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yawn I made it to Indianapolis. And I’m already sick of driving. Oh well, at least the speed limits will go up from here. Ohio was incredibly annoying, because there’s a low limit and they actually – gasp! – seem to enforce it!

Now I have to wait awhile and call my new landlord and find out how he wants to get the key to me, since unless something strange happens I’ll be getting there Saturday. I also have to talk to my aunt because she’s going out of town for a few days, and I know she’s leaving Wednesday but I don’t know when she’s getting back and I should probably know that since she’s going to be my boss and all.

I love this computer. I love wireless internet. Especially free wireless!

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Oh, WileE, I read your eye thread and that sounds awful. Hope it improves quickly.

Hope Alabaster Bunny continues to have a safe trip. Didja wave at me as you drove through Ohio while carefully maintaining the speed limit? (I always laugh as I cross the border into Michigan because the traffic speed suddenly jumps about 20 mph; there’s never any doubt that you’ve crossed the border).

rigs - aha - he needs an audience. How nice. :rolleyes:

LOUNE, I could almost see your big puppy-dog eyes begging for crablegs…

Hope you have a safe trip to Toronto, lots of fun with the Dopers you’re meeting up with (we expect pics at least of you and LiLi, of course), and success in your quest for the replacement visa.

Safe trip to QueenB also.

I’ve been home since about 4:00, trying to finish the clean-up effort. I’ve done two loads of laundry (I think I have one small one left), semi-organized some family photos and documents, and am finishing putting new basement shelves together. Really need to get me a new computer so that I can scan some of the pictures properly (current computer doesn’t have quite enough memory to deal with higher resolution scans). I have some really old family pictures that I need for my aunt to ID. She’s getting older and is pretty much the last person who can identify people in various pix. Even found a picture of my Dad standing in line for food (bread maybe?) sometime during the war (he was somewhere in his late teens, I think). I’d been looking for it for a while and have placed it near the scanner.

Made a list of stuff I need to do and have been taking more stuff down to the basement every time I go down there.

I think I’m going to need some more plastic containers, but I’m not sure yet. (Target and Staples are having nice sales this week. Yay!)

Off to move more stuff around.

Back later with a progress report and responses to others.

GT

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When you get your aunt to ID the photos, gt, write the identification on the back. My grandmother went through her entire photo album and named everyone and dated the pictures; and considering she lived to be 103 so outlived virtually everyone in the album, we were exceedingly grateful that she’d done that when her eyesight was still good enough to see the photos.

I just had FCM’s favorite lazy dinner of cereal, then folded and put away two loads of laundry – last one is in the dryer – and changed the bed sheets and did a bit of kitchen scrubbing. I also changed the cat box and emptied wastebaskets.

And then I got a ranting and raving phone call from Papa Tigs, who tried to save $$ by flying out of BWI but back into Dulles, and he’s figured out what I expected would happen – Dulles is an unmitigated nightmare.

First they loaded bags from four flights onto one carousel while six other nearby carousels were empty; his bag didn’t arrive, but when he went to file a claim, he found it sitting in front of the claim office along with the bags of 17 other people from his flight – they never even tried to put the bags on the carousel. :smack:

Now comes the getting home adventure. He has to catch the Washington Flyer express bus to the Metro, then ride the length of the orange line, and then I’ll pick him up in New Carrollton. Except he walked the entire length of the airport trying to find any signs pointing to the bus – only to then discover that it loads upstairs in the arrival section of the airport, even for departures. :smack:

And then, as he finally found it and walked up to it, the bus there left so he has a half-hour wait for the next one. Plus they charge $9 for a 10-minute ride. :smack:

He promised me that he’ll pay $100 extra to never fly in or out of Dulles again. I’m still trying to figure out what persuaded him to do it in the first place. At best, it’s 2 hours from Dulles to our house. From BWI? 20 minutes, max. Duh-hey!

