Howdy Y’all! A quick post cause my DAWGS are playin’ the cattle. Meetin’ went well. MetalMouse we were second on the agenda and got to leave when we finished, so about thirty minutes. The actual meetin’ was still goin’ on. I neither wanted or needed to stay for the rest. OK, time to stare at tackleball.
Up from naptime, watching hockey. Having a Sazarac and Asian BBQ stirfry for dinner(with Sichuan peppercorns for extra heat) for dinner. Spot is doing his evening rounds.
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Tomorrow is the Big Day: Grey Cup!
Canada’s annual piss-up!
I mean,
Canada’s annual major football competition. Much more sedate.
Saskatchewan Roughriders v Montreal Alouettes!
Only the third time these two teams have met in the Grey Cup; previous ones were 2009 and 2010.
We will not speak of the 2009 debacle. No sir. (Always makes the “worst championship game” in all those Top 20 countdowns on TSN Sports Centre, with a clip of the Riders’ offensive coach smashing his hat down on the desk.)
I like the Riders’ chances. Finished first in the League, with a talent for pulling it out of the hat when needed. Strong running back; veteran QB who’s come off his best season ever; and one of the best defences in the CFL.
But, the Als have a strong QB as well, just off the injury list, and also with a strong defence.
This game will be won or lost in the trenches: smash-mouth football!
ETA: it’s available online: CFL streaming, if any of you Muricans want to tune into real football!
(Only 3 downs, as God intended, and none of that wimpy “fair catch so you can’t tackle me” nonsense.)
Do you have a dial-a-nurse option? I’m not happy with this “wait until Monday” thing.
Evening all. Spent much of the afternoon at the gym, either walking or pedaling with a fair amount of time sitting and reading. Filled my gas tank, with the big Kroger card shopping discount it only cost $17.50 and as far as I can tell, I got about 32.5mpg out of it, mostly with stop-and-go-local-traffic driving so not too bad. And did figure out which button to push to open the gas tank lid…
Decided that since this weekend had no designated Sunday Dinner locale, I would go to 5 Guys tonight and have my Fettuccini Alfredo tomorrow for dinner. Also decided to see how large the 5 Guys Large Fries were. They were…large. Probably could have made a meal just from them, but the burger was pretty good too, so I am well-stuffed.
Rest of the evening will be Internettin’ and TV watchin’, expect that even with the exercise I’ll be up late what with sleeping in until 9am,
Maybe you should…
Oopsie, hope your problems are over repair-wise. And best wishes for your friend and her son, hope he gets the treatment he needs. Good wishes on the medical front.
red, sounds like you’re need some rest time and medicine for what ails you; take care of yourself and glad you have Sis nearby to help out.
doggio, love that pic!!
JtC, good on you volunteering, not going to get into the politics of it but I reckon most places could use folks like you to help. And TC friend burning out is understandable, that has to be a stressful job at the best times, and obviously it is not the best times…
swampy, this state is in the doldrums as Ali-bama lost to the Okies, better luck to the Dawgs (and I see they are up 14-3). Glad you didn’t have to stay for the balance of the meeting.
Piper, since you mentioned it, I had to look up the 2009 Grey Cup, it seems like it was an exciting game, with one team coming back to win in the closing seconds…so I presume that wasn’t your team… Better luck this year!!
And that’s all for now. The Buckeyes look to be doing well without my help so I’ll probably browse the internet some more. Have a good evening all.
FCMom, I remember a few things from my factory safety classes. Stuff that goes into your lungs, other than air, does not come out again. Even if it’s seemingly harmless stuff like dirt and sawdust, it never goes away. It might decompose, but it fills up the tiny air sacs in there. Every space that is full will never breathe again.
Hey, cool! SenBoy is now SenRefBoy.
For several years, we bought a hunk of turkey breast, instead of a whole bird.
Our nephew’s mega-miles Cadillac has ceased to be useful, so they got a brand-new Ford Ranger. Fortunately, his son-in-law is a salesman at the Ford dealer, so they got the best possible deal.
