For people who like ridiculous heat in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The Swiss (I’m American, living in Switzerland) were mercenaries and still provide security for the Vatican and sell weapons to conflict nations.

Also has mandatory military service (for men only) and is number three behind the U.S. and Yemen for guns/capita (article).

And to go back on topic. It’s thundering, with some rain, but not much. Would like it to cool down, but that’s not happening this week. Tomorrow we’re at the office, so we’ll have some sort of air conditioning. Our home has none, like most Swiss homes. Really glad we’re not on the top floor.

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Boo, I am a past master of doing nothing. Unless I am doing something…

Got up this morning and headed out on my braunsweiger run (for those new here, I’ve loved Oscar Meyer braunsweiger since I was a kid, but the local stores don’t carry it, so I need to make a trip to the other side of the county (about 26 miles) about every 5-6 weeks). First store was almost out, so I went up to the one in Fayetteville and got some more so I don’t have to go up there again until September. Picked up some other stuff while I was out and did a little banking while I was at it, so didn’t get back until about 90 minutes ago. It’s 89F and there’s rain North and South of here, so probably will stay inside the rest of the day.

flyboy, that’s sad news, especially since I doubt he can make the funeral, or if it would be practical in the age of COVID to go.

Jack bats, glad it wasn’t a friend, but shark attacks in Maine? Must be something to this global warming…

Sari, sad that Tucker won’t be around, hopefully his new family will find him a park near where they live. And Sha-son can use the exercise…

FCM, saw your Facebook note on LaZy-Boy prices. I’d recommend a company called Furniture Row, they took care of almost all my needs, but the nearest one to you is in Charlotte, NC, which may be a trifle distant…

boo fae, you know of course you will be assigned the job to put the worms back in the can…

Thel, I’ve found myself in the same rut, if I don’t force myself to do something, I come right to the computer desk and am often there until lunch. I have to make up my mind the night before that I am going to do something else and even then it’s hard.

OK, all y’all take care now.

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I guess I need a rationale for WHY I need to do something else… So far, I’ve not been able to come up with one. Seriously, I’m not tired of goofing off yet. Okay, I admit I’m of weak moral character… and am probably a bad influence on those who aspire to be industrious. Although I do give them someone to feel superior to, so there’s that… :stuck_out_tongue:

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MetalMouse - no way we’re going to NC for furniture. I’ve been looking on line - I get better results on the PC than on the tablet. Anyway, there’s a Haverty’s in Bowie - we liked Haverty’s when we were in FL, so we’ll look there. And we got our last living room at Raley’s, which is a local store, so we’ll look there also. There’s one in Prince Frederick that I’m inclined to skip because they don’t show any prices on their site - that tells me “if you have to ask…” But there’s no rush at the moment. We’ll paint before buying new furniture, and we can get by with bits and pieces till then.

I ran to Food Lion for a few things. Supper shall be tossed salad and chickie salad. That’s as far as I’ve decided. Too hot to think.

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It is a valued, kind service you provide. I’m batting clean-u p behind you. :wink: smirk:

Boo

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And I just got Sirius to cut the bill in half. At least I was able to do it via chat rather than struggling with thick accents on the phone like last time.

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I find you to be an inspiration.

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:heart_eyes: You just made my day!

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On a brighter note … I can’t cook. Today is another in a long line of experiments with the slow cooker that has made me afraid. Here’s what usually happens. I buy a couple pounds of boneless, skinless chicken thighs with the notion of cutting it and browning it for a pasta, sauce dish of some sort, but once I buy the chicken and stick it in the fridge, generally four or five days go buy and I have to shit or get off the pot - cook it or chuck it (or freeze it, I suppose) but I get into a state, exacerbated by this friggin’ heat, here I don’t want to do any cooking type work. So out comes the slow cooker and in goes the chicken and then I look around for something to pour in and let it do its thing.

Today’s mystery ingredients were a bottle teriyaki sauce and an entire bottle of Frank’s Hot Sauce. It’s been boiling and toiling for a few hours now and my kitchen smells like China Town in Buffalo on a Saturday night. I’m not sure what’s going to come out the other end or what I’m going to do with it once it’s done. Pulled Hot Buffalo Chicken Teriyaki You A New Asshole Sandwiches, I suppose.

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Got the groceries, my son had to make a lot of trips from the truck to the house.
I got everything put away that has to be put away.
The rest can wait until tomorrow, I need to shift stuff around to make room for everything.

Echo is getting weird. She walked right up to one of the store employees that was standing outside, let him pet her. Then as soon as I got closer she backed away from him and started barking at him. I think she has two feet in puppyhood and two feet in adult guard dog mode.
She doesn’t know what she wants to do.

We went to DQ for ice cream, the dogs got small cups of vanilla, we each got a ice cream brownie dessert. Our DQ doesn’t sell food. The line was really long, kind of surprising.

It never got really hot today.

I’m still hurting all over and don’t know why. My back, hips, thighs, knees, ankles, elbows, and wrists hurt. No position is comfortable, no matter how I sit, stand, or lay, something hurts. I’m hoping a good nights sleep will take care of everything.
I can sleep in tomorrow as it is daycare day. Lily is going tomorrow too so she can get used to the place before she gets boarded there. I would take Lily for the week if I didn’t have a cat, or if she got along with the cat.

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We’re on our third day of spicy-sweet pork and noodles. It’s a good dish, but the full recipe will feed about eight people. Don’t know what I was thinking.

Mucked out the stable after putting it off for a day, so we be sparkly and shit.

