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Friday night really brings the cray-cray.

We had … lessee ….

The guy wearing so much cologne someone inside the kitchen, ten feet from the window said, “I can taste it.” (I was AT the window, and nearly retched.)

Hint: I shouldn’t be able to smell you after you drove off.

There was the lovely asshole who blew cigarette smoke in my face, and then dropped his half-a-cigarette directly in front of the window, and drove off.

I looked down at it in utter dismay as the next guy was pulling up … he asked sweetly, “Ma’am, did you drop something?” I said, “No, but … “ and before I even finished explaining, he got out of his truck and stomped out that cigarette like it was the last cockroach on earth.

He did not have to ask for plates, napkins, etc. I hooked his ass UP cuz in that moment he was my new best friend.

Ah, and Sprinkles got kicked out of her home (!!) and camped out in the lobby while several people tried to figure a Plan B for her. She’s on disability and has a .. mentor? spokesperson? … I am unsure of the details, but regardless, it’s a shitty situation, but folks are stepping up for her.

I’m tired, imma have a smoke & find something to eat. This day was nutz … oh, and started with the plumbers at around 9 a.m. so I am just fried.

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Wow. I think my sister-in-law is getting to the point where she has to do something, because the copper system isn’t being maintained. We still don’t have fiber to the building, but it’s fairly close, so we’re good.

Yay!

We’ve had workers turn up at 7:00 am, which is when the end of quiet time (10pm - 7am). For this reason I always ask for the exact time, if they say they will come first thing in the morning.

A little bit of sanity in an insane evening. Hope you found something good to eat.

Why I am thinking about making garlic bread? It raining and cold, but by the time it’s evening, it’ll be sunny and warm (-er). [Texted hubby to ask his thoughts, and he texted back, “Yum”. And then he noticed that I said thoughts, which is plural so he wrote, “Yum yum”.]

Supposed to stop raining around noon, so we’ll have lunch and afternoon lattes before venturing out for groceries. I didn’t walk much yesterday due to overdoing it on Thursday, so I should do a bit today.

Nurse Boo, I took a pain reliever with breakfast. At the beginning I was taking both Acetaminophen and Metamizole (fun fact, it’s banned in many countries, but considered safe in the EU and CH), but now it’s just the Metamizole, as I ran out of the other one. And I don’t need both, as the pain is a lot less.

Hubby started laundry and he’ll do another load this afternoon or tomorrow. Or both. Lunch is stuffed shells from the freezer. Dinner will be salad with garlic bread. Maybe there’s some decent cherry tomatoes to be had at the store.

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Looks like fun!

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. It’s my Firday!

< laughs in 60lbs. JRT >

Because you’re an adult and can have garlic bread anytime you want?

I’d saye so. Hope Sprinkles finds a place.

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Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 10c/49f with a predicted high of 15c/59f and cloudy. Weather app says “Fuck you, clouds.” Yes, it’s cloudy out there but not cold, just how I like it.

I hope you feel better today, and I’m glad the doc is pleased with your progress!

Is that like a score of 100% on the RDOS scale?

A tiara would be much more suited to our Blepharitis Order, that’s for sure. I hope the dentist can make your mouth feel better quickly.

Cherry is the same (maybe it’s a tuxedo trait!), she headbutts my hand when she wants more fuss, then she’ll turn round and bite me. Too much fuss, not enough fuss, the wrong kind of fuss….at least with Muffin I know that any kind of fuss will result in her biting me.

Safe travels, and have fun! It’s good to know that your lovely wife will have good company while you’re gone and you won’t have to worry about her being lonely without you :slight_smile:

I understand that one, it is hard and I don’t think we ever really forget any of our four-legged friends, you just somehow get used to the difference.

Nuts is there a local café or bakery that she likes? Maybe they can do a gift voucher of some sort for her?

