I won’t say how long it took me to understand this. Hope your experience matches that of Cleveland Browns’ opponents.
Long day with one workshop. It seems that if we want to have fewer meetings, we need to have lots of meetings. Or something like that.
The second half of the workshop had a lot of people getting confused. Tomorrow should be fun.
Hope all are well, I’m ready to chill.
Much fresh air and sunshine today, but I’ve quit for now.
Raised bed was used by a cat as a poop box - Higgs dug up the turd but I caught her before she ate it. ick. This is the raised bed, ready for planting.
This is an added semi-raised bed awaiting manure and more soil - Not sure what I’ll plant here.
And this is the expanded bed - I added a bit over a foot. I’m thinking marigolds and petunias will do nicely.
We’re going out for supper. FCD has a prescription to pick up and I want 8 more bags of manure. If it doesn’t rain tomorrow (as threatened) I should be able to get this all done. Except for the flowers - I’ll get them next week, I think. And next week, I’m hoping to plant/transplant the veggies. Even if we get a late frost, I can cover the beds with plastic for a night.
For now, I think I need a shower. I’m kinda cruddy.
Welp, I learned two things this morning while Mrs Magill was downtown getting her PIC line put in and after Fang texted me in a panic because he had left the headlights on and was not allowed back into the school parking lot to turn them off.
1 - I can ride my bike to the school and back in pretty strong winds and at a pace where I shouldn’t work up too much of a sweat in thirty-five minutes.
2 - The Prius will realize that you’ve accidentally left your lights on and turn them off by itself.
FCM those beds look good. I shouldn’t be surprised by how sandy the soil is in Eastern Maryland, but I was.
For some crazy reason I decided to make birria for tacos. Making the birria is fairly involved, requiring the toasting and stewing of dried peppers, a slew of ingredients, combining them in a blender, and then marinating the chuck roast overnight. It’s in the fridge now and I’m wiped out. What one does is simmer the meat until it falls apart, then scoop it out of the cooking liquid. You dip tortillas into the liquid, which coats them with a mixture of the sauce and the inherent fat, load them with meat and whatever else you want, fold them and fry them in a non-stick pan until crisp. A lot of work, so they’d better be good.
Holy mother of monkeys that sounds incredible. I just made the seasoning packet/rotisserie chicken style tacos last night. This sounds a buttload better. Don’t suppose you happen to have a recipe?
For some reason, I thought of a band (or at least a meme) there should be. Glottis, Knight, and the Peeps. I’m thinking the Peeps would be the backup singers. Pictures of knights are easy to find. Pictures of the yellow marshmallow treats are easy to find. But pictures of a glottis? Hm… Clinical illustrations or actual photos won’t cut it. Someone would have to create a glottis-like anthropomorphic character.
OTOH, it’s a lame joke.
Chefguy, I was just today looking at pictures online of tacos rojos filled with birria and dipped into red chile cooking liquid. They look messy and delicious. I know of a restaurant in Castroville that makes these and one of these days I’m going to try them.
We’re back! Texas Roadhouse fed us and we’s both stuffded. I need to have blood drawn tomorrow - gotta be at the Drs office around 7:15 to be among the first in the lab. It’s a fasting draw and I get terrible headaches if I wait too long after arising to eat.
My appetizer before supper was ibuprofen. Yeah, I’m a little achy - shoulders especially. Plus I think I get a bit of sunburn on my neck - I need to remember a scarf or bandana next time.
Time for chillage. I shall assume the position on my recliner, because I can.
Howdy Y’all! We laundered and had late N.O.L./early sup at the hog trough Golden Corral. How do we keep up such a pace! Have I mentioned lately how much I lurve bein’ a retired drain on society? No? Well, let me tell ya, it’s da bomb! The forecast for the rest of the week calls for rain/tstorms/apocalypse on Firday. I have a feelin’ that will put a kink in the HVAC installation process. We shall see, I reckon.
I used this one, but just used a beef chuck roast without the other meats.
Evening all. Could not avoid nappage (not that I tried hard) after finding out soccer was cancelled (again). Mac-n-Cheese is my usual 2sDay dinner and if not delicious, it is filling.
FCM, I couldn’t put in the work you do on the gardening; I hope it comes up lovely.
swampy, as one retired gentleman of leisure to another, ain’t life grand?
Wizard, maybe your child just wanted you to get your daily exercise…
OK, back to internettin’ and readin’ for the balance of the night.
{{{seanette}}} I feel for you. You’re wise to spiff up your CV and start looking.
Mooooooom, there are a lot of things that influence how much the uninsured / underinsured are out when they wind up in a major medical situation. One of my schoolmates in Indiana had Hodgkins lymphoma while undersinsured and 60 days after hospitalization, the hospital had her in court. She was still taking chemo FFS! When I had my accident in Indiana a couple of years ago, I just went in to the ER to get the bump on the head checked. Even with insurance, they were pestering me for the balance within two weeks. On the flip side, I had surgery and was diagnosed as diabetic here in Tennessee uninsured and the hospital bent over backwards to give me discounts and set me up on a payment plan that was affordable.
nellie, my mom was legally blind for the last few years of her life and she, like you, could do some mending and hemming if someone else did things like threading the needle and doing any pinning required.
