Might want to read up on that. It’s often just a bullshit way to part you with your money.
Back from the store (my usual Moanday shopping is bread, buns, lettuce, tomatoes, bag O’salad, bananas and milk). No milk today, had enough for most of the week, but got the rest along with the Monday NY Times. Jersey Mike’s provided the first Meal and I used my points to get the sammich for free. Now just waiting for digestion to conclude before heading over to the gym and getting the swimming and sauna portion of the day in. There is a soccer meeting this evening after I finish practice with the U12 boys, so dinner will be late. Temperature is over 82F so the AC is now in operation.
Pilot, still not sure where you are after your account (you seem to transition from one day to another to fast for my old brain) but hope the final day is not to problematic.
Shoe, not sure what a ‘deep cleaning’ is, my dental plan pays for a ‘routine’ cleaning every 6 months. Hope they clear up the issues and you can get back to normal dentistry. PS–Just saw cookies note, I concur.
BBBoo, hope the shots don’t hurt much.
Frankly, the picture in my mind of you doing zoomies is…disturbing… 
Well, thank the Lord, at least no full frontal nudity!!
Cookie, hope you and the feline both do well.
OK, need to concentrate on the planned swimming and sauna. All y’all take care.
last year I went on a camping trip to Porcupine Mountains sate Park (Michigan U.P. ) At my campsite and on my long hike there was some color but noting great (some nice Lake Superior views though) But on the next day I did some shorter hikes and there I saw peak (or near peak) color – descriptions and even photographs don’t do it justice. Lake of the Clouds is pretty normally but during fall - WOW.
So, I didn’t go purely for leaf peeping (as I can see some pretty good stuff near me), but it was certainly a factor in my trip. Fall is a good time for hiking as the temps are generally good. Eraly you have color an later on the trees don’t block the view.
Brian
That’s what the dentist was saying, that this should be a one-time procedure to get my gums back to health.
I do understand your concerns, but again, not having had an iota of dentistry besides my own brushing for years, I didn’t expect good oral health.
Hell, I’m happy over the no new cavities thing.
hurray for the no cavities! that is good stuff.
pilot, i hope you have a ______ last day ( i don’t want to jinx it, so will leave it blank).
back to the office today, and the pile up on my desk.
Easy to get confused. It gets me confused sometimes too.
Real actual flesh-and-blood me snuck home on Sun afternoon and have been enjoying playing hookie and doing de facto retirement ever since. My actual employment ends Tue night and I awaken on Wed as a retiree.
Meantime, HQ mistakenly thinks I’m still out there on the road right now and they are slowly making ever-changing arrangements to wend administrative me home. With decent luck, on paper I’ll get done irking around 5pm tonight Mon. But it still might be later than that 
It took me 35 years to learn this, but doing irk as an out-of-body experience watching somebody else who looks like you struggling with all that BS is great! 
Wish I’d thought of that years ago. 
Nor dribbling poop. Never forget the dribbling poop.
Leaf-peeping: having grown up in So Cal and lived in the season-free part of the world until age 35ish, seasons still feel like some weird recent (and drawback-ridden) invention. Leaves mostly neither turn nor drop. All the iconography of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas feels like something artificial and imported, akin to watching some ancient cultural tradition from e.g. Thailand. Pretty enough, and full of meaning to somebody. Just not to me.
I lived in a fully seasonal climate from age 35-55, and traveled extensively around in one from age 28 until yesterday. So pretty colored leaves are certainly pretty to watch. It was fun to fly over the northeast in the fall and watch the progress from bright green to green-apple green to yellow to brown to gone, with some stopovers in red. Sometimes all in one flight if we were going far enough north / south. And fun to watch the progression each year as first Boston gets it, then NYC, then DC & Chicago, etc.
When we lived in Missouri on the edge of ruralia we’d often take a drive or two in the fall to enjoy the foliage out in the forested areas. We lived in a pretty leafy suburb then, so our own trees added to the show. Some years not much, other years pretty spectacular.
Can’t say as I’d make a point of traveling now to e.g. New England to see it. Color me spoiled, but getting the colors, the lighting, the clouds, etc., just right is so rare that high quality photos outshine the real experience.
Now, having lived again in the season-free part of the world for a decade and now just this week stopping routine travel to the Frozen Nort Country, I’m thinking I won’t see too many more red trees in my future. Never say never.
Except after he demands to be seated on the potty, then washes his hands, he makes a bare-butt dash thru the house, laughing like a lunatic! Then he runs to me and gets diapered again. The kid is endlessly entertaining.
