Well, it’s VERY expensive to do the full tour from St. Paul to New Orleans. As in $20K each on Viking, which doesn’t include air fare back home. That’s for 15 days, all inclusive, including a bunch of guided tours.
Well, soccer got cancelled, although Parks and Rec did a lousy job of telling everyone and I had to drive down to the park to find the gates locked. Lucky for me I had taken my phone along so I was able to message the parents, hopefully in time before they had left home. Have eaten my Ham-n-Cheesers and will shortly head over to the gym to work some of that off. Very windy outside, has cooled things down considerably here.
JtC, poor GG. Hope Jolene is making his day happier now, albeit she may still be drugged up some.
Cat Glove, glad they could treat the rash, that would scare the dickens out of me.
FCM, glad you can help with BIL, having you to intercede makes things go a little easier, I think (maybe not for you, however…).
rocky, regarding the frou-frou dining experience, if they ain’t got cheeseburgers, then deal me out!
cookie, that might be a little to rich for my blood; but will look for a shorter one for future travel.
Alrighty then, need to fold and store the undergarments and head over to the gym. All y’all take care.
Today is September 12, 2024. It is ten years to the day since my father was killed by an inattentive driver while he was riding his motorcycle. I don’t think I will ever stop being angry that nothing happened to the driver, we weren’t even told if he got a ticket. I wanted to bring a civil suit but mom couldn’t bear the stress so we didn’t do anything. I did get the satisfaction of sending a nasty letter to an ambulance chasing law firm, who sent us a book titled “How To Win a Lawsuit With Dignity”
Okay, now that I have vented I did have good stuff happening today. I have a quiche in the oven while making this entry. I went to the optometrist’s to pick up my new glasses. Did my monthly bookkeeping, which involves paying bills, balancing my accounts and so on. I’m still eating lightly after the reunion last weekend, in which I went WAY off my diet. My day started with a bad headache but by about 10:00 AM I was much better, Kind of strange, in the last few years I hardly ever have headaches.
For those eating fancy places there aren’t too many like that in town, but there is great food. Great beer too, we have three fine microbrewery/restaurants. Kansas is centrally located I have been thinking, we need a Dopefest. There hasn’t been a big one I’ve heard about in quite a while.
The family reunion was fun. It is held the second Sunday in September each year and started in 1960. It is the family of my maternal grandfather, so my name is different, but we have the fifth generation attending now. The little baby attending was born in April and is the great-great-granddaughter of the original brothers. Their parents were my great grandparents. I would have been five going on six when it began, now I’m almost seventy.
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laundry done, kitchen floor mopped. dinner was leftover turkey loaf, sweet potato for me, petite gold potatoes for Hubs, asparagus, salad for me, same for Hubs but sans lettuce since I’m not about to put lettuce through the vinegar solution process, brownies for dessert.
That looks like the sort of thing I’d do for Mom. Once. I did take my dad to Spamoramas after all.
I hope you make good memories.
Thank you. I actually used my phone to make talk to someone and called the gym and asked. Swim caps are always welcome but never mandatory.
Oh that poor man. I hope he gets some good news soon.
The orange cream cider is OK. It’s not horrible sweet but it mostly tastes like orange soda. I won’t throw it out, but I also won’t buy more.
He doesn’t recognize her. I don’t know if it is because of her fashionable soft e-collar or because she smells funny, but he’s been hiding from her. the poor girl would probably feel so much better snuggled up with him.
Grrrr at them for wasting people’s time.
I remember how much work it took to get my father good meals when his diet was terribly medically restricted. I hope your husband didn’t miss the lettuce too much.
Baker, I’m so sorry.
That is a really cute look for Jolene. The yellow looks very nice with her fur colour. Hopefully all goes well with her recovery.
Womens Fellowship had some bible verses, prays, and trivia.
Also strawberries and watermelon.
I am wondering if I could eat an entire watermelon in one go.
I think I could!
Send watermelons to suntanlotion via straight dope!
ETA: not counting the rind.
I know there are a few other companies that offer river cruises - no clue what the prices are, but it might be worth investigating. Viking is pretty close to the top of the heap.
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I’ve spent much of the evening trying to diplomatically tell MIL that neither my daughter, nor my granddaughter (???) could fit in or are even interested in her unneeded clothing. First of all, apart from being clothes that appeal to a senior citizen, MIL wears petite. Daughter is 5’7", and while Roxy is still under 5’, she’s 6, fercryinoutloud! And pencil thin. There’s absolutely nothing suitable for her.
