Happy Thursday!
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. Sis will be here later to do our girls’ day, so another RDOS for both of us.
I got my poop in a box thingy yesterday. I’ll be thinking of doggio when I mail it off. 
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
So ask me how my birthday is going.
I was backing up in a parking lot and another car back out first. It was 45 deg parking and I checked when I was starting to back out, but didn’t look at the very end. We just barely touched, but with cars these days, it means that their whole bumper needs to be replaced. No damage at all to my car. I sent off the report to the insurace company. The guy is 87! and really good health. It winds up that he lives a few blocks from one of my friends. The policeman remembers me from when he stopped by to say hello.
SenGirl’s class is climbing a mountain tomorrow in the 6°C weather and she suddently came down with a cold today. I let her stay at home, but then when I went to school, her best friend ratted her out and explained that SenGirl had said she hoped she got a cold and wouldn’t have to go.
I let her know that there’s a possibility she’s not really that sick, but also didn’t say that she had to go.
So, she’s really unhappy with me tonight. Oh well, that’s what parenting is about.
SenWife left today for a business trip to Taiwan for 10 days. She was unhappy because the accident made her walk to the trainstation (about 15 minutes, pushing her suitcases). I can understand her being pissed.
So that’s how my birthday went.
And on other news:
SenBoy plays futsal and their club at school has only been going for several months. He’s in 9th grade as are most of the kids on the team. They played a high school from a nearby city and got smoked. 26 - 0. They have played other teams, who didn’t try that hard so it was good for them to see what reality looks like.
They had game intraschool match today with the 9th graders against high schoolers and the coach. It’s the first game for me to watch and it’s a lot of fun. At least that was a fun thing on my birthday.
Well, I gave up. The amount of sleep I got last night could be measured in minutes, not hours, unless you want fractions, and at this point, I don’t. I don’t know why I couldn’t fall asleep. I was finally drifting off at about 3:45 when the phone rang. Nothing gets your heart pounding like a phone call in the wee smalls. The phone said “AMAZON.” Here is the exchange:
Driver: 1951 NO.
Me: I’m sorry, what?
Driver: Is no. 1951 NO.
Me: I’m having trouble understanding you.
Driver: No speak English.
Me: Are you at the gate [to the complex]?
Driver: No speak English.
Me: Try using ____. (My code.)
Boooop!
Driver:[hangs up].
But then, nothing…no sound of a truck pulling up and no headlights. I start trying to figure out the scam. I check Amazon: it says my delivery truck is nearby and shows it down the street. Finally, 10 minutes later, I get a “Delivered” notification. After another 10 minutes, I hear a truck leaving.
Question: Don’t you have to be fairly fluent in English to be an Amazon driver? Or to get a Class C license? I’m trying to imagine driving a delivery truck in, say, Greece, when I don’t speak Greek. Yikes.
Yesterday I joined a friend for lunch. She invited me, but it was her birthday, so of course I paid. We had a nice time, but I got a text asking me to walk Max, so we parted after lunch. Then I got a text to walk Ms. Dog, my freebie dog, which I’ll do this afternoon. Starting tomorrow I have Charlie the Chill Dog PLUS will cat-sit for the same customer. That goes 'til Tuesday. Walks will be shorter than usual due to back pain.
shoe, as we know from experience, when you don’t rest or don’t eat well, your body ultimately crashes. It breaks my heart that you’re so worn out all the time.
FCM, when our black lab was 4 (and still a puppy in lab years), she used to nibble on our hands as we walked by. One day my daughter, then 6, said, “I know why she does that! It’s because our hands have BONES in them!” Just a sweet and slightly creepy insight from long ago. Yay for the training going so well!
Ours was bloodborne pathogens. They showed the same film every year. Inone scene, a teacher heads toward a paper cutter, and we teachers, conscious of the subject matter and being the prescient lot we were, would yell “NOOOOO!” Eventually, we started cheering when he came on screen. You have to admire the guy: a klutz with the cutter, true, but a klutz with an inexhaustible supply of thumbs.
Well, turns out Daughter took today off (tomorrow is her RDO) so she’s probably on the road to Akron. Which is good because I worry about her driving alone at night. I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have AAA. Anyway, she should get to Casey’s house at a decent hour.
This is what my University used to call it, and at the end every year I would text my wife and declare “I am now trained in sexual harassment!”.
They changed it to “sexual harassment prevention training” or some such a couple of years ago.
Anyway, seems it may actually finally be fall. We’ve had at least two, maybe three false falls already this year, so we’ll see.
