Crabs. Or maybe krabs if they’re not authentic.
The story is about a Panamanian girl who had a huge bening tumor: it affected her back and abdomen, rotting in place on her back. The smell was so bad her grandma was the only one who could stand it to be able to do some cures on her. A Spanish NPO which helps foreign children travel to Spain for organ transplants heard of her case, got her flown here last April and after three surgeries she’s now well in her way to recovery.
My daughter called after she finished work this afternoon; she received an email that she was accepted to Bar Ilan University. We’re thrilled for her!
I just found a 1935 quarter in my pocket change! Worth nothing in its very worn condition, but a fun find of a piece of silver.
Congratulations! What field does she hope to get into?
Car repair came in about $100 less than the original estimate…and that included the brake repair we didn’t think we could afford.
On Saturday, one of my nieces married her very nice girlfriend, after the girlfriend just had a scare with a massive kidney tumor. The same day, another niece gave birth to a healthy baby boy, her 2nd. Two great events in one day.
StG
My 92 year old father is recovering nicely from gall bladder removal. This two weeks after the surgeon told me in the hospital “if it was my father, I’d keep him comfortable and let him pass”. Luckily he’s a better surgeon than his bedside manner would indicate.
I just paid off my new used car.
My heater died (boo!). Which wasn’t unexpected, and I figured I’d do a big renovation rather than patch things up (big by my standards).
For some reason, renovations companies in Catalonia:
- go to measure the place,
- give you a budget/quotation,
- redo a new one every time there is any tweaks, (this may be linked to the fact that Catalonia is also the one place where I’ve had clients who needed to get hit with the full weight of Previous Meetings Minutes every time - you don’t so much need a paper trail as the greatgrandmother of all paper trails),
- do not provide any plans, drawings or blueprints, (thankfully the carpenter had one and when I saw it I realized there had been some information lost along the way),
- and there is a specific meeting to choose the materials after everything else is approved (why? that changes the budget again!)
In Navarre we start by the materials and so long as any changes are in writing there’s no need to re-create the budgets (email counts, SMS counts, whatsapp counts, handwritten notes on the printed budget count if signed by both parties, a note on an broken envelope counts if signed by both parties).
Whatever. They’re starting on the 6th. I’m getting AC (much needed in Barcelona’s summers), I’m getting rid of the gas (not much more economic than electric for 1 people, and dangerous with Mom around), I’m fixing a bunch of minor things (such as those safety bars in the windows with more rust than iron) and I’m opening up the mini-kitchen into the too-large entrance hall to have a kitchen which won’t give me Bangles earworms! Yay!
Sorry, I should’ve answered this sooner. They were some kind of Carlisles. I replaced them with the Goodyear Endurance (so I could move up to load range E and a higher max speed).
I had sold my house in March before I started looking for a new place. Well, I found the new place and they accepted my offer. It’s a 2-bedroom condo with a cute screened porch. It needs the inside refurbed, but that’s not an issue as I love refurb projects. Best of all, it fit my budget plans. I might just eventually be able to retire.
The dogs woke me up at 5:30 this morning. It was a beautiful, cool, summer morning. I woke up my gf and suggested we saddle up and ride. It was so nice!
I leveled up to 38 in Pokémon go yesterday. And on top of that got two new pokemons.