My neighbor and a woman on the bus got their partial snap. Not me yet.
(Emphasis mine.)
Truer words were never spoke! This is a dog who will risk everything to grab a used tissue out of the bathroom wastebasket to scarf it down. Just… no. I guess if he can eat those, pinto beans will look pretty good!
Thank you. My whole goal is to find out what’s causing him this agony of itching. The yeast shampoo has gone far in resolving it, but I think there’s something else, too. Hopefully this weird diet will help us narrow it down. The vet said some dogs with allergies suffer from a sensitivity to chicken, especially.
I hope the annoying stuff at work eases up on you soon, Boo fae.
sticky buns, I am so sorry for your loss. When a good person dies, especially so young, it’s a tough thing to take. I hope you are soon comforted with your memories of this treasured friend. Big hugs to you.
oopsie, may the repairs go smoothly and your trip home be uneventful. However much we appreciate spending time with loved ones, there’s no place like home! Travel safe.
Good luck with all the appointments today, cookie. I don’t think I would like to tackle all those unpleasant tasks in one day!
rocky, metal mouse and taters, thanks for the well wishes. I won’t be starting him on the new diet for a few days, but I’m sure I’ll share about the results far more than anyone else wants to hear. 
Several of us have dogs with skin allergies, though, and maybe what I learn will be useful to others here.
taters, I had hoped to see the Northern Lights, too. It was too overcast here, unfortunately. I’ve seen them only once, not that long ago here. I’d love to see them again.
A quiet day here today. I plan to make the most of it, doing only what I like and little of what I must. Best kind of day ever, and rare. Ollie will get another bath, but that’s the only “must do” today. How lucky am I? 
Today is the 55th anniversary of Oregon blowing up a whale.
It is also the last day pennies will be minted.
And with that, off I go to do all of the things.
This morning’s service only took 2.5 hours (as promised!), and I was able to grab protein shakes and some turkey pinwheels from the Stop & Shop and be back in my room and logged into work at 10:30am. The car is all done! 
I had a moment of confusion when the inspection report said that both of the rear tires were fine and they’d be going ahead with replacing the front ones, because the front left tire is the one that got shredded, but my service advisor figured out that the other dealership had rotated the tires and put both new ones on the back. Which makes sense, both for driveability and the fact that it’s a RWD car. It also explains why I had trouble being able to tell which rear tire was the new one. 
Four run-flat tires + an alignment + two extra hotel nights = $2000 that I hadn’t planned for. Plus a bunch of stress. Meh. But as I think I said before, many things about this little side quest could have been much worse: there was no blowout or accident, I wasn’t hurt, the wheel/rim wasn’t damaged, I was never unsafe, etc. 24 hours from now (12:33pm) I should be about halfway home.
I’ve stayed at NJ hotel #2 before, and I’m on the top floor again with the same view: the immediate foreground – a carwash, Costco, and Walmart – is unexciting, but just past that I can see small planes landing at/taking off from Teterboro Airport. It makes for a nice mental break to get up from the computer, walk over to the window, and watch the planes every now and then.
Wifi is definitely a given, but I’ve never seen a publicly available PC in a BMW service waiting room before…and I wouldn’t ever expect one. Nice surprise. This was also one of the biggest waiting rooms I’ve seen, with multiple large seating areas and several desks/workstations. They were very busy, but organized and well-staffed. The Allentown dealership was a pleasure, too. Both were nice changes from my home dealership, which tends to be a bit of a circus (a large part of why I started going to a shop as soon as my car wasn’t under warranty anymore!).
Sadie got a clean bill of health, glad to say. She’s gained a pound of weight since a year ago, which is also good. The vet’s assistance also lives in a building with pet fees, and she pointed me to a website where one can get an emotional support animal (ESA) certificate. Landlords can’t charge pet fees if the animal is classified as such. I do have some anger issues that probably go back to my time in Vietnam, as well as a hefty aversion to loud noises (fireworks, thunder, etc), so I won’t feel guilty about it.
Got my tags replaced, which was not that hard but still annoying. Today is my “day off” (except for church choir rehearsal) which means it’s the day I do everything else. Have a few house things to take care of, which I’ll do in a few minutes.
On the kitten front: Ash, the boy, wants to eat my food. Hazel probably does too, but Ash is insistent. He had to go to his room today while I ate my lunch.
Review for the War Requiem is out: Review.