The thing is, MIL bought better quality clothing and she hates to just send any of it to a thrift store. OK, maybe that jacket came from Dillard’s, but it’s no longer worth whatever you paid for it, and it doesn’t fit you, and personally, I think it’s kinda ugly, not that my opinion means anything here. And while I won’t say it, when she’s dead, everything will go to the thrift store. I’m not being cold - I’m just not maintaining a shrine in the closet.
Her dreams are getting out of control. This afternoon, she leapt up out of a dream thinking FCD was crying out in pain after a fall. He was, in fact, asleep in our bedroom, and I told her. But she had to go back there twice to be sure. She also had a dream that someone stole Higgs, and that upset her. There’s nothing we can do about these dreams - the nurse said they’re a part of the process of dying. Just another little stressor to add to the pile.
Anybody want a quilted vest with a sticky zipper - men’s size Large? It’ll sit here till it goes to the thrift store, I’m sure.
I should have bought some amaretto last week, dammit.
My mother used to like Black Diamond watermelons. They are big enough for two, and she would use the thick rind to make pickles with. The pickles were very sweet and a chunk was like eating a piece of candy.
Cruises that only have ports in one country are more expensive. That’s why many still start Hawaii cruises in Canada or add Kiribati to a Hawaii-based trip. We’ve never cruised the Mississippi because we usually look for discounted itineraries. We’d love to, though.
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Prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, olive oil, kosher salt, and Italian seasoning for dinner tonight. Mrs. L.A. ate half of hers. I get the other half for lunch tomorrow! 
As long as I’ve had that much awareness of professional-grade power tools, I’ve considered DeWalt and Milwaukee to be equals. At one time, I thought that Makita was supposed to be on the same scale of quality as DeWalt and Milwaukee, but then I had an occasion to actually use a few Makita tools, which quickly disabused me to that premise.
Ryobi, of course, is widely considered to be crap, and my experiences with them have been entirely consistent with that. Perhaps that’s not really fair, to insult things that truly rise to the level of being crap, by likening them to Ryobi tools. They’re basically “professional-grade”, heavier-duty than tools meant for home use, but still, very low quality.
Up from naptime. I had a Jungle Bird, and since it’s Smoked Paprika chicken night, the smoke detector and I are yelling at each other. And I’m watching Miami not know how to fottball tonight.
That would pair well with this:
Indeed.
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Maybe he thinks she’s a flower?
It might be worth it. Depends on how much looting of monasteries do you get to do on the stops.
I think that OYKW and I would get along. I love dogs with all that stuff piled on them. There have been two dog places in town but sadly both bit the dust. To me it always seems that dogs from a dog place are better than the ones I do myself.
I keep coming back to what I said about the family reunion. Don’t know how many people are into genealogy. but my sister is so good at keeping documents organized. I asked her to use her tree program to list all our direct known ancestors, Up to our great-great grandparents we know all sixteen. Of the three great grandparents we know twenty six out of thirty two. And some single lines go way back. I had one seven greats grandparents who came to this side of the Atlantic in 1722. Another line goes back to the 1600’s. it’s ten greats. I once communicated by email with a couple who are descended from that couple who arrived in 1722, but that guy and his wife are the only common relative. We calculated we are seventh cousins once removed. I’m not surprised the name is still around, as from what I learned the first two or three generations bred like rabbits, spreading all over the place. I love the story about the guy who was courtmartialed during the Revolutionary War. He didn’t want to fight along with Lafayetter’s Catholic auxiliaries. But they let him back in when they needed soldiers so badly.
And it’s late evening, back from a night visit to the gym for some sweating, and there is a little rain in the air. Will be heading off to bed soon as the tackleball game is over (watching it on Amazon Prime). Temperature is in the 60’s already, so should be a comfortable night.
{{{{Cupcakes}}}}. So sorry you couldn’t get some closure for your tragic loss. And if we can’t splurge now and then on our diets, then we are but slaves to the numbers, and I do not hold with that…so I too occasionally misbehave… And a dopefest in Kansas,hmmmmm… And I’m a minimalist when it comes to hot dogs, cheese and pickles are all I need.
JtC, hopefully GG will be more accepting tomorrow, poor fellow has had to exercise all three of his brain cells. And I think Jolene’s collar is quite fetching.
Coppertone, here’s hoping that one day you get to try the entire watermelon meal.
And the tackleball is done and so is my energy, so off to bed I go. Catch y’all tomorrow.
But there is always beer. You should try the Norseman Brewery here in Topeka. If we had a gathering on a Tuesday we could be a team in their weekly trivia game.