{{{nellie}}}
Oh hey. In the basement. What St. Louis really needs tonight is severe storms and potential tornadoes.
Also it’s getting on toward midnight, and I would rather be in bed.
Late night final. Was assistant referee for a soccer game tonight and then got dinner from the Red-Haired Girl’s place, since then been home and doing little. Off to bed shortly as it’s closing in on midnight here.
Sticky Buns, thanks for the information, had my gall bladder out over 25 years ago and except for gaining weight had no adverse reactions, sorry iy affected you so much.
Cookie. know what you mean on parking.
FCM, have a 4-pocket file, but need to put the stuff in there..one of these days…I have written out each step of my travels and the places I’m staying, so that is done.
Pilot, glad the weekendwent well hope your incipent crowning goes well.
VanGo, enjoy the museums, I am a museum geek so hope you enjoy them too. And hope the money comes through for you, they obviously like you and you seem to like them.
red, getting extra money is always a good day; hope the appointments go well.
FCM, happy marching!
JtC, have to say your potato recipes do sound enticing. And being the 'plant whisperer is a pretty good job in my estimation.
swampy, sounds like it was good eatin’ tonight. And sorry you can’t get the flowers to the family member, maybe it is a matter of access rather than neighborhood?
{{{nellie}}}, because hugs is all I got. Here, have some more. {{{{ }}}}
Coppertone, hope the boob squish isn’t too uncomfortable.
Pavo, take care, another friend who lives in that area posted some pictures of his back yard and it had gotten pretty beat up.
And the midnight hour is close at hand, so off to bed I go. Catch y’all on 2sDay.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
Raleigh
{{{{nellie}}}}
Stay safe!
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 13c/56f with a predicted high of 20c/67f and sunny. Weather app says “It’s finally fucking sunny outside, but just wait, something is going to fuck up your day.” I hope not, I have my day planned out and I don’t like my plans getting messed up!
We all like to think it’s because they miss us, but really it’s just cupboard love!
That is sucky, but also good to know that they’re trying to work out a way to keep you on. Fingers crossed for you 
Hurrah! I’m glad it didn’t get absorbed by the current grotesquerie and you get to do something nice with it.
Having him say we’ve been nasty is getting to be like a badge of honour these days.
As far as I recall, it is. We used to have Anchor butter from NZ rather than Kerrygold at home but it’s probably not made in NZ any longer, it’s probably coming to us from Burton-on-Trent, next to the Marmite factory 
Pilot glad to hear the injuries are subsiding and the GF didn’t manage to break you so soon
I am so sorry for the family trauma, that must be so difficult to deal with when you have always been so close, especially when the catalyst doesn’t even know they are the cause of the impending implosion. I hope you and the other siblings can stay together for each other, and perhaps the stray one will come back to you at some point in the future.
Pavo I’m sorry to hear about the weather woes, I hope it passes on soon enough and you can get to your bed.
Yesterday was a kind of productive but uneventful day. Irk was irksome, I had an hour-long meeting with one of our academic staff in the afternoon so that I could tell him how to fulfil his role as our Assessment & Progression Lead - or rather, tell him how I want the job done! He seemed quite happy with that, now all I have to do is get some notes sorted out for him.
After I logged out of work, I fed the cats and cleaned the litter trays, then had a bit of sofa time for half an hour before I made dinner. Afterwards, I emptied all the bins and the recycling stuff, and hauled the biiiiig bin out to the kerb for today’s collection. It was the normal rubbish cycle today so the binmen came a bit later in the morning. I must have been in the kitchen at the time because I didn’t hear them, but I noticed that the bin had been moved so I knew it was empty. I’ve been outside to haul it back to where it lives, and that might well be the only venturing outside that I do today.
I’ve got a list of things I want to get through today, and hopefully it will be quiet enough for me to do that. Then I need to make campus food for the rest of the week this afternoon, and I can have a quiet evening on the sofa with the cats later. I’m back on campus tomorrow so I’ll be getting up stupidly early which means an early night is in order.
@nelliebly
I am sorry you are going through that
Two of my aunts had some sort of argument in the late 1940s and never spoke again. They lived in the same neighborhood, just a few houses apart. They shopped at the same stores and went to the same church but totally ignored each other for the rest of their lives.
They lived in Pasedena CA. I was never close to my west coast relatives, so I was never in on what they argued about, but it is sad that family can’t work their way through the bad times.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy with a predicted high of 90 and N.O.S. later this mornin’ and the rest of the day. It’s laundry day. Woo and Hoo. Also we shall get ourselves shorn as we are gettin’ kinda shaggy. In addition I will cook a big chikin today that will get turned into chikin sallit tomorrow which will get made into sammiches on Hawaiian rolls for a reception after a funeral Thursday over to the church house. A long time member died Sattidy due to alzheimer’s disease. Joan had been in a skilled care facility for several months. Thus, a bzzy day forus today. Sup will be majik intartoobz pizza and sallit just cause.
