I remember duck and cover, although we quit doing it around 1970 (I was in first grade). Like hippy, we were taught to pray the rosary for the duration.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to take the morning nap (I’m going to hate giving those up). I made an executive decision to forego most housework this weekend and concentrate on feeling up to going to irk Monday.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Morning all. Up early today, paper retrieved and pills taken, it’s 56F and supposed to get almost to 80F today, so maybe the inside of the house will warm up some. Need to go swimmin’ (actually just beating the water into submission–I am not all that great of a swimmer) and have a ticket for Blue Man Group tonight. Tomorrow is the last day for indoor soccer, then we’ll start outdoors next week.
Sorta proud of myself, managed to get the ‘app’ for ticketmaster loaded on my cell phone and got the CQ(?) code to come up, so I can get into the performance tonight like a 21st century person–if I can find it again on the phone… Will take paperwork with me just in case…
hippy, don’t remember seeing you this week on the MMP. Hope all is good for you and Sunflower.
Taters, yeah, I know what you mean. And who wouldn’t want to work in Hawaii (you, apparently… 
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boo fae, enjoy the music. I’ll get a lot of percussion with Blue Man Group, not so much else…
Dicey, That’s interesting about the Swiss and iodine pills–I live about 20 miles from the Brown’s Ferry nuke plant and nobody has every suggested having pills available.
OK, onward into the day. All y’all take care.
I lurk here every day. I don’t post often because my day to day life even bores me, so I hesitate to inflict it upon my friends
Okay, that’s not the reaction I was expecting. 100% of my survey sample says … do the thing. 
Since when do Dopers agree on anything?
I was expecting lectures about consent, and inappropriate age gaps, and all that responsible adult-y stuff.
(Then again, I peek quickly at the int’l news lately and think, “Well, maybe, 'tis true. YOLO.”)
Oh, how fun!! I haz a slightly jealous, but I also haz a happy for you.
Nah, nope. Let’s not forget the purpose of this thread. I mean, the forum is “Mundane Pointless Stuff” and the weekly MMP is even more mundane than that.
Fully half the posts here involve laundry, lawn mowing, and laziness. (And occasionally, alliteration!)
We like your company. 
… and now, for your viewing pleasure: my grumpy lil’ ol’ lady Nikki taking in the sun yesterday morning.
Good luck with the catalytic converter. Mine was CARB-certified, so the shop put a CARB-certified one on the estimate. $4,600 totalled the car. I countered to USAA that a California-legal but not CARB-certified cat replacement would cost under $2,000. No joy. They said my car was worth $3,500. I pointed out that the average price for a 2005 Prius is $6,500. They said that may be, but the value of the car is $3,500. I told them that the value is $6,500 because that’s what people are paying for them. They said that’s how much they cost to buy, not their value. Um… Value is how much they’re worth. They’re worth a lot more. So I accepted a settlement of $1,725 plus the car (they said was worth $1,200 as salvage). My employer covered my $500 deductible. So I’m just going to break even – only on a salvage title, but I’ll have a shield to protect the cat.
FWIW, I was looking for a shield for Wifey’s RAV4 on Amazon. I didn’t find one, but I did see that they have generic catalytic converters for a couple/few hundred dollars.
Plant one on him, shoe!
I’m waiting at the dealership for my car to be serviced. I wish I had my laptop since it’ll be a couple of hours (new tires plus oil change, bleh). Hopefully I’ll get in a little tiny hike after this but we shall see what things look like timewise. i just need an hour or so while I’m conscious and not required to talk to people or hear a ton of noise. They’ve got four TVs in the waiting room and all four are on and blaring HGTV. It’d be okay if it weren’t in stereo.
I hope everyone has a lovely, wonderful day.
shoe, Nikki is gorgeous. But she doesn’t look amused.
I found that Ticketmaster in the US will download your tix into a wallet if you use Google Pay. I downloaded the GPay app, and my tickets mysteriously appeared in there!
Thanks everyone for your concern and good wishes. It helps to have friends!
