(Old) Face Off Against Moanday: A Start Of Hockey MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hollering at @JaneDoe42

Heh. Well played.

Ah, but do the little darlings retain any of it?

Management (including **S.M.** ) was pissed.

Oh, well done, sir.

So, my morning started with a turkey parade right outside my bedroom window. Monkey and I were side-by-side watching, each of us with our respective chins on our paws/hands, fascinated.

Also, there was a squirrel, absolutely furious at this invasion, shaking his tail and yelling at approx. 15 turkeys who visibly didn’t give a flying fuck about this tiny chattering furball.

Best part was, someone was driving by, slowed to a creeping stop, rolled down his window, and yelled “GOBBLE GOBBLE!” and fifteen little heads simultaneously swiveled … there was a moment of tense stillness .. and then everyone went back to whatever they were doing (including, I’m sure, talking smack about the squirrel, who was having an absolute conniption at this point).

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Which invariably results in some pointy corner wedged in the armpit… “Hold it… hold it… and breathe…” Good times!

We just had a mini power burp. So glad I have a UPS so I didn’t lose my computer. I’ve lunched and repaired a piece of trim on the deck that has been driving me crazy for eons. Alas, it made me see that our deck is showing its 15 years and we’ll need to have it replaced before too much longer. And this time, we can’t do it ourselves - them 15 years have made a LOT of difference in our abilities for certain tasks. Or our willingness to take on certain tasks.

I’m about to head to the nursery to sign the contract for our landscaping. I need to read over the project proposal once again (I skimmed it the first time) and note any questions I have. Then I’ll give them a deposit and we wait. I haven’t done anything with iris, but I do know how to store them. So later today, or maybe tomorrow.

OK, off to Wentworth’s!

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purplehorseshoe,

Amazon.com: Between a Flock and a Hard Place: A Meg Langslow Mystery (Meg Langslow Mysteries, 35): 9781250894083: Andrews, Donna: Books

turkeys invade a neighbourhood, hijinx ensue.

i do have the drumstick slippers. the ones i found on saturday are full live turkey body. i’ll have to figue out the photo thing. they are rather fun. i did get a pair of scooby doo slippers at the pop up halloween store. fun times.

while the computer is much faster at the office…i have to redo all of the personations/shortcuts i had.

wild times.

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Added to cart. Thank you!

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Have been pacing the floor waiting for hockey season, well so far Preseason, and the Stars won Saturday! In overtime, in a shootout! Now that’s a return to hockey season with a vengeance. Baseball season has definitely not got us through the summer this year, with both local teams losing. And really, folks, hockey is not JUST hitting with sticks.

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it is surreal, usually i start the computer, go to the front desk, start the phones, check the fax, get a beverage, get back to my desk; where hopefully the computer is ready for me to click on things. i click on things, get breakfast and come back, then it might be ready to work.

today it was zippy, ready to click immediately. so very weird.

sad hockey news, bernie parent passed yest., great goalie, a really great good guy.

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I have never attended an organised sports game without being forced or paid to attend. I’m more at home with disorganised sports, but even then it’s a rare event.

OK, I’ve watched the odd world cup match down the pub with friends, but I was paying attention to the drinks and the gossip rather than the screen if at all possible; I guess I occasionally note a decent looking player…

The temperature dropped here last night, down to about 4C. I’m wondering when to cut my losses and bring in the green tomatoes in the polytunnel. It can’t be much longer.

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I took the bandage off of my hand this morning. It was doing OK through a few hand-washings, and then I forgot and dried my hands a little too vigorously. Pulled up a corner of the flap a little bit. So more triple antibiotic ointment, and another adhesive strip.

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Things got a little testy last year.

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You’re not wrong. First I have to fold them into their beds, then I can fold laundry on the couch without them constantly knocking over my stacks. Folding is a kind word for what is required to get them in the right bed and asleep. Herding cats or do fold, mutilate and spindle would be more accurate.

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Hollering at @JaneDoe42

Don’t forget my collegiate varsity letter in precisely that. The only other awards I earned were the various forms of probation: social and academic. To my credit I did each of those only once.

Noted. There’s also the screaming at opposing players.

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I missed this. GO STARS (one of the last vestiges of my DFW life.)

