I’ve never won an award, major or minor.
Eggz is on sale today only at Jewel. $.79 a dozen, limit 2. I went at 6:45 this morning to avoid the crowds. I now gots 2 dozen eggz.
Last Thursday I caught some swag bucks for production. As for a more trophy award, last August; Bessie and I got the big People’s Choice trophy at a bigger bike show in central PA.
Your mention of the race reminds me that a friend send around a notice last week for a combination snowshoe race and flintlock shoot. I get the impression that its going to go slightly like a biathlon.
Ran a bunch of stuff to the Thrift Store to drop off and was a very good boy; I didn’t go inside and shop thus refilling the car I had just emptied. I am rather proud of myself.
Blurf. We have Storm Henry today, he’s been blowing a gale around my building all day and shows no signs of moving on. Hopefully he will speed me on my way to the bus stop to go home!
I win an award every day for coming to irk, right? Apparently it’s called “wages”…other than that, there’s my firebreathing award (Guinness World Record) and my promotion which surely must be some sort of award?
Busy times for me, I am still doing several jobs as well as my new one and getting nowhere fast. The weekend went by in a blur, and it already seems ages until the next one!
Huzzah for lunch break. I beat the library part problem into submission pretty easily, plus fixed a couple of drawings for Adam, so I had a productive morning. Theoretically, Dave will give me more library parts this afternoon. We shall see.
It’s sunny and almost 60°, but a band of rain is moving this way. We shall see how that stacks up.
Grease Live was on last night, so, “Tell me more, tell me more!” PM me the info IF I could borrow one of your flintlocks.
I got a good three hours of noveling done this morning. For that I award myself lunch.
It’s another lovely day of schizophrenic NC weather. It’s in the mid-60’s out there. I opened the windows to air out the Stately Manor.
butters, I tend to put 60K miles on tires before buying new unless I run into a road hazard.
Emily, I’m envious. I like comic operas.
I regularly bring a ribbon home from the county fair for craftwork. Other than that, the last one I got was a couple of years ago at irk. I brought home the Rock Star award for the support teams, which included a tee shirt, a semi-primo parking slot for the quarter and $100 in rewards bux.
While **2gig ** is probably right, if these are the original tires with a new car, the manufacturer does not always use, shall we say, the top-of-the-line tires. Alos depends on your driving, have you had to do panic stops on a frequest basis, or jackrabbit starts? Both can wear a tire.
I replaced my original tires (new 2010 Chevy) at around 48,000 miles in mid-2015 with a ‘60,000’ mile set (not cheap!). YMMV.
Would suggest checking the thread wear as 2gig suggested, there is something about using a dime and Roosevelts noe, IIRC (I’m sure it is somewhere on the 'net). Hopefully you should have at least 15,000 more miles left on them.
NO??? REALLY??? :p:cool:
Speaking of comic operas, my theatre group (I play in the orchestra) is performing *The Merry Widow *soon.
Oh, and I helped a friend with a music score this morning, so that was nice.
I seem to be hanging out on the board a lot today, mainly for organizing the exchange thing. May be somewhat busy off-board for the next little while, but I’ll try to check in here when I can.
Back to work on music soon.
I had a consult with an oral surgeon about implants for three missing teeth and my fucked-up jaw. (Fucked up because of an accident and it’s gotten a lot worse over time.) The treatment plan, all told, comes to about $20,000 before insurance. :eek: The nice clerk at the surgeon’s office is going to submit it to all three insurance companies to find out how much they’ll cover and how much I’ll need to raise for the gofundme campaign.
FML.
There are tread wear indicators on the tires too. It’s the raised ridge in between the treads themselves. When the treads are even with the indicator, it’s time to replace.
As for the coins, hat I always heard was if you put a penny upside-down between the treads and you can see the top of Lincoln’s head, that also means it’s time to replace.
goes out to check her own tires
Thinking waaaaaaaaaaay back to 1975, I was awarded Petty Officer of the Month when I was a technician in VS-41. It came with a plaque and a parking space, but since I worked mids, the parking space didn’t count. Plus I rode a bicycle, so it didn’t matter. 
One of my most proud awards was for a gong show where I played my accordion. The prize was a broken and wobbly baseball trophy! I displayed that in my cubicle for years. Dunno what became of it, alas…
My day is winding down - I done been bizzy! I may encounter rain on the way home, or I may not, but it’s getting close.
The next time I take the car to the dealership I will make sure to have them check the tires for wear but I would think if they are rotating them they would do that anyway but you never know. My husband can fix anything except cars so I don’t depend on him. The thought of blowout scares me to death especially on the dangerous highway I drive on everyday. Can’t have nothing happening to **Lucky Louie/B]!
Howdy Y’all! Moanday has been survived. YAY! The day went quick and I got all the month end stuff done and submitted. Nice to not have interruptions. I could concentrate on gettin’ all that out of the way.
Burgers and oven fries for dindin. OYKW shall grill when he gets here which should be anytime now. I’ll do the fries, fry some bacon (while fully clothed thankyouverymuch), saute some ‘shrooms, and prepare the fixin’s for burgers whilst he grills. Yes, I will allow him to grill. He’s actually very good with grillin’ stuff. Especially when he has an ice cold beerverage like the ones I stuck in da freezer will be shortly.
It feels like Spring outside. The current temp is 76 Amurrkin!
I just replaced the tires on my 2004 Ford Explorer with BF Goodrich heavy duty tires. The previous ones lasted 70k and close to 8 years, not counting the time they spent on a horse trailer (the truck is my old work truck which blew an engine at 142k. I bought it from them for $200 and dropped a new engine in it 2 years later, meanwhile the wheels and tires filled in on a trailer for a year or so.)
Will probably do the same for the pickup later this year. Got the tires for a deal through work, so it was only about $800 instead of the expected $1000. The pickup will be closer to $900 if I go the same route.
STILL waiting on the plumber, though they were wise enough to call me awhile ago and assure me they were still coming, though later. My blood pressure was rising, for sure.
Sorry about the bad news on the ortho MsRobyn. A coworker got full implants top & bottom last year. After insurance, $50k. His father had to spring for it. Tough for a guy already in his 60’s.
EmilyG- I just saw The Elixir of Love last year. My son was playing in the orchestra. It’s the only opera I’ve seen and I was expecting it to be boring. I was very pleasantly surprised and just loved it.
Sorry about the bad dental news MsRobyn!
Today has been less stressful than it was threatening to be. Fingers crossed that the rest of the afternoon and evening don’t suck. It has been crazy windy here though and my contact lenses don’t love it.
Well my point of sale system is down and therefore we are dead in the water. I hate to turn customers away. It just goes against everything we are here for. FML too.
Thanks for the sympathy, y’all. I’m stressing over the money, but I’m not going to panic until the insurance estimate comes back. It may be a lot less than I think it’ll be. We’ll see. In the meantime, though, I have to get an MRI and pray that my health insurance will pick that up.
Dindin has been ingested. YUM! We even dined upon the table on the back porch which we won’t be able to do again until sometime in April. The pine trees will begin their annual pollen orgy in the next couple of weeks and that will continue until at least late March. Sticky yellow pollen everywhere. ICK!
Robyn here’s hopin’ the dental stuff works out in your favor money wise.
Butters that’s right. Can’t have anything happen to sweet Lucky Louie.
**Robyn **- is there a dental college near you? I understand sometimes you can get good care for lots cheaper there. No personal experience, but it may be worth looking into…
Supper is done and cleaned up. We had ham-cabbage-n-onions cooked together, then a side of N.O.T. lumps fried with onion. Tasty. No dessert tho, dammit.