Thank you :slight_smile: Mostly we’ve left her in one room, talked to her a lot, made sure she has plenty of food and treats, and I’ve tried very hard to give her some fuss so she doesn’t feel neglected. It’s taken nearly six months to get this far, but I’m hoping we’re very slowly turning a corner with her and we can look forward to rehoming her in the not too distant future.

Yay! Good to have you properly back with us!

That sounds like a very rough day, I hope you get some sleep and some Monkey snuggles.

Yesterday was pleasant, I wasn’t working so that was a bonus, and I got to do the things I needed to do. Today I’m up reasonably early but not at the gym as I’ve got the hairdresser at 10am, then home for lunch, and out at a music festival for the rest of the day. Eight bands today, and another eight tomorrow so that will be fun. Some of our friends are coming from other parts of the country so it will be good to catch up with them, and I’m looking forward to a fun day out. Better finish my cup of tea, I have to be out of the house in 20 minutes!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 84 with some early mornin’ rain and then a mostly sunny afternoon. As I mentioned already, we shall be bears who lunch at our favorite Mexican place and might have a ramble afterwards. The rest of the day will be spent in RDOS Inactivities as is our wont. My DAWGS play Alabammy at seven-thirty tonight. The probability that I will need extra speshul sooper sekrete confession and penance tomorrow is high.

JtC glad you have returned.

shoe hope Sprinkles got her livin’ situation sorted.

BooFae have a fun day out!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I suppose I must purtify myself and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed.

Happy Sattidy Y’all!

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Love bites??

Daughter toured Kent State with her bestie, and posted this in her FB feed:
I do love a college campus! One question though, when did infants start attending college? I have the same reaction when I see the young sailors around the Naval Air Station here.

We’ll be heading to the boat in an hour or so. FCD figures he’s saving us several thousand $$$ by doing all this work himself. I also suspect that he doesn’t trust them to do things exactly the way he wants. The day he worked with the guys, he said they were more seat-of-the-pants than follow-what-the-drawing-show. And I think, despite the aches and pains, he does like DIY. Anyway, I’m the official tool-and-part fetcher, a role at which I excel.

I’ve decided that dinner tomorrow, when Daughter comes to fetch her spawn, will be ham, cabbage-n-onions, corn, and maybe buttered noodles. And grapes, of course, for Tobias. So a relatively easy meal. Just hope Daughter gets here at a decent time. Supposedly she’s going to leave first thing in the morning. We shall see.

OK, a bit more to read before I shower and dress. Rain promised for the next few days - fingers crossed.

Happy Saturday!!

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Both.

Yay!

Awww…

I attended there for 1 1/2 years. I surely was an infant then as well.

Annie and I have been up since around 3 when there were sirens on their way to somewhere. I’ve been working on school stuff for a couple of hours and now decided that it’s time for a bit of a break. I have to call some parents today and obviously it’s too early to do that. I also found that due to our policies of rejecting some paperwork for x and y reasons that I’ve got about 5 more IEPs added to the month of October. Oh, and I’ve got one that I must write this weekend that is for later in this coming week.

But, I must share with you the thing that makes me feel (well, at least for a few days) like I have possibly seen it all. One of the contact emails for a student’s responsible adult person started out something like this: 1b@dmuthrfkkr. Now it wasn’t exactly like that, but more to the point and something that I obviously don’t want to completely and correctly recreate here. But I’m certain that you get the point. In all my teaching days I’ve never seen something like that.

So anyways… Now I’m just waiting for MusicMan to get up and we’ll see what he wants to do today.

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That’s so silly.

Here in Japan, all the ticket gates are now automated so you need a ticket or pass to get into the station.

Back when I was first working in Tokyo, they had a bunch of people at the gates with hole punches and if you had a ticket and not a month pass, then you would give the ticket to the guy (always men) and they would punch it have give it back. As this was Tokyo there were hundreds of people trying to get through the gates as quickly as possible.