I’m doing the reporting and claim filling out since the car is on my insurance~roomie has to deal with the repair decisions and the repair shops. I’m hoping they’ll offer her enough that she can replace it and only be out the deductible and whatever it costs for a preventative shield or cage, so less than $500. And then I will have to sit and 
that my Honda remains unscathed.
Sounds like an excellent plan!
We will have a shield too~it’ll be next week before we know what State Farm will offer for the repair claim. The darn thing has a brand new hybrid battery in it ($3500) so scrapping it is unappealing.
@LH75, I’ll flip you for boring and mundane every day life. If I didn’t have my grandma Sunday play days with Harriet and Sorenson I would have to surrender my Mumper membership card. I’m working on making myself go places in person now that the powers that be are telling us it is ok. This month my daring adventure will be to go to my library book club in person for the first time in two years. I guess that means I ought to read the assigned book, so now I have homework. Every other week I donate platelets at the blood bank, whee! My big social outing for the month. I get to watch cable TV for two hours while the pheresis machine is sucking out the platelets, feeding my SVU and NCIS habit. Oh, there’s always the pressure of returning my library books on time as well as filling the cat food bowls before they eat our faces while we sleep.
@purplehorseshoe, as long as he is 18, kiss him, then go after the job. Better yet, offer to buy him a beer after his last shift and get to know him a little.
A cell failed in my hybrid battery in April 2019. Toyota wanted $3,000 to fix it. I found a place that rebuilds hybrid batteries:
Services Performed
Hybrid Battery Rejuvenation
We open the hybrid battery to install a battery harness that we can charge and discharge the hybrid battery with. While a part we test all the hybrid battery modules and replace the bad ones. ( we replaced module #13 in block #7) We fully charge and discharge the battery three time to get the cells back in shape. We fully charge the battery one last time, clear the computer codes and perform a hybrid system relearn. Do a finally long road test and confirmed there are no further computer codes set. ****NOTE: once the hybrid battery harness is installed it is easy to cycle the battery in the future. We recommend cycling the battery twice a year and we will do this cycling twice a year at no charge.If the battery rejuvenation does not work we will apply the labor spent on rejuvenation towards repairing or replacing the hybrid battery.
Total cost including sales tax was $1,440.
Not that that mattered to USAA. They didn’t give me any additional value for it. As I said, I am retaining the title and paying the ‘salvage value’ of a bit over $1,200. The shop said I could get it for ‘a few hundred dollars’. USAA said, ‘There’s nothing wrong with the car. It starts and drives, and is just missing the catalytic converter.’ So that’s why owner-retention was so expensive.
Anyway, even if they total the car it sounds like you should keep it and repair it.
FWIW, here is the shield I bought. Someone on The Dope pointed it out to me:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B087D8ZSV8
The shop said it would take about half an hour to install, so installation should be about $60.
OMG - IHOP sucked! It shouldn’t take 45 minutes to get an omelet and an egg and pancake breakfast, especially when the restaurant was half empty. Yeah, I’m sure they were short-staffed because of COVID, but when I saw a woman who came in after us get her food before us, FCD called for the manager (we NEVER do that.) He got his food and I got my side order of fruit, but I still had to wait for my omelet. And on top of that, they used canned 'shrooms! ICK!
The server comped our drinks and the manager took something off the entrees, but we won’t be going back. And on top of that, they didn’t have the big tray o’syrup that FCD was looking forward to. He got a handful of the little to-go type containers of boring syrup. I’m sure that’s because of COVID, and if that was the only thing (apart from them not serving Coke products) we could deal. But overall, very disappointing. We shan’t return.
Back home, I organized the storage room of the shop - pics on FB. Now I’m in chillage mode. Onward to my recliner!!
Thanks for the tip~I’m glad to have the info re: the costs for a shield. It would be nuts to not do one with the cat replacement.
I’m not doing too well. The pain at the pelvic bone feels like a railroad spike. I’m panting from the pain when I walk any length. Once again, it’s not muscular. I don’t understand this. I did not have this pain before the epidural–not that I think it’s too blame. I’m going to have to try to contact the neurosurgeon. And here he thought he’d seen the last of me for awhile.
