Did you all change all of your clocks in the MMP?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In all fairness it should be the state isn’t following the Navajo policy on time changes~The Navajo were here first.

And you Mac and cheese and cornbread eaters, I’m jealous. @FairyChatMom, your potato soup sounds delicious too. Since I cook alone and eat alone cooking is omplicated and I just don’t get mobilized to make the down home good stuff anymore. Too much effort for one person.

Plus with my oxygen on I’m not supposed to get within 6 feet of a stove. My old house of course has a gas stove and no capacity for bringing in electric wiring for an electric stove shy of $20,000 in renovations. Without oxygen cooking is lots of exhausting and too much shortness of breath. I have a nice electric skillet that is safe for when I am motivated to make myself something like a grilled cheese.

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I hope that you get rid of your pain soon bumba.

JtC, you and your hubby are really good neighbors for looking after the kitties.

That’s some scary stuff about the plane yank.

Irked, came home, walked Nelson and et. Such an exciting Monday!

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Happy happy joy joy. Leaky bathroom ceiling, and upstairs neighbors were not home for maintenance to be able to check on what they might have leaking.

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Howdy Y’all! As predicted today has been a day of high sloth, nappage, and day drinkin’. The weather today is unusually warm, even for here, so we had a cocktail or four out on the back porch. The most productive thing of the day was the nukin’ of sup and cleanin’ up after.

ace should I for some reason be awake at 5:17 a.m. tomorrow mornin’, I shall take a peek at the eclipse. However, I shall not make a special effort to do so. Slothful folk do not make special efforts for anything.

Oopsie glad you have a fun day planned for tomorrow. I just wish you could eat somewhere better than IckFilA. Politics and such aside, I think their chikin is ick. Weird taste.

MOOOOOOM da cave has tilt in windows which does make for easier cleanin’. However, the chore is still yuck. Hope you find an earlier appointment for FIL.

Bumba me too! I hardly noticed anything was goin’ on durin’ the plague except for the mask wearin’ thing. Stay home you say? Heck Yeah!

Nettie the Wally*World delivery guy deserved to be growled at for disturbin’ Buddy’s nap.

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Evening all. Couldn’t quite get motivated to visit the gym so ended up sleeping for a couple hours this afternoon. Went out at 5pm to make up my gym time and the parking lot was filled to overflowing, so I came home and ate and will try again around 7pm, if I can self-motivate enough.

Nettie, hope they can get in tonight or early tomorrow and fix what’s leaking before your roof takes too much damage.

BBBoo, was never aware that you needed O2 that much and couldn’t cook due to fire danger. Or it could be I’m just not very aware… Take care.

Yanker, never have done much way outside the boundaries, almost all my life has been small towns and/or suburbs, but quite an adventure. Probably a great place to see the eclipse tonight… And thanks for clearing up the aircraft question, I had the idea he was a passenger, not one of the pilots. Glad it all worked out.

JtC, thinking about you and tossing fire from flash paper made me grin. Thank you. And quite an area you live in.

OK, need to put the dishes in the dishwasher (should have a load ready to go tomorrow) and consider if I’m going to the gym or sloth my way to the end… Hmmmmmm

Still waiting to hear if I’m a Billionaire…take care all.

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The oxygen wearing 24/7 has been for less than two months. I was trying to not be too pessimistic and whiney about my body falling apart on me. I’m just getting acclimated to wrangling all the moving pieces and required adjustments to my activities of daily living. Then a CPAP was added~more moving pieces and adjustments, although that has been much easier.

And the first portable oxygen concentrator I was issued failed twice in the first month, always when my daughter was counting on me for help with the grandbabies. I channeled JtC and told the medical supply people to replace it with something reliable or I was moving to a company that would could. Suddenly they found a new concentrator ‘that had just come in’ and would I like that one. Different brand, almost a thousand dollars more a unit, but that is not my problem. Insurance is paying them many hundreds of dollars a month. So far, so good. This second one has almost 12 hours of charge in it. It weighs a titch more but I don’t notice it and I’m glad to have the coverage. It can charge in the car so I can travel with it, which I’m hoping to do soon.

