Sad for them, hoping you will be able to get some sleep tonight.
Hubs: It’s not too bad this time and I’m probably going to be over this tomorrow.
Me: smile and nod
Hubs: sleeps for another four hours until I wake him up to eat.
wash, rinse and repeat.
Thankfully, it has cooled off enough that I can open the house up. I’ll wake him back up around 11 to get some fluids in him but I’ll push him back towards his recliner after he’s peed. No need to have his disease ridden self breathing in the same room as me all night long, even if I do have the windows open.
Well, like I told myself I made three trips to the gym and ended up pedaling 26.2 miles or a Marathon (just a little faster than the guys run it these days, but not by much). Dinner was supposed to be Cheeburgers but I ran out so I let the West End Grille supply them, they were not bad and the waffle fries were actually edible.
doggio, sorry that happened so close. Either no belts or speeding (maybe both).
Hugs, grins and general notes of happiness to all.
Dang. The article didn’t say, but I’ll bet they were young. Yes, that was an ageist comment but I remember being young and immortal. Back then nothing could possibly go wrong until something did and then I was all “how did that happen”. Kinda like the young people who took out the stop sign.
Speaking of which, I was chatting with the county guy about it today and he says they are trying to get one of those bright orange water filled barrel things for the stop sign.
Typical government, not understanding that once you idiot proof things a more advanced idiot will evolve. I think they should just pour a six foot tall rebar reinforced concrete post and let Darwin figure it out.
Can any of you handier-than-I Mumpers please help me? I’m trying to install the Frigidaire Gallery portable air conditioner I bought a few months ago. It’s going to be hot over the weekend, so I decided to try to install it. Holy frick. There were no instructions with the unit, but I found some online. They’re vague and not illustrated.
There’s a sliding heavy-duty plastic slider that has an oval opening for the oval mouth of the venting hose, but if I slide it to fit the window, the oval opening is partially obscured. Am I supposed to cut the slider to fit? With what? (I have no hacksaw. Also, I can’t saw a straight line.)
It comes with one bracket (for what, I don’t know) and several screws. Am I going to have to screw the slider into the window sill? I don’t think management is going to like that. Also, the unit wouldn’t be portable then. And I suck at using power drills.
Morning, mumpers! Today is the end of the week from Hell, which is good for me. It’s 16c/62f outside and cloudy. We had a thunderstorm warning yesterday from 10am-midnight but no signs of any storms which was very disappointing. Today, weather app says “It could be warmer outside, but you could also have more slugs in your shower. Count your fucking blessings”. I am happy to report there were no slugs in my shower
Another busy day for me, I’ve been through two Board of Examiners meetings so far and I have two more today, then the mad rush to sort out any issues before we can release marks and final degree results on Monday. I have no idea what the other assistant team manager is doing because most of the work seems to be coming in my direction
Have skimmed, not retained much and am only having a flying visit here…{{{{{everyone}}}}}, just because.
Morning all. Have been a bad mumper lately, although I have been reading.
Been fun over here, for a given value of the word… I’m supposed to be going up to Scotland next week to meet 2 of my future PhD supervisors, plus another guy involved in the project.
You may note the phrase ‘supposed to be’…
I’d planned it all out; I’d got train tickets, was going to spend a night in Edinburgh with some friends who I’ve not seen in yonks, then show up bright and early to meet my lead supervisor, who had (unusually nicely) offered to put me up for a night and show me round the area.
I was all worried about the train strikes, but it seems I’ve got away with that.
Then one of my friends didn’t come in to Uni on Wednesday, due to testing positive for covid (he’d dodged it until now).
I was hanging round with him Monday and Tuesday, and I share an office with his girlfriend, who tested positive that night. She’s had it before- in fact, we both caught it the same time last time.
Crap.
This morning, the friends in Edinburgh also messaged me: guess what they just caught?
So now I’m suddenly scrambling to arrange alternative accommodation, except I’m not sure if I’ve got It as well, in which case, of course, the whole trip’s off. I’m a little shaky on the whole Miss Manners thing, but I think the appropriate host gift in this situation is something like a box of chocolate, not a contagious disease.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 96 with rain promised mid-afternoonish. We shall see. At any rate a bit cooler than it has been for the past two weeks, so there’s that. This mornin’, I shall betake myself over to the church house to perform candle duty and then make a sojourn to Wally*World to purchase a few needed items. After that ‘tis back to da cave for sloth, nappage and general uselessness. A fair amount of useful will occur as sup shall be cubed steak ‘n gravy, smashed N.O.T., squish, peas and butterbeans with okra and corn bread. I have a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for some downhome cookin’.