Yesterday I saw an altercation between a mall security guy and an SUV driver. Apparently the driver had been driving recklessly and then had flipped off the security guy. It was a very loud, very angry situation. Unfortunately, it was right in my path. The security guard detained the driver and called for police backup.
Still no word from friend in Kyiv. Friend who escaped has reliable info from others still back there. The stuff he’s posting is defiant but heartbreaking.
Duck and cover…lived it, taught kids about it, the Cuban Missile Crisis, etc. I’m not worried because of the similarities, disturbing as they are. I’m worried because of the differences. I’m not sure if the ban on politics in the MMP applies to other countries’ politics, so I’ll just leave it there.
MetalMouse, yay on seeing the Blue Man Group! Please tell us all about it. I understand they put on a heckuva show.
Hold on there, missy. I mean, I’m all for doing the smoochin’ if he seems up for it, but if it’s going to be at work, I’d think twice about it, with you going for the promotion and all. You might regret it if you don’t, but if you do, and it costs you his job, you’ll regret that even more. I think swampy also urged caution if this was going to be at work.
Nikki is such a beauty. What is there about cats in the sun that’s so comforting?
Boo, sorry about roomie’s car and fingers crossed on yours. Seems like TPTB ought to be cracking down on the places that buy them. After all, they’re stolen goods, right?
flyboy, that sucks about USAA, but kudos for perseverance on your part that at least is going to have you breaking even.
All I know of duck and cover is what I saw on old TV spots. We never did it at our school, and I started in 1960. Plus our school was less than 50 miles from Washington DC, so you’d think…
I need to ask my mom about that time.
Our police dept is trying-you now have to register in Lincoln to sell scrapped converters, which hopefully makes it motivating for the crooks to go elsewhere. Like Omaha, 50 miles down the Interstate. And any extra fuss makes it not worth it to the buyers and they just don’t buy them. The police say they have identified a few suspects and are now hoping to get the goods on them. We shall see.
FCM, you and I must be very close in age. I too started school in 1960. I don’t think we ever did duck and cover, but I do remember fire drills and tornado drills. Never had to shelter during the school year but the training sticks, and in June of 1966 it got real. Thankfully our house was not damaged.
But since we must be close, remember Lost in Space? It was my favorite, although now I cringe if I see reruns.
I remember it, but never really watched it. But, yeah, it’s definitely cringe-worthy. Even moreso - I used to love My Mother The Car. It’s available on YouTUbe (I think) and I watched a couple of episodes. OMG! What were they smoking when they pitched/approved that show???
OK, for reals now - to my recliner!!
A cow-orker just sent me this article and asked me for my thoughts.
I sold her, ‘Sucks to be him. I have no sympathy.’
I have the DVD boxed set.
Heaved in Smalls, then got sent to fix the FUBAR in Purple 54. Then I help retape all the things that I didn’t get fixed before the package cars pulled out.
We didn’t do duck and cover, but our high school auto mechanics teacher taught up that if the siren goes off, bend over, grab your ankles and kiss your a## goodbye.
Also:
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I have an autographed picture of my 6 year old heartthrob, Billy Mummy. I also have an autographed pic of Underdog that Mom hung over my bed for me.
Mom taught me young that if I send someone a letter, they usually send me a letter back. I liked getting letters and I had no shame when it came to writing to TV people and asking for pictures. Later I branched out to writing to writers and guess what? They all write back too! I suspect the letter I have from Stephen King was written by an assistant but it touched on points I had made in my letter, so it kinda counts in my opinion.
Writers usually enjoy discussing their work and can be very receptive to criticism if it’s worded right. Dean Koontz never again mistook a revolver for a semi-auto in writing after we discussed it. (I can’t remember the name of the book but the heroine was doing some target practice and her revolver was tossing empty brass behind her. This is physically impossible and broke me out of the suspension of disbelief zone enough to open a word document.)
I had a copy of this hanging in my barracks room. I thought I was being a rebel and such, but half of the other ladies had the same poster.