(Old) It's still dark MMP

[missred]

Damn sari! That’s just effed up. I’m with bumba on not writing anyone a check.

Glad you’re on the road to recovery nellie. And yes, there is a Dr. Pimple Popper .

cat glove, I did make it to Kroger. I spent just over $50 and got 200 points. That will come in handy when I fuel up next week.

Got the CO2 cartridge (Nelson came with me and the Staples guy gave him a little milk bone as a treat for riding around in the buggy looking all cute and all). Then we stepped next door to PetSmart for conditioner for him, then off to the dog park for a few minutes before we came home.

Now, it’s time to work on sketches in the studio.

[susan]

Had a proposal accepted for a conference presentation in March. I also have an interntional Zoom book reading and talk coming up. Things to look forward to!

[carnut]

So, just jumping in without reading all that went before to say “Honey, I’m home!” It took a lot of work and shouting at the autobot at Xfinity but I was finally hooked up to a real person who helped me get online. Yay.

Now back to unpacking.

I hope you all have had a successful week too, despite the usual setbacks that always pop up.

Cookie, tell them about workarounds. There’s plenty of ways to your neighborhood that skirt those last 10 miles. They, or their GPS will have to figure it out. Sorry to hear of the troubles. I hope I can get to the farmer market in the morning.

Susie, congratulations on your success with the proposal!

Sari, oh my! Sending you strength to get through these manipulations successfully.

[Johnny_L.A]

The next time you feel like you’re something special, try walking on the water.

(Oh, all right. Fine. The tide is out. )

[Album] Imgur: The magic of the Internet

[carnut]

I walk on water ever winter!

[LSLGuy]

In most places I’ve been the mudflats when the tide is out are usually pretty darn unwalkable too. That would’ve probably been a hard slog.

@FairyChatMom

But I did notice when I got out of bed around 5:30 that it was ever-so-barely starting to lighten outside. And it’s no longer light at 9PM - surely autumn approaches. I’ll be glad for cooling weather, but I will miss the long hours of daylight

You can definitely see the change in the sunrise / sunset times. There in Baltimore / Linthicum yesterday it was downright unwarm as the sun set sooner than expected. Not cool, much less cold. But there was no lingering warmth in the air when the Sun disappeared. It’s Coming … [ba-dum ba-dum]

@FairyChatMom

@LSLGuy

Linthicum

One of my sisters lives in Linthicum. Not that you care.

And yes, you and Sis did get waved at on arrival and departure. Her up close, you from a long distance horizontally, but I was trying.

@FairyChatMom

I was having a dream about being on a boat with a bunch of people and needing to pee, but the line was soooooo long… then I woke up realizing it wasn’t entirely a dream. It was 4 and all of a sudden, I was wide awake,

… because my bedroom was full of strange people standing in line? I know that’d wake me up. Sounds like you and doggio must’ve gotten into the same batch of weird dream food.

@missred

Moooooom, if you’re only beginning to see gray hair, you’re lucky. I began graying in my twenties

Me too. Completely vaguely residual blond but otherwise entirely gray by 30. Since then not much change in color though I have a bunch more temple & forehead showing.

{{Sari}} Jeebus christ again. The incompetence knows no bounds.

@Misnomer

Not sure if you’ll have a layover (with enough time) at either IAD or DCA before you retire, but if so let me know if you’d be up for a total stranger buying you dinner/a drink!

Unlikely but if I get there we’ll make it happen.

@Misnomer

I vote for clueless. IIRC, when I was a middle-schooler every grownup was simply “old” – I had only a tenuous grasp on adult ages, and so 35, 45, 55, and 65 weren’t much different to me. Even if I knew someone was retired, I wouldn’t have understood that meant they were likely at least 65; and, if I thought/knew my parents were in their 30s, there’s a fair chance I also would have guessed “35”!

Yeah. Adults came in two and a half ages. gray people were my grandparents’ age = 60s, ordinary people were my parents’ age = 30s, and the occasional student teacher was waaay older than me, so 20s.

Turns out all these years later it’s not a bad rubric.


Yaay to Nellie for a good start to the healing. Don’t be a hero, but it sounds like you’ve got this thing under control.

@Misnomer

The third bedroom is done (cleared out/cleaned up/reorganized)!

Now THAT is an accomplishment. That’s gotta feel real good.

@Chefguy

Well, my daughter didn’t make it here.

Damn. You could’ve used a morale booster. And a cheezburger.


Yaay Susan! Conference proposal and book reading. We are in the presence of international celebrity.

[dogbutler]

Up from naptime, watching Packers preseason handegg, and having a Vieux Carré

@nelliebly

Doggio, there’s really a Doctor Pimple Popper? Sounds

Yes. She also was one an episode of The Best Thing I Ever Ate on Food Network .

@nelliebly

I did a lot of cussing, but by jove, I got through the exercises twice.

Yay!

@susan

Had a proposal accepted for a conference presentation in March. I also have an interntional Zoom book reading and talk coming up. Things to look forward to!

Congrats!

