bunch of stuff in it. I think I’ll ask Mum to dump it in a bag next time they’re there, and bring it. I can probably use a reasonable percent.

They had five rice cookers. My aunt was a bit of a packrat.

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Me, too. Our [del]promised monsoon[/del]rain ever developed, so I gotta water The Garden Of Weedin instead.

FCMom and all the other MADs got stole it from us. :mad:

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Morning. I watched the hockey game last night on my PC. The digital tuner is so good, Thrak was taking swings at the Wings goalie(Good cat!). He also decided that his rear feet were prey, and tried to kill and eat them. :slight_smile:

Pie, go with waffles. If he wants a catered breakfast, he can pay your going rate.

Fluffernutter sounds unclean, especially after donkeybear’s #5.

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Up and working.

The Bar Mitzvah looms closer everyday and I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO!!!

(it’s gonna be a really fun party, though…).

De-stress, happy place, de-stress, happy place oooooom

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Sammiches are made and I am all purtified for churchification. Just thought I’d report that. I figured y’all were on pins and needles waitin’ to know.

gt Stonebridge has the works. Golf, tennis, swimmin’ pool and a pretty decent restaurant. One can buy social memberships which AIR includes everything but golf. I don’t do golf or tennis. I have a ceemint pond in my backyard. I’m a pretty decent cook if I say so myself. Thus, I don’t see the advantage of even a social membership. The clubhouse is nice though. Nice dining facility, a nice bar and a hyuuuuuuuuuuge wrap around porch. Still, shellin’ out three or four hundred bucks a year just does not make sense to me.

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Good mornin’ MMP. Gonna have to murder WOWCrack Roommate’s kids soonest.

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Mornin’ all - up and caffeinating. I’m actually getting ready to go grocery shopping. I had a brekkie of fresh fruit and cheese along with some yogurt, so I should be good to go. laughs I must say that since I quit smoking, I have been … hoovering up food. It’s awful, but not awful enough to make me smoke again! So I just switched to hoovering up healthy stuff like fresh fruit and veggies. Tomorrow will be 4 weeks! :slight_smile:

ETA: I do know how to spell, really. :slight_smile:

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Yeah!!! Go you!!!

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Yay, herbs! Good on yer for staying off the cigs! Keep up the good work! And pass me some of those fresh fruits and veggies, would you? :smiley:

Why are you going to murder WoWCrack Roommate’s kids soonest, Spaz?

Papa Tigs also got up early this morning – and instead of letting me lie there and listen to the birds chirping, he turned on the dryer. The laundry room being next to the bedroom, it was just loud enough to drown out most of the pretty morning sounds. :frowning: At least the stoopid thing decided not to buzz; it’s on its last legs, and only buzzes occasionally. I think if it had buzzed, I would have arisen and slaughtered someone!

I slept pretty well last night; fortunately, our bedroom cools down pretty well with open windows, so it got comfy enough that I didn’t have hot flashes or anything (which I do if it’s too warm). I guess we’ll try the AC again today and see if it’s changed its mind and decided to work, but right now I can’t be arsed. I’m feeling better, but still not energetic. Oh well, better is progress…

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Howdy all.

The Powers That Be decided it would be a good idea to make me work on a Sunday again, so here I am, typing away in my little corner of our suburban paradise. Just about everyone else, including the A/C system, has the day off… so it’s boring, quiet and HOT. Ugh. Admit it, you envy me.

On the bright side, at least I have Firday off.

The Canada geese were taking their little ones for a walk this morning when I arrived at the office, so I got a honked and hissed at by a distant relative of the Angry Swan who was most upset by the fact that I was attempting to use the sidewalk near its fluffballs. :rolleyes: Maybe if they hadn’t turned the grass into a minefield of giant green turds, I wouldn’t be confined to the sidewalk. Stoopid birds.

donkeybear, I have just one thing to say right now. EEEEWWWWWWW! I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with messy, crazy, weirdo roommates any more (well, besides my four-legged ones, who are forgiven for it because they’re ridiculously cute).

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Me first! Me first!

ETA: Oh nuts, I can’t count. :smack:

Here you go- a content-free post.