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The remainder of my birthday passed with an appropriate level of sloth. :grin:

I learned from a friend on FB that there was going to be an Earth, Wind & Fire special on CBS at 8pm, but it didn’t start until 8:20 so I watched the end of 60 Minutes for the first time in a bajillion years. Andersoon Cooper did a segment on monarch butterflies, which was oddly fitting: when I was born we were living in Carmel, CA, and one day a monarch landed on my stroller…my mom (who died almost 10 years ago) associated them with me from then on. I’m not the “OMG my mom was visiting me on my birthday!” type, but it did feel kind of appropriate to stumble across a report about monarchs. :slight_smile:

(Related story: I’ve collected Swarovski crystal since I was in high school, and shortly after Mom died I saw that they had a figurine of an angel holding a butterfly. I’m also not the angel type, but I had to get it!)

September. :grin: But yeah, so did I! Belated happy birthday!

I have my moments. :smiley:

In fact, here comes another one…

I believe the word you’re both thinking of is “maize.” :slight_smile:

Phew!

Ha! :joy:

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Swampy, as a proud Canuckian dog, I just gotta drop in here to say that hockey is not only the most exciting of all organized team sports, but it’s also probably the simplest regarding basic rules of play. Sure, there are lots of subtle nuances you can get into, but once you understand the basic offside rules and penalty calls, basic gameplay is just action-packed fun! :ice_hockey: If anyone is beaten with sticks or fists, that’s a bonus!

In comparison, I find baseball to be endlessly complicated and often slow-moving. Football I don’t understand at all. The limit of my knowledge of football is that for some reason the ball is shaped funny.

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I’ve found the house did suffer a casualty in the earthquake. The pilot light in the water heater went out. Or was extinguished by some anti-shaking detector. Which I figured out because I had to endure a lukewarm shower.

And now won’t relight. As is normal in CA, the water heater is attached to the walls by a couple of wide metal straps so it can’t fall over even if all the plumbing tears out. Which straps cleverly obscure the big sticker on the side of the tank which has the relighting instructions for this newfangled electronic controller. Sigh.

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I blame the celebratory glass of Tully!

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I did check, but upon checking again I see that it is a variant spelling. I thought my spell-check objected to making it a plural.

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First off, I are a idiot. I got my mammogram and Prolia injection appointments mixed up, so no squishing today, and I missed my injection. D’oh!

Second, and more important, my sister just called: they found the scammers! They’re in Florida, so her local LE is sending everything to the cops there. I hope the scammers are still there when the local cops come a-knockin’.

Can one of you wise people help me out with something? I read that Louisiana follows the federal laws re: debit cards, and according to the FDIC and other sites, when a debit card user is scammed, that person is only liable for $50 or the total of the charges, whichever is LESS. I found this on several other sites as well. Yet I’ve always understood that debit card fraud means your money is gone for good. Anyone know?

WOW! The coolest thing just happened! I heard a loud rustling sound, and when I looked at the balcony, a big bluejay was sitting on the railing. He hopped down, inspected the potted plants, and flew off, a vivid blue streak among the trees. :slight_smile:

Oopsie, that’s a wonderful anecdote about monarch butterflies. It’s a clear sign you were born to be a monarch (of the ruling variety). The mountain I hiked most often in Wyoming always had a lot of them on the summit in June. Once one of them flew next to me for a full quarter-mile. By then I considered us friends and wanted to add him to my Christmas card list. Another time, one landed on my backpack strap and hitched a ride for several minutes.

shoe, I LOVED the “Gobble! Gobble!” story! I’m still smiling over it.

I shall spoiler this mammogram anecdote for the squeamish: Once when I had suspicious calcifications (Not cancer. That happened later.), I had to have a mammogram during pre-op to mark them. They were way up and deep enough that the techs had to pull the pec muscle into the mammo machine. Yeow. Then they left me like that for 30 minutes until the radiologist could get there to read the images. By that time I was crying. They then stuck in a long needle to mark the spot and sent me–in my hospital gown with the needle poking through the fabric–to the waiting room. After that, a regular mammogram hasn’t seemed quite as awful.

Help! I can’t see!

Ugh. That was awful. :cry:

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I don’t think I’ve ever actually done this before, but…cite? I can find no source that lists “maise” as a variant spelling of “maize.”

Well, yes, it would – that would be like pluralizing “corn” (the vegetable/grain). Exactly like it, as a matter of fact. :smiley: But “maizes” is what would make the joke work.

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It came up on AI Overview. When I put it in now, I get a different AI Overview.