Moving On Up - A New Neighbor MMP

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 65 Amurrkin out and clear(ish) with a predicted high of 84 and a chance of rain/tstorms/apocalypse for the day. Or not. TWPTB are bein’ all willy-nilly on this. Last night we loaded up OYKW’s vehicle with stuff to be taken to the church house. The plan is for us to go get haircuts this mornin’, take the stuff over and then go to the hog trough Golden Corral for N.O,L. and then back to da cave for sloth. I shall head over to the church house around four thirty to get stuff in place for Maundy Thursday services at six p,m. as well as some prep stuff for Sunday. OYKW will show up for the service. Once that is over it will be back to da cave. This should be enough to keep us both out of trouble, possibly.

MOOOOOOM have a great cruise. Try not to go all pirate and take over the ship this time.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and bother, since I am to be amongst the general public, I suppose I must needs purtify and don appropriate bein’ in public attire. Woe!

Happy Thursday Y’all! A Blessed Maundy Thursday to those who observe.

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Thank you all for your kind words

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Good morning everyone.

It’s currently 30 degrees and foggy/cloudy with an expected high of the mid-40s and scattered thunderstorms. We had more snowfall yesterday, but none of it stuck.

I hope you have a terrific cruise, FCM.

I’m sorry the optometrist is being a poopy-head, nellie. I am glad you enjoyed your sister’s visit!

As I expected, the day was overly long, but I hope to flex and take off early today since I started early and worked late yesterday. There is really no one to delegate to; I’m still training the MPA who is performing my old duties, so that means I’m overly involved in her stuff as well as mine. I find, I need to remind her of some things, mainly because she’s a bit overwhelmed, so I end up just taking on stuff that’s in her lane to ensure it gets done in a timely manner. I am going to have to get her moving on the move stuff; we’re halfway through April and I need her to get going on rounding up quotes for junk/recycle/remove.

Since my son-in-law in on-call round the clock on Easter, we’re going to push the get-together to next weekend. I’m a little disappointed, but it can’t be helped. We haven’t spent the last two Easters together because of COVID, so I’m slightly bummed. My daughter is thinking we’ll just meet at a restaurant so my mother can easily drive there, instead of relying on one of us to pick her up and drop her off. She’s out of the way for all of us, so it’s always a problem. We all get a little annoyed because she has no problem driving great long distances to get to my sister’s place in Port Orchard, but for some reason, she can’t drive north up I-5 to get to my daughter’s place. I dunno, I may just host here.

Great work on the quilt, hippy!

I have to finish my telework and tour of duty agreement. I’ve decided what days I want to go to the office, so I just need to get off my butt and get it in. I was thinking I would wait until the end of this pay period, just so I’m not trying to cram my three days in the office into one half-of this pay period. Technically, I could get away with only two days a pay period in the office, but if I do that, I lose my designated, with a door office. In order to keep that, I need to work three days. It’s pretty annoying, but I have to follow the guidance, as well as set the example. For now, I know that particular rule isn’t going to be enforced, but I have a feeling GSA is going to come in and start looking at space consolidation, so I’m staking my territory. There is much that I do that requires closed doors, and since I can’t be remote, I still want an office. The rest of the management team is doing the same thing. Otherwise, we risk having to hotel and share space. I hate sharing space; people touching my keyboard, messing with my chair, etc.

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OK, we’re all packed and I think I’ve taken care of everything I need to do. We’ll leave in about 15 minutes. I’m exhausted already!!!

Be good. Use your coasters. I’ll try to check in from the ship this evening before we sail.

MWAH!!!

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PARTY AT FCM’S HOUSE!!!

Ok, I’m up, temperature is now in the 50’sF and getting into the 60’s later today, so all the rain cost was -20F. Hopefully no rain today or tomorrow, but Saturday is looking questionable. Need to do my gym work today and walkabout tonight, and maybe even clean around the house a little bit.

nellie, bet they say “we had no idea your eyes were this bad.” then you can hit them with a waffle iron.

Dicey, good luck with the public transportation.

BBBoo, I should introduce roommate to an old friend of mine, he’s a Ham Radio fan and has quite a setup around his house. Sure he could explain radio…

OK, need to round up some Instant Breakfast and be about the day. All y’all take care.

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Good point, thank you!:older_woman:t3:

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Wifey said she smelled gas this morning. That’s a sign the tank is almost empty. I went out, and the gauge said 3%. The propane company doesn’t open until 08:00, so I have half an hour before I can call them.

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Murray, use a coaster. Bonus points if you name the sitcom

I have the day after colonoscopy off irk. Getting my allergy shot, going to the public liberrry, maybe see Ariel. It’s sunny and chilly.

Mooooom, daughter should not feel leaving guilty current employment. You know they would have no problem doing the same to her. I hope she gets the job.

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Wooohooo! And I’m not using any coasters except this kind :arrow_right: :roller_coaster: :grin:

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Happy Thursday, fellow MMPers! So, to be slightly on topic (why?) re: neighbors.

Most of my neighbors have been here for a while, I’m not aware of any new ones nearby. But an old one was rather interesting. Did Ruble ever tell you about Naked Earl?