[Johnny_L.A]

@LSLGuy

In most places I’ve been the mudflats when the tide is out are usually pretty darn unwalkable too. That would’ve probably been a hard slog.

Very slippery within ten feet of the shore. I did slip and fall just before I hit the shore on the way back. Once to get past that, it’s fine to walk on.

Also, I only averaged 2 mph instead of my usual 3+ mph on dry land. Since I was walking in a couple/few inches of water (once I got out to it), I used muscles I haven’t in a long, long time. I had to pick up my feet, and then there was the resistance of the water on my feet. I can feel it in my hip joints.

[SCAdian]

We found a home today for the last two of Fluff’s kittens, so Lady SCAdian can have the spare room back – she’s been avoiding it because that’s where the kittens were, and she didn’t want to get to know them because if she did, she’d want to keep them.

[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

Evening all. Tried my best to equal swampy’s level of sloth today, did go to the store for some 2-Liter Bottles of Diet Pepsi/Pepsi Zero (3 for $5, got 6), but otherwise it was internettin’, readin’ and nappage for the duration. Just finished my Big Bowl O’Salad with Cheese Balls for dessert, so belly is happy. Still 83F outside so the AC may stay on tonight.

Hmmm, 32 messages in the last 9 hours…looks like I’m not the only one in sloth mode this Saturday…

Oopsie, glad the 3rd bedroom is cleaned; would you like to finish up mine??

Taters, hope you get some overtime and mileage for doing that early-morning stint. And geez, you had to type your own Delegation of Authority letters? What is wrong with those people?

@Johnny_L.A

Bacon’s in the oven.

But not a Bun?

wet one, been there, had them cancel that. Hold them to Thursday now.

Bumba, you may have the title “Geezer of the MMP”. Might be a couple older than you but I doubt it…

shoe, glad neighbor had the good sense to know you needed to see him and went out to do some yardwork…

nellie, hang in there and keep up with the therapy (both Doctor and Canine varieties).

Cookie, sorry the kids can’t make it this weekend. And no cheeseburger are two of the saddest words in the English lexicon.

suzie, conga-rats for the presentations.

vroom, and congrats to you and your perseverance with Xfinity.

FCM, ran across this little bit about a store you tell us about; if anyone else wonders what a WaWa is, this is a nice, short and informative way to learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4Qgwp724s&t=685s

flyboy, I remember walking on the beaches in Canada near the Bay of Fundy at low tide, didn’t stick around for the high tide…

Herald, you two did a good thing regarding Fluff’s kittens.

And whew, think I’m most caught up, anyone I missed a most abject Mea Culpa. Take care all and I’ll get back to slothing until bedtime rolls around.

[Johnny_L.A]

@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

But not a Bun?

I don’t put bacon onna bun.

@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

I remember walking on the beaches in Canada near the Bay of Fundy at low tide, didn’t stick around for the high tide…

The tides have been very inconvenient for kayaking.

[susan]

Sounds like a good walk!

[susan]

@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

Hmmm, 32 messages in the last 9 hours…looks like I’m not the only one in sloth mode this Saturday…

I can’t speak for the rest of 'em, but I’m onna train all day.

[Johnny_L.A]

Oh… The water was about 0.4 miles from the shore. It would have been another 10th of a male, I think, to float a kayak with a person in it.

[LSLGuy]

@Johnny_L.A

Very slippery within ten feet of the shore. I did slip and fall just before I hit the shore on the way back. Once to get past that, it’s fine to walk on.

So most of this was in a couple / few inches of water. What was the bottom surface like?

The areas I’ve experienced with very flat bottoms so the shoreline moves in or out 1/2 mile with the tides are all muddy surfaces once they’re exposed to the air. So it’s take one step, sink in up to your ankle, take a second step, sink up to your knee, take another step leaving your shoe in the bottom of the hole, fall over trying to retrieve shoe while standing one-legged, curse the mud, etc.

[Sahirrnee]

The day is nearly over and the house is somewhat cleaner.
Not clean enough to suit me, but what it is will have to do.

I will take your advice Bumba, and write no checks.
I’ll tell my niece that my lawyer said not to do anything until her lawyer tells me what to do.
And even then, not to do it until I get something in writing.

In the truck department.
I called the dealership on Tuesday. The message says they will call back within an hour.
I heard from them yesterday.
I got the news that they still have no idea what is wrong or how to fix it.
So maybe not the transmission, but I hope whatever it is, it’s still under warranty.
I have my doubts about it being the transmission, but I’m no car expert.
However, I thought transmissions give little warnings that they are about to go up. Not you’re riding around and everything is good. You park and turn off the engine. Then when you turn the engine back on all hell breaks loose.
That sounds like something electrical or a sensor or something to me.
Then again, I know nothing about cars.

I’m not really fond of the Kia Sorrento. It’s not comfortable to ride in for me. The horn is too loud when I lock the doors. The doors don’t stay unlocked long enough for me to get from the house to the Kia. I feel like I’m going to hit my head every time I get in it.
I also got a warning from my Ring from the police about Kias being easy to steal and the precautions to take. I thought lovely. One day I will walk out to the car and it won’t be there.

