Home from the gym and the grocery store. I’ve got a batch of sketty sauce simmering on the stove.
**sari **- we all worry about my mom. She lives alone in a big house in the boonies. Even if she would carry her cell phone with her all the time, it wouldn’t matter if she didn’t happen to fall in one of the few areas where she can get signal. My youngest sis stays with mom frequently to help out, give her dogs a place to run (she lives in a small row house in Baltimore and her yard is a teensy concrete postage stamp) and to make sure she’s OK. Another sister lives about 6 miles away, but she and her husband both work and sometimes they have to leave town, so they can’t go over every day to check.
At least Mom has given us her travel schedule so we know when she’s out cavorting with her AARP buds. Last time she went away, no one knew and it created a bit of a panic…
Get well soon, Bobbio!
swampy, I wish you irked with me. I could use an oatmeal raisin cookie about now.
N.O.L.time. Ham ‘n cheese sammich. After a big brekkie and cookies I’m not real hongry however. After N.O.L. new assistant is goin’ out on her own to meet with a couple of local host agencies and the participants we have there. She’s kinda nervous but also excitated to be doin’ sump’n that’s for real. She’ll be updatin’ agreements with the agencies and updatin’ employment plans with the participants. I told her I feel confident she’ll handle it and we’ll go over everything when she gets back to see how she did. Hey, gotta gets the feets wet sometime or other.
Red I put the cookies in the break room and they just disappeared! Imagine! 
Looks like my mother just headed out for the Ocean. She didn’t want to go, her bf is not doing well but the doctors assured her that there are hospitals down there in case anything goes wrong. I think she likes having his family close by in case he gets sick.
I’m on the phone waiting for the rep to come back to add Sah-son to my health insurance.
I’m waiting for the doctor to call me back about scheduling my next torture session.
I’m waiting to hear from the realtor for the time of our road trip tomorrow.
I guess I need to call the OAOASO to see if he is still taking me to dinner and what time. He won’t know what time but he could give me an estimate.
I’m in a bit too irritable of a mood to deal with ambiguity right now. I know he drives a truck and he can’t help it but I’m not in the mood for excuses, even if they are legit.
Too cool **WetOne **, especially Jimmy Page. I suspect I could walk past either of them on the street have not a clue.
It is scary when you think about it FCM. Part of the issue too is that he laid in his own mess and it got into his system. I asked my friend why they didn’t call the police and ask them to do a wellness check and she didn’t know you could do that. He husband was going to go check on him after work and her FIL probably would have been dead by then. I think it must be very scary to fall and not be able to get up and not be able to call for help.
It is very scary. I’ve done it. Twice. Fortunately, I was able to call (with my cell) for help. But when you don’t have much of an income, $30 a month can seem daunting.
It’s inhospitable here. The weather overpowered our poor air conditioner before 9 AM, and it’s been steadily getting warmer and warmer in here. (Looking around to make sure I’m not actually a lobster in a pot.) The “Real Feel” now is 103.
Next Friday is Move Day, so very soon, the crappy undersized air conditioner will be someone else’s problem.
Well, that was fun. A couple of big boombooms and the power went out for a while. Always a fun thing at the orifice. I told new assistant that’s one of the many joys of irkin’ here. Speaking of, she did a good job this afternoon on her first venture out on her lonesome. Still a lot of learnin’ to do but she seems to catch on which is more than I can say for the last one I had here. So I may have finally found me a good one. YAY!
gotti ick! Hope you don’t melt away.
And on that note, boombooms are soundin’ again. I think it may just be time to get the heck outta here.
Off to work through the heat.
Making the final preps here at work to get my one and only minion up to speed enough to handle everything while I’m gone next week. But that was interrupted by my dentist appointment (cleaning only - no teeth yanking this time) and stupid/useless training that the Outside Sales critters keep scheduling. I told Minion that he really didn’t have to go to them anymore (he used to be their admin assistant until I poached him from them), but I guess that habit is hard to break.
As I said, I won’t be here next week, on vacation, so someone please pass on my best recovery wishes to VBob. After all, he is the only Mumper I’ve ever met IRL.
Howdy from da cave! Boombooms all around but still no rain. OYKW called me and said he wants bbq sammiches from the hole in the wall but good bbq place. Thus, he’s gonna stop there and get sammiches, fries, and slaw. Works for da bear cause dindin was goin’ to be sammiches anyways.
Sean have fun on vacation!
Swampy, did you ever serve in the French military?
Cool.
