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@Misnomer : That sounds like a great visit, dog and all. And cookies to bring home. You do live right. 9500 curated songs?!? Wow. That’s a mountain of work.

Lunch, laundry, and Lego. eh? I’ll see your lunch and laundry and offer my Doping in lieu of your Lego. Neener. :winking_face_with_tongue:


I’ve worked irregular schedule jobs almost my whole life. I’ve never bothered to know what day it is since I have nothing to cue me. I got my first analog watch with day & date display some time in high school and never looked back. Many’s the time I’ve said “If my watch doesn’t know, I sure don’t”.

I stopped wearing a watch except for work about 15 years ago. Then I stopped the work too. I have one pretty one as jewelry, but it doesn’t really keep time. So for the last 15-ish years it’s been more like “If my watch phone doesn’t know, I sure don’t”.


I’m sure glad they send the money first, then the letter a month(s) later. The other way around would be badder. But yeah, those letters are kinda surprising / unnerving when they show up.


Happy news here! GF and I made our solid plans for the SF trip! One of her sisters had made some vague noises about queering that weekend too, and she stood up and said, “No, I’m going with BF that weekend, you do your own thing without me.” Made me very proud of her.

Anyhow, in late September I’m flying out on a Fri to attend the Sunday memorial. Meanwhile she’s doing posse in Orlando Thu-Sun. Then on Tue she flies to meet me then we come back home together the following Tue. So we’ll have 6 full days plus two half-days there together. And I’ll have 3 full days and a half-day before that for family & whatever trouble I can get into in a big city.

Air travel is all locked in and paid for. Hotels and activities are the next topic to tackle. This plan is a GO! Color me very excited.

We’re going to try to have GF meet the family & vice versa; it’s mostly a matter of herding four busy households into a manageable number of get-togethers for everyone. All TBD; those folks have busy bordering on chaotic lives. And I don’t want to sacrifice all our us time and touristy activities to meeting one or another family clear across the city for a dinner or whatever.

Yaay!

My urban wildlife report is squirrels, rabbits, iguanas, egrets, ducks, geese, cormorants, and some red tailed hawks. Each seen pretty much daily. Sometimes we get white ibis too. I just went outside to look and right now we’re enjoying two groups of ducks totaling ~20 and two groups of geese totaling ~15.

A couple days ago for the first time I saw a trash panda crossing the golf course. Mid morning so fully daylight. That was the Mother Nature excitement of the week.

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Good visit with my daughter. Talked about times past and her current tax problems. If you ever find yourself with IRS problems DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE “OMNI TAX SOLUTIONS”. They took her money and then ignored her. Every time she called them she got a different person who was of no help or who was not a native English speaker. After jerking her around for months, she finally took my initial advice and called the IRS direct. This will hopefully be ironed out over the next few months. She was able to get a partial refund from OMNI but it was a complete waste of time and money. MY money, by the way.

I was able to foist off some cat food that Sadie won’t eat, as her cat will eat anything.

Had to have a nap afterwards. Interaction is exhausting.

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That’s why I’ll never try tatting and I’ll never crochet with thread. Worsted and #8 or #9 needles or H hook - that’s the way to go!!

Didn’t that make it hard to know when you had to work!!! :rofl: I don’t need a watch - I have “Alexa, what time is it?” And really, I only need to know the day of the week when I have appointments. This week, I’m booked on Tues, Weds, Fir, and Sat - thank goodness for Outlook!

Supper helped me clear some leftovers out of the fridge. We ate early, but we were both hungry and saw no reason to wait. Yay for being an adult, for some values of adult. I finally got the critter fountain clean, too, and only a day late. So I’ve earned my chillage.

What’s that? I think I hear my recliner calling!!

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Having had time to think about it, I am happy that sister was able to find someone who thought those things were worth loading up and taking home. They weren’t things that non-stitchers would want or use, so someone out there has some lovely tools to use to make beautiful things.

Most of the tools I use every day have Mom memories attached anyhow. She made the frame weight in the last pic I shared and put a matching tassel on the pair of gold plated pointy scissors I use often enough to have rubbed the gold off the handles. We were at seminar in Tucson when I bought my frame stand and we were at seminar in Los Vegas when I bought my travel bag.

I feel very guilty for feeling this way, but it will be a bit of a relief when Mom is gone and I can finally turn that page in my life.