The way to scam the system was to buy 10 ride tickets which didn’t have the dates printed and then hope that they didn’t catch you. Or, if you had a long commute, then buy these tickets from the closest station.

It all wasn’t really worth the hassle.

Yeah, because they all know it’s a game.

I read a lot about WWII, and the transition from the peacetime army and the war time one was a shock for most of the people.

One of reasons that America was so unprepared was that the flag officers were playing the game instead of getting ready.

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I went over and helped at my friend’s place. His family seems to be holding up, although I don’t know how they are when people aren’t around. It looks like the store will be finished pretty soon.

Classes went well today. It does take a lot of energy at times, though.

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This will be shorter than usual. I wrote a long post on Thursday but didn’t hit Reply, and now it’s mostly irrelevant. I got my flu shot yesterday. Usually I have no issues. This time mild flu-like symptoms seem to have triggered the lupus crud, as the joints in my hands and feet are pretty painful. I considered taking the devil’s drug (prednisone), but am worried it’d make the vaccine less effective.

Will reply more when my body calms down. Have read all and am sending hugs.

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Hugs for what was a f@#ked up night. I hope that Sprinkles is able to be rehomed soonest.

Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. On today’s agenda is doing a load of towels, then the usual RDOS stuff.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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We’ve tidied so I’m in tool-handing mode. It’s overcast and drizzly, so very quiet in the marina. Mostly lazy for me unless I need to fetch a tool.

Good times.

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No, we’re sending hugs to {{{{{{{you}}}}}}}! Good gracious, girl, I hope that settles down by the time you read this. Try to keep the thought that “this too shall pass”-my experience is that most vax aches and ickies do in about 12 hours. My doctor kid always tells me it’s ok to take acetaminophen just before the poke and afterwards-he does. This last Covid vax a week ago I didn’t even need any more after. We’ll see about the flu vax in October. I’m trying to keep a good thought about it since I’m not hearing many scuttlebutt complaints about this year’s version from folks who’ve already gotten it. My three grandchildren are getting it today in a drive-through clinic that their pediatricians do in their parking lot. Kids are buckled in their car seat, pull up, nurse reaches in and “done!!!”.

I do need to say though, you haven’t lived til you’ve shepherded an ADHD, highly gifted (they can come up some very poignant arguments against), autistic 8 year old through injections. Her mom has promised her a whole box of lemonheads if she doesn’t lean over and bite the nurse, I’ve promised her a trip to Hurt’s doughnuts. Harriet is a brave girl and so are we, to say nothing of the nurse.

Now I’m off to pay huge bucks to have my gums and teeth beat up (and I won’t even get a sticker-my new dentist is a poopy head if you’re a grownup).

At least I got to start my day off with all of you.

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Started Typing: 11:10 AM ET
Clicked Reply: 12:06 PM ET

This morning I did a little rearranging in the home office to better accomodate the Atari cart, and am pleased with the results. Then I electronically deposited the tax rebate from Virginia, and added the paper check to the envelope that stores all of my e-deposits. My credit union directs us to keep them for a certain amount of time, but I figure I’ll hang onto all of 'em until they start getting in my way. Just in case of…something.

I slept well/long enough, but am feeling kind of blargh-y. Meh. The weather might not be helping: it’s only 73°F, but overcast with rain expected to start soon and continue through the night. I have no plans today, so I can be cozy on my couch while watching the rain fall.

I’ll read for a few hours before jumping into today’s television watching: I’ll be having leftover pizza for lunch, because I can eat it with one hand (while holding my Kindle in the other). :smiley: When I’m ready to put the book down I’ll have a couple of new show episodes to watch, plus I recently started re-watching The Wire and I’m looking forward to getting back to that (I’m near the end of S1: two more episodes, then it’ll be time for S2’s dock workers).

:tada: !