JtC collards are da bomb! There are many ways to fix ‘em and they can be a little bit of a bother to prep and such, but worth the trouble. I present to you some helpful advice re collards from the Mumper Recipe Blog. Also yay on hubs agreein’ to the plague booster.
Nuts I am crossin’ appropriate/inappropriate appendages for you not havin’ plague. You are right about the host gift. Chawklits, flowers, and wine are all acceptable. Plague is never acceptable. Pestilence is also frowned upon as a host gift.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy, Then, oh so much bother, I suppose I must purtify and don attire appropriate for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. Woe and despair!
Nut - Fingers crossed here that you’re plague-free. Will this insanity ever end??
We’ve got a pretty nice day forecast - maybe reaching the low 80s - so a good day for boat work. FCD has it all planned out in his head - I’m going along to hand him tools. Yeah, I do more than that, and I tend to ask a lot of questions which have proven to be helpful a few times. First, it helps me understand the systems better, and second, sometimes I see things differently from him and sometimes that difference is better. So we make a good team.
We’ll be there again tomorrow, natch, and Daughter will probably bring the grands over in the afternoon for a swim. And somewhere in the next few days, I’ll need to toss a load of unders into the washer. So, as usual, much excitement on tap here.
Good morning and a very, very hearty thank God it’s Friday!
It’s currently 47 degrees with an expected high of 77 which won’t happen until late afternoon.
Nut, I’m really hoping you don’t have the plague.
Another long day of work awaits me. I’m still trying to write my third-quarter accomplishments, but I really don’t have a choice and need to get them finished today. I got a start on them but was continually interrupted with data calls, problems, and various other things. I ended up working late because of it and I still didn’t do what I had envisioned getting done.
Some of the interruptions were totally unnecessary, like a program director asking me to hurry up and push through a travel auth for someone traveling at the end of JULY. Jeebus wept. She was in a hurry because she is going on leave and then will be traveling next week. However, I can and actually did end up approving the auth after fund certification, so there wasn’t even a need for the big rush. It’s silly things like this that eat up a good part of my day.
I sat through several meetings, because what’s a day without meetings?
When it’s all said and done, all the little stuff was taken care of, and the big stuff is moving along, so it’s all good.
The good news is that it’s Friday. I plan to be at the Lowes and another nursery as soon they open and then I’m going to plant to my heart’s content.
The additional meds that I’ve had to give to Polar are definitely kicking in and I can tell he’s feeling a lot better.
I’ve been up since 3:30, so I better get that second cup of coffee. It’s going to be a long one!
flyboy, like so much other peasant food, whatever parts of dead pig is plentiful at the moment is what you use. I’ve used smoked hocks, leftover ham, bacon, salt pork and even bits of pulled pork. It’s all good, but my preference is smoked hocks.
I hope that you don’t have the plague nut.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, a load of towels ready for the dryer and a load of clothes on deck. Once KP is done, I’ll purtify to go get the oil changed and shop for groceries. The rest of the chores will wait until I get home. I did take Nelson for a romp at the dog park this morning while it was cool. This will likely be modus operandi until it starts to get cooler again.
excuse me for ranting and this isnt about the board or any person place or thing to do with it
But if it wasn’t for my disabled cousin id say fuck this place and these people with several spiny and poisonous poking plants …they can fuck off and burn in a few dozen layers of hell …
Morning all. Another bright sunshiny day in the 90’s here in N. Ali-bama with almost no chance of rain. Swimming and setting up the new shredder are the only things on my planning schedule, so we’ll see what else happens.
{{shady}}, sounds like you had one nerve left and they yanked hard on it. Deep breaths and take care. Vent here if you need to.
nut, hope the tests are negative and you can make the trip safely. Sounds like Murphy is an international problem…
Taters, silly things are what humans live for, in my humble estimation…hang in there and enjoy Firday.
boo fae, hope the meetings and the marks both get sorted out.
I used to have a button that said “It’s hard to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious”. Hope they can do something.
OK, pills and newspaper both inside the places they are supposed to be, so need to finish the morning internettin’ and be about the day. All y’all take care.
@nelliebly , does the unit sit in the window, or on the floor with the hose going into the slider thing which is in the window? If the latter, check this video. Installing a Frigidaire Portable AC - YouTube Yes, you will have to cut the back piece. Any hardware store should be able to do that. Do you need to screw it into the window frame? Supposedly but you don’t have to. My windows are sliders and the thing is just wedged between the window and the frame. Foam is stuck in the cracks. I love my portable a/c. I have it in my bedroom.
Hi, Dopers. I’m sorry to hear about your medical troubles, nellie, but so glad you saw a hummingbird. Seeing those guys makes me ridiculously happy. Also, I love fuschia, but don’t have a great place for a vine, so I have to live vicariously.