I really, really hope he goes to work tomorrow; if he stays home, he’ll drive me absolutely crazy bitching it…

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Really gt? What color are they?
Hmmmm?

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It did occur to me after posting that that I don’t want to offend any Ohio Dopers, especially seeing as I was born in Columbus and lived there until I was six. But your freeways are annoying as hell! I guess 65 is better than when it was 55, though. The traffic speed jumped up quite noticeably once I hit Indiana, except for when it was raining, which it did off and on all the way to where I am now. Lord, I hate being on freeways in the rain with lots of trucks around…

I just talked to my aunt; I’ve been trying to talk to one of the owners and it turns out he’s out of town, but apparently I don’t need a key – initially, anyway, though I’d like to have one for backup at least! – because nobody locks their doors. “Do people lock their cars?” I asked her, probably sounding amusingly incredulous. No, she said, you leave your keys in the car, and in the winter you leave it running if you’re just running into the post office or something. Huh…This is going to be an entirely new experience. I’m quite paranoid about locking both doors and cars! Though, if I can get used to it, my car doesn’t have power locks and it’d be easier to just leave it open. It’s not like I have a fancy car, it’s a 10-year-old Saturn with 104,000 miles on it and few frills. But where I’ve lived, you do not leave stuff unlocked unless you want to chance either not seeing it again (as in a car) or being robbed (as in a house)!

So tomorrow evening, assuming all goes smoothly, I get to torment my brother. Yay! You never outgrow that. g

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peers out from behind the door apprehensively

Hey there, Cool Kids who conveniently don’t remember that I haven’t posted in a few weeks… sweatdrop Aaaaanyway. I thought I’d do a quick drive-by to see what everyone’s up to.

Boofae, those cone costumes are fabulous. Very flattering. :wink: I think the orange hair around the base of the hats is my favorite part. They kinda remind me of my best friend, who for Halloween last year dressed up as a slice of pizza.

Oh, and by the way, every single one of you needs to read this lovely story, in which Ali plays the starring role. It highlights the most altruistic parts of his character. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I have left over pizza for dinner - YUM!

Also in reference to swampy 's obsession with making sure there is enough TP in the house he would be so proud of me! About 6 months ago I went to the local grocery store pick up some stuff and came across the buy-one-get-one-free display of a certain TP brand that was never on sale. Limit was 10 per customer of the 12 packs. I got 10 packs and have not had to buy TP since! I believe I still have 2 full packs in the laundry room plus 4 individual rolls in each bathroom.

See I fully understand the importance of having enough TP in the house.

Other than that nothing to add apart from it was hot this weekend.

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I’m glad it wasn’t just me! I missed whatever it was related to on the first page and couldn’t figure out what it meant.

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Where did all of this toilet paper come from?

Libby had to have a blood transfusion yesterday. I’m waiting to hear from a friend of ours now.

Razr is still dead. It is currently in the oven. What the hell - it can’t get any more broken than it already is.

Mr. SCL had to work 16 hours today; I sure hope they got someone to cover him for tomorrow. I hate it when they can’t keep the schedule straight.

My printer is busy printing out postcards for the general membership meeting of the Booster Club. The cats hate the noises it makes so the desk is remarkably free of cats.

ties LOUNE’s shoes together

I don’t like tuna casserole, can I have a sandwich? Or some cereal?

Great OP, BooFae! I never get to dress up anymore.

This reminds me - we are down to our last 6 rolls of TP, I’ll have to go to the store tomorrow.

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Shhhhh…I’m sneaking in here while the hubby is taking the dog to MIL’s house.

I managed to buy the rest of the stuff for our camping trip, and already have the non-perishables packed in their bin. I had so much stuff, though, that I had to find a cardboard box for the ever important rum and mojito mix.

I have two more loads of laundry to do, plus I still have to make the pasta salad tonight. I also need to pack the clothes. The bathroom stuff will have to wait until tomorrow morning. Additionally, the cooler with the cold stuff will be packed tomorrow morning.

