And I’m glad you may be getting somewhere with your knee travails.
You haven’t missed all of my dates with eye surgery destiny~that was just the first eye, my left. A week from today my right eye will go under the knife. Root canals hurt a lot more and I’ve got one of those coming up in 5 days. Tuesday root canal, Thursday eye surgery. I should try to file my 2024 taxes on Wednesday just for fun.
That sounds like a painful week.
Schedule some joy in there somehow.
That sounds like good advice for every day.
Happy Birthday FCM!
Just before Christmas, my oven decided to stop working. Called a service person, who investigated it, and couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Took it with him and brought it back yesterday. What was wrong? It seems that nothing was wrong. When he took it back to the shop, he plugged the oven in. It worked. He disconnected the power and connected it, and the oven worked. He had done the same when the oven was here, so no idea.
I’ll try something this weekend. I had been planning to make pizza, but maybe I’ll try something simpler, like melted cheese on toast. Because I can do that on the stove, if the oven decides to misbehave again.
Thanks, everyone who liked my pillow! I’m so excited about it.
The rest of the day, however, has been very blah. I woke up around 3 this morning because a trip to the bathroom was necessary. Then I stayed up because several more trips were also needed. By the time MusicMan got up, there was no point in going back to bed. And when I tried to nap this afternoon, I woke up very angry from a dream that I didn’t remember. I was so angry that my arms and hands were hurting because my fists were clenched. And I was FREEZING COLD!!
The good news is that I actually spoke to a human secretary and the lawyer is supposed to call me back probably tomorrow to see if they will take my case since it is not the standard SSDI. And, I cleaned the floor!
Next up is leftovers for dinner including lasagna for MusicMan and crockpot chicken for me.
FCM, I hope that you guys have a safe trip back home!
I was also an early reader (am I sensing a similarity here among us??) My Mom took me down to the main library and signed the permission for my adult section card when I was in third or fourth grade. We lived within walking distance and I was there every few days.
I accidentally burned a bag of popcorn, so the house smells terribly but it’s too cold to open the windows and air things out. To add insult to injury, it was my last bag of popcorn. That seems about par for the course this week!
Afternoon all. About the only constructive things I have done is make some decisions on my 2025 investments with Edward Jones and send them off to my financial guy and eat a Big Bowl O’Sallit for mid-day meal. Thinking about going to the Park and Rec Center and using their track to get my walking in, but if I go it’ll be later. Trying to decide between BLT’s and Ham-n-Cheese for dinner (the other will get consumed tomorrow). It made it to the 40’s today, so a veritable heatwave here in N. Ali-bama.
I though March 14th was Pi Day? 
Lily, i think my one big reading was Shirer’'s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich when I was in 7th grade. That was my first 1,000-pager.
Sari, long as it was paid leave, it was kinda nice for the company to do that…IMHO. When I worked for the US Government we lost Annual Leave hours after we had ‘banked’ 249 hours, but the sick leave just kept accumulating. Forget how much I had when I retired but in was in the 4-digit range.
FCM, have a safe trip home.
Anytime I see MIA I think of the airport down in S. Florida. But sounds like your place is pretty cool too.
flyboy, yay for the no-COVID result.
talkie, glad you are out and about and taking good care of that knee.
BBBoo, that does not sound like a pleasant week…all I got is my dental cleaning on Tuesday.
Dicey, that is a puzzlement with the oven, hope it behaves itself from now on.
Sticky Buns, fingers crossed for the lawyer.
Signs point to yes
52, outside of overcooked fish in a microwave, few things smell as bad a burned popcorn. Hope that supplies are replenished soon.
And that’s all at the mid-day checkin; back tonight.
I’d start at the beginning, since the character development is there for the rest of the stories. I enjoyed most of them, although not the last one, which I felt went away from what made the series enjoyable.
I agree with both you~I’ll ditch the tax filing on Wednesday and drop back to just the root canal and eye surgery next week. I’m saving the last new episode of Outlander to stream when I come home from the root canal and I’ve laid in a stock of hearty Progresso soups and a bag of Miss T’s pierogis for that recovery. I have the latest new Patricia Cornwell in hand from the library to read then. After the eye surgery I’ll go directly to my daughter’s where a seven year old bundle of joy will be solicitous of me and we’ll have a sleepover in the basement for a night or two. There’s a 3 year old perpetual motion joy machine there too. I’ll stuff my robe pockets with dum dum lollipops to dispense with wild abandon, a la the Pied Piper of Hamlin. Dark chocolate for me in the other pocket.
