Heading out for an exploratory trip today with the wife’s niece to a place called Taylor’s Falls on the St. Croix River. Part of it includes a boat ride, which some of you know strikes terror into my heart as many of the boats I’ve been on have tended to sink or swamp. With my luck, there is an old German u-boat lurking about with a crew of ancient WWII mariners on board just waiting for the opportunity to win one for the fatherland.
I hope they’re good. I just bought them for my cow-orkers, and didn’t even taste them.
I’ve been buying cookies for them once a week. By far, they are most ravenous for the Cookie Butter sandwich cookies. From the link:
Well, first off, it’s cookie butter, so it’s pretty damn good. More specifically, however, it’s really damn good. It’s hard to see where they could improve on these sandwich cookies.
I did have one of those a few months ago when I brought a box home for my wife. I liked it.
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JtC It’s beautiful! I don’t think your plan will work however. I once got tired of never being able to locate tools, and got myself a pink tool set. He still uses it to this day. : grumbles :
Bullitt I’m glad you’re feeling better. I just say Bay Area and expect everyone to keep up. 
SFBA is probably easier for others.
On tap today we have slightly cooler temps - yay! Lows 90s I believe. The kids and I are getting our teeth cleaned, which is always exciting.
Take care everyone. Happy Wednesday!
Still feeling fine & testing negative. I hope the trend continues; I’m afraid to get too excited.
This morning was a little awkward. I had a virtual “coffee chat” with our VP and a couple of peers and everyone was on video. My hair was wet from the shower, I had zero makeup on and, of course, the veep looked just immaculate - not a hair out of place, full face of makeup, with some sort of tailored suit jacket. The other peeps were put together as well, and at the very least dry. Oh, well. We all talked and it seemed productive. Guess I’ll hear later if my appearance was an issue. Hey, at least I showed up clean!
Today is my Friday, though I’m sure to pay for it in terms of workload throughout the day and when I get back. And I’m going to a GP who will inevitably tell me I should probably lose some weight. To which I shally reply (mentally, of course), “I’m working on it, lady! Now back off - I’m starving!”
Hope everyone has a delightful day.
talky You have a LOT going on right now - mother, son, work - and you are still making time for walking regularly. If she brings it up, you are entitled to say the quiet part out loud. 
Weirdness. DH got a call about an Amazon package being delivered. Our Prime account is in my name and I cannot find any place where his phone number was listed, unless for some reason it was added by the app, but this is the only time I can recall that EITHER of us has received such a call. Package was at our doorstep where it should have been (minor item we did same-day delivery on, which is unusual for us).
LEG - that’s what happens when I don’t proof before posting…
Finally got the inlaws’ online banking set up so we can help them. Fortunately, FCD was already on the account, which helped.
Unfortunately, it appears our large multi-purpose display on the boat is fried. He sent an email to Raymarine to find out what it would cost to fix or if we’re screwed. Replacing it would cost over $2K, but we could get a smaller display for around $600. We’ll see what a repair would cost.
Back to wrangling the babby.
you need to send all these extra repair bills to the place that supposedly inspected the boat for you …they failed big time I’m my opinion
What they said.
Except we’re pretty sure FCD is the one who fried the display… As for all the abandoned wires, etc, something like that is never covered in the inspection. It was just to determine the seaworthiness of the vessel - structural soundness and that systems are operational. The inspector did note the things that weren’t working, and that display did work when we took possession. But now it’s not. Things fail - that’s life.
And for the record, we were compensated for the screwed up a/c. All the rest that we’re doing is our own preferences. There was nothing inherently unsafe about abandoned wires - it’s just sloppy on the part of past installers/owners. So we’re fixing 37 years worth of sloppiness.
Yesterday we took the pieces for two storage racks up the hill to our new, (to us), local storage locker. One rack, which we got from BiMart many moons ago, previously lived in our garden shed, and the other rack, from Costco, lived in Wifey’s studio. Let me just say that if you have the choice, and don’t mind the higher price, you should get your storage rack from Costco.
But we got them together. I also filled the bed of the truck up with studded tires and we tucked them into the locker, making much room in our basement for other junk treasures. Our new locker is slightly larger than the one in the valley, so we’ll be able to shift all the stuffs that are over there to over here soon.
Also I dug out one of Wifey’s Xmas presents from the kids. A box with “Open in the Spring” on it. It’s a 4 tier vertical planter sorta thingee. I will put it together sometime today.
Gibbs, who usually sleeps like a lump through the night, (in the middle of my side of the bed), had something going on last night, and woke me up 3 times to let him outside. Fortunately we’re retired and get to sleep in most mornings. 
So now I’m gonna have lunch for breakfast.
Later.
Soooo…would it be fair to say that the boat inspection ship has sailed? 
(I’m here all week! Tip your servers!)
I’m having one of those days where I swear I’m the only person on my program who reads emails, can think for themselves, etc. I sent an email to a guy on Friday – to three different accounts, to make sure it got to him – about an appointment he has today for Y while he’s onsite doing X, and what text do I get from him a little while ago? “Hey, I’m here doing X…do I have to make an appointment for Y?” 
Meanwhile, one of my direct reports can’t be proactive or analytical to save her soul – and I mean truly can’t, not simply that she won’t – and every time I think we’ve finally gotten things adjusted so she can be reasonably self-sufficient at this one task something new pops up that’s broken because it’s how she was asked to set it up 1.5 years ago by someone who isn’t even on the program anymore and she has never bothered to question/update it. And don’t get me started on the guy who got a replacement laptop but couldn’t edit a doc yesterday because it didn’t occur to him that he’d need to reinstall some stuff…
*exhales*
Just two more hours, then I can log off and go watch the last few episodes of 800 Words (a 2015-2018 AU/NZ show that I started watching a couple of weeks ago when I signed up for Acorn).
