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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Afternoon all, the stoopit module has finished; at a rough estimate, there was maybe 2 hours of information actually useful for the course I’m doing, spread over a full week. It wasn’t as though it was badly taught or anything- the guy was nice, enthusiastic, happy to explain everything in depth, he’s a bona fide expert and had a full schedule planned out; the info was clearly quite important to some people, just… totally irrelevant to what we were studying.

I’m glad we’re still wearing masks in class so it wasn’t quite so obvious how bored I was.

I should probably be getting on with some course-irk, but my brains have dripped out of my ears, so I can’t do anything useful until they grow back. I’m celebrating my new found freedom by having a nap, in preparation for going to the pub later.

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FCD forgot he needs to turn in his CAC, so we’re going to take that, then get lunch. After, I’ll drop him off for therapy, run a few errands, fill his car, then return to pick him up. So from 11-almost 3, we’ll be out and about. At least I got the cat box cleaned and I ran the vacuum. In a minute, I’ll attack the pile o’papers that I’ve moved to the counter so I have space to spread it out and sort.

Just need to decide where we’ll have lunch. We’ll be in the area where everything is available, so a pretty tough decision - almost an embarrassment of riches. First world problems, right?

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I’m gonna have to order groceries for the second time this week. Both kids are in sports and both have taken to clearing out the fridge about two or three times a week depending upon the intensity of practice. It’s like living with a plague of very nice but occasionally moody locusts. I remember being young and fit, when a frozen pizza was the equivalent of a snack.

In contrast, I waddled on the treadmill last night, woke up starving and ate two pieces of toast and a banana and as a result I’m sure to gain three pounds overnight. Oh, well. At least my joints no longer feel like they’re on fire, which is nice.

Anywho, today is grey and blah. Work is relatively quiet, though we’re waiting for more regulations to drop today, so everyone may be in a tizzy at close of market. I’d hoped mom could go to overlygirl’s meet tonight, but since even I can’t go (no spectators due to covid), it’s probably not worth it to her. Maybe I’ll get a walk in before the live stream starts up.

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Morning all. paper retrieved and pills taken, Instant Breakfast consumed and dishwasher started, so for me an active morning. Managed not to do my shopping yesterday, so I really need to get out and go today. Probably Kroger (I tend to rotate between Kroger, Wal-Mart and Publix) since I have some coupons they mailed me (I’m a card-member, so they seem to track what I buy there and send specific coupons I can really use). No rain day once again, we seem to be in the dry winter period, going up to 43F today.

VanGo, that was once handsome dog.

FCM, turned in my CAC the day I left, wonder how he got away with it. Also have a ‘retired’ card that I have never used.

Sari, glad the hospital held your neighbor, maybe give the niece some time to organize things.

Taters, not your husband, but I don’t own a cell phone, although it looks like I’m going to get one in February sometime. Hanging around the house 90% of the time as I do, I’ve never felt a need for one. Will try to get a fairly good one.

Safe travels, boo fae

nellie, hope things work out with Medicare for the surgery. And nice of you to check on the karaoke critic.

Flipper, hope the exterminator is able to help. And the landlord really did that? I’ve heard about the crazy, but that…

I think we can manage that…

OK, I really do need to don proper clothing and do my shopping. All y’all have a good Firday!

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Yup. My bad.

Sorry, I’m smart and dumb at the same time.

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Swear to God. He sounded a little put out when it didn’t work.

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Cinnamon seems to have been a Very Good Dog, indeed, VanGo. :blue_heart:

Today started on a happy note: I made it to “onederland” this morning! That means my weight finally starts with a “1” again. It’s been decades. My scale tends to run 1-2 pounds lighter than my doctor’s scale, but I won’t be getting weighed in a medical office again for another month – and by then, I’ll weigh less than 200 pounds on any scale. :smiley: I’m glad it happened today, because the cold and isolation have really been getting to me this week and there have been moments when I (kind of seriously) wished I could eat like I used to. The past couple of nights I’ve watched some My 600-lb Life for inspiration, and if we don’t get a ton of snow tonight I’ll spend time with some friends tomorrow. Seeing that number on the scale this morning helps a lot!

( :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: winter and COVID!!)

I should have that on my business card…

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I dearly wish I could’ve seen that. I mean, it would’ve been infuriating but also fascinating in a horrible sort of way. I hope you get your pests taken care of.

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I don’t think they ever told me. I am sorry.

Conga-rats on the new laptop! It’s fun to get new tech.

I betcha he could when he was a young pup!

Boo Fae I’m sorry your friend is dealing with cancer during all of this nonsense. Stay safe during your travels Oop Norf.

This is sooooo true.

talky I try to remind myself of how much teenagers casually eat every time my son says “may I have 2 orders of that?” It was so long ago it’s hard to remember. :wink:

Oopsie :partying_face:

Yesterday I wasn’t feeling that great. I think I slept most of the day. Today I woke up and I feel like my brain is back online. I’m exhausted already though. Yeeeesh. Today I must do the following: go to the pharmacy (drive through, masked) and pick up cat food (curbside, masked). My dr cleared me to go about the public with a mask. I’m still symptomatic and I still test positive (tested yesterday). I just don’t feel great about pushing it.

I suspect tonight will be leftovers. Take care everyone!