Why does trash day always seem like a small miracle? You put bins full of crap you don’t want out by the curb and then it magically disappears! It’s like a little magic trick. Or perhaps I’m just easily entertained.

Some old friends from the Foreign Service called us from Florida yesterday and we had a pretty good chat. They hate their governor as much as they hate Trump. I think they were pretty far gone into a jug of gin when they called, but still nice to hear from them. They keep asking us to come down for a visit. To Florida? I don’t think so. Been there, swore to never return.

Blazers scrimmage game in a bit, so that’s our Tuesday entertainment. Other than the garbage pickup, I mean.

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I can relate to that. I’m in Connecticut because it’s not Hawai`i.

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That’s just terrifying!!! But I do like the name you came up with! :rofl:

You and me too, brother!

It’s thundering and some precip is falling. Supper was tossed salad and chickie salad. Very healthy. Now it’s time to chill - well, after I load and start the dishwasher. I don’t plan to do anything this evening.

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Today did NOT go according to plan. I got up early and went for a walk. About a mile in, a homeless guy asked where the courthouse was. Not the direction he was heading. He was very tired but did not ask for money. (I had none with me anyway.) I told him the buses are free here. He said he’d heard that but didn’t believe it. He didn’t have a mask, though, and you need one to ride. So I gave him directions and off he went. He’s an Illinois native, like me. :slight_smile:

That took long enough that I had to cut the walk short because the disability bus was coming to take me to the eye clinic. Yes, again. I have to be followed by a glaucoma specialist now because I have optic nerve damage, so just a checkup. He made me do all kinds of tests, though, and then took forever to go through my history–admittedly, it’s a bit longer than War and Peace. Just as riveting, though. The appointment went over, so the disability bus left without me. I started walking to a street where I’d hopefully bump into a bus stop, but luckily the bus people called and said another was en route.

Then I got involved in trying to help a friend via phone. I think she’s got early dementia. She’s also disabled with RA. And despite numerous falls, she won’t get a walker or use the life alert device I talked her into getting. (She lives alone and 10 miles out in the country.) I’m hoping she’ll move closer to family.

VOW–That’s the plan. The neuro thought my son was getting rebound headaches, but 6 months off Imitrex and no change.

Yes! I also feel that way about street sweepers.

MetalMouse: I LOVE braunsweiger, though I call it liver sausage. On rye with mustard…yum! Haven’t seen any in ages. Why did it go out of style?

Thel: You’re not morally weak, just too smart to waste time on stuff you don’t want to do.

flyboy: Nice shed. Sorry about coworkers half-sister. Damned virus.

Jack Bats, best sandwich name ever!

Sari: hope you feel better!

Shoe: Can snakes get fevers? Just idle wondering.

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And a slice of provolone. And maybe some bacon.

Two of the stores where I shop usually have it – Super Walmart and the commissary…

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I acknowledge that I’ve been overeating and under-exercising during these months of lockdown. And as a result, I have gained weight.

But I still feel insulted by the way the internet has begun targeting me with ads for prenatal products.

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It’s done percolating. I’ve pulled/shredded/drained the excess nuclear waste from it. It is now settling and cooling in preparation for part II - the making of a sandwich with it. I’m hoping maybe a little bleu cheese will be a nice touch, because I’ve sampled it, and I’m debating whether or not I should just go ahead and sell it to the DHS goons. Make some coin.

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I like the cut of your jib. :wink:

I got my mother (of blessed memory) a life alert device but she left it hanging on the wall instead of wearing it. So when she fell and lay in her own poop for seven hours, she couldn’t reach it. Eventually a neighbor found her. (This was when she was still in California.) I told her when she got back to her apartment after a hospital stay, if you’re not going to wear it, at least leave it on the floor so you’ll be able to reach it if you fall. Sigh.

I have friends who won’t use canes, wear their hearing aids, or wear their glasses. This kind of vanity mystifies me. I just got new hearing aids and I told my audiologist that I love them like twin puppies. (I love her, too.)

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Gee, nobody’s ever approved of my jib before! Checks mirror. Huh. Now I know why. But thank you!

Oh, gosh, your mom was like mine. She claimed she didn’t need one. I had to guilt her into it. (“I’ll worry if you don’t have one.”) Then when she moved into independent living, she thought she didn’t need it because there was a call button in the bathroom. Like that was the only place she’d fall! Finally talked her into keeping it. Then when she did fall, she lay there for 4 hours because she didn’t want to bother anybody.

She’s been gone almost 10 years, and I miss her every single day.

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Yay for Tucker! and happy birthday to Echo.

I thought of you today hippie. The fire alarm guys were in and one had a ponytail down to his bootie. I guessed him to be another 20-30 years out from retirement though. :stuck_out_tongue:

cookie , after enough years of cooking for one or two, I’ve come up with a system of rotating freezer meals. Usually, the most I have to do for supper is cooking a little rice or pasta through the week. The weekends are when I cook.

It’s been like Christmas here the last two days. I’ve had a whole mailbox of Jungle, Wish and a straggler pair of gym shorts that I ordered a month ago (the rest of the order was here within days, including another pair of the same shorts, but a different color). Today’s haul was some more stuff for the studio from da Jungle.

The commute home today involved both sunglasses and windshield wipers. :stuck_out_tongue:

I turned on the streaming early tonight, given the gawd-aweful political commercials. The political climate in a red state during primary season (IOW, when whatever GOP animal is selected) sucks.

Stay save and healthy y’all!