Maybe time to get another, or an Instant Pot (which purports to have a slow-cooker mode, which I have not tried)? Woman cannot live by grilled cheese alone.
There is some sort of restaurant going up at a stripmall near me; so far it’s just a hole. There is no sign saying what it will be.
Do they not know I am nosy? That I need to know!?
swampy, I’m with you on CFA. Over the years, they have sometimes catered team lunches but I can get a much better meal at Bojangles or Popeye’s without the attached hate.
JtC, you made me laugh remembering the Gong Show. I’d contribute to a purchase fund if you found a copy.
They announced a team lunch for tomorrow at irk today. I’ll likely bring my lunch and stash it in the fridge until I find out what it is. It was CFA the last time and, not only did I dislike the vendor, but the new manager didn’t order enough for everyone, leaving me with crap food (for a diabetic) in place of my usual salad and yogurt. All of the salads were gone by the time I got to the table. That and the fact that they wouldn’t allow us to leave the training room until they made their little speeches made me plan to bring my own damn lunch and eat it where I usually do the next time. Those who were vegetarian also got screwed.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Just home from a day helping the high school build the set for their fall play, apparently an “urban take on Alice in Wonderland.” I don’t care. It’s strange, I used to work in theatre, but I never cared at all about the actual shows, I just liked making the things. I rarely stuck around and saw a performance.
I took a pile of lumber and turned it into something that looks kinda like the front stoop of a brownstone house. And now I need to scrub the sawdust out of my eyebrows. It really sucks, later in the evening, rubbing your eyes and getting more dust.
Voted last week, and I’m another in a state where it won’t make that much of a difference.
Boo Second the Instant Pot. It really is quite handy.
I still need to re-set the timer on the “ghost light” in the living room. It comes on at 4PM and off at midnight, then on at 6:30AM, off at 8. But it’s behind the couch and requires lots of moving things. It shall wait.
An Instant Pot is like a slow cooker and a pressure cooker had a mutant baby. I like ours except that I have to get the book out every time I use it, (and a magnifying glass to read those damn buttons). They’re not exactly intuitive to use.
I’ve been working, very slowly, on installing our new bathroom fan. Mostly 'cause the fan was not built to be installed in a non-standard wall. Our walls, and pretty much everything else in this 95 year old house, isn’t exactly standard.
When I was in Atlanta a few years ago my evangelical republican sister-in-law took me to a Chick filet and I had a chicken sandwich. It was okay, but I’ve never been to another one. Haven’t missed it.
We did our mail-in ballots last week and I dropped them off at the city hall/library. I was annoyed as there was a 3-way race for governor and the candidate that I had met personally many years ago and liked was way behind in the polls, so I ended up voting for the candidate I didn’t like 'cause I didn’t want the candidate I disposed to win, and those 2 were neck-and-neck. . 
Y’all be careful out there.
Howdy Y’all! Laundry got laundered, sloth got slothed, nappage got napped and day drinkin’ got drank (drunk?). Also sup got cooked and et and the kitchen cleanded up. A full day here at da cave. No votin’ cause we did that two weeks ago.
I read all, but my brain is all fuzzy thanks to a little sinus congestion. Methinks some knock out stuff and an early beddy bye is in store.
We’re amazed by how great the Instant Pot is!
We do seem to have a mini-epidemic of sinus/upper respiratory crud around here, don’t we? Would everyone please sanitize their devices so we can slow down the spread? 
I’m feeling a bit better than I was a few days ago, DH seems to have a minor case of my crud, plus the weather has both of us all achy.
Traffic was about as bad mid-afternoon as I would have expected more around commute time. There was also a complete idiot who was making a left from a side street onto the street I was on (thankfully, I was waiting at a stoplight at the time, he was headed the direction I was intending to go). Either trying that stupid “drifting” thing (in an area that combines residential, retail, and a nearby hospital!) or just lost control on wet pavement, spun a 540, finished in my lane (other side of the intersection, nowhere actually near me) pointed the wrong way. Pulled another 540 to get moving again (that one was deliberate, I’m sure), jammed the gas once pointed the correct direction. Jackass idiot, no wonder you were missing at least one bumper on your POS alleged car!
@susan, I’m fond of mine too. In fact, it’s due for a workout in the next day or two, given local weather. I tend to use it for things like pot roast or chicken soup (probably should look into more of its abilities at some point). I did have an odd experience when making rice recently. 1:1 ratio (white rice), 2 cups of each. I’d expected to get about 4 cups of cooked rice. Got over 6 cups. Huh?