{{{Nellie}}} hugs cause I don’t know what else to do.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy.. Then, alas, I suppose I must purtify and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. Le sigh.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
This is about 99% cosmetic & 1% functional. I had those same used-to-be-scraggly teeth straightened via Invisalign (can recommend!) 5-8 years ago and that was about 75% functional / 25% cosmetic but the cosmetics came out great too.
Overall, for sure I agree with you that maintenance deferred is maintenance doubled.
Just make sure to check that it’s cow butter & not sheep butter. 
Hey @JaneDoe42, can you make butter from sheep milk? Or goat for that matter? Does anyone?
I’d assume so since if anything, the cream fraction of those critters’ milk is higher than cow milk. And they certainly make good cheeses. I suspect the flavor might tend towards “overpowering” though.
Ouch and good luck!
I sure hope it’s not one of those, “If you other good sisters don’t cut [the bad one] out of your lives, then I’m going to cut you all out of my life!” Uggh.
I lived in STL for 20 years. I went into the basement exactly zero times. Not because severe storms and tornado watches weren’t common; they certainly were. But because the size and frequency of watches is vastly greater than the size and frequency of tornadoes.
For a tornado warning to my town which triggered the sirens I’d fire up the radar on my phone and pay careful attention to everything outside until the sirens quit. Which was about 40 minutes total in 20 years.
You do you, but I got a lot more sleep my way.
Good luck and trust in statistics to keep you safe.
As to me/today:
Was a warm overnight and I’ve been balconatin’ since about an hour before dawn, 2 hours total. Those of you who also get up early have probably been enjoying Venus in the pre-dawn sky; so pretty. At sunrise I had the good luck to have thick clouds near the horizon, so I got a quick pic of a smidgen of sun slivering out of the sea then it disappeared up into the clouds so I could stay out here longer in the glorious conditions. But just now as I type, the sun is climbing out from those clouds and we’ll have unremitting sun-blasting for the rest of the day. Time to retreat indoors so I can see my screen.
The Word(le) of the day shall be RDOS; I have no obligations and no plans. Time now to shevel lest the housekeepers walk in before I’m quite ready for public [double-checks spelling] display.
Cheers and good luck to one and all.
We’re surrounded by pretty tall trees so seeing anything low on the horizon is out. We also sleep till well after sunrise, so there’s that, too. It is annoying, tho, when the guys on the news say “Look for [event] low on the horizon at [dawn/dusk]” - between the trees and the ambient light around here, one can’t see a lot. Oh well…
I had a terrible time falling asleep and I don’t know why. It was nearly 2, dammit! Then I woke around 7 - has old age decided that I only need 5 hours? That seems to be what’s happening of late.
FCD plans to work in his shop today. I think I’ll finally get the cushion pleats figured out and done. Then I can take them to the boat and get them out of my basement. I need to get that area in order. I should run to Aldi also and see if they got cat treats in - Ziva is almost out!! The horror!!!
But first, morning surf. Happy Tuesday!!
All the potato recipes are stimulating me to get imaginative for today’s lunch. We’re having roast leg of lamb, which was bought the day after Easter when all the roasts went on sale. My potato side dish: I’m going to get out the melon baller and carve out little potato globes with it, and slowly saute them in butter and olive oil. They’ll get sprinkled with garlic and parsley and served with the lamb, and I think the vegies will be some asparagus if it’s still good - I bought it several days ago.
I had a terrible time falling asleep last night, too, but I know why. I drank a lot of tea during yesterday’s Chinese lunch. It was a new type to me: Pu-Erh. It was much darker and stronger than the usual weak green tea they serve at Chinese places. I shouldn’t have drunk so much of it, but was quite tasty.
I also only get five or six hours of sleep a night, so back in February I went to the doc to see about it and she prescribed some generic Lunesta. I had used this in the past with success, so I was looking forward to getting a good night’s sleep. However, I only got one more hour of sleep per night, and in addition, it’d often give me a weird anxious panicky feeling just as I was drifting off. So no more of that; I’ll just have to put up with the shortened sleep schedule. Luckily, us retirees can nap at will.
Morning all. I’m up but my awake quotient is still in doubt, did take the morning pills so I can eat something in about 30 minutes (the thyroid pill requires taking on a empty stomach and then not eating until 45-60 minutes later). Not much on the agenda, thinking about going to the neighboring town to look at Toyotas (the selection nearer me wasn’t very good) and maybe even do some (gasp!) house cleaning. Gym is also in the future.
swampy, sorry for the loss of another Church member.
Don’t think I ever had a basement in St. Louis (apartment living). Looked at the storm track and it was well south of where I used to live. And I only get up before dawn when (1) I need to micturate or (2) there is somewhere I have to be ridiculously early. Plus the sun rises at 5:40am here and…just nope.
FCM, I’m getting around 7 hours sleep at night, it must be enough since I’ve pretty much stop napping the past 2 years. Bodies are weird.
Sounds like it’s a Klingon brand to me…
And it’s been 45 minutes, so off to the kitchen to break my fast. Have a good 2sDay all.
We have an Aldi nearby. I’ve been in there once and was worried that I might contract some sort of disease. The place was filthy and cluttered. The one near where my kids live is clean, so I’m thinking management issue.
Is that a thing? 
I said difficult to visit, not impossible to visit. Aren’t passports and visas required now, when they weren’t before?
I was kidding about sheep butter. But since it comes from NZ, a land of lots of sheep, few cows, and fewer people, maaaybe one ought to take precautions. As you suggest, a mistake would be .
My attitude to sleeping is go to bed when tired, sleep until you’re awake, and if you need neither naps nor stimulants to get energetically through your day, well, evidently that’s the right amount of sleep for you.
if you’re an RDOS and need a nap; enjoy your nap. If you’re not yet an RDOS, well, go to bed earlier or sleep later. Either way, obey your body; it knows what it wants much better than our conscious minds do. All that other crap can wait. Really.
I’m about a 7-hour-a-night guy given my usual activity level. I fully expect that to become less as I get older. Yaay! More time for RDOSing!
I’m typically only in the basement when I’m actually in the polygon, as I was last night.
Tornadoes have gotten a lot more common in the last twenty years. The Metro area has been hit more than a dozen times already this year. A tornado missed my house by a quarter mile last year, and if we learned anything last Friday it’s that these things can come up fast.
Yeah, statistics are on my side. They’re also on my side in an airplane, but I still make sure I know where my nearest emergency exit is…
Hope that you didn’t get blown away!
I picked up some of Nelson’s favorite treats from Aldi last week. Their Heart to Tail treats and some other items are worth the money.
I’m sorry about your fellow parishioner, swampy.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. After, I shall get sheveled to go straighten out the pharmacy mess, deposit the tax check and pick up a few groceries.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Good morning, everyone.
Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I had an enjoyable day.
It’s 48°F and mostly cloudy. The forecast calls for considerable cloudiness all day and pretty good chance of afternoon rain showers. The expected high temperature is only 60°F, so it is on the foolish side for this time of year.
We had plans to go to the zoo today, but I think we’ll wait.
Nellie, I am sending you big hugs. Fractured families are tough.
VanGo, I’m glad the museum is working on a way to keep you.
Swampy, I’m sorry about losing another church member.
Sticky, when I had my gall bladder removed, I only had to avoid certain foods for a bit of time, and somehow lost tolerance for highly spicy (heat-wise) foods. I was sick BEFORE losing the gallbladder. I had to have mine removed the old-fashioned way because I lost mine in the first half of the '80s, and they were still slicing one open to remove the gallbladder at that time.
My son stayed the night on Sunday and took us to brunch yesterday. He worked in the morning from the old WFH office, and upon return from brunch, he finished his workday and hung out some more with us.
I’m not sure what’s on my agenda today. Maybe some errands. I think I might also start gathering stuff for donation.
Okay, today is a three-cup coffee day, so I need to get some more. Take care, everyone.
Wow. I’ve been gone 11 years. Big change.
I agree that one near your home sure raises your attention to the next one. One time we stood outside watching a real scary-looking rotating cloud base go directly overhead in the late afternoon. Looked real green on the backside too.
Then about 5 miles farther down-track it dropped this:
@nelliebly hugs, just hugs, over and over.
Yeah, one of my favorite series is “Flight of the Conchords”, whose stars are from NZ and they poke fun at their homeland. Bret’s mother is characterized as “a sheep lawyer” in one episode. 
Drenching rain today, which has formed a lake on the street below, which is torn up for an improvement project and the remaining paved portion is restricted to a single lane with a detour up a side street. The torn up section is now just a big mudhole.
So today’s entertainment is watching the semi that has gotten himself stuck in that lake/mudhole, and the cars that are backed up behind him with no options other than to back down the street one at a time and try not to end up like the truck. The semi is hauling two huge concrete junction boxes that will presumably be buried under street level, so the weight is significant. A company honcho showed up and I can just imagine the conversation going on down there (having once been in the construction business). Lots of cursing, I’m sure. A couple of ducks have taken up residence in the lake and have a ringside seat, as do we.
I do love chaos, but it doesn’t make me a bad person.