Irked, came home, the usual stuff. When I went to nuke supper, the microwave was off. I checked the plug and it was securely in, so I checked the coffee grinder (on the same power strip). Nope. Sooooo, I had to take everything off the baker’s rack (where the microwave and forty 'leven mason jars / cannisters live) to move the rack and begin fiddling. I had already checked the breaker box, so it’s a dead outlet in a tiny kitchen with no outlets to spare.
I wound up plugging the microwave, coffee grinder and coffee maker into the strip on the living room (aka studio) side of the pass thru until maintenance can come in to fix things. But not before knocking the coffee grinder off the counter and scattering beans alllllllllll over the kitchen. I swept them up and put them in the colander to shake out any dirt / dust before putting them back into the grinder hopper (they’re going to have fairly hot water over them, right?). Nelson took a lick of one that I missed by the fridge and decided that he wasn’t into coffee. 
Then, I put everything back on the rack. I’s tah-red!
The appointment for jabbing is on Thursday, not Wednesday. Wednesday evening, I go to get my taxes done. Oh, joy!
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
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I agree. It has been six months retirement for me and I certainly enjoy it
Great. A friend just called to let me know that her husband, a guy I drink with every Monday and have been camping with every Thanksgiving for the last going on 40 years fell last night and broke his hip. Silly bugger. He’s out of surgery and they’ve installed enough hardware that he’ll never get through TSA again. Guess our Monday beers will have to be at his place for the next couple of months. I’ll just go by the breweries and take over a growler every week.
Pain in the ass…
Yay for PICC lines. Ehhh, well, maybe not. I can at least recommend a thing called a LimbO sleeve that has rubber cuffs at the ends to keep a PICC and its site dry while the wearer takes a shower. She will need your assistance to get it on and off, especially over the PICC itself, but they work much better than old bread bags, trash can liners, etc. Amazon has them for about $25. For that price, they don’t last forever, but hopefully the PICC won’t be in her forever, either.
Will you be flushing/heparinizing the line? We opted to do it ourselves as it’s really easy, rather than to put up with visiting nurses who came wherever they got to us. We only had them do the (weekly?) PICC dressing changes.
Most US hospitals are run as not-for-profit entities. I think that the difference between a procedure’s “list” price and the contractually-negotiated rate for the insurance companies is taken as a tax dodge. OTOH, uninsured people can usually also negotiate with the insurance rate as a starting point.
Trivia term for the day: The system where a hospital lists the costs for everything is called a “chargemaster.”
Work went OK. It feels like i have a bit of tendonitis in the right ankle. Naturally Gordie needed a long walk today. Dinner was Italian Chicken, cheesy rice, and sautéed asparagus with Calabrian chilies. And a negroni.
Yes.
Mmmmmm. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
So he broke his coccyx?
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silenus, sorry about your friend’s hardware installation. You might be surprised how quickly he’s back on his feet. Forty some years ago, when I had hardware installed, it was much more drawn out, but now, PT tends to have you walking with a walker before you leave the hospital. He won’t be Speedy Gonzalez by a long shot, nor will he be able to walk long distances at a time for a while, but he should be out and about by your Thanksgiving campout.
magic, when I had a PICC line, the hospital gave a band to me to keep it clean and out of the way when I wasn’t connected to the space balls (Vanco and another high powered antibiotic). What gotti suggested sound like a good option too.
I was just thinking that I’m glad my elderly neighbor is hard of hearing, considering the language I was spewing during the dismantling of the baker’s rack and picking up coffee beans earlier this evening.
I guess the ass is hip-adjacent. 
I had a small-ish dinner & kept waking up, so now it’s 4:30 a.m. and I’m having a snack of cantaloupe & prosciutto and hoping that will make me drowsy.
I kept dreaming I was at work, and whenever one of the myriad repeated customer issues came around, I’d wake up. Roll over, fall back asleep … lather, rinse, repeat.
Stoopit brain. I don’t wanna be at irk when I’m off the clock, FFS!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 60 Amurrkin out and rainy with a predicted high of 82 and rain for the day. We shall see. Today we shall lay in provisions and I shall betake myself over to the church house to meet someone who will assist me in movin’ some stuff out of the Parish Hall storage room. The access to the HVAC exchanges is in the storage room and I don’t want stuff in the way while the HVAC folks do their thing. That sounds like enough activity for one day. Sup shall be beastloaf, green beans, mac 'n cheese, and rolls.
Quietly sorry about your friend, but like red said, hospitals are good with gettin’ folks up and about a lot sooner these days. Hopefully he’ll be able to hang for the big Thanksgiving camp out.
red sorry about the kitchen woes. Hope the outlet gets replaced soonest.
magic prayers shall ascend for magic wife.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, I suppose I shall purtify and don appropriate bein’ about the public attire, alas, alack, and bother!
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
It’s raining - looks like I won’t be playing in the mud today. And I forgot to cover the remaining dirt in the trailer, so I ran out when I let the dog out, and it’s all covered. Critters have been tended to and shortly, I’ll leave for my blood-letting, followed by a McBreakfast and a stop at Food Lion, since Diet Coke is on sale.
As for the rest of the day, who knows? Some tidying might occur. Stay tuned for updates!
Happy Wednesday!