Normal Thursday for me. A few hours of teaching, then home. Wife has rehearsal, so as usual we’ll have to wait until the weekend to actually see each other.
The US Army (DoD) changed it to “Prevention of Sexual Harrassment”, so for years I had to go to “POSH” training…
Will get up after the last You Tube and head out for awhile. Take care all.
Mornin’ all.
It’s 52°F and cloudy outside. We’ll top out at 65°F today, and it’ll remain mostly cloudy. By tomorrow, an atmospheric river will have moved in, and it’ll supposedly be very soggy.
Shoe, I’m sorry you’re not able to get proper rest. I hope things calm down soon.
Nellie, I, too, had a night measured in minutes. I went back to bed around 3:30 and slept on and off for a couple more hours. I hope you have a better night tonight.
FCM, safe travels for your daughter. Also, you asked about the foraging knife. I can and have used a simple folding knife or pocket knife. A foraging knife generally has a kind of curved blade, and often comes with a brush on the hilt so you can sweep dirt and needles off the mushrooms. I got this. Foraging knife. The one that I had was a really good one, that remained sharp, and I’m upset that it’s been misplaced. My “extra” knife was in its spot. I have a separate brush that I was using with the other knife, but it’s handy to have it all in one hand.
I, too, remember the annual sexual harassment training—mostly the same every year, except for the videos for DoD and USDA. There was also the usual security training every year. Fortunately, my last organization offered a test-out option, which I always took and passed at 100%. I always thought the name (POSH) for DoD was dumb.
I’m thinking about volunteering somewhere so I have something to do regularly. I mean, there is only so much rollsucking and weeding one can do, and I need to be a little busier. I don’t want to sit around watching TV all the time, and lately I’ve been watching far too much.
Welp, once again, there isn’t all that much to report from my little corner of the world. I guess I’ll finish my coffee and get back to tidying the house.
Take care!
So today I was on the 300 Slide, with occasional forays to the 300 Sort Table. Either the SSLAWs were down or Yellow Belt was jammed, because it was overloaded all sort. There was the obligatory smashed case of Italian porcelain floor tile from Home Depot in the damages, but I was out early. I did my Senior Day shopping, $163(I bought beer and coffee beans since they were on sale, but still…). When I got home, Spot had hornked on my couch, and was being annoying because I was cleaning cold cat chunks off the back of the sectional instead of playing with him. When I did try to give him attention he started biting, because psychotic hellbeast.
Is it actual useful training, or just corporate/academic buzzword bingo. Because if’s the former, I have candidates.
To be fair, back in the 70’s the KGB did try to hit up a Grumman engineer. But they sent Boris instead of Natasha, so all they got was a visit from FBI Counterintelligence.
Just make sure it’s securely taped, unless you want a visit from Dan the HazMat Man.
I learned something, and now I’ll get 6 months of pop up ads for 'shrooms and knives. Thanks.
HAPPY belatedBIRTHDAY SENSEI!!!
Sorry it wasn’t the best.
We don’t have that, just what to do with Hazardous Materiel. And apparently the answer to “What do you do if you encounter a leaking, smoking package” isn’t “Run like hell!”
That is so cool. So years from now, “Peach Cobble” will be its own urban legend.
I hope she shows up - her daughter needs to have a unicorn jewelry box.
Benjamin was here earlier. There were a lot of trees with very pretty leaves that are now bare and there are leaves everywhere. Some of the gusts were the strongest since December 1999. And now it’s clear and getting cold.
I’m sorry. I laughed. Hope the rest of your day improved.
Got a bit wet at lunchtime as it was pouring and gusting, so umbrellas weren’t very useful. The storm’s past now, and I might have to find my warmer coat for tomorrow morning.
Hubby’s definitely got a cold, but I just have a runny nose and a bit of a headache. I don’t have the blah that he does. We’re going to hold down the couch and drink tea in front of the TV. How exciting.
Maybe have some scotch. Purely for medicinal purposes, of course.
We’re dragging a bit today after yesterday’s outing. I still need to pick up my glasses from Costco, but can’t gin up the energy to do the ten minute drive today. Slept pretty good, though. I thought I would be having some pain in my arthritic hand today because of the torquing I was doing with it loading the canned goods yesterday, but it’s no worse than normal.
The activities person mentioned that she wants to put up a veterans’ display board in the building, which I’m actually a bit excited about. There is zero acknowledgement at this point. What’s weird is how people still seem to get nervous if you mention being a Vietnam vet. WTF? It was 50 years ago! Anyway, I’ll likely get involved with the effort, as an advisor if nothing else.