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Last night must have been the night for bad dreams. I dreamed some bad cult–a breakaway from an actual religion I won’t name–unleashed millions of poisonous baby spiders on the city I was living in. They wanted people to believe God was punishing them for their supposedly wicked ways and hoped to get everyone to convert to their cult, at which point, they’d exterminate the spiders. And there was a subplot involving a young Florence Henderson, who was broke and hungry.

Speaking of nightmares and extermination, this…

followed by this…

had me stroking an imaginary goatee and saying, “Interesting” in a Viennese accent.

Replace “some people” with “administrators” and “studying” for “teaching,”
and you have virtually every inservice I ever attended in my teaching career. My condolences.

That’s the best description of living with teens I’ve read yet. :slight_smile:

Nah. It’s hard to keep everyone straight. This place has a bigger cast of characters than a Cecil B. DeMille film.

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I occasionally threaten to put a list of active Mumpers at the top of every thread. There are a lot of us (yay!) and our nicknames can be quirky.

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Happy Firday!

A not so bad 30 degrees outside, but I skipped the park again today anyway.

And… it’s snowing.

We have to leave soon to get groceries.
I have clothes in the washer, clothes in the dryer, and clothes drying on the rack.

Cinnamon is handsome, and he and his friend look so happy together.

Not much happening around here today, which makes me happy.
My neighbor asked me to keep an eye on her house, which I already do anyway. Our front doors are right next to each other and I what I don’t hear, my ring picks up.

MetalMouse, from what little I have seen of her house, they would need to park a dumpster in the front yard and one in the back. I think there is no organizing and straightening.

Congrats Oopsie, and yes we are going to keep you.

Nellie, I can only imagine the mess.
I used to watch Crime Scene Cleanup. How those people handled it, I don’t know.

We’re supposed to pick up groceries in ten minutes, and my son will not wake up. He had an exhausting week at irk, I think it finally caught up with him.

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bows

Why, thank you. :slight_smile:

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Up until this week, he was still covered under a contract. But his part of the contract is done, so he had to turn it in. I still have one - a retiree CAC. Haven’t used it in at least 2 years, but I can get on base if I want to. Dunno why I’d want to…

We got all our running around done - CAC is gone, lunch was ingested at RedRobin (with my burger for free since it was the 10th purchase.) I dropped off FCD at therapy, then made various stops to get things I needed, except for the TP that was on sale at Food Lion - they were out. Dammit. But the sale runs thru Tuesday, so I’ll try again. Then I filled the car (it was around 1/4 full) and sat reading in the parking lot till FCD came out of therapy. Now we’re home and life is good.

FedEX, on the other hand, is on The List! They delivered my 2 packages from Chewy - one 2 days ago, one today. Both times, they left the boxes in the driveway where they’d have been run over if we backed out of the garage without looking right behind the cars. They couldn’t walk a few more feet and set them on the end of the porch. Nope, right in the middle of the driveway. Sheesh. Luckily, I saw the trucks both times, but what if I hadn’t?? Idiots.

We should be seeing the first band of this storm any time now - the sky definitely looks like it wants to drop stuff on us. Glad our erranding is done. As long as we don’t lose cable, we’re good. Or electricity, tho we do have a generator (that hasn’t been started in several years…) Let’s keep a happy thought.

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well ive had 2 deaths in the extended family this week… one expected and the other not …

the first was a great aunt I didn’t really know but here and my aunt was pretty much raised together but cancer she spent 30 years fighting finally took her at 80

and the unexpected one Was one that I knew when he was a kid and had a pretty unhappy life and was homeless and drugs and probably mental illness were involved he tried to get back on track but just recently decided he couldn’t take it anymore and disappeared for months until now … it’s being treated as a possible homicide …

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Howdy y’all. I had a day. The museum I built some stuff for had trouble setting it up, so I had to drive and hour and a half each way to do it. I know I’m spoiled cuz I usually work alone, but this was my first day doing strenuous labor wearing a mask. I shoulda brought a second one. I sweated through it.

Fortunately, the snow-pocalypse is largely to the east of my journey, so I only had to deal with the trucks kicking up mud onto the windshield. I think I need to re-fill the washer fluid tank.

No snow, but we’re headed for negatives tonight. Not looking forward to that.

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Speaking of things I’ll pay others to do I went to H&R Block today and got my taxes done. Up until last year I did them myself, then decided what the heck and went to the professionals. It was so much easier, and they got me more than I would have figured for myself. In and out in under an hour.

I’m luckier than many of you, no snow! Nyah!!!

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It’s snowing. So much for starting with rain… :stuck_out_tongue: It remains to be seen how much we get. Don’t care - we’re in for the evening.

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well found out the details on the relative…

Apparently, he was stabbed to death around December 2nd and dumped in the park across from the la county sheriff’s office here and since incredibly he didn’t have a record he was considered a john doe and awaiting county burial … Only way anyone found out is a step-sister went looking for him …

What’s unsettling is aunt ran into him the week after thanksgiving and he said everything was going fine and talked about his new job and such and was staying clean and healthy so he could get back in contact with his kids again …

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I’m sorry for your loss. I have several friends who’ve lost friends and loved ones due to homicide. And it sounds like your relative’s life was never an easy one.

May he find the peace in Heaven that he didn’t find on Earth.