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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 73 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 83 with a chance of rain this afternoon. Or not. TWPTB are once again all willy-nilly on this. The big plan of the day is to help with mowage over to the church house. I’ve been kinda slack with this the past couple of times, so must today. Other than that, who knows. Sup shall be leftover sketties 'n meatballs from Tuesday with sallit and cheesey garlic bread.

Hippie congrats on the new ride!

red your laundromat tale makes me want to go hug my washer and dryer.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I shall make myself presentable enough to go mow. That means shave, brush teeth, comb hair and don’t wear a ratty tshirt.

Happy Thursday Y’all!

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Up, eating, and waiting till I have to leave for the Dr office. I’m the first appt of the day, so it should be in and out pretty quick. Then a dash into Food Lion for various and sundry stuff, followed by returning home for who knows what… Well, I know what - I need to finish setting up the new phone. I was pretty tired last night, which might explain some of my problems. I did figure out a few basics of this phone, so there’s that.

FCD has a meeting later this morning. He was asked to take over a project - a pretty big project! If it all comes together, it could mean a 4000 hour/2 year design and analysis effort that will put a pile of $$ in our bank account. And it’s showing that he didn’t really want to retire - no big surprise there. We’ve already decided if it does happen, we’ll foot the bill for Roxy’s private preschool if she doesn’t get into the county program. And, of course, we set aside some for her little brother when it’s his turn. So fingers crossed that it’s something he’ll want to do (FCD, not the impending little brother.) :smiley:

Thus begins my day. Happy Thursday!!

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Good morning to you all.

Congrats on the new ride, Hippie.

I hope all goes well with the doctor’s visit, FCM.

After work yesterday, I washed the first layer of dirt off the GOV vehicle. It didn’t make a ton of difference, but it helped. All of our cars are stored in a secure lot that has very fir trees surrounding it. Pitch dots the finish, plus there are pine needles in every place they can work themselves into. We have a 25 dollar allowance to wash the cars every month, but that gets you a basic run through the car wash. They each need a decent detail job and I wish we could get some kind of cover over the cars, but that will never happen.

At any rate, I’ll have to run the car through the car wash again when returning from dusty Yakima, but it’ll be cleaner. I need Windex the windows inside though; they are smeared to hell and back. I don’t know who did that. I couldn’t do it yesterday because the sun was beating down on the car at that point. I’ll do it sometime within the next three or four hours.

I told my husband if had come along, we could have taken my Jeep (no one but employees in GOVs) and we could have had some evening fun, plus enjoyed the scenery on the ride there and back. But, we’d need to find someone to dog sit Polar. I’m sure my son would do it, but not last minute. Besides, it’s fiscal year-end for him (state employee and a senior budget analyst), so he’s a little busy at the moment.

I’m sure the drive will be nice once I hit the mountains, but I’m not looking forward to the lessor meeting. I also have so much work to do that I’ll be working a few hours this morning, and then logging back in once I reach Yakima and check into my hotel. I’ll have to talk to my boss about credit hours because we have to ask first. :roll_eyes:

My son-in-law is coming over sometime tomorrow morning to install their old portable AC unit. I am happy about that because we’re supposed to see temps exceeding 100 degrees. That’s too freakin’ hot no matter where you live, but especially for us heat averse Pacific Northwesterner’s.

Meh, I really, really, really donwanna. I’d like to just make the drive a leisurely ramble through the mountains and leave early. That’s what I do whenever I take a road trip for fun. I like to leave very early in the morning, beating the traffic, and watching the sun come up. Then stop for a leisurely breakfast and hit the road and drive until I reach my destination, maybe stopping someplace that catches my eye or for some water or snack. But, this is work and since I’m paid for my drive to the destination, there can’t be anything really leisurely about it. Get there today and get back tomorrow is the order of the day.

In about two hours, I’ll need to go out and water all my plants to make sure they receive a good soak. I know my husband will forget and I don’t want them shriveling up in the heat.

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Good morning all. Went to bed early last night and slept well, did a lot of walking in humid heat yesterday and I guess it tired me out more than I thought. Charting my route today, I could stay on interstate about 60% of the way, but decided I’ll use the state roads, so I can get the full flavor of Mississippi…such as it is and what there is of it.

Hippie, sounds like a great ride, hope it’s everything you want.

Taters, safe drive and hope the meetings at the end are not too onerous.

