Not the most exciting day one way or the other. Bit of “here we go again” when another ship went aground in the Suez, but this one picked a two-lane stretch, so wasn’t blocking traffic significantly, and was freed in about 15 minutes.
CAN DO! Starting yet another hoop (a little one, so there’s a slight chance I actually finish?) with a landscape scene. Hills, mountains, happy little clouds in a blue sky, and a creek winding through the grass.
I have VH-1 "I love the … " series on TV in the background for company.
McD provided dinner. My usual comfort food from them: a small fry, small (4 pc) nuggets, and a plain cheeseburger - no pickle, no mustard, but extra onion. (I always ask as nicely as possible.)
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
[Tag Team]Hoop! there it is![/Tag team]
Well, it coulda been a good night… I fell asleep at a decent hour, but was awakened (scared out of a dream) when FCD came back around 11:30. Fell asleep again, but he woke me around midnight in pain, so I had to get him some pain meds. Then my gut woke me at 4, followed by the alarm for meds at 5. So, much of my sleep was broken. Dammit.
It’s supposed to be in the 70s today. I’m going to cut up more firewood and make a run to the convenience center. And I’ll open the shop up to air it out - last time I was in there, it was really stuffy. I bought a couple of mums yesterday to go in the planters on the porch in the place of a couple that died. So I’ve got some stuff to keep me busy once the sun is up.
Till then, surf on!
Happy Firday!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 62 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 87 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. This mornin’ I shall assist with mowage over to the church house. This afternoon I shall hone my sloth skills. Sup shall be chikin nachos, which we have not had in a while, so should be nummy.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I shall make myself reasonably presentable. Fortunately mowers and grass do not care about one’s appearance.
Happy Firday Y’all!
It will be a strange day. I am sure that this is somewhat obvious, but I am rather introverted and socially awkward. Tonight is my fifty year High School reunion. On the one hand, I am sure it will turn out OK but deep down inside I can’t help feeling that it will be the “popular” crowd and I will be seen as an interloper.
I plan to put on my best game face and show up with a smile, but am preparing for disappointment…
This is the year of my 50th HS reunion also, but I can’t be bothered. I went to one at 10-ish years and another at 40-something (combined reunion of several classes.) At both, the venues were so small and the bands so loud, it was impossible to talk to anyone. Plus the people I’d have liked to reconnect with didn’t come and those who were there were either strangers (there were almost 850 in my graduating class) or had barely been acquaintances back then. I’m still in touch with 2 of my closest friends from those days, and I’m really not interested in reconnecting with anyone. I have more to say to Mumpers than to anyone I haven’t seen in half a century…
FCD has gone back to bed, poor baby. I’m showered and dressed and I’ve started a load of unders. I cleaned the cat box - one of the idiot felines decided to take a dump on the top step to the basement. Really??? I’ve opened both doors to the shop, hoping some fresh air will help the stuffiness. I wish there was a window to allow a cross-breeze. Oh well.
I come to sing the praises of the Wrist Widget™! I’ve been having wrist and elbow pain from work, too much tie spent sanding things and lifting things and just general wear and tear. I’d been using a standard wrist wrap that kind of helped, but not really. This thing came yesterday and it not only makes the wrist feel good, but it made the elbow feel good too. This is the best my arm has felt in 2 months.
hippie Just go and be yourself. If they don’t like you, f-'em. Their loss. You’re a good dude in my book.
Now on to the day. I have much laminate to apply to various surfaces. Hope to get all 14 drawer fronts and edges done today. There will be a huge mess of router chips by the end of work.
This sounds like an absolutely incredible way to spend an evening. If I promise not to yammer, can I come next time?
Another Big Meeting with Important People today. Fortunately or unfortunately, it starts in less than 30 minutes. I guess at least this way the bandaid will have been ripped off an hour from now. Also, someone is presenting a way more contentious program immediately after, so at least there may be an interesting circus after. One way or the other, my stomach is full of butterflies and my hands are clammy and I’m not eating until after it’s done and I’ve come down again (I HATE public speaking).
I keep envisioning myself running out the door with my hair on fire, screaming, “Serenity now!!!”
Happy Firday!