The off-site/on-site (it occurred in our regular office building but required a lot of people to travel) was…off. Our previous veep was really good at energizing people during those discussions, but our current veep is kind of terrible at it. I didn’t get much out of it but the realization that I’ve been incredibly spoiled not having to go into the office for two years and I really want to do it as little as possible.
At this point I’m just waiting to find out whether it was a superspreader event or not (there were around 100+ people present and one of my employees has already come down with congrestion, a fever & chills).
Depending on whether I come down with the sicks, we’ll be headed south to HIlton Head next week. The husband has also been summoned to his respective office building today, too - we’ll see how that works out. It’s the first time he’s ever been since he started his job the day the world locked down two years ago.
We have a different brand, but it looks similar to the square Frigidaire. The plastic slider is for venting the hot air. It should fit a sash window, or a sideways-sliding window.
Put the slider into the window, such that an edge is being held in the window frame. Adjust the length. With ours, I marked the length, and then inserted one or two provided screws to set the length. Our a/c didn’t come with foam, but I think yours did. Those are for sealing exhaust slider in the window to prevent leakage.
I’m not sure what you mean about the exhaust oval being ‘partially obscured’. By what? Nothing should be obscured by the slider being in the window. If there’s something in front of the window, it will need to be moved; or use a different location.
Caveats:
The exhaust hose should be as short and straight as possible. The exhaust air is hot! The longer the hose, the more the a/c is working against itself. We have one opening window, and there’s a shelf in front of it. There’s no place to put the shelf, so the hose has to be longer than we’d like. I wrap a moving blanket around it so that the heat goes outside instead of inside.
Be aware of leaks. Our a/c has an internal reservoir that needs to be emptied periodically. The a/c is supposed to stop when it’s full, but it doesn’t. The reservoir overflows and the carpet is soaked. There’s an outlet where you can attach a hose. I put on a hose and put a bucket behind the unit. Two problems: The bucket is too tall, and the a/c still leaks water (I don’t know why). I put the a/c into a storage bin with two layers of pressure treated 2x4 and 2x6. This elevates the unit so that the hose goes into the bucket, catches water that leaks from the unit, and keeps the unit out of the water. While the storage bin does get water in it, I only have to empty it at the end of Summer. Incidentally, you can also run the hose outside and let the water drain on the ground. You’d either have to drill a hole in the wall, or have the a/c by a sliding door.
Tuesday’s plus-sized day + Wednesday night’s significant GI troubles (which included much interrupted sleep) = a not-so-great yesterday. My stomach was unsettled all day, I was tired, and I wasn’t able to eat much at all. I hydrated as best I could, though, and figured one day of minimal calories wouldn’t kill me. I went to bed early and took some prophylactic Imodium before doing so, and I actually slept through the night! Happily, so far today I’m feeling back to normal…though I’m about to test that with some lunch. What a long/weird week. I’ll be logging off work early for a mammogram appointment, and I’m looking forward to starting the weekend when that’s done.
Two grocery stores near me deliver, but one of them will send substitutions even when I ask them not to – so, I only use the other one. I went to their website yesterday to schedule a delivery for today, but suddenly half of the items had a note that the store would automatically provide a substitution (of their choosing) if the product wasn’t available! Normally I can see what the substitution would be and either accept it or say “no thanks,” but this time there was no such option. I’m assuming the change is due to supply chain issues, but I really don’t want random groceries…so, I’m forced to actually go to the store. I’ll take advantage of already being out of the house this afternoon and go on the way home from the mammogram. What a bummer for us lazy people, though.
Me, too! I really do enjoy helping people vote.
My parents never discussed politics with my brother and me. I remember being pretty young and asking what the difference was between Democrats and Republicans: all my father would say is that Democrats want the government to have more power while Republicans want the people to have more power. Not technically incorrect, but there’s so much more to it! That wasn’t helpful. I was an adult before I even knew which party my parents were registered with (MD requires you to pick; before I moved to VA, I only ever registered as an Independent).
Thank you, dogbutler, wetone, and flyboy! Dogbutler, the hole for the vent hose is on one side. (It’s a portable that sits on the floor, not a window unit.) The slider has two pieces. Since the window is narrower than 26", the back (solid) piece slides behind the vent hole when the slider is adjusted for the window width. Hopefully that makes sense.
I took WetOne’s advice and went to the hardware store. I didn’t ask the guy to cut it for me because I sensed I’d get an “against company policy” answer, but after he explained a couple of approaches and I told him, “I have to measure eight times, cut once,” he said if I promised not to tell management, he’d cut it for me. Whew! And thanks for assuring me I don’t have to drill holes!
Wally*World 
