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One and the same.

Minor miracle! No, not really, but I have my pizzas from Chicago because a new batch was sent and as soon as I had the tracking number, I told them to route it to a UPS store. The original batch is still AWOL.

Follow the bouncing salon… in accordance with the latest special dispensation from the government, we built an outdoor hair salon for PWAISDN. No idea how long it will be needed, but hopefully he can soon once again work inside (where it’s actually clean and no damned dust blowing around) before the cold and rainy season. They’re not asking doctors to treat patients in parking lots…

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to work. I’m still getting thunderstorms, and “Princess Pretty Paws” is hiding in the closet and refusing to even go near the front door. Also, hockey is back, and the Pens lost. :smiley: :ice_hockey:

'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

And Boo, I love that people actually use cites here, unlike Facebook.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin out and fair (as opposed to unjust?) with a predicted high of ONLY 84 (where are my woolies!) with rain/tstorms/apocalypse predicted for today and tomorrow. We shall see. This mornin’ we shall lay in some provisions. Since we are partay animals, we shall celebrate my day of nativity with wild and reckless abandon by havin’ N.O.L. (actually late N.O.L./early sup) at the hog trough Golden Corral. JDD and Partner will come over on Sattidy for a little celebration cee-mint pond side. I have requested burgers and a DQ ice cream cake. Sunday we shall use my bday thingy from the local good seafood place.

gotti glad you’re pizzas finally arrived. You’ve taken majik intartoobz pizza to a whole new level!

Butters thanks!

Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, alack, woe, bother of bothers, I suppose I should purtify and don appropriate bein about the public attire. Feel my pain!

Happy Hump Day Y’all!

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I wish we could make big text still, but nonetheless:

  • HAPPY SWAMPY DAY!! :birthday:
  • HAPPY SWAMPY DAY!! :ice_cream:
  • HAPPY SWAMPY DAY!! :tropical_drink:
  • HAPPY SWAMPY DAY!! :champagne:
  • HAPPY SWAMPY DAY!! :gift_heart:

Hugs and a big ol’ smooch to my favorite old geezer!!! Wishing you many, many more!!!

And for the rest of you, Happy Wednesday!

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Since when???

:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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happy birthday Swampy

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Happy Swampy Day! :tada: :birthday: :swimming_man:

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Happy Swampy Day! :champagne: :birthday: :gift:

Today’s weather is dull, irk is irksome and I am looking forward to going grocery shopping later today. That’s about all for today, nothing exciting going on at all. Oh well, there’s always the prospect that the Can of Worms will mutate into a mess of something else…

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I like “repeat treat” – sounds much better than leftovers!

Nuns can become ex-nuns. My four aunts went into the convent, two of them left years later. We refer to them as “the white sheep of the family.” :grin: One of them later married the widowed father of one of my high school classmates - how’s that for a small world story?

My mother was in the convent for a while in the late 1940s but it didn’t work out. That’s a good thing because now you’ve got me!

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My dad was in a Jesuit seminary for a brief period - as the only son, he was expected to embrace the priesthood. Well, it didn’t last long - he decided to join the Marines instead.

And then I was born. :smiley: OK, some other stuff happened in there, but I just touched on the important points.

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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Happy Swampy Day!

Moooom, the tags for big text are <big> and </big>. <small> and </small> are the opposite. The “big” tags can only be used once, but “small” can be used moe than once to make even smaller type: once, twice, and again.

gotti, re car parks there was a photo making the rounds a while back of an OB/GYN clinic with a “Curbside Service” sign on their front door… :smiley:

dogbutler, our Maine coon used to hide under the couch when the thunder was booming, though she finally stopped a couple years ago.

boofae, would a Barrel of Monkeys be better or worse than the Can of Worms?

My parents didn’t go for nunneries or monkeries, but they did get divorced for a few years. I was born nine months after they remarried.

