Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 15c/59f with a predicted high of 18c/65f and cloudy. Weather app says “Status clouds are definitely the fucking shitbags of the meteorology world. Trust me, I know my fucking shit.”
Today is graduation day for mine so I’m getting rid of a bunch, but there are still quite a few floating around, and I get a whole new batch in September.
It’s good to know that it’s nothing worse, and nothing more serious. Hope recovery continues apace!
Perfect place to come and rant about such things though, you need to get it out of your system too and of course you can’t rant to FCD because he’s got his own stresses to deal with.
I hope so too, and that there’s no serious lasting damage.
Yay for getting rid of stuff, and yay for some kind person helping you out! Also, yay for finding plates!
shady Ouch, just ouch! I am not built for hot weather, it’s barely 20c over here and it’s too hot for me.
flyboy I’d be having a quiet word with whoever does the catering order too, it might be an oversight on their part that they are not considering all possibly dietary needs. Even if you’re only in the office once a week, it shouldn’t make a difference to common courtesy.
Our graduation ceremonies have started, they go on until the end of next week with a maximum of four ceremonies per day. It’s our turn today so there will be a bunch of smartly-dressed academics lurking around today, and at lunchtime they’ll be off swanning around in their official regalia.
There’s a bunch of graduands already robed and outside taking photos on the old library steps. When the old building was demolished, they left the three crest motifs that had adorned the front of the building because they couldn’t put them on the fancy new building. It has become a favourite spot for people to take pictures so I’m expecting it to be pretty busy for the next few days.
Far more importantly, the mobile mechanic is coming to the house to fit a new battery in the car this afternoon. I am not there because it’s a campus day for me (and I have to work from home tomorrow when I should be on campus due to an appointment at the whore’s pistol) so I have left the car keys with 'im indoors and shown him where the bonnet release catch is. I fully expect the mechanic to know where it is, but it doesn’t hurt for 'im indoors to know as well. Hopefully that will sort out my car problems and I’ll be back to normal service today.
Other than that, a day of faffing around trying to do odd jobs that nobody else wants to do.
This is such a great phrase.
This one, too.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 77 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy with a predicted high of 91 and partly N.O.S. for the day. We shall procure provisions this mornin’. The rest of the day shall be RDOS activities. Sup shall be shrimpies 'n grits and roasted spare guts. YUM! We haven’t had that in a while.
BooFae I have academic regalia. I now want to don it and swan around. I assume it is still in some kind of decent shape. Haven’t worn it in years.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and bother, I suppose I must purtify and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. Woe and anguish!
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
This morning I have my first appointment with my Oncologist for the start of my radiation treatments. I will be getting treatments five days a week until mid September. The prostate cancer has not spread and is confined to just one side, so I am very optimistic.
hippie Best of luck on the treatments.
As an RDOS, you should be able to don it and swan about as much as you like, providing you’re faffing about at the same time 
Wishing you the best with your treatment, I hope all goes well and it’s a complete success.
Battery man called to say he was 15 minutes away, I alerted 'im indoors to the fact, and I have just had a reply that the job’s done and the car started. Yay! £205 well spent…
That’s what FCD is dealing with. Sometimes it extends to his knees, sometimes just his feet. After 10 spinal surgeries, this should surprise no one. Sometimes I feel so sorry for him.
BTW, thanks for the a/c info. I will argue with FCD about it - he’ll want a window model but this will be much easier to install and it should be more than enough for that room, which is maybe 12X15.
This is a separate building and running a drain hose thru the wall into the yard will be easy. Our basement dehumidifier drains into a deep sink because emptying the reservoir was a royal pain!
< Mental image of robes with moth holes throughout, trimmed in spider webs >
I must have been really tired - I didn’t get up till 7:10 this morning. For me, that counts as sleeping in. Higgs goes to the vet this morning. MIL’s aide is coming early because she’s going out to lunch with some of her church friends. I’ll hit the shower shortly so I’m clean when Jessica gets here - I’d rather not meet her in my robe.
My only real plan for today is to clean out BIL’s car. I hope we can get it to Paul today, but if it doesn’t go till tomorrow, that’s fine. Beyond that, no plans. I have 2 very full baskets of clothes waiting for SIL to pick up. So goes the excitement here at FairyChatEstates.
