Some of us work for a living. 
I’ve got a meatloaf in the toaster oven. **FCD **had a 4 PM meeting, so who knows when he’ll be back. I stopped at the Amish market, so I’ve got green beans for supper, and I’ll boil up some N.O.T.s, too. Plus there’s leftover corn from yesterday.
And as I wrote this, he called and he’s on his way, so I need to get to cookin’…
We have consumed The General’s Sup. Plus aig rolls and wonton soup. YUM! Tomorrow is smoke day. Two poke roasts plus chikin laigs, boobs, and thighs. Sattidy afternoon/evenin’ the poke roasts plus a good bit of the chikin will become Brunswick Stew. I’m usin’ an easy recipe that cooks in the slow cooker. Firday evenin’ I get to mow over to the church house and Sattidy mornin’ I attend a trainin’ meetin’ for folks that do stuff durin’ services over to the church house. Fun times ahead.
I made beef marsla tonight. It was very good. With rosemary grown in the front yard.
Juliet, have fun with the wee one at the game!
Moooooom, I’m sorry about Richard and too, hope that his wife will no longer have to work. Have fun at the baseball game.
One more day and my irkweek is done. 
The roofers got to my apartment around five to work on the gutters and soffet. They’re arrival was heralded by Nelson singing the song of his people. Fortunately, he’s chilled a bit now.
Mama’s life insurance was not enough to bury her.
We have thunderboomers and the power keeps going out.
I lost, and found, and important piece of mail I needed today.
I kept getting calls from myself today until I finally answered it and it was a microsoft scammer telling me that I was going to lose my license.
So you have here sitting up in the parlor?
I see we have avatars now, albeit minuscule ones. I’ll have to play around with some of my files in my avatar folder to see if any of them are viewable at that resolution.
It’s 91F here right now, with 96F threatened. I just put a sheet pan full of bacon in the oven for making BLTs for the next couple of days. Yeah, it’ll heat the house up a little bit, but in 20 minutes I’ll have BACON! 
I wanted to make chicken & vegetable soup with gnocchis but it’s just too hot for that much cooking.
There’s a minor league baseball team down in Salem called the volcanoes. Baseball has to be the most boring sport ever to watch on TV, but we’ve been to a couple of their games at their stadium and I’ll have to admit that it’s a lot more fun to watch in person, especially if you go with a group. Unfortunately that group of rowdies broke up/got divorced/died/etc.
There’s a lot of that going around these days, and likely to be a lot more in the coming years iffen we don’t take back control of the gummint from the current gang of thieves. :mad:
How did this soapbox get here? 
Bumba I really like going to see live baseball. I used to see a lot of MLB, but it’s too far (and too expensive now). I used to go see my college team every home game for years. I loved it. Right on the first base line. I got to know everyone I sat with. It was a lot of fun.
I’ll have to check into minor league games. It sounds like it might fit the bill.
Hi, again. Thanks for all the kind thoughts, and good wishes. I’m feeling a bit more human, today.
It all started on July 29th. I wasn’t able to pee. At. All. I was bloated. Badly. I had severe kidney stone pain. Turns out, both of my ureters were blocked by stones. I finally went to the ER on the 31st. Only because my husband came home, and demanded that I go. I’d be dead now, if he hadn’t forced me. I don’t remember anything, other than the transfer from the local ER, to the next town’s ER, and very little of that. I don’t recall anything at all, until after my second surgery. The first surgery was on the 1st, the second was on the 3rd. I finally made it home on the 5th. I’m still a little foggy, but, the pain is MUCH better. Almost pain-free, actually. I did have to take half a Vicodin this morning, though. I’ve got stents in the ureters, and they’re almost sure that my right kidney is dead. Who knows what that will entail. Deity forbid. I go for more bloodwork on Sunday, an appt. with my Neph., on the 17th, and an appt. for stent removal on Sept. 24th. I have an appt. with the regular doctor, for my insulin re-up, sometime next month, as well.
I have absolutely NO idea how we’ll pay for this shit. That has me worried as ALL hell. My husband has insurance, so, there’s that. Time will tell. I just feel so useless, making my husband spend his hard-earned money on me like this. I don’t work. He’s an OTR truck driver, FFS. So, it’s not like we have a lot of cash laying around. He took all week off work last week, so, no paycheck this week. Figures. That’s how it goes. But, I’m just a run-of-the-mill houseleech, pretty much. I don’t have a real job, with which I can contribute to my bills. It just sucks, is all. I’m a bit depressed over the entire situation. Bah.
So, that’s the deal. Thanks for reading this far, if you managed to do it.
As Prince Charles said, when some equally unfeeling reporter asked him how he would like to be King, “You are speaking of the death of my Mother”.