There’s some irony to someone who hasn’t had health insurance in many a year & is way overdue for one of these herself, to be getting this suggestion.
Maybe they’d let me practice on myself?
I gotta yank on pants & run to work in a second, but I want to thank all y’all (very especially @LSLGuy ) for your recent kindness. It was sorely needed.
Finally, guess who found the bush or weed or whatever somewhere nearby that grows those sticky burrs for seeds? Guess. Just guess.
Hint: black fur, likes to go exploring where he ought not to explore.
When this training was brand new (circa 1980) I was stationed in the Pentagon, and being the most junior officer in my group, I was sent. Incidentally, the only female also. When I got back to the office afterwards, far too many of the senior officers thought it would be funny to say “OK, harass me!!!” They were a decent lot and I just laughed it off. A few years later, everyone was required to attend. I went to one form or another of the class annually till 2011. That’s 31 years!!! eeeesh
Yeah, I know it happened (happens?) but the videos we had to watch were just a tad over the top.
People will wonder why the"r" was left off the end and what dessert has to do with a water feature. 
Had a nice walk with Otis. Then we got back and I went into the yard with him. At that point he started jumping, barking, and biting. Oh, yeah, when he first got here, FCD would “play fight” with him in the yard, getting him jumping and barking… coincidence?? Anyway, another behavior we need to correct. Meanwhile, I won’t go in the yard with him alone. He gave me some more bruises today and I’ve reached my bruise limit.
His other training is going great. He’s mastered all the skills we learned in class last week, and FCD is even working on getting him to lie down. He’s really pretty smart, but he is somewhat stubborn, and he’s obviously still a puppy, wanting to rassle. It was lots easier rasslin’ our pug.
If you’d said she instead of he, I’d have guessed our late, great Bernie. She’d come home with all sorts of interesting sandspurs in her coat when we lived in FL.
OK, Otis is confined to the back yard. I’m going to chill.
Dermatologist called. The spot on my foot was pre cancerous but they got it all. Clean edges.
i would add gesticulating arms and aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh sounds to the running.
happy birthday sensei!
good news on the edges, suntanlotion.
Barring something unexpected in tomorrow’s exam, my mom should be able to go home on Moanday. So I’ll plan to go see her on Weds or Thurs. She’ll be getting PT/OT at home three times a week as long as she needs it. So, good news there.
We opened Peach Cobble today. Big hit. I was out there trying to take measurements for the dams I’m making, but too many kids were playing with it, shooting water up into the air, splashing around, even though it only got up to about 55 ferrets. One smart gramma who was at the opening celebration brought her littles back later in the day with garden boots. The older sister was a hoot, ordering her little brother around.
Howdy Y’all! We were B.W.L. at Asia hog trough Buffet and then had a ramble that took us through the countryside that just about led back to da cave. It lead us to a road that connected us back to the main road, so about five miles from da cave. Fun and really nice drive. That wore us out so we needed nappage. Then we day drank and watched more episodes of a silly mid seventies to early eighties British sitcom called “Good Neighbors” which started out as “The Good Life” but changed names somewhere along the way. I also watched two more episodes of “Royalty “ on Tubi. Tubi is free, which is good, but comes with some annoyin’ ads. Not long ads, but still annoyin’. IOW, we had a high RDOS day.
Did anyone have to suffer through one of those “leadership (insert name of town) trainin’ things? I had to do one once cause irk thought it would be fun to sponsor me. Once a month for a year I had to spend all day “learnin” stuff about local gummint, businesses, nonprofits etc. The lunches were good. That last sentence summed up what I got out of it.
Aaah, yes. SHAT. I used to just love that wasted day.
Been a couple warm and wonderful days of RDOS here. I’m trying with less than complete success to slowly turn the supertanker of unhealthy habits in the name of fun towards healthy habits in the name of vigorous longevity. Some progress, some setbacks.
Was out front, with Moley and I thought it started to rain, but it was a hail storm like I’d not seen before!
Do you carry that sheathed?
Happy birthday sensai! I hope that it gets better.
Sis and I found a good little junk shop today. I’m thinking that they do estate clean outs and get paid on both ends. They had a few art pieces that were well priced for what they were, but mostly stuff that you’d find at grandma’s. I got a pad of cardstock and a pancake turner and Sis found some wire that she’ll use in jewelry making. They also had tools and furniture, so we think it would be a good place to drop BIL off when we want to do something else.