(Old) Ain't gonna move no more in the MMP

I was headed upstairs and got to the ground floor when our receptionist saw me. She’d just sent me an email saying that she saw I was trying to call BMCRA. She was on hold with them. It seems that unless you’re on their whitelist, you get sent to the number asking for your SSN. I tried the number on my cell phone, and I got the greeting from Technical Support. Their switcheroo is dishonest. Anyway, there’s apparently a global outage and there’d be nothing they can do for me as far as logging in. My irk landline should be whitelisted within 24 hours… but I won’t be back down here until next week anyway.

Meh. No biggie. The Cobb salad is only six bucks, and it’s tasty and filling. If the Admin were to order a Keto Krakatoa, I’d probably eat too much anyway.

Ah, the ol’ stompin’ grounds!

lol ill trade ya back :grin:

I like my 2018 Elantra. It actually has a more navigable touchscreen than my SIL’s two year old RAV.

Hope that does the trick. Hugs.

Should you decide to use it, a locksmith should be able to get into it and set up a new combo / key.

During my last move, I found that the USPS offered multiple discounts to places like Lowe’s , furniture stores, etc when you did your change of address online. My discount at Lowe’s covered the sales tax on my W/D.

Irked my usual gig this morning and went up front voluntarily in the afternoon. Tomorrow, I’ll have to get the Thursday stuff out the door, so will likely be doing my usual thing most of the day.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

Howdy Y’all! Laundry got laundered and put where it stays until it gets dirty again. Sloth, nappage, and day drinkin’ were achieved. Sup got cooked and et. Netflix, chill, popcorn, and fartfest await.

MOOOOOOM I missed the stuff about BIL’s car. This does sound like a good deal all around. Yay for gettin’ rid of the other mattress!

JtC hooray for property tax exemption! Four down and two to go re the plates! Hope the others are found soonest. Yay for stuff gettin’ gone! I love the way it happens here. Put it out by the road and POOF it’s gone!

rocker I liked this part: During the first decades of the 19th century, elevenses consisted of drinking whiskey.This is about the United States. I say we bring it back!

Dicey that drink sounds nummy and fancy! We may have to try this out by the cee-mint pond.

Pilot glad you feel somewhat better today. The Aldi’s “aisle of shame” is an aisle of completely random stuff that have pretty much nuttin’ to do with groceries. They’re usually a middle aisle and a lot of fun to go down just to see what’s there. There is a page devoted to it on the book of faces.

VanGo sorry the lyme disease stuff continues. Hope the antibiotics clear it right up.

This place informed me by email they aren’t going forward with me. Probably my age. Sigh.

Back from Daughter’s - broken belt on the dryer. So they’ll buy a replacement and meanwhile, my dryer is full of their wet stuff. The car is in our driveway - it needs brakes - I could tell that much as I brought it home. And it hasn’t been serviced in a year, so there may be more surprises. And the blade over the antenna is missing. We’ll see what the inspection shows.

OK, it’s recliner time. Chillage!!!

LOLOLOL!!!

Back when we lived in CA, I was positive that the things he had hung on the walls were what kept the walls up during the Northridge quake.

I think she is being super rude and I would be willing to let the air out of her tires one snowy Friday afternoon next time I’m on that side of the country.

Ick about the temps. Last year it was hotter than that in AZ for SIX weeks. We would argue about who’s turn it was to walk all the way across the street to check our mail. Then we fled the heat and drought and haven’t looked back.

We have no need for a safe that small like that so I was super happy that it wasn’t locked when we found it. We would have had to pay a locksmith to open it just because we would have had to know what was inside. The guy who picked it up didn’t say anything about having it re-keyed (and looked like the sort of person who would need a long gun sized safe) so we think he’s probably going to scrap it.

I did not know that, I will have to check and see if we got anything. Thank you for the info :slight_smile:

That’s the way we did it back in AZ, but we haven’t seen anything out of the roads here. Maybe it is because it goes away so fast that we never see it, but we ain’t from around here and don’t want to offend until we know how things work. I agree that it would be much easier to just drag stuff to the street, but the entertainment value of some of the online replies made waiting much easier.

Tonight we went to the steakhouse in Logan and neither of us had steak. He had fried chicken livers with gravy and I had Fettuccine Alfredo with a sad lack of garlic.