My only puzzlement is how it took me SEVENTY YEARS to find you all.
Happy Burp-day, FCM!!
Another day at the museum. This seems to be going well. Just need them to hire me on full time once I finish the boat.
We had a tool for cutting small bits of moulding (is a word) that was kind of like a paper cutter. Ah, one of these. I was packing up to return home after an install and I went to pick it up. Did I grab the handle? No, dear reader, I did not. I grabbed it by the blade. Trip to the ER and for a partially severed tendon in my left middle finger and several stitches later. Got on the road for the 5 hour trip home much later than expected.
The finger still doesn’t work quite right. It’s fine for the most important use of a middle finger, but it doesn’t curl properly, some 20 years later.
Just popping in to say hi. Busy day, but I’m caught up on the posts. I think.
First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FCM! I’m awfully glad you got yourself borned. It should be a national holiday. We could celebrate by using coasters.
Boo, see if Harriet’s teacher will talk to the librarian, who is being ridiculous. Her rule is bad for every kid reading above grade level, and especially Harriet, who’s reading well above GL. My daughter was reading at the 9th grade level before first grade. The librarian let her read books at whatever grade level she wanted that they had. It’s not like an elementary library is going to stock Lady Chatterly’s Lover or The Story of O.
I applaud your rabble-rousing! (My daughter painted a sign for me that says, “Rouse Rabble.” Oh, she knows the stories.) Harriet is lucky to have a gramma who gets it and is willing to circumvent the Establishment. Power to the people!
That sounds like the Week from Hell. I bet you’d give your eyeteeth to skip it all.
Crap, gotta run.
Though I did learn some interesting words from those, but I was a bit older.
Meant to tell you earlier that my editorial specialty is removing commas.
Happy birthday, FCM!
Howdy Y’all! We did venture out to the Food Kitty for the rolls and went through the drive thru at Jack’s for bacon, aig and cheese bizkits because we could. The roads were pretty clear so there’s hope yet. More of the evil white stuff melted today, but there’s still a lot to go. We et the bizkits upon return to da cave and then I made the chikin sallit. Nappage, day drinkin’ and other RDOS inactivities took up the rest of the day. Thus is the news from swampland.
I’m feeling better this evening than I was earlier in the day. I did take a nap for about an hour around 14 o’clock.
Another early reader here. Libraries are my happy place. I loved all the bookstores I worked in. Shelving is my favourite thing. In an apocalypse I will be at the library.
I like the 000-300.
Also the 700s.
If I had more desk work space in my studio, I would definitely have one of those.
IDK, Brooks has some colorful options and they run wide.
Happy birthday Mooooooom!
I need a nap! I initially read this as weiner dogs on the way.
Yep, me too. My school librarian (we were rural enough not to have a town library, so it was school or the one at the county seat) allowed me to choose my books from anywhere in the library and take six at t time before I hit second grade.
TGIT!
Got all of the prep for the weekend’s cycle count for one of the inventory locations that I’m responsible for. It should hold no surprises; I’m short 2 phones (not bad for the amount of inventory that’s been through that location over the last 90 days). But I came home pretty tired.
It started out a little warmer today than it has the rest of the week and was almost warm enough for the dog park this afternoon. We’ll try for tomorrow or Saturday barring crap falling from the sky.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
I remember taking 12 books at a time as a kid from the free library. It is up to 20 items now. School library was 4.
Adults can take 50 items at the free library.
Wild times in phila…
I remember the story Spider Robinson told, how, at six years old, he got a kid’s section library card. When he found out there were Heinlein books in the adult section he forged a letter from his mother to get an A on his card. His mother saw one of his books and complained to the library, and was told “But we have your letter” Robinson didn’t say what happened then.
@JaneDoe42, is hubs still scheduled for his cardiac procedure tomorrow?
I’ve been thinking about you both as it approaches and am sending beau coup fiercely strong good karma your way.