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Saw this darling poem on reddit this morning. For people whose cats take up ALL the room in the bed. I used to have a king-size bed and a cat who slept diagonally in the center, occupying a disproportionate amount of space. I’d wake up in the morning clinging to the edge. She was a great cat, Pearl by name. Hope I’m not violating any rules by quoting the whole thing.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
Entire bed I gonna keep.
For I am cat - I do the S P R E A D,
'N cover up the human bed.
The purrfect place for me, it seems
As I drift off in kitten dreams.
Am sorry, friend - no room for you,
I guess the couch
Will hafta do…

As for myself, bad night. Virtually no sleep. No walk. I put myself in a despondent mood by posting depressing articles in other forums. Off to make coffee and toast now.

–Little Thelma Sunshine

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Cool!!
Thanks! Learn sumpin’ new every day!

Is there a tag for coloring text or are we stuck with black on white?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SWAMPY!

EDIT: Weird. I tried to post, and I got a popup saying my post was unclear. What, I can’t say ‘happy birthday’?

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Thanks for the bday wishes y’all! :birthday: :partying_face: I celebrated by goin’ to the Pubic Sto’. I bought brookies (cross betwixt a brownie and a cookie) just cause. We have had brookies so all is well. Just so y’all know, I am sixty-six years old. Just think, if I live six hunnert more years I will be 666 years old! :imp: :imp: :imp:

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Happy B-Day Swampy!!

Morning all. 79F heading for 87F with a 50/50 chance of rain.

Thel, here’s something for your bad night…Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy (Official Music Video) - YouTube :smiley: :smile: :grin: :rofl:

swampy, our Golden Corral is closed up tight…guess they couldn’t figure out how to make it work in a pandemic.

gotti, congrats on the pizza…of course, New Yorker’s will say that they are not real pizza… And hope it works out for PWAISDN

Boo, COMU? Maybe I’d flunk that Trump testing, but what is this? And hope the new bed looks good.

Nettie, your Baghdad note (and ouch, that’s hot!!) made me check on my old stomping grounds in Abu Dhabi–98F at 6:30pm…and they’re right on the Arabian Gulf, so humidity…makes me glad I’m back here now.

Have broken fast with a Big Bowl O’Cheerios, now onward to the day!

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Thel, love the poem!

Moooom, you can have white on black instead, but we’re stuck with just those two colours, alas. :angry:

swampy, I hadn’t realised you were so young! I turned 66 two months ago.

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I’m surprised swampy hasn’t made his usual observation that I’m 6 months and 6 days older than he is. For some odd reason, that delights him. Uppity young 'un!!!

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It’s a day for birthday bears. It’s Bear_Nenno’s birthday too.

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Happy Hump Day!

:high_brightness: :high_brightness: :high_brightness: Happy Birthday SwampyBear! :high_brightness: :high_brightness: :high_brightness:
I hope all your celebrations are happy ones!

Nice and cool out this morning, a sun shiny 70 degrees, supposed to get up to 91.

The dishwasher is running, my son loaded it for me last night. I’m not sure why he can’t put the pod in and hit the start button, but is okay. He even washed the skillet by hand to get most of the gunk out before loading it.

The pups got off to daycare. Lily is supposed to go today, if so, I hope they let her and Ripple get together. I know she is going to be scared.

The lawn guy/handyman called me last night, so I called him back this morning. Just got a text from him that was meant for somebody else. He sounds frazzled.

Had to send an email off to irk. They changed something else on us and it needs to be fixed, asap. In the meantime I’ll try to figure out a fix on my end.

I’m a little worried as to why my check to the feds has cleared and my check to the state hasn’t.

Adam seldom talks, I’ll get a chirp once in a while when I let him in. If he wants food he just bugs the hell out of us until somebody figures out his bowl is empty. He is also fond of banging on my son’s bedroom doors. Since they are pocket doors they rattle and bang against each other. If he is really desperate, he’ll tease the dogs so they will chase him. When they catch him, he screams bloody murder, which gets our attention. Then he either jumps up by his bowl for food or sits by the door to go out.

The only thing I have done so far is go through my collection of power cords. I have an old printer and I can’t find the cord for that, as well as the cords for my tablet and kindle. They should have been in the case with them. However, I have a whole mess of cords that don’t seem to go to anything.

LawnGuy/Handyman got back to me, he has the part for the toilet and the pavers for under the trash cans, can’t do it today though, which is fine by me. I have other things to do and will be in and out all day.