Happy Wednesday!!
Best wishes, hippie.
It would be nice to drain the water through the wall, but I still consider this a temporary air conditioner. We’ve done a lot of work on the house (well, we had the work done): New roof, fusebox replaced by a circuit breaker panel, plumbing repairs, new concrete, new lawn… I want to replace the house’s knob-and-tube wiring when the funds are available, and there are some windows we’d like replaced. There is a long, narrow, three-pane window behind the TV and above the propane furnace. I’m thinking having them replaced by double-paned ones, with two opening ends. The unobstructed left side would be good for a window a/c that (obviously) would drain outside, and I could have a dedicated circuit wired to it. And yes, emptying the bucket can be heavy.
Good Morning all. Woke up early with a cramp in my leg, but managed to get back to sleep until after 7:30am. Have medicated and had my morning apple, and managed last night without the AC on so that a few bucks saved (it’s getting to 90F today, so the HVAC will be back to work soon). Should be pretty much like yesterday, faffing about (the English do have a certain flair with words) in the morning, doing the gym/soccer game double in the afternoon, and internettin’ and readin’ in the evening.
Haven’t had a window AC in many years, all apartments and the house I’m in came with HVAC, so never had those issues. Hope it all works out.
flyboy, amazed again that you put up with that commute, even if it’s only once a week or so. Are there any positions at your level nearer home?
JtC, being nice to the working folks almost always pays dividends. They deal with so many anal openings every day that someone being nice and respectful is a real positive.
FCM, according to website stuff I read, a person of my age and weight needs about 1,800 calories/day just to keep the body working and 2,100/day for a sedentary lifestyle (which you don’t have). 1,000 is pretty low; but if it got you an ice cream bar, then the sacrifice was worth it!
Sari, stay cool and I’m lazy about yard work too. Best wishes to your family members in distress.
Hippie, hope the treatments go well, sounds like things are going your way. Best wishes.
boo fae, hooray that the car lives again!
FCM, hoping that Higgs gets a clean bill of health from the vet and be sure to wear gloves when cleaning out BIL’s car.
OK, probably need to be thinking about First Meal in a little bit, so take care all on this Hump Day and catch up with you later.
My neighbour who died…
Mrs. L.A. went for a walk yesterday morning. (She only goes to the end of the street and back, but it’s a start.’ The neighbour’s husband put out a stack of very nice memorial flyers. I found out that the neighbour died three weeks before her 71st birthday. Crikey, she was only a couple of weeks older than my sister! 
I’d assumed she was older.
In other news… Once upon a time, 30 years ago, I would exercise in the mornings before work. I’d do toe-touches, sit-ups, push-ups, and jog back and forth in my (bottom floor) apartment for 45 minutes. I was doing over 100 sit-ups every day. Things happened, and I got out of the habit. I resolved that today I would take a break from work every hour or so, and do some sit-ups. I’ve done two sets of five so far today. That’s a far cry from 100… one tenth over two sets of what I used to do in one set. But it’s a start. Maybe I could do ten per set, but I want to ease into it and not get sore right off the bat. I’ll increase the reps later.
When I started working, I lived in Lancaster and had to drive out to Edwards Air Force Base. I think it was about 34 miles each way. When I got a job across the street from LAX it was 75 miles each way. I moved to L.A. and it was only 7 miles, and that was nice for a while. Then I got transferred out to San Bernardino. Hello, 70-mile commute! When I got a job with BMCRA down in Orange, it was 42 miles away. It seems I’ve always had long commutes. When I started at my current job, I was commuting to Belltown, Seattle every day… in a Jeep Cherokee. At least now, I only go to our new office (120 miles away) once a week and I have a Prius. I’ve been with the company 17 years. I like working from home (most of the time). I think I can deal with it. The new boss is impressed that I come down once a week. Once she settles in, I may ask her about working from home full time and only come into the office when necessary.
I said we’re picking up the Nursemobile this morning, and that the tire still has a screw in it. Wifey, RN will do her rounds in the Prius, and I’ll have the Jeep if I need to go anywhere. (Or the R1, or the MGB.)