I saw my first Canadian Geese two days ago. There were probably about a dozen and they were just hanging out. I thought they were very handsome birds.

I don’t blame the little for not liking tomatoes, I don’t like store bought tomatoes either! Tara’s going to be moving into a small house across the gully in a couple of weeks. It has a small yard so next year she wants to start her own kitchen garden. Some of my favorite early memories are of helping Mom plant her spring garden.

That sounds like a wonderful program! I will find out and get back to you, that’s such a kind thing to do.

That just gave me a lot of feelings, thank you so much.

It’s probably for the best, I would feel obligated to fill it and I only have three bins ATM.

I think you will be just fine. It will be the first day for your students as well and everyone is going to be fumbling around a bit. Do try to not stay up late worrying about it, that never helps. I know this, I’ve tried it far too often.

We did that at our last place. Big mistake, the installer used a too long screw and damaged our counter top. Lowe’s refused to accept any responsibility, and the installer ghosted us. Five years later, that dishwasher died!!! and the next installer did the job right AND did some magic so we couldn’t see the damage to the counter top, all for less money.

When I was working I always tried to get my chores done on Saturday so I’d have one day off to just do nothing. It didn’t always work, but when it did, it was wonderful.

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Thank goodness for Outlook indeed. At least it knows when I’m supposed to be where. I use suitable reminders a lot. And for appointments away from home I set them up with travel time included. So I get an alert at the time to get ready for the event to start at the time I need to leave the house. The actual appointment time or whatever is in the notes section.

Back when I was working I’d know “Today is the 10th and I go to work on the 12th”. But whether those dates were Mon & Wed or Thu & Sat meant nothing to me. I was always surprised and annoyed to go out to dinner with wife and discover our planned restaurant was packed. WTF? Oh … It’s Friday. Neeeevvvveeerrrrr Mmmmiiinnnnddddd!

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I forgot to mention this before, but JtC, I’m sorry for all the nonsense and pain that you’ve been dealing with.

I don’t think I ever answered pilot, but our school is strictly 9-12. And, yes, I have decided that I’m done working for the evening. I have literally done the best that I can with the information that I have. If I did more, I’d have 25x the anxiety that I have now. So, I’m off to play some meaningless games.

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Last year, triple pane windows averaged a thousand each for our home. That included large double windows and two smaller bathroom windows. I’m sure it has gone up a bit since then.

I’m so sorry for her. That is so limiting.

Hurray for good Italian food, it doesn’t just fill the belly, it feeds the soul.

I have so many words about the state of the world nowadays. Instead of saying them, I will just heave a very big sigh and be sad.

Hurray for both of you and hurray for GF standing on her back legs. I hope you have the most wonderful time evah!

Butbutbut, now that’s the only fud she will want! Cats!!!

I’ve been looking at tatting on youtube. It looks much easier than I thought and seems to be very portable. Now that I have new eyes, I might give it a try.

That sounds like a very good choice! Tomorrow you are going to think back and laugh at yourself for being so worried. Have a great first day back to school!

So, not a lot happening here. Dinner was foraging for leftovers, now that its summer I get too wiped out after an afternoon at the capital.

Hubs said that there was a hard bird strike on the living room window so I went outside and scribbled on it with a yellow hi-liter. Then I went around back and got the dining room window as well. I’ll put that on the “do on the first of the month” chore list for now and see how it goes. I don’t like the look of the cross hatch trim on all of the windows in the neighborhood, so we didn’t get them. Now I know why everyone has them, they would probably really help the birds see the glass.

That stoopid buck is looking out the forest again. I’m going to ask Hubs and Harry about rigging up a remote controlled air horn on a gate post.

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Thank you. Would that be ages 9-12 = late elementary through early middle schhol or grades 9-12 = high school?

Pardon my abject ignorance but what problem are you trying to solve? Seeing a big buck on the regular is a sight to treasure, not scare away.

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There is a semi-busy two lane highway between the forest and our yard. The buck keeps acting like it wants to run over here and eat my tomatoes. I would be willing to share my tomatoes but deer are stoopid and don’t look both ways before running out on the road.

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Gotta love the government efficiency there.

My granddad used to do simple tatting to repair his fishing nets. He had lakefront property less than a half mile from the farm and he kept a couple of small boats, poles and nets.