Evening all. It’s only 6:30pm locally but it feels so much later with it getting dark so fast. Did get to the gym and put all the dishes away and have resumed the laundry (need to move the sweatshirts/sweatpants to the dryer and dump the towels/misc. things into the washer. That should leave only my jeans to go. We’ll see if I finish it all today.
Nettie, glad the idiot driver apparently missed everybody, including you. Cops will get him cause folks like that cannot recognize cop cars (IMHO).
BBBoo, my watches are all analog too, not worth the bother of setting up the digital ones, but probably that’s just me. A $39 Timex does just as well as a more expensive watch.
OK, need to change that laundry load. A good evening to you all.
For those who don’t read the “So what shortages are you personally seeing?” over in QZ, be aware that turkeys might be a problem this US Thanksgiving in a few weeks.
I didn’t get everything done. My sister called pretty upset because her little grandson has mono and is very sick. My niece took him to urgent care yesterday, but the PA said, “Well, it’s not strep. Must be allergies!” Good thing niece already had a peds checkup scheduled today. I didn’t know little kids could get mono, but apparently it’s pretty common.
I got a good reminder as to why we should ALWAYS read up on a new med. I read the package insert for a new Rx I got yesterday (The pharmacist was too busy to do a consult.), and it said in big letters that patients with glaucoma shouldn’t take it. So I called the itch doctor this morning, and she said, “Oo, good catch!” I’d rather she did the catching.
Re: the eye surgery Medicare supposedly won’t cover because there’s no code for it, I called Medicare, and they essentially said the eye clinic is full of…fecal matter. So I called the clinic’s surgery counselor, but she didn’t return my call. No surprise there, as she was supposed to call me 2 weeks ago with the OOP cost and never did.
I voted. Still a thrill, and I sang my traditional “America the Beautiful” (My mother’s favorite song) as I put my ballot in the box. I love voting.
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my almost-as-cute-as-Roxy & Toby granddaughter
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Uh-oh. You could get demoted from Best Gramma in Nebraska to Pretty Darn Good Granny if you don’t ditch that “almost.” The rules are VERY specific: Your grandkids are ALWAYS the cutest!
That’s so adorable, I’m going to adopt it AND tell my daughter. Please tell Harriet she’s started a trend. BTW, I wear one, too. It’s easier to flick a wrist than check a phone, right?
Wouldn’t it be funny if they called it The Hole and served donuts? OK, maybe not. And I’m with you on the signs. Once I got excited because I saw a neon-haloed building go up in my small WY town and thought it’d be a new restaurant. Turned out to be another Verizon store. 
Yeah, my school used to have chili lunches that were excuses for speech-giving. I never had time for that stuff, so I ate in my room, usually with some kid who needed to talk. Much better company! Not having enough diabetic and vegan foods is a real bonehead move by your company.
Not the day drinkin’? Seems like that’d have some medicinal properties, too! Hope you’re better tomorrow.
nettie, glad the idiot didn’t hit you. I hope MetalMouse is right re: cops.
Another vote for mace, nellie. You are precious to us and we want you to be safe.
Dang. We are usually given two or three turkeys a year, I guess that won’t happen this year 
Well, I will just have to be thankful for what they do give me! Tomorrow is surplus produce day and I like to donate a couple of dollars for their expenses. This is becoming more and more of an issue because we pretty much only use plastic and just don’t have paper money. Tonight I had to dig through our change jar to get 8 quarters for them.
Hubs has promised that while he is in town tomorrow, he will go to the credit union and get 25 ones for me. He says he’s going to ask them for used bills because new ones give strippers paper cuts.
Boo, if my mother were to mention to me that she wanted an Instant Pot I would be super happy because it would be such an easy Christmas present. If you do find one under your tree, tell me the model number and if our air fryer lid fits your pot I will mail it to you. It works great but we have a dedicated air fryer now so don’t need the lid anymore.
That’s great news, even just one friend can make a difference in someone’s life.
Hehehehe. I woulda locked the doors too!
The Gong Show sure was a product of its time. I get mixed reactions when I tell people, of those old enough to know what the Gong Show was…about half of them look at me like I must have been crazy to want to go on national TV and make a fool of myself. I was 16 fer crying out loud, of course I was crazy.
The year before that, I worked my ass off selling newspaper subscriptions to win a trip to Romania where I swooned at Dracula’s castle. I woulda worn a dramatic gown with a plunging neckline but we all had to wear a “uniform”.
Teenagers are crazy by default.
UNACCEPTABLE! The public has a right to know!!!