We were also illegally served booze. I like to look at the drink menu and order something I haven’t had before, so I asked the waitress what was in the Pink Umbrella. She told me and I said it sounded good and I would have one. She carded me. Hubs and I both laughed and I told her that it was on my dresser and that I’d have icewaterwithlemon, please. Hubs said he would also drink icewaterwithlemon in solidarity with me. I told him that he could have a drink but he refused.

The waitress came back with our icewaterwithlemons and whispered that we could have our drinks. She told me that usually they are super strict, but she talked to her supervisor and he let her serve us because we were so nice about it.

We were both pretty ?!?! about that part, I was the one who didn’t bring my ID, it would be really rude to blame the waitress or restaurant for my stupidity.

Unless the server is horrible, we always tip well. Even if the server is horrible, we leave a decent tip. You best believe that our server tonight got an excellent tip!

Evening all. Just finished the 2sDay Mac-n-Cheese so that is assimilating. Did get to the gym and managed to pedal away 800 calories while France manged to lose to Spain (French played terrible IMHO). Some dark clouds in the vicinity but no rain today. Otherwise a quiet afternoon in N. Ali-bama.

rocky, that ice sounds rather amazing, wonder if the skill has been lost in time.

FCM, glad BIL stayed calm enough to get through the bureaucrazy without incident. Hope the car checks out. And I also used to lunch at 11am when I was working.

Well-played. They would all have to be named Buster, of course…

Pilot, glad to hear you’re feeling better. And yeah, I think I needed 3-4 things to get my Real ID here in Ali-bama. Glad the dinner came out well.

VanGo, hope the antibiotics do the trick.

JtC, FCM, glad the stuff is gone without any hassles.

Flyboy, took me until a second reading to decipher “rather unirnated right now”. But far as I can tell, you did everything right and Big Multi (BM) is screwed up. And I never give my SSN over the phone unless I know there is a legitmate reason and that the call is to a reputable place…and even then I do it with some trepidation.

shady, live up to your Mumper name and keep cool.

Coppertone, aw, rats.

JtC, yeah on getting your booze fix and double yeah for the tip.

Well, getting to 7pm and I have several You Tubes to watch and webcomics to read, so have a good evening all.

I’m sure you look great for your age, but I’m pretty sure most people of retirement age are sufficiently mature in appearance the restaurant staff were confident that you’re over 21. :slight_smile:

Thanks, the big tip wasn’t so much about the booze but that they were willing to risk their liquor license because we were nice about it. Once she had refused service, she was risking huge personal fines as well and losing her job and costing the restaurant their liquor license by changing her mind.

This is the law and while I think that it is silly that they have to ask people as obviously as old as we are for proof of age, this is the world we live in now. I will never forget my ID again!

Hubs agreed that it was my daily use of Oil of Oldlady that made her doubt my age. :rofl: :joy: :rofl:

I use a generic version with SPF 15 every morning and my face is pretty much wrinkle-free. My neck, on the other hand… :open_mouth: I don’t know if it’s the moisturizer or good genetics or good clean living, but coupled with the lack of gray, most people are surprised when they find out I’m 70. I’ll take it! :wink:

For whatever reason, I didn’t eat much today and I needed some calories to reach 1000, so I decided I deserved and ice cream bar. Yum! I also had an orange and some cherries. I enjoyed the cherries the most.

Waiting for the last of Daughter’s clothes to dry, then I’ll haul my buns to bed. I’s tahred!!! And MIL’s aide is coming early because she (MIL) is going out to lunch with a couple of friends. So I need to be functional in the morning. Plus I want to smoke some ribs and they need to go all day. The last batch didn’t cook long enough. As hot as it’s forecast for tomorrow, they could cook sitting on the porch! No break till Firday, the the heatwave resumes on Moanday.

Not amused. Not at all.

S.M. brought goulash & strongly encouraged us to partake. (Apparently her mom is incapable of making small amounts of food.)

Was supposed to close tonight but wound up trading shifts. Fine by me, I took a straight-up nap in my car on my 15 minutes break.

So now I’m having a restorative cuppa & goulash, and really looking forward to hitting the hay. I dunno, I just felt … woozy … earlier.

Do you remember what’s in it? Googling just brought enless sites selling umbrellas.

What’s that?

Aw, dang, how disappointing for you. I’m glad at least this time you got clear communication instead of being yanked around …

Better urinated off, than urinated on I guess.

Nah, I’m the one on a diet. And I only come in once a week. I’m good.

I was trying to come up with a clever way of naming a mountain of meats and fish and cheeses and cruciferous vegetables. Like a ‘meat volcano’.