My weather app lied to me. Told me it was 76 degrees outside with a high of 90 today.
So, I sat in the dog park in my shorts and t-shirt when it was 56 feels like 54 degrees.
With wet feet.
I’ve been home for over an hour and I’m still cold.
I liked my old weather app, until every time I wanted to check the weather, I had to go through a bunch of covid information first. F that shit, if I want covid info I know where to get it and don’t need it shoved in my face a dozen times a day.
Echo caught a bird at the park. I’m thinking it was already injured when she got it as it was back in the trees.
Poor bird didn’t survive.
Skipped the plunge last night. Nobody else was going (for various reasons) and I didn’t want to go by myself.
I hope you have a good time Hippie.
My radio was back this morning, so whatever the glitch was, it’s fixed.
Morning all. Stayed in until near 8am today, paper has been rescued and pills taken, so I’ll break fast in another 30 minutes or so. I looked at my thermostat, which I have set at 77F, and it’s showing it is only 74F inside, so yeah, my AC gets a break for awhile. Only supposed to reach 82F today, which almost qualifies as Fall around here.
talky, you’ll do fine; I’ve found that 95% of your nerves go away once you start speaking, if you know your stuff (and you do).
VanGo, never heard of a wrist widget, but I don’t do the work you do, I am glad it is bringing you some relief.
FCM, I also passed on my 50th this year, as in previous years, I haven’t lived there since 1981 and have no contacts up there so it would have been a lost cause for me. And Hippie, I don’t think of you as introverted, but like me, we don’t do well in crowds or with ‘small talk’. But you have no trouble relating things here.
Oopsie, enjoy NYC. And patients is a virtue, but sometimes it pays to be non-virtuous, keep after that Nurse!
shoe, I know the ‘saw you heard them’ from times past, somebody ought to make a meme out of it.
Cookie, hope the city ponies up their share without too much argument or heartburn on your part.
doggio, hope Firday went a little bit better…
OK, that’s all for now. Sustenance and puzzles await. All y’all have a great Firday.
After so many years, those dynamics have washed away. Besides, the cool kids in high school peaked early, and are burnouts by now.
That’s cause for celebration! 
Abso-fucking-lutely. I’d love the company.
VanGo, I hope that Cinnamon likes the dental sticks. 
Glad the wrist widget is working out well. Repetitive motion injuries are no fun.
hippy, I went to my 5, 30 and 40 year reunions. The statute of limitations seems to be up on bad behavior and some of the social strata had been discarded. I graduated from a class of ~600 kids. I was part of several very different crowds, so a few representatives from all of them tend to show. Oddly enough, there are about a half dozen of us who wound up within 100 miles of where I live now (400 miles south of where we went to school). We’re thinking of having a mini reunion at some point.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, a load of towels washed, dried and put away, a load of clothes in the dryer, the kitchen and bathroom cleaned and vacuuming done. Once the floors are finished, the patio swept and groceries bought, today’s chore list will be complete.
Tomorrow, my SIL will be here ~7:30 a.m. for breakfast (Shakshuka, for those who want to know 
), then we’ll spend the day rambling. We haven’t done that for a while, so we may just scare up some trouble. Y’all will post bail, won’t you?
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Happy Friday!
My 50th reunion will be in 2 years. I’ve skipped every one except the 10 year, and the only reason I showed up at that one was to see how fat and miserable all the cheerleaders had gotten. While BSing with a group of people, I complained that one cheerleader had let me down. “Look at Laurie W. She’s still gorgeous, she’s happily married…” Then someone walking behind me leaned in and said “Yeah, she’s still a bitch, too.”
There’s no topping that, so I haven’t been to a reunion since. Since my graduating class was ~1000 people, I wouldn’t know most attendees anyway.
Fly low, stay cool and don’t let the bastards grind you down.
Went out and bought some 1x8 cedar planks to build the new herb boxes with. I made the old ones out of plywood and painted them, but the rain delaminated them in about four years or so. They looked nice, but they gotta go. I think I’ll go with a clear acrylic coat of some sort this time around.