Leaf mowage/muilchage/etc is done so at least temporarily, our lawn can be seen, such as it is. I just finished planting the butterfly bushes and I’ve got the sprinkler going to help them settle in, even tho I soaked them really well when I planted them, and the soil was still wet from the rain the other day. They’re at the top of a hill, so I’m not worried about them sitting in puddles.
We’ve got several sunny and mild days ahead - with luck, I can get my iris and day lilies in the ground between now and Sunday without overdoing it. There’s a big empty area that should do nicely - it’s at the top of the slope and I can get to it from above, so I don’t have to haul everything up and down.
I think I’ve earned some chillage time.
I tried it on in the store, but they didn’t have my size and I thought I could just order it from them when I got home, so I didn’t talk to somebody about ordering it there. That store doesn’t do online ordering for clothes, so I had to find it on another site.
I’m sorry you lost your friend. 
I thought I slept well, but I seem to have a case of the yawnies. Night!
the last round of pennies. US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled - 6abc Philadelphia
what new coin based proverbs will be “coined”? do we just round up to nickels?
I worked with a few Hispanic guys and we would hit the Chinese places about one a week for lunch. While servicing the Ansul fire suppression systems in Chinese restaurants It became apparent that almost of the kitchen workers were Hispanic.
I once asked if, considering that the Hispaic guys loved Chinese cuisine, if the Chinese loved Mexican food. This was the answer they gave.
Should “my two cents” become “my five cents”??
I was loading 100 Middle Blue, then 100 Middle Red, then at the 300 Slide then doing pickoff for Blue(they didn’t have a pick off person. Or loaders for Blue 134. How can you set up a PDC and 4 packages cars and forget the staffing?), then doing split sorting on Brown 112. And that was just the first 30 minutes of work. I ended up up loading one of the cars in 112, because the loader for that side was moving like a cold Florida iguana. I ended up back in 134 loading the last 2 cars because they were in the weeds. There was so much in damages/fallout/retapes and overgoods that J and I didn’t get out until 1:15p.m. And it’s still 2 weeks till peak. I stopped and got Spot a bag of dry, flavorless bits, and since Fresh Market was there, 2 six packs of Lady In Red. Naptime.
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Or you adopted a very large termite.
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My neighbor and a woman on the bus got their partial snap. Not me yet.
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55 years and the Oregon DOT is still tied with Magrathea for wrecking whales.
I wouldn’t feel guilty about it anyways. Stick it to The ManCruella!
It will become an archaic saying, like “hang up the phone”
Yeah, I may have to pass the website information around to a few people.
I made my version of beef stroganoff for supper. I looked up several recipes and there were many and varied approaches. I picked one close to what matched the ingredients I had on hand. It was good, tho I don’t know if I could duplicate it. And we had it over rice - not sure how authentic that is, either. However, supper was yum.
I need to get the dishwasher running, then chillage shall ensue. I’m tired - guess I did more than I thought today. I need to help FCD in his shop for a bit tomorrow, then maybe I can do a bit more planting. Whatever happens happens.
I figured out this morning that the pain pills the ER doc prescribed are something that I won’t take again during the day unless I’m in severe pain. I wasn’t sleepy, just didn’t give a damn unmotivated to do much of anything.
This afternoon, I did, however, finish up cutting the elements for the mini posters for 22 November. I’ll begin assembling them this evening.
Abbey is sitting on the table by the front window… or ‘kitty TV’, as we call it. Goo is lounging on the cat tree by the back doors. Findus is asleep on CatMom’s ottoman. Ten minutes until gooshy food time.
And good evening all (well, to be honest, it’s 5:45pm when I start typing this, but it’ll be after 6pm before I finish, so that qualifies as evening to me–my rules, I make them up). Have picked up one prescription (the other one should be available tomorrow), walked and pedaled 1,300 calories away (according to the machines) and fixed my weekly Cheeburger which is being assimilated. Sloth and internettin’ will be my primary efforts for the balance of the evening. Tried eating three identifiable meals today, rather than the two that usually have and cut back on the snackage and we’ll see how that goes. Calorie count should be about the same. Temperature is still 55F and we’re supposed to be around 70F tomorrow, so might even consider doing some outdoor work tomorrow (or not).
Coppertone, hope you got some SNAP sent to you.
FCM, I had to look Wickles up, I guess I have seen them in Kroger but they are nearly $2 a jar more than the Kroger Hamburger dills I use, so FCD is welcome to have all he wants.