You mean all of my bellyaching (literal and figurative) might have actually helped someone? Woo hoo! 
That was a cool idea! 
Afternoon all. DId my swimmin’ and made it to my One Mile per Hour mark!! 70 pool lengths + 10 yards in 59:56! At least I’m pretty sure I did 70 lengths, I count them in bunches of 10 so hopefully I did it right.
Came home and had a quick ham-n-cheese (toast, 3 slices cheese, 4 slices ham) for a late lunch. Dinner is too be determined.
Oopsie, sounds like you need to trade your team in for an upgraded team…
FCM, hope the old display can be fixed for a reasonable amount. And you have me curious now, I am going to check each of my Pepsi 12-packs for their expiration date (won’t tell you how many since it’s obviously too much…)
OK, now need to avoid nappage until this evening. All y’all take care.
Thank you all for the compliments. The piece is coming out very well, the instructions are pretty clear and I like the designer, switching stitch directions is exercising my vocabulary though.
I had my doubts, hubs used my pink tools too, but my BFF is really going all out with lace curtains drawn back with ribbons and beads and a tea set on a side table. It could work. Maybe. Perhaps.
Lowes always calls me when they are going to deliver something. Hubs has told them repeatedly to NOT call me and to delete the number, but it keeps happening. (We had just moved house and I was still working. Hubs was dealing with ordering appliances and fencing materials and needed to know when to be there. He swears he never gave them my number because he knew the my phone ringer was off at work, so a delivery message could be hours old before I got it.)
Oops. It was probably on it’s last legs anyhow considering it’s age.
Working with stupid people is the worse. I only allowed myself to be put in a supervisory role once because I wasn’t allowed to slap my clueless reports no matter how much they deserved it.
I picked up our produce boxes today and found three packages of fresh mushrooms. I put one container aside for us, but on the way to give the leftovers to the office I got a craving for fried potatoes and mushrooms so I snagged another container before they took the food inside.
My BFF is still testing positive despite feeling just fine so she’s enjoying the enforced paid time off. (Fully vaxed, not boosted, she had a fever and felt like crap for a day.) She came out to the car to go through her box and didn’t invite me inside because of the positive test. That was OK, I didn’t want to get distracted and leave all that fresh produce out in the heat.
I can’t decide if I should water the clover patch or not. It’s clouded up and the forecast calls for rain but I have very little faith in magic water falling from the sky anymore. Decisions, decisions.
yank, that’s one ferocious looking guard dog that you have there. 
metal mouse, the new manager was the one responsible for eliminating permanent loans of headcount. Apparently, my boss of record have worked out an informal swap of one of Eddie’s guys who wants to be a material handler on the other side of the department (I think he’s interested in a young woman there) and me. I’m not logging into Eddie’s department and the other guy isn’t logging into mine. Works for me.
Mooooom,some states require tests after a certain age (Dad has had to take one for years. He took himself off the road recently). I don’t know if Minnesota is one of those states.
That’s beautiful stitching JtC!
I was in my happy place at irk today (well, one of them). One more day, then off for five. Yay!
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Turns out they don’t repair that model because it’s obsolete. Oh well… We’ll just go with a smaller display - like the one in the cabin - and it’ll be fine. We can get one of those for under $600, so that’s not too horrible…
Roxy had fun at the playground - there was a little boy there who she played with. Tobias spent his time tearing up grass, trying to eat the wheel of his stroller, and standing on one of the slides - with my help, of course. I tried to help him slide, but his nekkid legs wouldn’t slide. Tough to be a babby.
Home now, late supper in the oven and 4 ears of corn in the steamer. Then chillage.
We’ll start tomorrow with mowage, since rain is forecast for the weekend. Then off to the boat to track a few more mystery wires. Oh, and other than the fried display, everything else seems to be working fine. So there is progress.
Then tomorrow afternoon, both grands are coming to stay the night. I expect to be exhausted!
Timer dinging - off to the kitchen!!
Howdy Y’all! Twuck got serviced, provisions were procured, sloth and nappage accomplished, and sup got made and et. Also, we had a really big tboomer with lots of rain betwixt two and three-thirty today with more on the way. YAY! We dicided to day drink while watchin’ the storm on the back porch. We had gin and tonics with a twist of lime in order to ward off malaria and scurvy, so they were medicinal as well as recreational.
those ham slices were the thin see-through ones right? and kraft-style thin cheese slices right?
hey doggio heres a moment of sadness … although I’m told Filipino beer isn’t all that great
I grew quite fond of the local brand of San Miguel (Spanish brewery) during my several visits there, can’t speak to any other beers.
Actually they were fairly thick Oscar Meyer Smoked Lean Ham, but the cheese was Fat Free..
So I checked all my 12 packs, the earliest one doesn’t expire until 31 October and the last one I’ll get to is good to 6 March 2023, so I think I can drink them all by then. But I did get them re-ordered so the oldest ones get drunk first.
Cookie, wouldn’t worry a bit about U-Boats…now mines and collisions, them you have to worry about…
FCM, $600 doesn’t sound too bad (ain’t great, either) for something that’ll work and you could always upgrade it sometime in the future.
OK, need to fix some BLT’s for dinner and be about the evening. All y’all take care.