My youngest sis socializes a lot with the kids from her (our) elementary school - they were the 8th grade class of '79. They frequently get together for stuff, having reconnected on FB. Of course, it’s all the ones who stayed in the same general area. I live about 100 miles from where I grew up - haven’t lived around there since 1973, so naturally, I haven’t kept in touch with anyone apart from the 2 friends.
When I took the trash and recycling, I scored a little picnic table for Roxy, sans umbrella. People leave unwanted but usable stuff beside the big dumpster. It happens that I left a blower with a dead battery and the old electric chain saw - someone handy may want them. Apart from the table, someone had left a couple of small chairs, a plastic “shopping cart”, and a large pony (not a rocking horse, tho.) I didn’t want/need any of the other things, but the picnic table is going to my daughter’s house after I scrub it.
And FCD’s computer stand was delivered today. I had to help him place it, since it involved moving some furniture. He can now work from his recliner without having to hold his laptop on the top of his lap! 
We just had to shift the angle of his recliner so he could still see TV. Priorities, yanno.
Lunch has been ingested. Laundry has been folded and put away. I really should do something. Maybe. Eventually.
Hey all! Just thought I’d pop in here and say hi.
I haven’t been around much. Been busy with stuff. I’m doing all right.
Shift start time listed on board: 0400
Shift start time in time clock: 0345
When dogbutler showed up, because his Spidey Sense was tingling**: 0326
When 26k of smalls came rumbling down the belt: 0330
So it was me and 4 supervisors for half an hour.
** if you knew my house spiders, their sense is a bug, not a feature***
*** I see what I did there.
Good morning everyone.
I got a late start to the morning because I tried to sleep longer. I went to bed around 9:40 last night and laid awake until almost 2:00 am. So I gave up and came back downstairs to watch some TV and drifted off to sleep for a bit. I kept waking up every hour or so, so I just gave up and got up at 7:30. I am fighting off some kind of cold too. Hopefully, I win both the battle and the war.
My 40th reunion is next year (if there even is a reunion). I haven’t gone to a single one of them. I ran into an old junior high/high school friend not long after the 10-year reunion who asked why I didn’t go. I was hugely pregnant at the time, my husband was on the road, and a good many people at my high school were insufferable, judgy people who would have immediately thought the worst of me for showing up at a reunion pregnant and alone. He had to agree with that assessment and stated that no one had changed; the same cliques hung out and most of the people were insufferable.
I found out right around the time of our 20th reunion, that the most popular girl (cheerleader, part of the “elites”, etc) died of alcoholism. We were friends in elementary school and part of junior high and hung out together, spending the night at each other’s home, etc. Then high school came along and I was kicked to the curb. I saw it coming, but it still was a nasty thing to do. Also so very common.
At any rate, I am not even the same person I was in high school. That little girl disappeared about two years out of high school.
Highs today top at around 70 and it’s currently cloudy and somewhat clammy feeling. We might see a stray rain shower or two.
Well, I should try to get some chores done. I donwanna, but things need doing.
I also graduated in a class of 1,000. School was so crowded, we went in shifts, so there were students I literally never saw. Also, I skipped my senior year and went to college, so one less year of memories. I’ve only lived in Illinois 1 year since college, but from what I see on social media, the few reunions have been sparsely attended.
There’s a Facebook page for 1970s grads of my HS. It’s easier to visit there, though it’s mostly people saying, “Remember the smoking room?” (Yes, in a misguided and possibly illegal bid to stop 
Smoking in the Boys (and Girls) Room, my school had a smoking lounge for kids. It didn’t last long.)
Anyway, hippie, go and have fun. Write “Most Popular” or “Your Majesty” on your name tag, and remember you really are both here at Mumpers Academy, where only the best, brightest, and most endearing go to school.
And last night I dreamed I walked into my classroom and found a sub (teacher, not vessel).Turns out I was to be at a day-long dept. meeting (UGH), so I had to throw together sub plans, announce cheerily, “Hey, kids, it’s reading day!” and find handouts on my computer…which kept showing horror films so I couldn’t find the files. This is why teachers don’t have reunions.
Furniture guy is coming this evening to pick up stuff. Yay!
shoe, glad you’re eating!
doggio, do you get Valuable Good Boy Points for working so hard and so early?