Back from WalMart, having gotten everything on my list and a few more things, but forgetting a hair clip again, dammit! I stopped by a local farm store and got some monster 'maters and some spuds and sweet spuds, but their cukes were sad looking and they didn’t have any corn, alas.
I think I need to sit for a while.
Loud applause, good job on the weight gain and t-levels, may he enjoy many more happy years with you.
Thanks shoe and pilot for reassuring me about my accommodations. I used google earth to look at the area but that doesn’t really show that much. I can’t imagine that the eclipse is going to bring a rowdy crowd, so all will be good. I’m getting pretty excited about it.
We don’t have colored leaves to peep at, but if we did I would totally be up for a day trip to look at them. We do a couple of day trips to look at the desert bloom every year, why not leaves?
The nursery called this morning and said they could plant my trees tomorrow, so I’m excited about that too. Mulberries don’t change color and they tend to drop their leaves at once which means I won’t be constantly raking.
Sorry for mouth-ouches.
Local leaf walks, yes. Sometimes a regional drive. No specific vacations planned around it, though New England can be spectacular. I do hope someday to see the cherry blossoms in Japan. Even DC in they’re pretty great.
Spot zoomies in her birthday suit. Will you? 
We got a phone call at 2330 Saturday night, waking us both from a very sound sleep. My older daughter called and said “She’s OK but we are on the way to the emergency room, meet us there!” The ER is less than a mile from here so we got there pretty quickly
My girls were at their usual bar. They went out the back door to smoke and a friend of theirs was with them. The friend tripped on the step. My younger daughter tried to keep the other girl from falling and they both ended up on the pavement. The other girl was uninjured but my daughter fell face first and slid a bit on the pavement. Her left eye is swollen shut and she has six stitches in a cut that curves around her eye, as well as a lot of scrape marks on the side of her face. The eye itself is not injured and nothing is broken.
It looks bad and it may leave a permanent scar. She is handling it well, but I am sure that deep down she is really upset.
On Saturday, I ordered a charging dock for MIL’s phone. USPS said it would be here in 2-3 business days. It was delivered today. I just looked up the tracking number - it said we should get it by 7PM on Thursday… 
Supper was a bit early and quite good. The rest of the night is for chillage. I did roll-suck up about 2 cats-worth of cat hair and I emptied the dishwasher, so I wasn’t a total slug today. Almost but not quite. Still, I earned my chillage.
I’m glad she’s sufficiently okay. Scary!
Yay on the good news about your kitteh BooFae!
I’m glad your daughter and her friend weren’t injured worse, hippy. I hope that there are no permanent scars.
SIL and I usually do a leaf peeping day trip up the Cumberland Plateau or a bit further to the mountains. A lot of times, we do this in the spring too to see the greening up and flowering trees.
Irked, came home, walked Nelson and et. Now for KP and playing around in the studio.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Howdy Y’all! Doc says I am still alive and breathin’, just as I suspected. I suppose it’s good to get confirmation one is not, in fact, a zombie or some such. I got my flu stab, and set an appointment (Sept. 29th at eight-thirty a.m., for those keepin’ score) for my first shingles vaccine stab. I have an appointment tomorrow mornin’ with the other doc I see for some other stuff and will discuss the rsv vaccine with her as I trust her opinion and guidance with that. I was told the covid stab would be available toward the end of the month. After I left the doc I stopped at the sto’ and bought some collard greens, as one does after a visit to their PCP. I cleaned the greens, then nappage was achieved. Sloth then ensued until time to put sup together and get it et up. Now sloth has resumed.
BooFae yay on the good news about Shadow!
MOOOOOOM maybe the Tobester sees himself as a stripper for a possible future career.
Pilot I am findin’ the saga of your return home from Newark ever so fascinatin’! Can’t wait to find out when you’ll arrive home. If you see yourself comin’ in the door, please post about it immediately!
Hippie YIKES! glad nothin’ was broken and that the eye was not injured, but I would imagine your daughter is a might traumatized. Hope she’s feelin’ better soonest.
Just another example of smoking being bad for her health.
I’m really glad her eye wasn’t damaged and I hope the scaring is minimal. She needs to think up a good story about how it happened, EVERYONE is going to think she was abused by her partner and whisper behind her back. The good story won’t stop the whispers but it will give her a chuckle.
(I know about the whispers because I once had a 20 lb cat fall on my face and I looked VERY dramatic for a while.)
Gosh, I always stop at the booze sto after getting my shots. Am I doing this wrong?