Got the last load of laundry at this address done today, took cleaning supplies to my neighbor behind me and took out some trash. It’s getting down to bare bones now. Likely Tuesday afternoon, I’ll turn my divided wooden box that I’ve used as a night stand for 9 years down to fill it with odds and ends of the move. Then, I’ll fill up a week’s worth of meds to take with me. I’ll keep the rest out and put them in a bag to take in the car before I leave.

I still need to bag up the outer wear for both me and Nelson to tuck in the car as a space filler.

I know that I’ve said it before, but I want this over.

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I was wondering whether you were worried about poachers shooting his majestic ass.

But yeah. Deer have the brains of a crawdad. On their best days.

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Oops. High school. We serve all students in those grades, but specialize in dropout recovery.

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Howdy Y’all! I deheathenated, OYKW declined to do so today, and spent the rest of the day in high RDOS inactivities. I did manage to make chef sallits which we et for an early sup. A new season of Wednesday is on Netflix, so we watched an episode.The biiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow. Thus is the news from swampland.

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I’ve made hammocks using a shuttle carved from a tongue depressor. Suddenly things make much more sense!

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I cleaned. I dusted and vacuumed. I cleaned Spot’s box, took out the trash and recycling, sewed on two shirt buttons(and Snoopy’s head). I recorded 2 of my LPs to my computer. I also did 2 load of laundry. Which pales in comparison to whoever is cleaning up upstairs, they’ve be dragging big bins, 16 ton weights, and Rug Doctors around all day.

4 hours, 40 minutes.

I haven’t seen a giant pillar of smoke and flame, so I assume it’s till there.

Home Depot contractors would probably reverse the polarity, and open up a portal into The Eighth Circle of Hell.

You can thank “Big Balls” and his crew for a lot of that.

Feathered Satans.

The Big Yellow Bin is filled to overflowing, because the compactor bit is shut off.

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Goodness, it’s been 9 hours and I have a lot of catching up to do. Dinner was good, exercise was tedious and sweaty but ok, evening sammiches hit the spot and I am now relaxing with nothing else planned for the night. Do need to get some soccer administrative stuff done and some messages out for this week’s activities, but nothing too strenuous. Still 84F at 7pm here, so not much cooling down.

I scroll, I scroll, it’s off to read I go…

FCM, some Fall family travel; not a bad idea. Happy reclining!

Oopsie, sounds like a great family (and it doesn’t matter you’re not blood-relatives, far as I can see you folks are family) get-together (with COOKIES!!!.

Two of my go-to’s!! Along with Girl Genius, Freefall, Spacetrawler, and *Carry On on MWF and DRIVE on Thursday. Will have to check out the other two you mentioned.

Herald, they tore down one of the two malls here and replaced it with a variety of things, haven’t been to the other mall in years. And how’s the back feeling?

Pilot, glad the Western trip is on. Sounds like fun will be had.

Cookie, never had a tax problem yet, but will remember your advice.

We have a couple dozen geese that hang out in a small lake next to the soccer park, occasionally we have to duck (snerk) some low-flying takeoffs or landings but outside of occasional goose-poops on the fields the people and the geese seem to coexist fairly peaceably.

And that’s all I have for now. Need to do some soccer stuff then should be back for a late-night final. All y;all take care.

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How did you know they were Canadian? Did you check their passports?

Darths & Droids will give you a few hours of reading pleasure – strip #2659 was posted yesterday. :slight_smile: The idea is that the Star Wars movies don’t exist, and the stories are a role-playing game; it’s all screencaps with added dialogue. Strip #1 was posted on 14 Sep 2007 to meet a challenge from Shamus Young, who was just finishing up DM of the Rings, a screencap comic treating the three LotR movies as a role-plating game. David Morgan-Mar, who does Irregular Webcomic!, and a bunch of friends from work started at the beginning of Episode 1; have since done episodes 2-8, Rogue 1, Solo, and the Muppet Show episode with Luke and the Droids; and are now somewhere in the middle of Episode 9, with a party that’s expanded to include six players. I’ve been following along since they posted the first strip, and it’s been great fun. Jar Jar makes much better sense as the creation of an eight-year-old girl playing her first RPG. :smiley: (Which eventually leads to the line “Jar Jar – you’re a genius!”)

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And nothing much else has happened in the last three hours, so off to Slumberland I go and will see all y’all tomorrow.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

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The new MMP is here - have at it!