On Saturday I headed to nj for the mandolorian movie. I started coughing, just thought it was exercise asthma as I kept going up and down stairs trying to get to the patco station. Turns out since I last used patco in 2023 they have changed up the patco stations in philly. Add in that it was earlyish on a Saturday morning, many connecting tunnels were blocked off.
The cough got more frequent as the day went on, by late night I realized it wasn’t asthma. It might be the cough/sore throat thing that is going around now.
On Sunday I wake up and now have a lovely bass voice. No fever, thankfully no soreness, just coughing and bass voice. I went to the convenience store in the building for the ‘quils.
Lager is being the nurse cat and is staying with me while I hang out in the chair and watch tv. Koritza as usual comes by sniffs says some stuff and moves on.
I have done some light tidying, the list I had planned on is not happening.
Survived Memorial weekend at the joint. By the end of the night, we were - quite literally - congratulating each other.
Also, a weird, heavy fog rolled in around sunset, and by the time we closed it was a thick pea soup. We all admonished each other in the parking lot when we were (finally!) leaving to be super careful going home, since drunks + poor visibility is a bad combo.
Ran to the dispo on my break, was served by their manager, and then a coupla hours later HE comes by MY window for a pizza. Hilarity ensued.
Perhaps a Mumper more tech savvy than me can set up within our MMP a way we can share wise mantras from our mothers (and fathers and aunties…). I’m sure there are some great ones here. Any thing goes.
Aptly named MMP this week - I just got home from buying some postcards for the SDMB Postcard Exchange! First time I’ve done it and I’m quite excited.
I’ve read along and mostly kept up but haven’t had the energy for posting. I’m glad to see most everyone is either doing okay or on the up-swing!
2026 has been a mixed bag for me, but overall positive I think. I bought a house at the beginning of the year and home-ownership hi-jinks immediately commenced. Two days after moving in, I was snowed in for a week, during which time various small repair gremlins immediately reared their head - the most concerning of which was a toilet that began to crack due to the extremely cold water. Fortunately was able to get it replaced that day before it came apart and flooded anything.
In early March, I felt comfortable putting down a deposit for new windows (yay!). Three days later we got hammered by a massive hailstorm (boo). So then insurance paid for a new roof, new garage door and repainting the house, minus my deductible of course. Those repairs have all been completed, and while none of that was ever in the plans for the near future, I think it turned out quite nicely.
Let’s see if this before and after works… (if it does, please ignore the sad state of the flower bed. It’s on The List, but the frickin list keeps getting longer)
In the midst of dealing with all of that, my father died in an unfortunate accident and he lived about 8 hours away. It was even more difficult than it needed to be due to 1) a police investigation due to the nature of it (nothing was found) and 2) he wasn’t legally married to his wife. Power of attorney apparently expires on death so none of the officials or funeral home would deal with his wife, I had to as legal next of kin.
Finally had his celebration of life last weekend and got back home last Sunday… to a flooded kitchen. The dishwasher decided it wasn’t going to go out peacefully and ruined the kitchen flooring. So the dishwasher has been replaced but the flooring will have to be replaced at some point in the future.
Oh my I’ve really driveled quite a bit. Apologies to anyone that made it through all of that.
July will be 15 years since I retired from my Fed job. I finally retired from my miscellaneous short term gigs right before COVID hit, so I haven’t been gainfully employed for over 6 years..
Yet I continue to labor - we spent about 4 hours on the boat today removing the wires and cables from the old radar system. Chasing wires is always fun…
We took Otis with us and he wandered around on deck watching people and boats, then came in the cabin and crashed on the settee. So no unpleasant surprises when we came home. Whew!
Love this expression - I must remember it next time it’s appropriate. (BTW - cute house!!) FCD almost jinxed us - he started to say something about replacing the dishwasher - it’s almost 22 years old, so we’re truly on borrowed time. But anyway, I managed to stop him before the curse settled. I think. At least when/if it does happen, it won’t be a crisis like a fridge going kaput. Hand-washing dishes isn’t fun, but it is doable.
We’ve had spitty rain on and off, and NWS says it’ll continue for the next 2 days. We’ll see. For now, it’s chillage at home.
Howdy Y’all! We actually did have a little bit of cee-mint pond time today. The sun came out for almost two hours late mornin’ so we took advantage. Now it’s cloudy and rain is expected within the next hour. We geezer supped and 'twas good! We had burgers, dawgs, corn on the cob (for OYKW, I cut mine off the cob cause I don’t like to bite into a corn cob), baked beans and slaw. We will have watermelon in a bit and then haul the biiiiiig trash can all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow. Thus is the news from swampland.
doggio I am aghast that I did not know today is Towel Day! I shall go hug my bath towel in hopes of makin’ amends.
Nuts hope you feel better soonest and that the charts become ruly.
Mollie the answer is always sloth. Then again I am a RDOS, so sloth is my default mode. Also the only normal people are those you don’t know very well.
Pilot barfin’ in only the finest places is a sure sign of class! Of course whoever did that went back to their table. Once one has puked one’s guts out, one has room for more.
WetOne have fun bathin’ Ariel. Ariel, have fun bathin’ mom!
Cookie give ‘em hell! No excuse for the a/c not bein’ on.
rocker feel better soonest!
{{{52}}} so sorry about your father! You’ve had a lot to deal with as of late. The house looks good! I replaced da cave windows with those type windows and could not believe how much better it looked.
joint. By the end of the night, we were - quite literally - congratulating each other.