Theres no food place left really. I should take this as a sign.
Anyway, had perogies and saurkraut for sup.
Choc cake, now bed.

I napped. I dreamed I had to help Chuck Norris and Chewbacca take a hill from Imperial Stormtroopers. I had the usual Manhattan and Redneck Stirfry.

It’s the seasonal/one time only item aisle. You might buy a box of chocolate covered espresso beans, you might buy a sloth shaped pool float(I want that).

{{{{VanGo}}}}

That sucks.

Happy Toosday!

I had to think about it for a minute. My son’s working OT this week, between that and last week’s holiday, I am very discombobulated.

I got this AC off Amazon, FCM

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VanGo, I’m glad you only need antibiotics.
O worry when I hear about numb feet because a childhood friend woke up one morning with numb feet, and then paralyzed feet. I can’t remember the name of what she had, but she slowly went paralyzed from the feet up, the head down, and fingers in. She had to be put on life support. She survived, but had months of rehab afterwards. The doctor told her family it is very rare, but my mind goes there whenever somebody tells me their feet are numb.
My feet are numb a lot, but it’s from spinal stenosis. I was reading that vitamin B1 is good for repairing nerve damage in the feet.

Sorry Coppertone

I’d rather have cows than McMansions.
I’d rather have pigs and chickens than McMansions.
The dairy farm down the road gets a bit ripe sometimes, but only when we are driving by. The smell doesn’t go this far.

When I was young, there was a pig farm about 2 miles down the road from my parents’ house. Somebody put in a development across the road from it. A friend of my ex lived in that neighborhood, and was he ever sorry he bought there. You couldn’t even sit outside. He and a number of people called to complain. All the county told them was that if you were stupid enough to buy a house across the street from a pig farm, you deserve what you got.
Back in the days when it was still an agricultural area.
Now it’s apartments.

MetalMouse, my son is great when you can get him to clean. The getting is the hard part. Any kind of waste, though, he does go into high gear.
He’s a bit lazy with yard irk.

When I first lived in Baltimore, I got a property tax break based on my income. As my income went up, I lost the break. My friend in Baltimore County gets a break, both for her age and her income. It took two of us nagging at her for her to apply. She is poverty level, her only income is her husband’s SS and pension. She gets really angry if you tell her she is eligible for any kind of benefits because in her eyes, she is not poor. One friend dragged her down to apply for food stamps, for which she was eligible. Once they ran out, she never reapplied.

As far as I know my cousin is doing okay, still critical but stable. Her sisters left for NC today to help out.
My uncle, her father, is back in the hospital though. He just had surgery and was doing well, but I guess the stress set him back.
He postponed the surgery to go to my aunt’s funeral. Then the stress from the funeral put him in the hospital, so he had to wait even longer. He had only been home a few days when my cousin had the heart attack.
My poor aunt, I think I should call her tomorrow.
And send some cards.
She is young, thin, in shape, never smoked, takes care of herself. This has been a shock to everyone.

I bought an LG portable a/c several years ago. It looks like this one. If that’s it, then it’s 12,000 BTU.

I found out right away that the internal condensation tank is useless. Flooded the carpet. I got a piece of clear plastic hose, and now it’s draining into a 5-gallon bucket (that I have to remember to empty before it gets too heavy). Also, it just leaks. Sometimes. So I put it into a storage bin, lifted up from the bottom with two layers of 2x6s. The exhaust hose gets very hot. I have it covered with a moving blanket. It works… adequately. But one day I want a proper a/c.

Oh, so the end of the irk day…

I was fed up. Not being able to upload files really cramped my style. I said, ta hell wit’ it! and left about a half hour early. I’ll be home by 1730, right? Nope. There was a crash in north Everett that was blocking lanes. Waze let me around a circuitous path to get around it. I did make it home by 1800… but the drive still took at least 3:15. Oh, and this morning? I left early. I’ll be in the orifice by 0730! Wrong. There was a stalled bus in the express lanes under the Convention Center. Didn’t get in until 8. So six and a half hours total driving time today.

The Nursemobile’s brakes are fixed. Not sure what the mechanic did, but it’s over $500. The Spousal Unit probably can’t get it to the tire shop to have the flat fixed until Thursday. Fortunately, I don’t need the Prius.

I have one egg, one sausage patty, and no low-carb bread. I’ll make a sausage/egg/cheese burrito for breakfast after picking up Wifey’s car. Instead of walking at lunchtime, I’ll have to go to the supermarket for provisions.