The fire safety thing is pretty pervasive~anything that could spark, like gas stove pilot lights. Even hair dryers and electric blankets. Sheesh, talk about roughing it. I love my electric mattress pad for preheating my winter time bed but I’ll have to figure out a work around there. Maybe turn it on a few hours before bed and unplug it before climbing under the covers. I do like my creature comforts like a toasty bed of a frigid Nebraska evening, paralyzed diaphragm or not.

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seanette, I would think that property management would consider a leak from the apartment above you as a maintenance emergency and go in, even without the resident’s presence. I know that most leases that I’ve signed make that stipulation.

As for the OP topic, I reset the studio clock, the one on the microwave, the one on the kitchen wall and my bedroom alarm clock. The desktop, laptop, tablet and phone set themselves. The car, I don’t bother with. It will be correct come spring or be reset if the battery needs to be disconnected for some reason.

Growing up in Indiana, I barely remember Dad resetting the clocks before the state went to staying on the same time year round. It didn’t return to observing DST until long after I left. My dad would rather have gone on central time, but they went with Eastern. That means that, at ~400 straight south of him, it gets dark an hour earlier where I live. Sis in Texas is on the western edge of central time and it gets dark quite a bit later for her than it does here too.

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Dinner was good. But I think I’ll stick to dad’s recipe.

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I have seen the receipt referred to as Mississippi pot roast.

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I think I did see that mentioned. Good, but dad’s is better.

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An unremarkable oncology visit, which is the outcome I like. Unremarkable exam, unremarkable chest x-ray, no med changes, drop a few supplements, report back on stress test.

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I went to the gym. I had post-op stomach pain before I left, but the doc said walking was good, so I thought it might help. I went low and slow on the treadmill and only did 30 mins, but it didn’t help. Then I walked to the pharmacy, comfortable in the Knowledge there was plenty of time before it got dark. There were 6 people in line ahead of me. It took 45 minutes for it to be my turn. A man asked the woman behind me if he could cut in line because he just needed to ask where an item was. When it was my turn, I told him to “Come on down!” The 10 people behind me were not amused. Then the tech had issues that further delayed me. It was JUST getting dark when I walked home. I cut through a neighboring complex, and I heard footsteps behind me. I got nervous, but luckily, they faded away.

That’s my exciting day. The harvest soup was good.

flyboy, the ranch mix beef sounds salty. What is your dad’s recipe like?

susan, a hearty YAAAAAY on your uneventful appointment!

Mine does, too, and how could a leak not constitute an emergency?

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Oops. Forgot to say, Boo, your body isn’t falling apart. It’s been whacked by a bad driver and a bad doc, both of whom should have been made to pay up. Oh, and I used to pre-warm my bed, and it worked fine.

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Evening all. Made it to the gym for swimming and sauna, and the result of that and all the soccer refereeing I did this weekend led too…a gain of 2lbs…may have to make the ultimate sacrifice and try Diet Pepsi/Pepsi Free and see if they are palatable. Thanks to my sleepage this afternoon I’m not tired at all so a late night is likely.

nellie, glad you were able to make it home while it was still light…none of my business, but have you thought of carrying a taser or something when your out on your walks?

suzie, well, if it was unremarkable, why remark on it?? :wink: :wink: :grinning: :grinning:

BBBoo, thanks for the info, I’ve never had breathing problems (knock on wood) and no one in my family has to the best of my memory, hope it stays that way.

OK, need to finish up some internettin’ (tackleball game doesn’t interest me much) and plot my clothes washing plan for tomorrow. Take care all.

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Is that when you decided to get back in your truck and stay in a motel for the night?

We were once four-wheeling way down south when I saw a black panther for about three heartbeats before it slipped out of sight. Nobody believed me for the longest time until game cameras got some pics.

I totally get that! You know it is supposed to work and why it should work, so why won’t it work?!?