At her healthiest, Bailey weighed around 48 pounds. I always thought she was the perfect size: I didn’t want a small dog, but I wanted to be able to pick her up if needed. I have an affinity for bigger dogs, though, and whenever the time comes I might go for a 3-pack of Labrador retrievers (one in each color). :grin:

:frowning: !

The hardest part right now is that whenever I’m sad/tired/stressed I just want to be home, but she was a massive part of “home”…including that I’d never lived in this particular house without her…so I have no true refuge at the moment (close, but not really). I do know that eventually I’ll adjust, though. I’m also starting to feel lonely, but it’s a weird kind of loneliness: I don’t actually want another person or animal around. I guess I simply really miss my girl. :slight_smile:

Ugh! I hope you feel better soon! :people_hugging:

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:people_hugging:

We’ve been to the dog park. After about 15 minutes she decided it was time to go. It was a good 15 minutes, lots of sprinting around, sniffing other pups, saying hi to people, made friends with an enormous Grate Dane, but then it became a bit too much, so she ran to the gate and was trying to open it.

Then a trip to the museum to grab some of my tools to do a job here at home. I was going to rent a carpet cleaner, but forgot while I was at the grocery store…I’ll do that tomorrow. Now time to mow the lawn. It actually rained here for the first time in weeks, so the damn lawn grew. It had been a drought for most of August and Sept until this week.

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Hugs, Nellie.

I’ve been awake for something like 48 hours, so I’m going to sleep in my tiny hostel room in Spain now.

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Break time. After a breakfast burrito, I washed the egg pan and spatula (turner), put the few dirty dishes that were in the sink into the dishwasher; cleaned the stove, drip pans, and range hood; the counters, the toaster and the can opener; the knife block, and the sink(s). I took out the trash and changed the bag. I almost ran into an orb weaver that was making its web at the top of the front door. It took a couple of tries, but I got it down and onto the walk, where it started ambling toward the lawn. Mrs. L.A. emptied the vacuum canister, and managed to get dust on top of the trash can lid. I dampened some paper towels (I was just coming out of the back bedroom with a new roll) and wiped it down for her. Then she had to vacuum in front of the trash can again. I’ve cleaned off the coffee table a bit. Needs more; but as I said, it’s break time.

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Another bluebird day in MSP.

Savory oatmeal for breakfast and then yet another trip to the local grocery.

The niece is coming over on Monday for a visit. She’s been in a funk since a fellow nurse died in an accident with her brand new motorcycle. Forty-four years old, lost control and slammed into oncoming traffic. I have to wonder if she was an experienced rider or if this was a mid-life purchase.

A swap event starts next week, so a chance to get rid of some things. Not nearly enough, of course, but it’s a start.

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I’m awake in the middle of the night. Restless.

Fortunately, nothing is scheduled for tomorrow. SenWife needed the family chariot and the ligistics didn’t work out to get SenBoy sailing.

Recently, he has really gotten into futsal, and I wouldn’t mind if he switches sports. The commmitment from me would drop down so much more.

He also stopped violin, which I can understand.

Kids do way too much these days.

I used to ride a lot and have thought about buying a bike again. SenWife isn’t thrilled.

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So I was loading 100 Bottom Rd and Middle Yellow, 8 cars, and a bunch of heavy bulk orders. My legs are sore. I had some Amazon overgoods, which is not unusual. I was a hammock, had the Amazon SKU tag, and the Fulfillment Center bar code, but instead of the expected box, it was in a yellow Amazon branded plastic shopping bag. :thinking: I got out and noonish. Laundry just went into the dryer, I shall go into naptime before college handegg.

I was watching the hockey game last night, and they show some girl drinking a Miller Lite, and I thought “So the drinking age in Tampa is 12?”

“I no longer fear Eternal Torment, for I have had 20 IEPs and meeting is a month.”

You teching one of Samuel L. Jackson’s kids.

{{{{nellie}}}}

{{{{Oopsie}}}}

Well, pretty soon he’ll be more interested in sax. :wink: