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I hope it was especially raunchy fanfic. At least then you’d have an excuse for ignoring us all these recent days. The usual illiterate glurgy stuff just don’t cut it. :grin:

@JaneDoe42 just above:

Damn hon, that’s rough.

Trying to keep someone you love alive long enough for help to arrive is gonna leave a gash in her soul forever. Drinkin’, ridin’, and late nights are a bad combo. I hate to speak ill of the dead, but Damn that was a dumb thing to do. I quit riding to protect my family from loss. He coulda done the same. Hugs to all the survivors from this grizzled stranger. They’re gonna need 'em.

OTOH, those are some very pretty landscape pictures. I’ve not been to Wickenburg in a couple-few decades; brings back memories. Those are some nice cholla in the foreground with the ocotillo. And yeah the promise of saguaro buds is a special treat for desert rats.

G’night all!

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Nice!

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So, GG thought he would post for me and then Mom called in response to the pictures I sent her. I really wasn’t ignoring everyone else!

Hurray for us! We get pics :slight_smile:

You look very content. That is always a very good thing.

Fingers crossed that your death will be many years hence and much more dignified.

I think Spot needs some fuzzy balls seeing as how someone stole his. GG loves to play hide and seek with them.

She is a very pretty lil girl! I wonder if she is trying to tell you that she wants moving water now. Cause you know how cats can change their minds about what they want overnight.

Go Bailey! I am also smiling just thinking about it. :slight_smile:

Gives you a big hug and then shakes you. Don’t scare us like this again!!!

What a clever woman, such a good idea!

The bed looks wonderful, you did an amazing job in a very short amount of time. It looks like something that will serve you well for many years.

Back when we had a lifted Jeep, I used to have a plastic step stool on a rope so I could climb into it and pull my steps up and fold them to store behind the seat. It was all the fashion with the distaff sex in that group.

Does she drink tap water? Our vets have always suggested giving our pets filtered or bottled water because their little kidneys and bladders can’t hand the contaminates allowed in water for humans.

The words I am not speaking cover all of those things. Selfish asshole.

Wickenburg hasn’t changed much, the billboard entering town is still proudly announcing the impending Arby’s…just as it has every year since I retired. There are new houses on the north side and two roundabouts before you get to the twisty two lane highway up the White Spars. The bar at the old whorehouse in Skull Valley still advertises hourly room rates.

I don’t know if you have ever been in there, but the very small rooms still have the narrow iron beds with springs that squeal and squall and squeak with every change in weight. And the mattresses are lumpy. And everyone in the bar knew just what was going on because the walls were old, thin hand-hewn pine boards. The only reason anyone would pay a large amount of money (50 an hour now which made both of us clutch our pearls.) to bounce on one of those beds was because someone brought a floozy and gave them compliments and drinks.

They make really good burgers.

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did you use canned salmon? cause that used to be dinner at least once a week or two at grandmas but she sort of “chicken fried” hers by dipping hers in aig and flour and called then croquettes sometimes shed smash crackers or add onions and such in them like meatloaf too to stretch out the fish if she didn’t have enough

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Indeed she is. I knew I just needed to wait until putting the doors on was her idea.

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Up, caffeinaed, and sheveled. Off to heave.
May The Fourth Be With You

Oh, he has plenty of toys, but
Kitten Spot Brain: “Playplayplay!”
Feral Spot Brain: “It’s a trap!” < hisses and runs away >

Same thing happened to some friends of mine, except husband and wife were on the bike together.

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I like!!! You did a great job!

We put nerf bars on our Silverado because I had a terrible time getting in. FCD doesn’t use them, but I do, all the time!!

I slept with Mel last night, but I probably should have done half-Mel (mel?) because it was rough waking up this morning. And weird dreaming… First off, I was working again (No - I’ve retired twice. That’s IT!!) and I didn’t know the names of any of my coworkers! Yeah, I’m bad with names anyway, but not that bad. But the strangest part of all was a 35-y/o guy there was flirting with me. :confused: I didn’t know his name, but I knew his age? It was kinda creepy - I think that’s what woke me up.

On the plus side, I got close to 8 hours of just slightly interrupted sleep (stoopit bladder.)

Depending on which weather site one believes, it’s either going to be cloudy or rainy today, tho they all agree on temps in the lower 60s. I may or may not be taking the kids to the playground. I’m just glad it’s my last kid day this week.