Since you dragged it out:
*Riders were ahead in the final seconds.
*Als kicked a field goal - wide!
*Rider fans across the country start celebrating!
*Flag. 
*Ref puts his hands on his hat. 
*Too many men on the field - 13, not 12. 
*Als get a do-over on the field goal, 5 yards closer.
*and it’s good. 
Riders lose the Grey Cup.
To their credit, no-one on the team or the coaching staff has ever identified the player who was on field when they shouldn’t have been.
I think it was their head coach who said afterward: “We win as a team, we lose as a team. Tonight we lost as a team.”
I’m really sorry you are feeling so poorly, but want to remind you that dehydration can kill a person. Maybe call your sister and have her take you to a Doc inna Box?
I agree, this is only Saturday, Monday is a very long time from now.
I’m not volunteering on behalf of the state and don’t have access to their food stamp system. I do know how to go to their website and fill out the application and print it out.
That will give folks a paper copy to take home and complete if they aren’t comfortable giving me their SSN’s and income paperwork. (they will be sitting right next to me and will be able to see that I’m just typing what they say, but some folks think I’m able to flash memorize 9 digits while doing it.)
We did that for many years but really do like all of the bird. Now we are RDOS who can take the time and bother so we do.
That is how team sports should work. Good coach!
So I’m having a complaint about the American Needlepoint Guild. As a paid member, I get access to all of their online magazines as well as a bunch of other cool stuff so of course agreed to renew when prompted.
Apparently I need access to my old, now defunct email to finish the transaction and I can’t figure out how to find a work-around. I’ll look at it again tomorrow, but I’m afraid I’ll have to actually call and talk to someone. Or just rejoin, but then I’ll lose my old timer status. When one is over 80 and has been a member for at least 20 years, they get ten bucks off their yearly membership and free dead tree magazines.
I rented a house with tile counters years ago. AVOID.
… whether they needed them or not.
We’re not really supposed to have phones out in the kitchen (a rule that admittedly gets broken all the time).
I would do that, too, but I’d be sad to miss out on the crispy skin, gnawing on the wings, and simmering the bones for broth. (I only ever see turkey beasts as boneless/skinless, alas.)
Okay, I managed to not go to sleep until 5 a.m. this morning 
so you can guess how energetic I was at work today.
Took a restorative nap on my “lunch” break, but I’m going the hell to bed here in a sec. Slept hard for, what, 15 or 20 minutes on my break, which got me through my shift.
… maybe I should sleep in my car in the driveway, instead of tossing and turning in my climate-controlled home atop my comfy mattress. 
You are a warrior goddess in my eyes, you know that don’t you?
Absolutely, cruelty is the whole point. And then they’ll make entire families sit around hungry for a month because there is a big backlog of apps to process and the state can only afford a minimum staff so it’ll take time….funny, it seemed to only take seconds to not load 42 million people’s SNAP Nov 1.
Please tell her she’s a goddess in my eyes too.
Yep, we do.
I hope those are some of Harry’s flying squirrels~that’s so thrilling. There are several colonies within a mile or two of me but they still so few I’ve never seen one.
This cranky night nurse says, whatever you do, DO NOT WAIT UNTIL MONDAY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT BEING DEHYDRATED! Especially at our age and when you’ve been sick one way or another for days.
Drink some Gatorade now while you call your nurse line or if that isn’t possible, go to an urgent care tonight. If there aren’t open urgent cares, go to an ER.
Congrats to your Dawgs on chasing those Longhorns back to Texas. Both my tackleball teams have a bye week so I’m at loose ends.
This night nurse ain’t either. Let’s gang up on her.
I agree. And don’t think for a second that you should wait til tomorrow or Monday so you don’t bother people at this hour.
pretty sure it’s an even bigger, badder OSHA rule that commercial freezer doors must have a functioning emergency exit failsafe openers.
Til then don’t go in without your phone and make it a temporary rule that no one goes in unless a cow-irker buddy is standing outside to let them out, until the door is fixed and the city inspector has cleared it.