I was a vegetarian until hubs happened and it took me no time at all to learn that people who plan workplace food rarely think about anyone who doesn’t eat what they eat. It’s got to be harder for a diabetic because you can’t just skip a meal without consequences.
I voted a couple of weeks ago, but hubs voted today. No issues here but I understand some tabulating machines in Maricopa County wouldn’t accept the ballot.
The piece I am doing for my friend has three very close shades of green. I have always had a bit of an issue telling close shades apart, but hubs has a great eye for it. Today I started working on the piece and just when I was finishing the strand I started thinking I was working the wrong color. I looked and looked and held all the colors over what I was doing and concluded that I was indeed using the wrong color. So I spent over an hour taking it all out. THEN I looked at the colors again and thought they looked the same. Finally I gave up and asked hubs to come an look. I was using the right color to begin with.
I hope everyone starts feeling better soonist. Off to check the news then back to my piece. I want to at least get back to where I was when I started today.
I WON! a dollar On Cash 5
Yeah. A guy got nailed this morning running a red light. In front of a cop.
Oh I had many good, helpful, and witty replies to everything, but, alas and alac, I am once again too tired to put them to paper…keyboard…whatever.
I’ve got to deal with a biiig thing tomorrow. Not looking forward to it. Wish me luck.
Sleep well and I think you are too good to need luck, but I will wish it for you anyhow.
Happy Toosday!
Chilly morning, who I am kidding, it was cold at the park this morning.
I’m glad I wore my heavy coat. I wish I had taken my hat and gloves.
I cancelled daycare for tomorrow. Barky mom is going out of town, so I thought why waste a quiet day on daycare. I’m going to take all three of them next week, and they are going to get the irks, bathing and grooming. Well as much as they can bathe and groom Ripple. Cerby has mats behind his ears, we’ve cut them out the best we can, but he could use a good grooming.
I learned a new word today - Dumfungled
It means mentally and physically worn out.
That is me.
My son is taking vacation next week. I told him I want a bunch of stuff done.
I’m hurting too bad to do much.
I thought my son liked Cerby. He plays with him, takes care of him, never complains about the extra irk.
Yesterday he asked when we can get rid of him. I said I thought you liked Cerby. No, he doesn’t. He wants to know when we can find another home for him, or when NIece1 or her hubby can take him back.
I hate to tell him, but Cerby is probably here to stay.
He is a pain in a lot of ways, but he’s learning.
We got him a no-bark collar and it’s helping.
Today my son was sleeping, and I was getting ready to log into irk, when Cerby went off upstairs. He sounded like he was being murdered, screaming his fool head off. Woke my son up, who came running out of his room in a panic. Cerby came rushing downstairs, we were trying to figure out what was wrong with him.
Not a damn thing wrong with him, he heard the mailman coming.
Like wtf Cerby? The mailman comes here every friggin’ day, and you act like the sky is falling in.
When the mailman got to our house, he charged the door like he was going to rip the mailman to pieces.
Ripple and Echo look at him like he’s crazy.
Of course, around here are going crazy, I think.
I saw the car with the green lights under it again tonight. No stopping on the side of the road this time.
Then I saw these little sparkles off to my left in the oncoming lane. I thought wth is that. I couldn’t tell if it was something reflecting on the windshield, and then one of them moved into my lane in front of me. I had to hit the brakes to keep from hitting them.
Two assholes on bicycles, dressed in dark clothing, on a dark road, with no street lights. They each had one of those little tiny LED lights or something like that on the backs of their bikes.
The more I get out and about, the more I want to stay in.
We don’t have many clocks around here. The phones and computers reset themselves. My son takes care of the oven and microwave. I changed the clock in the truck today, but it’s easy on the touchscreen.
Y’all have been busy, I’ll catch up with stuff tomorrow.
Good luck!
Home from working the election precinct. Long day (7a-8:45P) but it’s worth it. Nice steady stream of voters all day, twice as many as voted in the primary a few months ago.
My favorite part? How tickled all these mature adults are to get their “I voted” stickers.
Drizzly, dark drive home but our aquifer will be glad of the moisture and it wasn’t cold.
I’m dreading reading the results in the morning~for now I am just going to bury my head in the new Lee Child thriller ebook I downloaded from the library onto my iPad. Finish off my bowl of chili, cut up an apple from our trip to the historic orchard two weeks and try to control myself sitting next to the big tin of pecan wedding cookies that leapt into my cart at Costco. Already in my red flannel nightgown. Must eat apple before diving into powdered sugar cookies, must eat apple………
The Commissary had signs up about that when I was there a few days ago.
Ask your doctor if trephination is right for you.