I have the air mattress, coffee maker, and small propane tanks out by the front door ready to be loaded into the Expedition. We’ll pack up as much stuff as we can inside the rig tonight, so that all we’ll have to throw in there tomorrow are the clothes and cold food. Obviously, we’ll be loading the tent, sleeping bags, bbq, and camp stove tonight as well.

I already put the confirmations for our reservations in the rig, so I don’t forget them in tomorrow morning’s rush.

Well, I better get the next load of clothes going.

Take care everyone.

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Ali is such a gentleman. You should be proud of him.
I’m home from work, and would like some of **FCM’s[//b] casserole, please.

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duct tapes SCL to the couch
Blah. Nice, boring night tonight. I’m missing my bank card and that makes me a sad panda.

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BunnyofPaleness, I used to do the drive from Chicago to Cleveland when La Child was in school there. My experience is also that Ohio might be the worst state in all the USA (save, perhaps Nebraska) in terms of the boring quotient to drive through.

Though my only ticket on that entire stretch was in OH, I found the state, in general very speed-friendly. The ticket came at night, when I had no clear forward vision far off, but I found the OH state patrols to be as transparent as a turd on a dinner plate.

They sit in the median. Where you can see them a mile off. They drive white cars during the day, and darker ones at night (yes, generalizing), and east of Toledo, where 80/90 goes to 3 lanes - it’s a veritable speedway.

Not that I ever, ever went above the speed limit, not me, no sirreeeeee.

Though my personal best, from a small burb about a 45 inute drive from where rigsy would be - to the Courtyard Marriott on Engel Rd was, and still stands at 4 hours and 19 minutes, that does NOT indicate an illegal, or excessive rate of speed, because clearly I had a tail wind or some kinda thing like that, and by the way, should you find youself at said motel, ask the girl if that still stands as the 'roughly Chicago to Berea" record, because she refused to believe it til she saw the windblown, slightly frazzled look on the Wife’s face.

Also, when in Berea, visit the Eastland Inn.

You’ll thank me.

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Georgia is so bad to drive through. Always got a long way to drive through it, just like Ohio.

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Daughter just came home from work.

With new shoes, which makes two days in a row she has bought new shoes. She MAY buy new flip flops in the morning, which would make her insane.

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superglues LOUNE’s fingers together

Ya’ll! LOUNE’s pickin’ on me! Make him stoooooooooooopppppp!

For some reason I don’t like tuna warm. I like cold tuna salad sandwiches, but warm it’s just…fishy. I do have a few cats who have offered to scarf up any leftovers, as long as there’s no onion in there.

No one called me with an update on Libby, so I’ll probably haul my butt to the hospital tomorrow.

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Are you going to have re-name her Imelda? :wink: :stuck_out_tongue:

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Well, poor Papa Tigs is finally home. As if the rest of his travails through Dulles weren’t bad enough? The Metro train he was on broke down! They kicked all the passengers out at a station that was in the process of closing for the night, so it had no AC running, and so they all had to wait for another train and it took him an extra half hour to get home. So he got off the plane at 7:15 and didn’t get home until just a few minutes ago. Poor guy, by the time he got off the train, he was so hot and thirsty it was ridiculous!

But he brought me a lovely embroidered t-shirt from the family reunion. Which says, and I quote (except for abbreviating the family name): “H. Famiy Reunion.” That’s right, they misspelled family! Hee! Needless to say, I’ll wear it with pride. :slight_smile:

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gets a big, nasty slug between his glued fingers and chases SCL around with it

I’m not causing trouble!

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OMG I hate airplanes. We were stuck on the runway for two hours - God knows why. I thought I was going to kill someone. But here I am, safely in Toronto. Had dinner and drinks with a few Tronna Dopers (Sunspace, Cerowyn, and Kid_A) and 'twas lovely. Tomorrow I have my visa interview bright and early at 8:30am. Hopefully all will go well.

Must dash! Ta, lovelies.