FCM, sounds like FCD is still in demand for those that know the business. Hope it piques his interest.

Seanette , I’m particular about my bananas too.

OK, need to finish waking up and start packing for the cross-state travels. All ya’ll take care.

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Happy Thorsday!

It’s a bright sunshiny 61 degrees outside.
I had to grab my hoodie for the park this morning, it was 51 degrees.

We got back early as Echo decided to show her ass again this morning.
She likes to pick fights and Milo was in her sights this morning. Milo is a sweetie but for whatever reason Echo doesn’t like him. He started to come up to me and she went after him. I gave her a little time out and then she was okay, until he started playing with a stick and she wanted it.
Fortunately, it is all noise and posturing on her end, so nobody gets hurt, but it is not acceptable behavior.
She does the same thing to Panini, although in her case, Panini curled her lip at Echo and then it was game on. Panini is a very stocky pitbull, same height as Echo, but probably twice her weight and none of it is fat. Echo will have Panini cowering away from her.

This is something I have to work on or we will have to stop going to the park.

All the insurance crap has been straightened out - finally.

I had to deal with phone problems too FCM. Only it was my irk phone. The phone company changed the system and it’s causing me some issues. The way I had it set up before was that only irk and my cell phone could call the house phone. Now I’m getting all kids of bs calls from telemarketers and scammers. I still have to play with it today to get the correct settings back.
I wish I could set my cell phone to only accept calls from certain numbers and block all the rest.

Congrats on the new wheels Hippie.

Sorry I ordered from da jungle Doggio, but dog food was on sale and I wasn’t going to pass it up.

My son sent me a text last night that he was getting off early this morning. Then he sent another text saying it would be before 4. I got the call at 230 to come get him. I think he is going to learn a new word today - Uber.

Lawn guy worked 5 hours cleaning up my yard yesterday, and he is already out there irking on it this morning. I think I am going to pay him more than he is asking for, it is a lot of irk.

I got a palm tree in April and I think I’m killing it. Not sure what I am doing wrong.
I’m going to put it in the sink and give it a good soaking and see if that helps.
I have a mountain of laundry to do.
Going to be another busy day.

And MetalMouse, I think you misspelled irritating.
My life is irritating.

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Thanks all!

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I get the impression I need to lighten up during our roadtrips. :slight_smile: It probably would be fun to stop, get out of the car and enjoy a picnic and a hike before moving on, so maybe I’ll go wild and crazy and actually relax. Sadly I have a work call right around lunchtime I’ll be taking from the car, but mostly it’ll be me listening to my employee give a presentation to the muckety mucks and only chiming in if she gets stuck. After that I’m hoping not to hear from work for over a week. What in the world will I do with myself? Surely the place will fall apart without me - I’m just that important (yes, heavy on the sarcasm).

Anyway, I s’pose I should work. It’s grey and warm here - hope we’ll get some rain, though not enough to knock the power out for two and a half days again. What was most aggravating about that wasn’t that the power was out, but that the electric company did a piss poor job of communicating anything at all. The only notification I got from them after signing up for texts was a notice that my power was estimated to be on at 11 p.m. Monday, though that was 30 minutes after it had already come on.

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Successful morning!! Dr visit was good, tho they seemed more interested in asking about FCD than me! :rofl: Then again, I"m essentially healthy and he’s falling apart… (don’t dare tell him I said that!!!) :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway, it appears the half dose of statins is working well for me and my BP is staying in the good range after getting rid of one of my BP meds, so huzzah for all that! She did have a baseline EKG done so that if anything comes up in the future, they’ll know what it looked like today. And she liked the lap robe I sent in to her - turns out I picked her favorite color! Another huzzah. :smiley:

After I got home, I built a big pot of sketty sauce, and it continues to simmer for a bit longer. I’d bought some dishwasher cleaner and I ran that thru - hope it did something - at least $4 worth of something! And I finally figured out how to move my contacts. I had to do a little editing and I need to create groups (family, friends, businesses) and assign rings accordingly. One thing that’s kinda neat - this phone associates a photo with the phone number. I just need to upload some photos. More to play with.

And I need to see what other apps I need to download - I didn’t have that many on the old phone, so it won’t be a big deal. Then I’ll do a purge of the old phone because it’s going to Roxy. She was using her mama’s old phone, but it died. I still can’t wrap my head around a 3-y/o being so computer-adept! Kid cracks me up!

