Howdy Y’all! I have been to the bank, gotten my do did, been to the Pubic Sto’ for provisions, stored said provisions and have had N.O.L. Quite the productive mornin’ I say. I see nappage in my near future just cause I can.
MOOOOOOM Schitt’s Creek is on my to watch agenda just cause it sounds weird. I am pretty new to Netflix (Netflix? Net Flix?) so I have much figurin’ out to do as of yet. The dang thing does make one want to binge watch stuff.
He had a ‘mass’ growing on his left front leg. Judging by the size of the void it left, (yes, I saw inside, reminded me of anatomy class, it did) it was a pretty big mass. They sent it off to be biopsied. We’ll (hopefully) know in a few days what it was. I don’t have a lot of faith in ‘the lab’. Anyway, the incision is about 6" long. :eek: That’s a lot on a 28 lb. mini-schnauzer.
Anyway, we put a ‘cone of shame’ on him, but he couldn’t get to the the food dish and it was constructed so that I couldn’t cut it down without destroying its structural integrity, so we got him a sort of neck pillow thingee which isn’t nearly as big but won’t allow him to get at his incision. It looks like This thing only by a different maker. Works pretty good, especially if you figure out how to attach it to their regular collar. Otherwise they’ll get it off.
And as for ‘active shooter’ training, I agree with Spidey :eek: it’s BS.
Here’s all you need to know:
If you have an avenue to run away. Run!
If you can’t run away, hide.
If you can’t run and you can’t hide, fight!
If you have to fight, fight dirty, and fight to kill! No mercy.
A lot of people have trouble with that last. Don’t be one of those people. Your life is worth more than the shooters. Period.
There. I have no idea what they’re going to tell you, but that’s all you need to know.
Swampy, We watch * Grace and Frankie* 'cause it’s funny, but I can only take so much of it in one sitting. Mostly 'cause I’ve know people like those two, and they make me want to slap the ‘politician’ out of them, big time.
( Sorry for the profanity. I’ve taken to using the terms 'politician, or ‘senator’, or the names of various political animals to refer to certain bodily functions.)
The more I see of people, the more I like my dogs.
Howdy all. Had the pest control folks in this morning to do the semi-annual termite inspection, which amounts to them walking through the house pointing a flashlight at the walls. Never quite figured out how that helps them detect termites, but I haven’t had any in 10 years (got the service when I had a termite problem), so I guess don’t mess with success.
Tomorrow is car service day, along with get Turbo Tax day and buy Neil DeGrasse Tyson ticket day and new soccer uniform day and gas up car day. We’ll see what shape the credit cards are in after that.
Been re-watching (on YouTube) Michael Panin’s Great Circle travelogue, and wish again I could have traveled with him to some of the places he’s gone, party to see them and partly for the company.
Agree with Butters, Spidey, and Bumba on the active shooter training. Do you also have to get annual Security training about not giving away secrets to the Commies/Russians/Chinese/whoever is spying on us today? That was always a hoot.
When exposed to a bright flashlight, the termites cry out, “The Blinding Light of Ishtar!” and flee in terror, never to return.
The sad things about the shooter training is they do it at the schools now. The kids come home and tell me about it.
New refrigerator gets here this afternoon. Today is a miserable day health-wise, but at 1 I start digging everything out of the old fridge, and they are supposed to arrive between 2-4.
Happy Wotansday.
I hope you get a good report on OMS. As described that is exactly what the six minute film showed. Took longer to get there and back than the class.
I get to do the Security training too. And the PII, sexual assault, picking a seat on an airplane, car at rental agency and hotel room. Let’s see there are only about 100 other ones that my staff and I have to do. Then there is the supervisory training I get to do. Never ending.
Sunny It is sad that kids must have this type of training like getting shot is a perfectly normal thing. I noticed after the incident in KY yesterday there is not ever very much news coverage of these mass shootings anymore. Fudged up that is.
Happy Hump Day!
It’s been a messed up day for sure.
It’s a cloudy 36 degrees outside.
I overslept again this morning and woke up 4 minutes before I had to log in to irk.
Then the brat woke the puppy up and I had to yell for Sah-son to get up to take care of them.
I tried to stay awake after irk since today is grocery day.
I fell asleep, woke with barely enough time to shower and get to the grocery store, only to discover after rushing there, that I had scheduled the pickup for tomorrow, not today.
Back home now and dog is wired.
On a good note he brought me the mail today.
Of course, his true intention was chew up the mail, he does love paper.