Taters, the lab tests that have been put on the Clinic’s website so far show nothing out of balance, but we’ll see. Don’t think I have ever seen the Northern Lights, have seen the Southern Cross so guess I need to see them someday. Enjoy the ride and easy on the rear there.
I still remember the Dave Barry column on that, it’s one of the things that makes me believe that humans, in the end, are all crazy…just some are crazier than others…and if you haven’t read it, here it is: The Exploding Whale - Dave Barry’s Substack
Oopsie, a rather expensive trip, but at least you are OK and the car should be good for awhile.
Cookie, yay! for Sadie and go for the ESA certificate (and maybe pass the info along to others…and I see that others have recommended it too).
rocky, think I mentioned my Kroger self-serve machines are rounding up/down now and not dispensing pennies, so I expect that to become the norm as time goes by, or stores will calculate prices to come out at 0.05 totals.
doggio, you are surely a JOAT (Jack Of All Trades) there.
I understood that reference.
And all hell breaks loose? 
And true to my prediction, it’s 6:15pm so have a good evening all.
They’re well behaved. I take Findus’s food to CatMom’s room and shut the door. Goo follows us to the door, but doesn’t come in. When I come out, Goo heads back to the kitchen. Abbey sits by her feeding mat. She gets hers first, because she’s a slow eater. Then I take Goo’s food around the corner of the counter, and she gets her food.
Well, I certainly do hope you don’t drown due to improper supervision!
I looked at the Mint’s page to see if they were selling last day collectable pennies and learned that they will be auctioning the last penny minted. yeah, I don’t want one that bad!
I’ve been seeing signs in stores explaining how rounding works, but for the most part I doubt many of us will ever notice in our plastic society. I still carry cash but rarely use it.
I’m now wondering where to turn our pennies in. We have a full change jar that got wrapped up and moved for whatever reason. I know from experience that the jar contains right around 180.00 and I am too cheap to give Coinstar ten percent of that. Our credit union would do it for free, but they are on the other side of the country. Oh well, I’ll figure something out.
Thank you, it did. As planned two nice Aldi employees brought the turkey boxes out to my car and then the mail guy unloaded them for me. My new partial plate fits pretty well, I’m supposed to go back for adjustments next week.
The drive in was HORRIBLE. There was an accident just ahead of a road construction lane closure, so we all sat around and waited for over 20 minutes before that was cleared (no way to turn around or go around) and then traffic in Charleston was a mess because of a closed bridge.
I was late to the dentist and while I was waiting, three other people came in and they were also late because of the bridge.
A quick google tells me that Wolfhounds teeth until they are almost two years old. Giants always develop slower than the normal sized ones, George didn’t stop growing until he was three.
Its supposed to be even better tonight. I heard that folks upstate saw them, but I wasn’t able to see them 
How are they with turkey? Cats with chicken allergies tend to be OK with turkey - but of course dogs are not cats.
I really do hope you can find the “magic Pill” that stops your lil sweetie from trying to eat himself every day.
Oh, very good girl! And good you for taking such good care of your sweet lady.
As far as getting an ESA certificate to avoid paying pet rent, I say do it even if you didn’t have noise issues. You already paid the pet deposit, you paid the apartment deposit and you are paying a pretty hefty rent every month. They shouldn’t be pulling this crap to start with, so good on you for sharing the information around. All of you need to be emotionally supported due to the attempted extortion.
Kittens, into everything! You will miss them when they are cats.
Of course you are the expert, but that surprises me. I would have thought that there were more last minute shoppers in the middle of December.
That’s not a bad thing when you are supposed to be taking it easy.
Have they adjusted to the time change yet? Poor GG is still almost dying of hunger before dinner time.
I read that before but forgot about it so thanks for the fun read.
Dad was in road construction and helped build a lot of the west coast interstate system. He knew all about blowing up mountains and he knew that Oregon’s whale was going to get really messy really fast so we all gathered around the TV and watched the news.
To this day I am positive that he “spilled” his coffee on his crotch so us kids wouldn’t know that he had laughed so hard he peed his pants.
Is Abbey getting calmer around Findus? I’ll bet that lil guy thanks Bast every day that you guys adopted him, cats have it good at your house.
Howdy Y’all! We procured and stowed provisions. A little while later I had some intestinal woes. I managed to calm them, but decided against goin’ to the Wednesday doin’s. OYKW opted to stay home as well. He likes church and all, but won’t go if I don’t. Anywho, chikin noodle soup, saltines and ginger ale seems to have made things good tummy wise. I am ready for sleep time.
Thus is the news from swampland.