Then we have 4 days closer to normal May weather, and the first item on our agenda is a second coat of wax on the hull, since we’re not going in the water till maybe next week. FCD said the stern thruster was installed yesterday - so pics tomorrow. Other than that, no biggies for me… so far… we shall see.

Happy Thursday! and May the Fourth, blah blah blah

:rofl:

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SenGirl thinks so, too. Enough so that she added words to the picture so that it looked like an advertisement for a prep school.

Sorry, it’s not here birthday, it’s just that she is 14 so I wanted to give context to her pissy mood.

Another full day, today. We took them to a bear park about two hours away. Today, SenGirl and SenBoy were much better.

Tomorrow, we go up to Sapporo for a couple of days. Busy trip.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 47 Amurrkin out and N.O.S. with a predicted high of 80 and N.O.S. for the day. Today is a high sloth and general overall uselessness day. Sup shall be grilled chikin tenders, sallit and cheesey garlic bread.

Shades I use canned salmon. I add some flour and cornmeal, chopped onion, a couple of aigs, and a little salt and pepper, form into patties and fry ‘em up.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Thursday! Happy Star Wars Day!

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Afternoon, mumpers! It’s currently 15c/58f with a predicted high of 16c/61f and mostly cloudy. Weather app says “Look on the bright side. It’s only cloudy. At least you’re not on fire. That’s fucking good, right?” I’d agree with that, but also, it’s sunny out there with a little bit of cloud in the sky so pretty decent really.

Wheelie Murph looks great, you’ve done a fantastic job there. It will be useful to have the bed stored away when it’s not in use so you can do what you want with the space.

Seanette good to see you back again! I’ve been to visit the Book of Faces and joined Buddy’s new group to keep up with his adventures.

swampy that gave me the kind of mental image that will keep me laughing for ages :slight_smile:

Nothing exciting in my day today, I had a meeting this morning which was not too bad although it’s generated one for tomorrow as I need to raise some issues with someone else. Other than that, I’m pottering through my day doing bits and pieces of stuff. Not bad for a Thursday.

July trip planning is coming along, we have a potential route for our travels and an idea of where we’re staying/how many nights, and I have a downloaded guide book to look at. Fun times!

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Morning all. Another pretty day with temperatures heading to 75F. Thinking about mowing the lawn, there is about a 45% chance of rain this weekend when I planned on mowage, so we’ll see how much ambition I can work up. Also need to get to Staples and Kohl’s for some shopping this AM, and maybe some gym time before soccer practice, but otherwise should be a quiet day.

Seanette, always good to see you round these parts.

Sensei, enjoy the sights.

FCM, had to look up nerf bars, interesting name for them.

doggio, May 4th for me is the memory of the shooting at Kent State in 1970; I was a Senior in High School about 12 miles from there and ended up attending KSU the next year so the memory is still with me.

JtC, pretty pictures and glad you and Hubs got out for awhile. Tragic loss, so many of us do silly things, but survive them (mostly). Sympathy to his wife and the other driver. And eating burgers in an old whorehouse…I envy you.

Pilot, flyboy, longest flight I ever did in coach was Sydney, Australia to Dallas, Tx, 16+ hours–did not take measurements of my butt at the time…

flyboy, don’t have tractor ruts, but I’m thinking of redoing my lawn, it’s getting rather dead-looking and has a few bumps and holes in it. Will have to get some estimates.

Sari, hope Echo is doing OK.

OK, need to forage a bit for sustenance and then be about the day. All y’all take care.

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Good morning, kids!

Apparently there’s a nonzero chance that the state governor will visit the campus today? I wouldn’t mind shaking his hand, his administration is vigorously trans-rights-y and he seems like a decent guy. I got the library thoroughly tidied yesterday, so today I’m mostly twiddling my thumbs unless and until he shows. Then tonight I’ll be packing my bags and doing a last bit of housekeeping at home before my little trip to scenic Pennsylvania. I’m a pretty meticulously tidy sort, but my mom’s gonna come stay with me for a week after graduation, so. Mop floors, make bed, that sort of thing.

Like… A nature preserve type deal? What has bears in it? What kind of bears? Did y’all see any?

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Mornin’ all! I’m unpacking from our install trip last week. It’s nice to have my tools back where they belong. Discovered I have a bunch of stuff that belongs to the other guy. So that’s my big plans for the day.