I whipped out the* Easy Cheese*, and offered a squirt in exchange for the mail. He agreed to the trade, so I got my mail and he got a mouthful of cheese.
I hope all goess well with OMS Bumba
Congrats on baby FCM
And just so you know, ferrets don’t climb into trucks, they leap in with wild abandon.
[del]We never got sexual harassment training, we had to work out how to do it ourselves[/del]
There appears to be a local shortage of both time and energy here. Maybe I should try being a ferret, just for the energy factor, but I suspect it wouldn’t work well with vegetarianism…
I hate cooking for one. But I’m going the easy way today - another hunk of tuna steak. I like tuna steak lots more than my sweetie, so it works out while he’s gone.
Glad to be over the hump - I need to make a to-do list for the weekend. Lots of stuff to remember and I’ll forget if I don’t have a list.
Home and I guess I shall cook. We are having cube steak,rice and gravy and green beans and whatever else I come up with if anything. Why must me eat every single night?
We did an active shooter training where I work, which makes sense because I work at a domestic violence shelter so the risk is higher relative to other places of businesses. I don’t think many people realize how high the correlation is between domestic violence and gun violence. We do have very tight security where I work, but you never know. At least a few times a year we have some crazy out in the parking lot making threats. They never make it past the parking lot.
The active shooter training was weirdly empowering, and behaviorally fascinating. We studied the Virginia Tech shooting and examined fatalities from room to room. I found it (very darkly) humorous that the room with the lowest fatalities was the engineering room - they created a barricade for the door. We also looked at a schematic of the Great White fire, and how everyone delayed action because what they were seeing didn’t fit what they expected to see. Then they tried to use the same exit they came in from, apparently unaware that others existed. Most of the fatalities occurred in a bottleneck corridor near the exit. And at Columbine, a shooting event that will forever burned into my then-teenage consciousness, most of the kids were killed in the library. They sat huddling under their desks for about 30 minutes before they were slaughtered and they had a clear path to exit the building while the shooters were off on the other side of the building.
Most people’s instinct, when faced with a threat, is to do nothing. The key takeaway I had from that training is that doing nothing is almost always fatal. Doing literally anything else increases the odds of living significantly. The training with school children is particularly interesting because they show kids that they aren’t powerless, and that they don’t need a teacher’s permission to run away. It’s awful kids have to be trained on this stuff, but it seems to actually increase their likelihood of surviving. They do ‘‘in vivo’’ drills with the kids, too, not just lecturing at them but practicing with a nerf gun.
I have napped, binged watched, and supped. Quite the active afternoon! 
Have I mentioned lately just how much I absolutely lurve bein’ retired?
My workplace does active shooter training online, usually in the same month as sexual harrassment. All of our generalized training is done that way.
Is it Friday yet?
My daughter had a less-than-satisfactory blood glucose screening test, so now she has to have the 3 hour test done. I read about it. ugh.
I can’t believe all the tests she’s had done - when I was pregs, I didn’t have any - no sonograms, no blood glucose, no anything. I have to wonder if all the tests are done out of fear of lawsuits…
Did they even hav those tests back then, Mom?
d&r
They did active shooter training at my grandson’s school. Apparently they thought hiding under your desk and waiting for a ‘grown-up’ to tell you what to do was the preferred option. I explained to Grandson what I 'splained to you. He agreed. Smart kid.
I have a very pregnant employee and she did both. I think it’s a money getting thing or all the growth hormones and antibiotics and sugar we consume. My oldest brother and sister were born at home in a shack in the early ‘40’s. I am sure whatever will be OK. Do keep us in the loop. Our Grandbaby too.
Mooooom, the glucose testing is for gestational diabetes. Women who are diabetic during pregnancy usually return to normal blood glucose levels after the baby is born, but have a higher risk of Type II later in life. The baby of a woman with GD is often large and has a higher risk of elevated blood glucose levels.
Nelson went nuts barking this evening. He’d never done that indoors before. It was when I took down the ribbon racks in the studio to add some rolls. When that was done, he settled back down. What a little weirdo.
I had to do the 3 hour version with 'Beamette (1st child) but not 'Beamer. I hated it, but it’s not that bad in the scheme of things. My cousin’s wife turned out to have gestational diabetes and they both completely changed their entire diet for the pregnancy. Given my cravings, I am supremely glad I did not have to do that.
New refrigerator is finally in. It was installed by someone larger than the refrigerator. :eek: No team necessary.