: passes kleenex to rosie:
I’m hoping to go to bed soon. TVMan and I are leaving early in the morning heading to Sodus, NY and then a little time in Niagara Falls, NY. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE A STUPID PASSPORT TO GET INTO CANADA NOW!!! :rolleyes:
My guess? (Speaking as someone wholly unqualified to guess.) Side effect of something you’re taking, rosie. Sounds like it’s time to ask the doctor. 4 seems like an awful lot of nosebleeds in that time span.
Have fun, Pie! Note to all: get a passport. You need 'em to get anywhere these days. Outside your own country, that is. As long as you define the European Union as one country.
I have planted stuff. I’m almost done (6 zinnias, a few herbs - NOH, some daylilies). Should be able to finish that off at the next non-rainy opportunity. Then I’ll mulch. Wooooohooooo.
And thanks for the further planting suggestion, swampy. It would be kinda cool to have planted walls. But I’d need a gardener. And I’m not that well off yet.
Hope the ear is better soon, snowbunny. (And ewwwww on the ear-related TMI.)
::Waves at Soapy::
How’s it going?
Any volunteers for Monday???
GT
I’m home. My refurbished Blu Ray player was at the UPS place, and my 16¢ HDMI cable(take that, Monster!) was in the mailbox. I’m watching Star Wars right now.
Pie, a passport? I thought Canada was just Minnesota Lite. 
rosie, I get those too. Dunno why.
snowbunny, bummer on the oozing. If it was December, you’d be seasonally correct.
gt, taxi, an iAlpaca is just like a regular alpaca, just more stylish and expensive.
Congrats on almost moving, Marley! Next time I move, I’m burning everything that doesn’t fit into the car.
: Stands wwwaayy upwind of swampbear :
Soapy, you could borrow Gordie, he’s good at protecting home.
The very thought of having this in December makes me want to run for a really long scarf to wrap around my entire head. Seriously. Gaaaah!
I would love to go back in time and ask my kid self how on Earth I handled these things as well as I remember doing. I’ve always had a high pain threshold and all, but still, owwwww. At least I have lots of ibuprofen, which is doing a nice job of keeping the pain down to where I can mostly ignore it.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’! It’s iDay! Interestin’ thing is, we will either get slammed or it’ll be a big nuttin’. Either way I gotta be there eight hours so we shall see.
Rosie my guess is also med side effect. I’d make mention of the nosebleeds to the doc. Hope it’s all better soon.
YAWN I need more caffiene and some brekkies.
Later Y’all!
Happy Firday! I am at work with a cup of tea to start the day going - my boss is on holiday for three weeks and it’s pretty quiet today. It’s also the last day of term so I am expecting to hear partying students all over campus later - not a great day to want to go outside at lunchtime, the place will be heaving.
Busy weekend of domesticity coming up, nothing exciting but I have lots of things to get through. Envy me.
Hugs, boos, trouts, and get-wells for the sickies!
I’m up early even though it’s the start of my weekend. Happy FIRDAY all!
My agency is having a 75th anniversary celebration - tonight, from 6-9 pm. Outside the building. They’re closing off the roadway into the building at noon today. I took the day because I think it’s probably going to be a huge mess on top of that it might rain and I really didn’t want to be at my work place until nearly 9 pm tonight. :eek: At any rate, I do have the day off courtesy of my own leave. That’s my celebration. 
I haven’t caffeinated yet, because I’m probably going to go back to sleep in a bit. IOW, my brain isn’t functioning on all cylinders yet. So a Rosie sig all around…and I third that the nosebleeds might be med reactions, btw, Rosie.
Up. Here’s hoping iDay isn’t too annoying, swampy.
Happy Anniversary, tarra!
Congrats on the player, doggio!
Gotta get to work, I suppose.
But it’s Firday!!! Wooooooohoooooo!!!
GT
Happy Firday, y’all.
We had a rather spectacular thunderstorm pass just east of Mayberry last night. There was so much lightning flying that the clouds were constantly lit. I even used my secret National Weather Service Storm Spotter Decoder Ring, and called in an observation. Wasn’t too long after I did that the storm was declared severe.
Lightning even hit one of the schools, setting off the fire alarms, but I wasn’t paged.
