I come bearing a new hand sanitizer for the MMP.
We had sugar snap peas as our veggie - it was a very good supper, and I’s now stuffeded. The dishwasher is dishwashing. **FCD **just finished doing a water change in the aquarium. And I just sent a PM to BBBobbio. He and I are talking behind your collective backs. 
you owe me a new keyboard!
Spaz I believe that about everybody. 
Dindin et and trash is put out cause tomorrow is trash day in da 'hood. Big blue, brown and green trash cans make such lovely lawn art!
Da bear is tahrd and goin’ beddy bye.
Nitey Nite Y’all!
Smoked sausage and cabbage, with cornbread for dinner.
::burp::
In casual conversation no one can tell I’ve lived abroad. I have pretty much a native accent in both languages, but I sometimes make odd vocabulary choices in Korean that give me away. Or my friends will use a proverb or a more obscure idiom and I have to ask them what it means.
This cough is annoying. Very poor sleep last night. Blah.
Went to my “official” retirement sendoff today (retired back in August, but they waited until they could lump me in with this year’s retirees).
I’m a Hoosier who taught high school science in South Georgia for 26 years (furthering the reconstruction, I always claimed) and I like to think I helped a little bit in teaching the South proper diction and enunciation.
It’s always safest to assume the worst about people, I believe.
california, I attended school in the suburbs of Atlanta and very few of my teachers and peers had accents. Maybe it’s because we were near the city or something.
to Nu Yawkuz and Lawn Guylinders, I have no accent, not even a local one. To everyone else, I do. Unless I’m tired, then I sound Southern.
it’s 5:55am EDT and it’s time to
WAKE UP!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ YAWN 'Tis 70 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 98 today. Oh and no rain. Our severe weather is severe draught. I don’t want tornadoes and such, but dangit, where’s the rain!
Ok, I got nuttin’ else other than the mornin’ weather report.
I go in search of more caffiene and brekkie for rumbly tummy. Irk purtification to follow. Blurf.
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
ETA: First on Two!!! WOOHOO!!!
Blurf.
I ordered a backpack style cooler from Amazon.com over the weekend, and it came yesterday. Two. Days. Early. I wonder if I need to anti-Pit them… Anyhoo, my plan is to leave my car at the orifice tonight and catch a ride home. I haven’t decided if I’m biking or walking in the morning, but either way I don’t plan on driving. ETA: last time I walked, my regular lunch cooler got to be a bit heavy, so I ordered the backpack model. My bike has a carrier on back…
Why leave my car at the office? I usually have to go to the Navy base at least once a day, and that is best done behind the wheel. Navy drivers are crazy drivers, and I fear becoming street pizza on base much more than in town.
Carry on.
Yeah, I normally don’t have anything in the house except Hinode Calrose as it works splendidly for making, well, rice, in the rice cooker. I just can’t seem to make it edible in the chicken dish. Cook it longer and the rice gets crunchy and burnt. Add more water and get soup. 
About the only thing I haven’t tried is parboiling it, but that’s too much work, so I suffer with Unca Ben’s Perverted stuff.
It’s weird! Calrose is bulletproof, even idiotproof stuff in the rice cooker. But to cook with, it’s a heartbreaker.
[QUOTE=swampbear;MOOOOOM GMTA! Ham Steaks for dindin here too! Sides will be broccoli rice (Uncle Ben’s) and lima beans. Quick and easy cause like you said, it’s too hawt to heat up the kitchen.[/QUOTE]
This is getting creepy… There’s a ham in the fridge that’s destined to be tonight’s dinner as the forecast is for low-to-mid 90’s today.
But that’s in Australia! American ham won’t make you die. 
I feel like warmed over crap. I thought it was allergies, but now I think I have a cold. I have a dry cough that kept me awake half the night.
Blurf.
Carry on…
I’m planning on dying anyhow, does that mean I’m a pessimist?
The allergologist says I don’t have allergies. I’m not convinced. When I said I was taking actithiol (don’t look for it in your pharmacy, it’s made by a Spanish lab) she exclaimed “oh my God, you must have a horrible time finding it! I mean, it’s terribly rare, I can’t remember having ever written a prescription for it.”
Uh… color me highly confused. Why would anybody ask the allergologist for a prescription for an OTC, cheap antihistamine? It would be like asking the throat specialist for cough drops! If anybody is in such a bad financial position that those 3€/bottle are important yet has the time for doctor’s visits, they ask their GP for the script, not an allergologist. You go to the allergologist when you have hives or asthma whose triggers can’t be determined by home experimentation, and/or when your symptoms can’t be dealt with through OTC meds.
Second, she said it’s impossible to have an allergy to food without hives. OK, maybe the people I know who discovered they were allergic to seafood after collapsing during a meal simply never thought of mentioning the hives. Oh wait: at least twice when the allergy got mentioned, someone asked “you’d never had anything, no hives or anything?” “Nope, no hives, I just went boom.”
Third, they ran the contact tests and while it’s true that no other spots produced a bump as large as the one from antihistamine, several of them had gotten bright red (the color faded by the time I got called back in) and two of those were itchy (mustard and pollen from a family of plants which according to some posters I checked after reading upside-down what #3 was sheds it in winter in dry climates - I do have perma-rinitis in winter but only in dry climates, it’s one of the advantages of my wet-area flat over the dry-area town where the relatives live). Nobody asked about itchy though, although they’d mentioned it as a possible symptom. Apparently if you have any kind of reaction but it’s not a bump, it’s the same as no reaction. Oh, and my eyes and ears, which had been fine before the test, got clogged.
So maybe the mechanism isn’t histamines, which would mean that it really isn’t allergy strictu sensu but some other kind of negative reaction for which I do not have the technical name, but I do intend to stay away from mustard and it’s nice to know that “cat” doesn’t go red or itch - I can become a Crazy Cat Lady without buying stock in the makers of that oh-so-rare syrup which many pharmacists keep directly under the counter…
Yeah, I just filled out our census, and they asked if I cared about our results being public in 93 years. I doubt any of us will be alive in 93 years. I’m not concerned. Well, Gnat and TomKitten might be, but even that’s not too likely.
Up, getting kids ready, off somewhere in a few minutes.
LiLi if it’s awfully secret, horrifyin’, or otherwise juicy info, I’ll stick around long enough to read it.
Howdy from irk. Postin’ just cause I can. Waitin’ on somebody to come in for an appointment. Woo and Hoo!
We leave for CO tomorrow so we can git on a horse for days on end and slap a brand on a whole bunch of little doggies. Giddy yup.
So let me take this opportunity to go ahead and wish Clint Eastwood, Brooke Shields and Wile E a real good birthday on Tuesday, May 31st.
See y’all in a couple weeks.
LiLi, I plan on becoming immortal, I’ll make a point of looking it all up.
So we have big boomers this morning. At the first really loud rattle, two cats duck under the bed, and one brave Cuervo dashes to the open window to check on the dove and her nest. All is well, momma’s still there. Drenched, but egg-sitting.
Oh, forgot to post pics.