Well, lessee, tousled blond hair, blue eyes, verrrry nice smile - sure, if you like that sort of thing. Personally, I’m not into men who are prettier than I am. But stunning looks aside, he’s a very nice person and I’d have no problem allowing him into my house, so he’s at least equal to you and BBBobbio.
**doggio **- do you have that xray on your phone? **Tugig **did.
It’s getting light out. I really should get dressed and get ready for my trip to the monster mulcher, but I don’t want to. Oh, it’s so difficult to be me… <posture of woe>
I’ve regaled y’all many times about my mom and the tulip on her her headstone, so I’ll just mention the story on the assumption you remember it. Told much less often is my tale of attempting to bribe the funeral director. Mom also had a reputation for being late for everything. I thought it would be fun to bribe the funeral director driving the hearse to get lost on the way to the cemetary so she would be late for her own funeral, but he wouldn’t go for it.
There’s a minor problem with my coffee mug that I need to address. There’s more coffee in it than in me. At least I finally found my mug. I was not enjoying the foam plastic cups from the cafeteria.
I think I’ve finally gotten Uverse to work properly. Took two additional truck rolls and polite but heartfelt threats to the customer service people. The last time I called for help, they said it would cost me $149 for the replacement box plus $55 for the service call. I said “Uh-uh. This stuff was installed four weeks ago and it’s still not working. If you’re going to charge me to fix it, get me Retention right now as I’m going to cancel and go back to Dish Network.” Next person on the line was polite and apologetic and 55 minutes later, a tech arrives. Imagine that.
It’s been two days now, and none of the boxes have gone dead or rebooted. An all-time uptime record. Everyone’s said “Oh, those new wireless boxes are wonderful!” Perhaps they are if you don’t live next door to a fire station and all of their radio transmitters.
DH learned a new lesson yesterday - If you want to mow the lawn and are home alone, put house keys in your pocket. I had to leave work early to let him in.
I have only been vaguely paying attention, and I know there’s this thing called Google, but what is Uverse?
I had a very nice lunch with Fairy Chat Mom yesterday. With everything going on in my real life it is such a pleasure to go meet very nice, intelligent, pleasant people who I would never have a reason to know otherwise. Lunch was enjoyable and if it were not for work I would have sat there for hours.
I think it solidifies that I will have to host a get together in Annapolis in a few months. I’ve been hanging at the MMP because I get enough stress and conflict IRL. It was great to put a face to a posting friend and I am determined we’ll have to do lunch again in the future.
Mom thank you for a lovely day! I was in a great mood the rest of the night, and even after what work threw at me I was still in a good mood when I headed home last night.
I plan to be creamated, but if not, for Heaven’s sake bury me in my Simon & Garfunkel shirt. (plus also my glasses!) Moooooom & Tugig, sounds like ya’ll had fun! I’m jealous! roo, killing’s too good. Better slow torture instead HUGS Wile E.HUGS I’m so sorry to hear this. Soapy, that was a beautiful OP. hugs Hope you are doing ok.
Need to work some more on the kitchen, clean the car inside & out, go to the grocery sto,’ & go to the dollar sto’ . Since I am a lazyass, this seems like a rather ambitious plan to me. We’ll see. :dubious:
Well, that was fun. I pulled the truck and trailer on to the driveway, filled the truck bed with the cut up tree parts that **FCD **hacked up on Monday, added a few more branches to the trailer, then strapped it down, filled the truck with gas (:eek: $107 :eek: ) before heading down to the landfill. I gave the nice lady $10, then drove next to the giant pile of yard waste waiting to be mulched. It took about half an hour to unload the truck and trailer - alas, no one showed up and offered to help, but I did get a good workout, and it’s pretty out, so fresh air and all that… And now I’m back, grubby and in need of a shower. And lunch.
**Tugig **- I told **FCD **about where you live - we think the yacht club you mentioned is next to the marina where we used to keep a boat in the late 90s. Small world! I’ll know for sure when we come to your wild orgy… um, get together…
Slight chance of t-boomers this afternoon, but that won’t much affect me. The balance of my day will involve running errands and getting an EKG, not mucking about in the yard. I’ll save that for tomorrow. But for now, I need to de-grungify and forage for some lunch-like substance.
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Depends on who you ask, and who installed it. If it works, it’s the best thing to happen to TV since color. If it doesn’t, well, you were wanting to catch up on reading, weren’t you?
Nominally, it’s a service from AT&T that rolls together high speed data, voice phone and TV, all delivered by VDSL. It’s borderline cutting edge technology to install in a house for normal non-geeky people to use. The problem is if the thing was installed by untrained dingos, it probably won’t work well.
When it works, it’s nice. Internet at up to 24 meg, two VOIP phone numbers, hundreds of TV channels and the ability to record up to four programs at the same time on the DVR. The “cable boxes” at each TV can work via Wi-Fi, so you’re no longer limited to where someone ran coax cable. Want to watch TV in the back yard? No problem.