Speaking of baseball I want to know how Fcm won tictets. Was it an inter office thing or on the radio or at a supermarket or some online registration?
Enjoy the games.
Ace. Get well soonest. Stop stressing over the bills and get well than worry about all that. Sad state of affairs this country is in. Any insurance is better than none and even none doesn’t mean you should forego treatment. Or feel guilty in any way whatsoever. Hugs to you.
I consider my favorite sport to be baseball because I understand the rules. Next would be Golf.
{{{Ace}}} concentrate on getting well; the bills will be with you well or ill, so might as well face them well.
We used to have a AA team in Huntsville, but they moved years ago. We’re supposed to be building a new stadium and getting a team back for 2020, but I’m in the “we’ll see” camp on that.
FCM, sorry to hear about the old guy (Richard) dying, and sadly I bet his wife can’t stop working because of the cost of his funeral…a sad situation.
Juliet, you and Jr. have a real fun Girl’s Night Out.
We had about 40 minutes of rain with thunder this afternoon so the Park & Rec closed the fields, even though by the time we got there it was sunny and drying out fast. The Parks folks are paranoid about the fields, the tought of a tuft of soil being displaced is more than they can stand…
Tomorrow is more house work, there is a Charity coming to pick up my old appliances, and I owe another hunk of money to the remodeler. Just another fun day in my half of the house…
Do you live near an MLB team? You should download the Gametime, an app that lets you buy tickets the day before or day of a baseball game. Prices, at least in my area, range from $5 to $45 for decent seats. The app makes transferring tickets a breeze.
Then you would never be chosen as a leader at Da Jungle! 
As someone else who has suffered with Lucifer’s Buckshot and crummy insurance with a silly deductible you have my sympathy.
Haven’t ruled it out but there is a family reunion. The OWs family so no explosions. If I skip it. And if she doesn’t get into the powder locker. We’ll see but chances are slim.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and clear (well, dark) with a predicted high of 90, mostly N.O.S. and a chance of afternoon/evenin’ rain/tstorms/apocalypse. We also have a pollen alert. As soon as it’s daylight enough, smokeage shall begin. I’d like to have that over with by noonish. I shall finish off the poke roast in the slow cooker just to make sure it gets done all the way. We shall sup upon smoked chikin boobs green beans and mac ‘n cheese. I have a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for homemade mac 'n cheese. I need to take care of a couple of errands but can put that off until tomorrow. I probably will do so as I don’t like to leave da cave while stuff is in the smoker.
{{{Ace}}} like others have said, concentrate on gettin’ well.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day. Rah.
Happy Thursday Y’all!
Good morning!!
**Butters **- our company has season tickets to the Blue Crabs, the Washington Nationals, and the Baltimore Orioles. When the mucky-mucks don’t want to use them, us peons can toss our names into a raffle. Mostly, they just raffle off Blue Crabs tickets - they’re in a small pro league, not a farm team. The team is partly owned by Brooks Robinson, the long-time 3rd baseman of the Orioles - I saw him play when I was a kid.
**Ace **- I know this is easier said than done, but don’t fret over the med bills. Stuff like this happens. It’s not like you went out and ran up ridiculous charges on your Visa for giggles - this is life and death. So work on getting better, then worry about paying the hospital. You’re not the first person who needed emergency care who couldn’t afford it, and you won’t be the last, unfortunately. But you can only do what you can do. Take care of yourself, and deal with the rest as you can. Hugs!!
One good thing for Richard’s widow - some of their kids live around here, so she shouldn’t be reduced to living in a cardboard box. In fact, I believe they share their house with some kids/grandkids… So she should be OK.
No rain in our area, dammit. I don’t need a deluge, but a steady shower for a few hours would be nice. Watch it rain on the baseball game.
Happy Thursday!
Morning all. Awoke at 3:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep for any length of time, so up at 6:30am (good thing, too, the remodeler folks were here at 7am again). 72F heading for the mid-80’s, but weather is calling for and 80% chance of tunder-boomers today, so soccer for the kids may get washed out again.
Need to move and clean up the appliances I’m donating and move some other stuff around…in a little while…
{{{Ace}}} I’m so glad you’re doing better. Keep resting up and healing.
It is redonkulously humid today, and they’re forecasting scattered storms this evening. Very scattered, but my luck is that it’ll rain during the game. I’ve gotta remember the ponchos.
Smoker is smokin’ away. I’ve also been singin’, pity the neighbors! 
So far I’ve done a medley of songs includin’ Smokin’ In The Boy’s Room, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and various Smokey Robinson songs, cause, well, Smokey. Hey, it’s my deck and I’ll sing on it if I want to! OOH! Another song!