Capital One is plucking what is left of my last nerve.
Every damn time I log in I have to reset my password.
I looked it up online and read that they had changed their log in requirements, and your ID now has to include a number. I changed my ID to include a number and it still doesn’t work.
You know what else doesn’t work?
‘Fuckyoucapitalone’ is not an acceptable password.
‘Fuckyoucapital1’ is not an acceptable password.
I wonder why not, as both meet the requirements.

I’m glad you came through your surgery well, Nellie.
I was thinking of you, and I worry anytime somebody has to go under.
I hope the recovery goes easy.
Dog therapy is always the best.

Congrats on finally joining the modern world, Vroom

I have no couth Swampy, I do say those words in here.

{{{Talkie}}}, I am so sorry about your mom.
All I can say about feeding tubes is, I don’t know anybody who was happy to have made the decision to have one put in a loved one. Every one of them regretted it.
Of course, every situation is different, and if the patient is the one making the choice, then it is their choice.
My mother also got into the ‘if she could just exercise and build up her strength that she would be better’ mindset. She had some kind of exercise thing and the hospice nurses told my nieces to stop her from using it.

No worries about my sister showing up CatGlove.
She knows better, and I doubt my nieces are telling her they are coming here. She would have a cow, she has already been telling the girls that they are not allowed to invite me for holidays and such anymore. I’m also sure she has told the niece that is living in my mother’s house that I am not allowed to come there.
My sister wants to cut me and my son out of the family, as though we don’t exist.
I did get a copy of all the documentation from the lawyer.
When they sent me the corrected copy of the forms I needed to sign.
Funny how they weren’t included with the first set of forms that were wrong.
I will be careful Taters

I love my nieces a lot, and when they were young, we were very close.
I think too much has happened to go back to that.

Shoe, I could write a book about my sister and how she was with the girls.
Good luck with Mr Fixit

UGH, Captain and Tenille, Muskrat Love ::shudder::

I just got rid of this earworm

Now I have a new one.
Just shoot me now.

White Collar, that is the show I always mix up with Suits.
They seemed interchangeable to me.
Congrats on a clean room Ooopsie.

No hair dye for me. I started going grey a few years ago.
No hair color for me though. Once you start you have to keep up with it, and I’m not in a place to add more stuff to the ToDoList.

All y’all people with good sibs are truly lucky.

You know what they say Doggio, ‘A good friend will help you hide the body. A best friend will hide your sex toys from your kids before your funeral’

That sux WetOne

When god brings death the devil brings heirs.
I will remember that Rocky.
I’m going to share it with my realtor. She went through a lot of the same.

Definitely getting some rest tonight MetalMouse.
I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night and almost none the night before.

Oh, I forgot to say, in the midst of all the other bullshit in my life
the damn squirrels chewed into the back closet again

I hope you have AC soon Nettie

My son is sore. He got put back into stocking again, and he hates it. He broke his box cutter/exacto knife and since there were no right-handed ones available, he had to get a neutral one. It’s a good thing they wear protective sleeves or he would have cut himself to pieces already.

Rayleigh got caught in a corner when my son was vacuuming the kitchen. Just a touch of panic in his eyes.
Misiu is a brat. He wants to choose which treat he gets, and if I give him the wrong kind, he spits it out.
He doesn’t drop it; he spits it with a little ptui.
Then when I offer him a different kind, Rayleigh and Echo drop their treats to run over and see what Misiu is getting. Dropped treats become fair game, which leads to squabbling.
I know I should just say fine, you don’t want what I’m offering, then you get nothing. But I have been well trained and always offer another selection.
Unfortunately, his favorite treat is dried sweet potato. I just started giving them to him again because they used to get stuck in his teeth and he looked like he was choking on them.
Now, if he gets more than one or two in a day, he throws up later.

Now off to bed. I am exhausted.

Thank you all for listening to me bitch.

[Johnny_L.A]

@LSLGuy

So most of this was in a couple / few inches of water. What was the bottom surface like?

Firm, dark grey sand, with short eel grass (like six inches or less long) on much of it, There were some ‘deeper’ (by a couple/few inches) ‘channels’ that were the same, but without the grass. Here’s a pic I took in 2008 of clam in its track.

Here’s a picture from the same year of some Batillaria that cover the flat, and you can just see the bottom with some grass on it.

(Anybody want to read my palm? )

There were a few places where my hiking stick sunk, but mostly the surface is firm.

[LSLGuy]

Cool pix. Thank you.

[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

@Sahirrnee

Capital One is plucking what is left of my last nerve.
Every damn time I log in I have to reset my password.

My Capital One account is working fine. However, my PNC card is requiring a call/text from them each time I log in to confirm who I am. Only way I beat it is by opening it in “A new private window” and then it works…sometimes. Might want to try that.

[Johnny_L.A]

@Sahirrnee

Capital One is plucking what is left of my last nerve.

When REI used US Bank, I could get cash back after July. Since they switched to Capital One, I can no longer get cash back. Guess which card is not my primary card anymore. (At least I got a new kayak out of my non-cash Rewards.)