Just to toot my own horn about my high school theatre days. The last show my senior year was Romeo and Juliet. I played Romeo, built most of the set, and did the lighting. And I was told that a number of young ladies came to see the show multiple times because in the “morning after” scene I was on stage in only a pair of tights.
Sunny Yoshi sounds like a clever pupper. If the weather is crap out of one door, maybe it’ll be better out the other.
It’s snowing. Should start turning to rain around 22:00.
I must have a magic touch, the missing 1099-DIV was in the mail today, so hopefully I can get my taxes done after dinner. Still raining outside, not very heavy but just dreary.
Our HS had 2,700 students and IIRC (been 50 years) there was a class you could take for credit in preparing things for a stage performance. And congrats VanGo, you had groupies before that word entered our lexicon.
Sunny, great story about Yoshi. Hey, if one door doesn’t work, maybe the other…
FCM, Toby has a great future as another Swampy or me…
OK, nothing certain for tonight except dinner and taxes. All y’all take care.
You had a fan club VanGo!
We never did Shakespeare in high school (I’m jealous). We did one musical (the choir director tended toward Rodgers and Hammerstein) and one non-musical production a year (Inherit the Wind, The Hobbit, MASH, The Teahouse of August Moon). I mostly acted in production numbers or as an extra and did backstage work.
2200 on 2/2/22? Very significant, perhaps. Or not.
I bet on a horse to win. He came in second. 
note for future me reference that day-old jack in the box jumbo cheeseburger you horfed down at 3 am? bad idea ,
Why? As long as it was in the fridge, it should have been fine.
I didn’t plan or get anything for dinner, so I cooked some ground beef and chopped onions with taco seasoning. We’ll have burritos on low-carb tortillas. And wine.
Howdy Y’all! Provisions were procured, sloth and nappage accomplished, and sup got cooked and et. Plus I went to 
Wally*World to get two black ink cartridges, as the one in the printer is kinda low and there were no spares. I was exhausted after that!
MOOOOOOM Tobster did some world class snoozin’ there! He has a great future in sloth.
Bumba sorry about your cousin. Hope the call to your aunt went well.
nuts congrats on survivin’ round one of A Thing. Appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed for round two.
All y’all with snow, well, better thee than me.
School has been canceled for tomorrow. It hasn’t even started snowing yet. Whippersnappers. But, I don’t have to go and work on the musical, so, maybe I’ll work on some other crap I gotta do.
@JaneDoe42 i seen this and thought of George
Bumbazine, working up the courage to make a call like that is hard. I hope things went well.
paintcharge, I;ve seen several high school productions of Romeo and Juliet and I think one important thing about them is that the titular characters are pretty much the age of the actors playing them. Did you use your talents to get a date?
I am nearly done cracking the black walnuts I’ve been working on for over a week. One more session tomorrow and that’s it. So far I’ve spent twenty two hours and have a little over eleven and a quarter cups of nutmeats.
I just ordered 16 pounds of coffee, plus two dozen K-pods, taking advantage of a 25% off coupon.
Then I get an email for 30% off. No way to cancel the previous order. I could have saved another eight bucks.
Taxes have been completed and filed. What I am getting back from the Feds and the State will pay for my cruise trip in May and a fair amount of the Airline ticket. So that is a good thing.
Still raining. Probably will be tomorrow, too. And I still need to take the garbage to the curb. Oh joy.
Take care all.
Napped. Dinner tonight was Italian chicken with cheesy potatoes and asparagus with garlic and Calabrian chillies.
Me:
Gordie: “The neighbors have dumped a bunch of trash on our doorstep!”
Me: “That’s the front closet, dumbass.”
: crosses fingers for Bumba : And sorry about the cousin.
((((Sunny}}}}
You have a fan club!
Help. People are giving me serious cold feet about this surgery. People keep telling me about others who had minimally invasive back surgery and had bad results. One guy uses a huge cane and can only shuffle because he can’t lift his feet. Another guy–a young one–has been off work 4 weeks and still can’t manage on his own. I googled my specific surgery to prove I won’t be facing those dangers, and every site says this surgery only relieves sciatica–which I don’t have–not lower back pain.
What if I’m making a big mistake? What if I end up worse–or even the same?
bumba, I hope the call wasn’t as hard as you feared. And I’m so sorry about your cousin.
sunny, it’s nice to have an optimistic dog.
First dibs on the mosh pit!
Howdy everyone. Another boring day. I did nothing today. It was maid day so the house is spiffed up. I tried to walk barefooted today and I am unstable without the boot so I’m guessing a couple more weeks of nursing it. Will this ever be over?
Fingers crossed for Nut’s Thing.
Best wishes for Nellie’s surgery.
Everyone else hugs.
You’re not. Remember, if the surgery was not appropriate for your diagnosis, the insurance plan would have never agreed to pay for it. They are pretty cold-hearted that way.
I think there is a significant lag between ‘off label’ procedures being credited with being appropriate. Medical/surgical science can be a plodding beast.
In my experience home nursing people with similar surgeries, they come out ahead (there will be caveats). I cannot remember anyone worse off, much less crippled. Now for the caveats: follow all post op instructions to the letter, including physical therapy and exercises and especially activity restrictions. Keep follow-up appointments. Keep expectations reasonable, there are no easy or quick cures. Hope for improvement, rather than counting on a complete fix~glass half full and all.
Back surgery doesn’t fix everything. It might fix you. It might stabilize you. It might make you worse. I will admit to being concerned with how easy your dr made it all sound. I’ve been through 3 major back surgeries and several minor ones, and I have an opinion which I hereby present. If you have the option, I think a second opinion is not a bad idea.