If you live next to a fire station, the wireless will be unstable, and you’ll probably wind up stringing 2,000 feet of Cat5 LAN cable through the house to give the boxes a good wired connection, then thrust into learning networking topics like QoS, traffic shaping and IGMP snooping. Not a huge problem for the geeky, but it utterly fails the Mom Test.
doggio & kanga my conference call finished up at 5.11PM. It is our monthly review that is held in Houston but us po’ folks at the division level have to call in. I was fried afterwards.
And today I have been dealing with the ongoing saga of me not wanting to take 6 months worth of unnessessary heavy duty anti-biotics because the local health dept does not believe I had the BCG vaccine as a child. I have no risk factors or exposure risk for TB and a clear chest X-Ray so the actual county TB nurse doesn’t believe I have latent TB but the only way to rule it out and confirm the positive skin test is from the childhood vaccine (every Brit I have talked to who has done this has the positive skin test because of it) is to do the blood test that my county doesn’t offer. The want me on 6 months of expensive heavy duty mess your liver function up medication because they don’t offer the blood test. I asked if I paid for it is there somewhere I can get it done…ooooh but it is really really expensive…how much says I given at this point I will take out a bank loan to get this overwith…$80 in the main state TB office. Done deal! So off I go and I get over there and fill out paperwork and wait then they tell me because I had a ‘live’ vaccine last week they can’t do the blood test as it will show a false positive. I need to wait at least another 3 weeks before they can do it. :smack::smack::smack:
I swear… : desk face plant : I give up. I didn’t want a greencard anyway. I surrender. This is why people give up on the whole immigration process and just stay illegally.
Waiting patiently 3 more weeks it is…patiently yeah that’s it!
rosie, I don’t know how to tell you, but it’s Tuesday afternoon… Should we have **BBBobbio **round you up in his bambilance?
**mmmmmmm **- it’s all part of the citizenship test. You have to prove you have the strength to endure the idiocy and bureaucracy (or is that redundant??) Plus it’s the primary way of routing out terrorists. No really - I read it on teh intrarwebz!!
I have resolved my issues at the MVA, gotten my EKG, and delivered it to the surgical center. I also picked up a package of ground beef - with extra pink slime!! - to make a meatloaf for supper tomorrow. Now, to decide what we’ll have for supper tonight…
ems, that is a huge pain. You have my condolences.
Over here, Dad has had several good days. I’m trying not to let my brain think that it means he’s better. He’s not. He’s having good days, and the next time there’s any sort of stressor, the Alzheimer’s will rear its ugly head and chew on any person nearby.
Bro redeemed himself by cleaning the kitchen last night after I made dinner. First try ever at meatloaf. (Seriously, it was just never made during childhood.) Dad actually ate it some, though he preferred the crust and pried the crust off the remaining meatloaf and then gave me tips on how to get a thicker crust next time. (Next time? Dad wants a next time? Do you see why my brain is having problems?) I made N.O.T.s as well, but there, my luck ran out. The milk had gone sour, so I had to pitch half the potatoes. Then, the mixer died halfway through its job. Consequently, the NOTs were runny and lumpy. I was extremely aggravated.
Mom snored so bad last night that I bought Breathe Right strips for her.
One of my lavender plants - which had reached two feet in diameter from being a 4" pot plant - died suddenly. I suspect the landscaping guys accidentally hit it with some herbicide. Grrrr. I’m replacing it with iris, as those are Mom’s favorite.
I’m also planting some moss and an asparagus fern where the ground under the faucet is always damp, putting in some icelandic poppies in a bare spot, putting in my tomato plants with their stakes, and replacing the hose sprayer that disintegrated. If there’s any time after that, I’m going to the gym.
How on earth did my day get so busy when I’m not even holding down a paying job?
**pouka **I think you are right you can’t *count *on these good days, but sure as hell take them and enjoy them!
I loooooooooove meatloaf! It’s one of my favorite foods of all time. I like the crunchy parts and the rest of it. I could eat meatloaf sandwitches and watch my health deteriorate to nothing and still think I had it good.
To me meatloaf is a Zen thing - it’s a food of calm and happiness. My mom made it when I was growing up, and yes I enjoy her meatloaf, but I really got into it when I started making it myself.
um, well, that was a test. Yeah, that’s it, a test…
Just finished cleaning up my mom’s photobucket account. She uploaded a bunch of pictures without resizing them, so it took for forever, plus she uploaded a lot of duplicates. But I deleted the dupes and resized the rest. I need to get on her machine but my sister installed kapersky anti-virus and it prevents the TeamViewer from working. Dammit! She didn’t need Kapersky - she has Microsoft Security Essentials. I wish my sister would quit helping. *grrrrrrr *And I won’t be up there again till next month.
Still haven’t come up with anything for supper. I should probably start on that now. Off to the kitchen with me…
But stunning looks aside, he’s a very nice person and I’d have no problem allowing him into my house, so he’s at least equal to you and BBBobbio. 