Now I want to come to your house and cook once a week. Most of the down home stuff is better when made in big batches and eaten as leftovers. Plus, I wouldn’t make you eat healthy, cream and cheese and potatoes would rule your life. Oh and bacon. Lots of bacon.

You are sweet, but we are suckers. We both knew how horrified we would have been if our kitties were lost and hungry, and we didn’t want neighbor to worry so much that she checked herself out of the hospital to find her cats (cause that is something we would do). Besides, cats are easy. Nelson is a super cutiepie, but he requires shoes and walking around in the rain and stuff.

I have never once bought spent money there, but hubs once had an urgent need to spend a couple of hours in the bathroom after eating there so he hasn’t been back.

Yeppers, good times!

Grins back. I wanted to be an astronaut but back then they were all men with perfect vision. That dream went away when I was in the fourth grade and got my first pair of glasses. It wasn’t until years later that I realized that I didn’t have the right “stuff” to be an astronaut but by then my eyes were so bad that I couldn’t get my driver’s license without the corrective lenses required box ticked.

Next I wanted to be a stage magician, strutting around in black fuck me spike heels and a tight shorty tux. Sadly, that required good eye/hand coordination and that was never my superpower. I got really good at using flash paper and powder to distract folks…watch this hand while the other hand is reaching in the pocket to grab a fumbled quarter.

I did make it to the Gong Show once and I really do wish there was a way to get a copy of me back then. I didn’t win, but I didn’t get gonged and I got my once in a lifetime spot on TV so it was all good.

I was going all ??? about that as well. It in their best interests to stop water damage to their property.

Back when I was young, I wanted everything to be exciting and noteworthy. I have since learned the value of boring times.

I’m glad your medical issues are now boring :slight_smile:

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I would donate real money if you ever find it and have to buy the tape. Did you get to meet Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine??

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The Missus said it was salty, hence why she asked if I put potatoes in it. Actually, the meat itself wasn’t that salty; just the gravy was.

Remember that dad was in his 20s in the '50s. So…

Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Put the meat into a roasting pan. (Dad used 7-bone roast with the bone removed.) Sprinkle a packet of Lipton Onion Soup Mix on top of the meat. Pour a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup on top. Arrange separately, peeled and quartered Russet potatoes, quartered onions, whole white mushrooms, baby carrots or peeled and cut carrots, and sliced green bell peppers around the roast. Cover, and cook in the oven for about three hours (longer for 325ºF) depending on the size of the meat.

1950s cooking, but good ‘comfort food’. With leftovers.

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No, but my boobs did get leered by the little hammer guy because of the shorty tux and fuck-me shoes. I was 16 when this happened, wow, things sure have changed. If you were a fan of the show, I was the blond with the big ugly dog wearing a Rhinestone Collar that I pretended was a tea-cup poodle. I used a long horsewhip to wave around for no reason except it looked cool and had Ned climb up a tall ladder (stepstool) to dive into a teacup of water. Ned dutifully climbed to the top of the stool, jumped down and put his foot in the cup. It was VERY exciting and much laughter happened.

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I’m super happy with boring!

Seconding the appreciation for your cat-wrangling.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN The call of nature woke me up, so I decided to see if I could get a peek at the lunar eclipse. Alas, ‘tis too cloudy to do so. TWPTB say it is mostly clear out but that ain’t the case. Just so y’all know it is 62 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 84 and N.O.S. for the day. We also have a HURRICANE STATEMENT re Nicole which is most likely to be a tropical storm. Looks like lots of wind and rain Thursday afternoon into Firday mornin’. The wind we could do without but the rain would be welcomed. As for today, well, it’s laundry day. I can hardly contain myself! Sup shall be ground beast stroganoff (I make it up as I go), sallit, and cheesey garlic bread. Other than that the usual sloth and general overall uselessness shall rule the day.

Susan yay for a borin’ doc visit. Those are the best kind of doc visits.

JtC I join in the chorus of appreciation for takin’ care of neighbor’s kittehs.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Tuesday Y’all!