FCD is at his meeting - can’t wait till he gets home to find out what the deal is. But while I wait, I’ll continue to mess with my new toy. I’m not motivated to do much else today…

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Okay, okay - I’m sure that this will be interesting to only me, but I felt I must get this off my chest.

As I was typing my previous reply I realized that a bird had fallen down the inside of a hollow post we have next to the house (it was a woodpecker and just managed to make a hole through the post). It’s one of those decorative posts that’s supposed to look like it’s holding up your front porch, but doesn’t actually. Anyway, it fell down the post and can’t get out. All it can do is poke it’s tiny head out the gap in the bottom between the cement porch and the post. As I was preparing to go outside and see what I could do to rescue it without injuring it, a chipmunk came over and pooped on it. I had no idea chipmunks were so damn spiteful.

Oh, well - I’ll see whether I can perform a damage-free rescue operation. However, we had this same problem with a different post on our porch and later discovered a woodpecker boneyard. I’ll cover up the hole at the very least. I hate woodpeckers, but I feel terrible seeing a living thing suffering, only to get shat on.

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I’m downright picky about mine~I’d go so far as to say I’m a PITA about which bananas I’ll eat. Which ends up with me not eating many bananas because I would have to go to the store every 3 days to buy the ‘just right’ ones with the slightest touch of green.

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I like to do that too when I travel. Takes a little longer sometimes But it’s more interesting and I feel like I’ve been somewhere, not just the interstate which is one bland flavor most everywhere. I’m usually doing this in Nebraska and Iowa so I see a lot of corn, cattle and soybeans. Little towns can be fun, especially the cafes and bakeries. Hope you find a good lunch and I’m sure you’ll run into hospitable people.

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And some day a woodpecker will drag you into court for having an attractive nuisance. Then FCM will have to bake a file into a banana bread so you can bust out. hippie will be waiting behind the hoosegow with his spiffy new Tacoma truck to spirit you away to freedom. Those dang woodpeckers!!

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Reminds me of this:

Mrs Magill got her blood work back yesterday. Platelets and hemoglobin are in normal range (low end, but we’ll take what we can get) and her WBC is only one point below normal. She should get her antibody bloodwork back in another day or two, to see whether her vaccination took while she was low. Next month, she’s getting another bone marrow biopsy, then we’ll see if she’s truly in remission.

My brother called Fang last night to tell him that he cannot make it out to his birthday/graduation party next week. He had a job replacing the sub-floor in a house. When he pulled up the old sub-floor, he saw the joists were all rotted, so a one day job has turned into a Big Job. On the one hand it sucks he can’t come out, on the other, he really needed a Big Job, it’s been a tight year for independent carpenters.

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Busy and shorthanded again. At least it’s not so bad when it’s 62 outside. I did a load of underwear after walking Goride.

How do you know FairyChatGrandson isn’t an engineer? :wink:

Safe trip, Taters!

: grumbles and heaves giant bag of dog food northward :100:

Good luck on the bird rescue and hole covering. That is weird chipmunk behavior, but then again Gordie likes to pee on baby bunnies.

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! :banana: :banana: :banana:

wizard, :laughing:

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Great news :grinning: :tada:whee! :confetti_ball: Boo blood work happy dance :dancer:t3: :man_dancing:t2: :dancer:t3:

Nice your brother got a big job~and congrats to fang, boy wonder makes good!

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His sister certainly is. She gets an idea for something she wants built, then she tells me to build it, and criticizes as I go along… :rofl:

FCD is home. Project involves design and shock-and-vibration analysis for equipment installations aboard aircraft carriers! Cool stuff!

Sketty sauce has been divided among 5 freezer zip-lock bags and it’s on the counter cooling before it gets shoved into the freezer. And work on the new phone continues - I’m hating it less and less.

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Perhaps the chipmunk was trying to help

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While she was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on her. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, she began to realize how warm she was getting, as the dung was actually thawing her out. She lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, promptly dug her out and ate her.

Moral of the story

  1. Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
  2. Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
  3. And when you’re in deep shit, it’s best to keep your mouth shut.
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Now THAT is an excellent parable.

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Posting from my new phone to make sure it works. :grin:

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It works.

The real estate market is insane right now. We’ve just gotten a third cold call, asking us if we want to sell our house. We’re telling people that we will only consider completely unreasonable offers.