Naked Earl started out as just Earl, who was interesting enough (long stories there). But then one day, Ruble (who I’m going to refer to as Mike, because, well, that was his name) and I wanted to replace a small wooden fence between our garage and Earl’s but we wanted to drill small holes in each wall so that we could bolt it to each garage. So, Mike went next door to ask Earl if that was OK. He came back a few minutes later and said “If anyone needs to go over and talk to Earl in the future, I think I should do it.” Ummmm, why? Well, it seems that when Mike knocked on the door, Earl pulled back the curtain on the door and peeked out. When he saw it was someone he knew, he opened the door all the way, wearing nothing but a smile. Mike said it was not a pretty sight. They talked, Earl said OK to the bolts, and he was known as Naked Earl from then on.

Did Mike ever tell you that he mooned several neighbors years ago?

He was on the roof over our front porch doing something - I don’t remember what, it was about 25 years ago. A couple of neighbors across the street started shouting comments, so he mooned them. He was always proud of that but I think the neighbors are still traumatized.

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Fuck. As a condition of approval, the mortgage company is asking for a letter from Mrs W’s employer stating that she will be allowed to move her job from California to Nevada. The company is refusing to provide said letter, as it’s “not policy.” This could sink the whole thing, and since we’ve signed contracts and all we’d be out five figures worth of $$$$$.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

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The movers are here, one of whom is reeking of. . .something. I can’t tell if it’s booze or garlic. It’s permeating the entire house.

One of my wife’s nieces called her out of the blue yesterday. They’ve not really been speaking for several years, mainly because she and her husband (especially the latter) were Trumpers, and the husband was just a general asshole. Well, they got divorced, and while the niece may not yet have altered her political views, she is at least waking up to the fact that she alienated most of her family for the sake of her ex and is trying to mend some fences.

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Fingers crossed company pulls head out of butt.

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Quick, seize the moment! Invite over for dinner, hug, reconnect. You can offer lots of healing and reconnection. Stay in touch and be a conduit back from the dark side.

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Heaved. Panamanian Vince and MicroManager were shouting at each other. In the smalls loft. With me in between 'em.

< steal all the coasters >

:rofl:
That fits.

This. I hope comapany changes its mind.

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Please get some flashlights and extra batteries to stash down there. Also maybe one of those NWS radios, so you know when you need to go down AND when you can come back out.

I’m glad you’re ok. I was thinking about you.

nellie I’m glad your sister made it home safely.

taters I’m glad you can save your door. It’s also nice to hear that the government is still allowing some work from home.

Who ordered the << checks notes on college parties >> keg?

flyboy The propane company doesn’t have you on a schedule? That is very annoying.

Miss Owl Thank you for the Mike and Naked Earl stories. They are much appreciated.

There is always something. Would Mrs. W’s direct line manager do it for her, phrased perhaps as an expression of current plans rather than company policy? Less is more in these letters. Something like, “Mrs. W will be moving to Las Vegas with her current position in January of 2023” and nothing else.

cookie I can’t believe the movers are there. It seems like yesterday that you were mentioning this distant future thing you were doing.

I think we’ve got the next round of bank stuff sorted out. We’ll see. Sweet Og, it’s been a journey.

I’m waiting for a call from the vet. One of the techs called and said that the vet needed to speak to me about the results. This seems to indicate that the results are not “normal” or someone would have said. I am mildly panicked but trying to think of all the other things I have to do instead. This also makes me feel mildly panicked, but is somehow better. :face_with_spiral_eyes:

Happy Friday Eve Everyone!

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It seems they only come to check my tank when it’s not empty enough to fill.

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Got a great, solid traditional midwestern basement to start with. Left some big water bottles down there the other night-need to stash a shelf stable box of protein bars down there, for nervous munching. Until I buy more keeping the one flashlight I can find right on the dining table where I can grab it on the way down stairs. Next big project is to find my hand crank radio that also has a usb plug to keep phones charged. I think I stashed that radio down there last tornado season but by now it’s probably covered in stuff. I need to work on developing the habit of keeping my phone and iPad pretty topped up batterieswise-I can get lax about that. I’m lucky in that the main city warning siren is on a public building 4 blocks away so I hear that loud and clear. My phone is set to receive NOAA warnings-it beat the city siren by about one minute. And my big brother-the rocket scientist/ham radio/NOAA volunteer observer sent me a text from Cape Canaveral, Florida to get my boobutt into the basement.

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Laundering sheets, then I’ll head to the gym. I need to work off about 8 million extra calories consumed during my sister’s visit. Then I should go get my second COVID booster. They didn’t record my first one on my vaccination card, so I want the pharmacy to do that, too.

Truth.

Is it disturbing that I like this idea? Have waffle iron, will travel. (And now the theme song from that show is going through my head.)

If you see this, bon voyage, Moooooom!

Wheelz, that’s a BS answer from someone in the company. Sounds like some powerless underling who’s ignorant and afraid. Hope you can get to someone with the authority to make decisions. And don’t despair about the prospect of losing $$$$. There may be fine print in those contracts about being subject to approval by the mortgage company. Hopefully it won’t come to that, though.

Boo, sounds like you’ve got this emergency business figured out, as, of course, you would after living in Tornado Alley all this time. I’d add a bottle of emergency wine and a corkscrew, but that’s just me.

Yet another reason his name is legend around here.

I’ll be in charge of entertainment! Anyone have Naked Earl’s number?

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Back from the dentist. The hygienist went after things with a vengeance. I think she was intent on frightening off any future plaque. Painful morning.