So, we went out to put spikes in the ground where I want my new trees and hubs decided he didn’t want one of the front yard trees where I wanted it, but I’m planting for shade and his suggestion won’t help the sun against the front of the house. That tree will be planted on the west side of our house instead. We don’t have windows on the east or west sides of our home so I won’t be able to admire it from inside, but it will shade his bike barn and the west side of our house from the afternoon sun.
I’m really looking forward to seeing how our yard looks in five years and I know the back porch will be cooler.
As long as your wallet had money in it as the doc suspected. 
Good to know your warrantee has been renewed for another year!
I made it! I made it! I saw me come in and now our mirror universe personas are once again merged. We are sooo relieved!
HQ’s fantasy version of me did get on the late afternoon Mon flight as re-re-re-planned from when I left home on Sat. They only left 4 minutes late! And got to Miami only 18 minutes late. Mirror-me was turned loose for the last time to pay his parking lot fees and drive home in triumph. Mirror-me got home about 6:15. So about 24 hours after real me did. Still having accomplished exactly zero of any value to his (or my) employer.
I hadn’t realized quite how handsome and cool of a dude he was until I saw him standin’ over there. 
Back to semi-serious:
A sorta-busy afternoon here.
Laundry was done, car was fueled and washed, a gas station roller dawg was lunched, and the CVS & the Pubic was visited. Meanwhile Her Ladyship attended a book club event and also pubic sto’-ed.
Otherwise 'twas reading & general slothage with intent to dawdle.
A light dinner is next, perchance with a cocktail. First thing tomorrow ought to be beach.
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. I was walking down a sidewalk, looking at street numbers so I could find the place I was going to, when BAM, I did a hard bellyflop. I hadn’t noticed uneven pavement. I was lying there trying to convince myself I was fine when a very kind woman stopped, helped me up, and offered to run me to the ER. I found I could walk, so I thanked her profusely and went on my way. A few steps later I thought to check my knee and realized why she’d offered: part of the incision had opened, and blood was running down my shin. Oops. I took an Uber to the ortho clinic. (I pressed my hand on my knee so I didn’t panic the driver or bleed on his car.) I needed a few stitches, but the bones are fine.
My knee is yelling at me, and I don’t blame it. How many times have the docs warned me about falling? On the bright side, I don’t have to worry about no PT: I can’t have it until I heal.
I understand leaf tourism. I grew up on a block with cathedral elms, and they were lovely in fall, but you really need to see a vast herd of trees to get the full effect, so we went to Morton’s Arboretum. I’ll always remember my mother gazing out the car window with tears running down her cheeks, overwhelmed by the beauty. When my husband and I lived in Massachusetts, Mom and Dad came one October to visit, and we drove into the Berkshires. No tears this time, but Mom said, “Oh, for a bit of concrete so I could rest my eyes!”
October is my favorite month. We had only one lone tree on our 5-acre lot in WY, so I’d drive my daughter into town so we could go leaf-scuffling. Now we send each other videos of our separate leaf-scuffling adventures. I’m so grateful to live where there are so many gorgeous trees!
BooFae, hooray on the great lab results! Give him some scritches from this internet stranger, please.
Swampy, you know I’d never judge you (Well, I do, but always as a good man bear.), but what brand of boxed lasagna do you like? I’ve never bought any due to Italian guilt, but I don’t want to make some for scratch just for myself.
Isn’t Spot still using it?
pilot, maybe the screwed-up flight stuff were fate’s way of making retirement even more welcome. Her Ladyship must be thrilled!
shoe, sorry about the deep cleaning woes, physical and 
I know some unethical dentists do them too often, but that’s not the case for you. You’re so smart to get those gums taken care of! If I were Queen of the World, everyone would get good dental care for free. Of course, traffic would get permanently tangled because I know nothing about urban planning, but at least we’d snarl at each other with healthy chompers.
hippie, yikes on your poor daughter’s injury! I’m so sorry she got hurt, and while helping someone else! That warrants a medal.
Boo, sorry about the ouchie shots. I’d buy you a nice cocktail if I were there as a better reward than a sucker.
There’s a whole lot more I’d respond to, but your scrolling fingers must be cramping, plus I’m going to cave and take a pain pill.
Almost all of her friends also know me. Had this been a partner it would have been all over the news.
Improvised shrimp po’ boy tonight. (For a certain value of ‘tonight’.) Trader Joe’s Shrimp Seafood burgers (90 kilocalories and 1 gram carbohydrate each), Sara Lee Delightful Multi-Grain bread (90 kilocalories and 19 g carbohydrates, less 5 g dietary fibre for two slices), mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, and Tabasco. Not bad for improv. Also a pickle (0 kilocalories and 0 (or 0.5) g carbohydrate).