VWife wants to go to another liquidation sale tomorrow, and I’m fighting like hell not to go. It’ll eat into valuable time for [del]weekend sloth[/del]getting shit done around the lair, and my wallet hasn’t yet recovered from the last trip of a like nature.
Since it’s also Father’s Day, I’ma going fishing again Sunday morning. Maybe I’ll catch something, for once…
Yays, hugs, boos, gooses, and wet trout as appropriate. Take one, and pass the rest on.
Oh, EMT hat goes on for Rosie.
Nosebleeds like that can be caused by a lot of things, and not all of them are trivial. I’ll second Swampus on getting your keester to a Doc.
In the meantime, have a bottle of Afrin or Neosynephrin handy. When you get a bleed, give the affected side 2 squirts. If you can’t tell, 2 squirts up each nostril. The active ingredient is a vasoconstrictor, and unless you severed a major artery in your sinuses (;)), the nosebleed should stop very quickly. We carry Afrin in our drug box precisely to treat nosebleeds.
Don’t use the saline types for this, because they’ll wash out the clots and prolong the bleeding.
Hai everybody.
doggio, we can’t possibly be Minnesota Lite… our salads have entirely too much lettuce and too few marshmallows to qualify for the title. We’re probably more like Michigan Lite, if anything.
tarra, that sounds like a brilliant way to celebrate your company’s anniversary.
So they’ve released me from the Neverending Meetings From Hell for now. Well, for a few days, anyways. I plan on being only quasi-productive today as retaliation for the many, many days I’ve spent holed up in a teensy room yelling into a speakerphone.
Countdown to when I’m officially allowed to get an iPhone begins… now. Just 30 days to go. sob
I’m trying not to be suspicious of my landlord and his wife, but they’re really too nice. I dropped by yesterday to get my key to the building, and just like the day we signed the lease, they insisted I come on in, sit down, have a glass of orange juice, chat and see the apartment again. The apartment’s coming along and it’s nice to be up to speed, but there are guys working in there and I don’t want to interrupt them or step on anything. I sure as hell don’t want the closet doors to go on wrong or the toilet to get mis-installed because I interrupted them!
They’re an older couple and I guess they’re the Greek stereotype to a T. It’s a little hard to understand the man at times, but he’s got a very expressive eyebrows and his eyebrows could probably win a minor league armwrestling competition. The landlord is very warm, and his wife said they love us. She had some very nice things to say about my girlfriend (who they alternately described as my wife and fiancee, which is getting a little ahead of things), which were all true, but they’ve only seen her twice, and the second time, I don’t think she said anything!
Did your landlord try to squirt Windex on you??
(Do we have a nick for Marley23 yet?)
Doggio- Thanks for the offer for Gordie- but my dog barks so much, everyone in a five mile radius knows not to come around here (I was still freaked out though). Rosie- poor nose!
On a happy note- I got my new iPhone! Yipee.
(It’s really cool… Yes, I am a geek).
No. Why, do I have something on my glasses?
Jake
Chains
Wailer
Rasta
Jack
Boots
???
Have you not seen “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”?
Bobbio- Booties?
LivingInSin?
Up caffeinated, off to work. It’s already 80.
Yay for your iPhone, Soapy!
Congrats on the day off, Herbs!
Enjoy the quasi-productivity, Muppet. Michigan Lite it is!
I have no creative name suggestions, though I do like the sound of Rasta.
Marley, it sounds like they’re much too nice not to be planning something horribly devious.
It’s likely that they’re plotting to sneak into your place when you’re not there to clean your bathroom, reorganize your kitchen cupboards, mop the floors and wash your dishes. (At least, that’s what my older Portuguese landlady would occasionally do while I was at work… it was sweet, though somewhat annoying)
Some people don’t like the bacon coffeecake. Can you imagine?! Not liking bacon. In coffeecake.
A question for the bakers out there - I made the bacon coffeecake in muffin pans today because it’s a lot easier to serve muffins at work than coffeecake that you have to cut and eat with a fork and have plates to eat it from and so on. Muffins are finger food. Anyway, while they’re still good, KT thinks we need to tweak the recipe so they don’t dry out. Other than just baking them for less time (which I did… about 20 min for the mini muffins and 25-30 min for the regular ones instead of the 45 listed on the recipe for a bundt pan), how else would you change the recipe to make them into muffins instead of cake? I’m thinking I just overcooked them and that the recipe is fine, but KT thinks it needs altering. What do you think?