Hole in the wall joints are good. Their was a HITW Chinese joint in LR. The Husband died, and the store front became someone else’s sushi place.
The owner of the HITW was overheard once talking to some customers about sending her daughter to college. I hope they could keep it up.
Thus indeth the digression.
:rolleyes:
Finally heard from the realtor and she thinks they accepted another offer but haven’t rejected mine because it is a backup offer. Screw that, I’m nobodys second choice, even if it’s a bank accepting an offer on a house.
Don’t like my offer, screw you, somebody else will take my money.
So road trip tomorrow to look at more houses.
So finally got Sah-son added to my insurance, I think. Now I have to wait for some other department to call me back. I don’t know why the people you call the first time can’t handle the transaction, oh wait, it’s handled by the government, that I have to talk to three different departments shouldn’t be a surprise.
Waiting for the doctors office to call me back, they promised me a call back by the end of the irk day.
Waiting to hear about dinner from OAOASO. Doesn’t matter to me one way or the other.
I wonder how this is legal, Robyn McGraw has created an app for battered women. If you feel you are in danger you push a button and it sends a pre-typed/pre-recorded message to a list of people you have selected and it can call 911. Then it turns on your phones audio recording on so there is a record of the threats. It’s illegal to record people without their knowledge in MD, so do you scream to the abuser that (s)he being recorded? Does (s)he have to consent first?
Sounds like a good idea but I wonder what the legal issues will be. I had an ex who would fill up my answering machines tapes, I had a whole collection of tapes, and none of them were usable because of MD wiretap laws - and he knew he was being recorded because he was talking to the machine.
I wish we had a decent BBQ place around here. So sad…
Our supper will be salad, steak, broccoli, and crescent rolls. I’s hongree - I’m ready to eat it now!!
We’ve got to take the car to the dealer. The check engine light came on again and we took it to our guy to read the code. He said there’s a bulletin on the problem from Hyundai, so I called the dealer and it goes in on Monday. It should be under warranty since it’s in the transmission and we’re well within the 10 yr/100,000 mile window. Our guy said it’d cost us $600 to have him fix it - if the dealer says it’s not under warranty, we’ll see what they’d charge and decide from there. Stoopit car.
It’s clouding over and the temp has dropped. Hope we get some rain - we could use it!
Did I mention that my mother cleaned out the freezer and found a bunch of filet mignons that belong to me. I thought we had eaten all the steaks I bought but there is still a box down there. So I guess I will be having steak for a while to get rid of them.
Rosie my friends FIL can afford it, he chooses not to. It’s the second time he’s fallen so it’s time he started thinking about what he is going to do.
I fell once and couldn’t get up, but it was in snow that was halfway up my thigh. I fell backwards and couldn’t stand up. I tried swimming, I tried rolling, I tried digging down to pavement, finally had to call 911 and get them to come pull me out.
It was scary and embarrassing.
BBQ sammiches, fries, and slaw have been scarfed down. NUM! However, I hates it when OYKW has to scarf and go. He’s goin’ back to his orifice to take care of some paperirk poor thing.
HITWs are some of the best places. The Chinese place down the road is a HITW and good! That’s the place from whence the General’s dindin is swiped. The Cookie Shoppe is a sorta HITW. I lurves to find a good meat and three HITW. NUM!
Steak was disappointing - my piece was more gristle than edible meat. But I had a big salad and some crescent rolls, so I’m good.
It’s thundering - hope we get some rain…
Thunderatin’ around here as well. Think I’ll go lie upon the bed and watch some mindless teevee for a while.
Sending healing thoughts to BBBBobbio; Washington Hospital Center was where I was when I was hospitalized back in 2011, just before I retired. Not a bad place, mind you, I just did NOT want to be there!
Went out to the grocery store today - it is HOT here today; not much winds either. I’m hoping that the monsoon season, coming up starting in July, will bring us good rains this year,guess we’ll see soon enough.
A very close friend of mine went for a colonoscopy a few weeks ago; they found cancer, and operated last week. It has spread to her liver. She does have a treatment plan and has started on chemo. Please, whatever you believe in, keep her in your thoughts and prayers. She is a very dear friend.
I am ready for the weekend, if that makes any sense coming from a retiree. It will be very hot, high 90s,so I’m going to be mostly indoors. I’ve got plenty of books to read, though, and I’m going to also cook up a few things. We’ll see how that goes. I hope that I’ll be able to make some good home-made tomato sauce this summer, with home-grown tomatoes. That is just so good!
Have a great evening tonight, all. The weekend’s almost here. 