Perfect opportunity for that academic regalia, I’d say!
All the best wishes to you!
I really don’t remember. The waitress listed them, vodka being the base but unless I read the ingredients (or write them down) I’m not going to remember the list, sorry. What I do remember is that it was pink, slightly tangy and served over ice in a beer glass. No umbrellas or fruit, either.
I won’t order it again, there were several other names I didn’t recognize on the drink list, so I’ll try something else next.
It is the sun protection that is making the difference. I haven’t been as good as I could be at putting sunscreen on my hands and the skin on my hands is notably worse than the skin on my arms or face.
Doesn’t matter. She should have asked why you were eating something she didn’t provide and then made a note for next time. That’s not only common courtesy, buying food for all of the attendees is her job.
I’m hoping to find the last two when I find the rest of our cutlery.
I asked Hubs if TC friend had taken the open bottles of booze and he said that she took most of it. I did not ask where the rest of the booze went, the state of some of these boxes makes it pretty obvious!
Best wishes, my friend. It sounds very encouraging that the cancer hasn’t spread, I hope the treatment works well and easily.
Being nice to everyone is also much easier than getting upset and shouting all of the time and you know how lazy I am, LOL!!!
Honestly, I’ve worked the front lines often enough to know that some people wake up hating everyone, but I still get surprised every time I am reminded of the haters.
It is a start. If you don’t start, you can’t go anywhere. Good for you 
As to us, Hubs spent most of the morning in his jammies. He had breakfast (leftover fried chicken livers and scrambled eggs), took a nap and killed monsters. He streams the sound through his hearing aids and was in his room at the back of the house, so as long as I stayed away from the door, he couldn’t see me doing stuff which allowed him to relax guilt free.
I’m going to fix some lunch for him and I will bring it to him instead of making him come to the table, but I don’t know if he can eat and kill monsters at the same time. Here’s hoping, he deserves some downtime.
Back from exercise, which for some reason never seems to get any easier. It’s pretty much just stretching, but it really fatigues the muscle groups, so it must be good for me.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone actually do a for-reals spit-take until this morning. The wife was drinking a glass of lemonade and I was relating a story from the NYT about a man who tried to carjack a vehicle near Sotomayor’s house. When I got to the part about how the driver was a Deputy Federal Marshall (who shot the would-be thief), she spewed a good three feet, and unfortunately aspirated some of it which caused a coughing/gasping spell. The 18-year old was wounded. The spew was a solid 9/10.
No worries, just idle curiosity. (My memory - or what’s left of it - works the same way. If I read something, I have a good chance of retaining it, but if someone tells me it just evaporates.)
It was hot. The SSLAWS ran slow. There was the usual chaos trying to get everything to the package cars(with the usual failure of course). Carmen is not starting, so now I get to figure if I need a battery, alternator, or starter. At least it’s martini night.
Do moths eat gold lamé?
Saw one today(blue, post 1973)
Good luck!
Got the Nursemobile back. It’s going to be a day or two until she can get the tire fixed. As I said, she’s going to use the Prius today. But, uh-oh… There’s a black plastic panel hanging down from behind/under the front bumper and it’s dragging on the ground. I put about four feet of zip-ties together and went around the hanging panel, up through the engine compartment, out from the hood, and around the bumper. I hope it will hold. But that’s another thing that needs to be repaired ASAP. 
The temperature has moderated greatly overnight, so I’ll be able to get some weeding in later, and maybe read in the hammock. But first, I will drive my lovely wife to her colonoscopy and spend some enjoyable time drinking coffee and reading nearby.
My day involves severely annoying both cats. They both have vet appointments, at separate times (we see no point in aggravating the matter by trying to juggle both carriers and agitated occupants at once). Buddy has a followup on how treatment’s going for an anemia problem he has (according to the lab, he’s a much sicker kitty than he seems to be aware of). Allie has a routine checkup and shots. I think it will be a good diplomatic move to be generous with the kitty treats today.
I have an eye appointment on Sunday, since my glasses are severely outdated. While we’re there, should probably schedule DH’s exam.
Also gotta remember to hit the library and pick up hold items.