Yay Bailey! Glad to hear some good pet news.

And nice that Spot is slowly coming out to play.

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stayed up to the wee hours of the morning reading. groggily remembered to wear star wars ensemble.

force be with you, it will.

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Fried pork sandwiches are also delightful, and an Indiana specialty! That and cow brains, which are absolutely not nearly as good, especially when you know what you’re eating.

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Mornin’ all. Late morning here. Coffee and breakfast onboard, sheveled, and now pissing away the day in my usual fashion w y’all. My on-call irkage today was silent and I’m now into my 2-1/2 days off.

Her Ladyship awoke feeling off, so has gone to her PCP for a walk-in visit. Meantime I’m bach-in’ it.

As to the crane, the operator is on duty up in his cab, but the crane has not moved all morning. There are two men sound asleep on the tower landing about 8 stories up where they’d left the staging gizmo overnight. Work is proceeding normally within the building as best I can see. So it sorta looks like they’re supposed to disassemble more of the crane today but that crew is waiting for workmen or tools or something.

Otherwise a lovely day here in paradise.

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My eyeballs are tired. I stayed up late last night like a genius. A bang woke me up at 4:35 a.m. (never figured out what it was), then I was mostly awake until my alarm went off at 5 a.m. for my twice-weekly waddle.

Overlyboy turned 17 yesterday - huzzah! Mom wasn’t able to join us for dinner, but yesterday seemed to be a better day than than the previous. She’ll be coming by for a small celebration Sunday.

She’s slowing down a lot - getting to and from radiation wipes her out, even though it’s late enough in the day that past mom would’ve been scandalized at current mom getting dressed only at 11. She comes home and sleeps for 2-3 hours, or until I call and wake her up, which worries me. I’m impressed she’s able to get to her appointments under her own power, but my sister & I are going to talk to her about the relative safety of her living alone and driving at this point. She can, but can and should don’t always coincide.

It’s bright and beautiful outside and supposed to get really warm. I’m very glad. It was in the upper 30s this morning when we waddled. I have one difficult meeting and several easy ones today. The difficult meeting is telling someone they didn’t get a job they applied for. It sucks because I think this person was the best for the future version of this job, but not for the right now version of this job. And the future version of the job won’t emerge for about a year. That and the fact that I won’t have time to train them were the only deciding factors. Normally HR covers these discussions but I usually do my own, and this person is incredible and I want to make it clear I’d like them on my team if I get another position. So there.

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HEY STEVIE WONDER, READ THE LABELS ON THE FRICKIN’ BAGS WHEN YOU’RE SORTING!
< ahem >
Otherwise the usual heave. Spot was doing his Spot thing:
Pay attention to me!
Gah! don’t come near me!
Don’t walk away from me! < bats at pants leg >
The fuzzy balls kept him distracted long enough to let me have breakfast in peace.

[Catholic]And also with you[/Catholic]

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Should Carnival Cruises have a ship named Carnival Midway?

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Good morning everyone.

It is now 51 degrees, dark and dreary outside. The high will be around 55, and the day will contain rain showers and clouds. The next several days will be the same.

I had visions of mowing the lawn yesterday when I signed off my work computer, but Polar needed a bath and Polar baths are always dramatic and traumatic. I bought one of those collapsible pools to use outside. We filled it with warm water so Polar could lie down and soak some crud off.

Since his anal cancer surgery, his back end needs washing up because he can’t always retract his anus immediately. Things become messy and crusty, so we have to give him butt baths often, and every so often, he needs a real bath. Getting him up the stairs for a bath and into the tub is really rough on him. So, I bought the pool. I still had to rinse him with cold water, but yesterday afternoon reached the mid-70s so it wasn’t awful. Polar was not happy and the dramatic howling was very impressive.

At any rate, I couldn’t mow the lawn after the bath because we dumped the pool on the lawn. Maybe I can sneak a mow in today.

Work was…not great, but I am off until Monday, so I’ll concentrate on that.

That Murphy bed looks great, wheelie.

I am debating visiting the plant nursery today just for something fun for me to do.

That truck is purty. I happen to like deep reds. My Jeep is a deep red.

Well, I suppose I should get that kitchen tidied. I slept in for a bit today and am behind in chores.