Nanner bread is done. The bottom of the larger loaf came off, probably because I took it out of the pan too soon. It may look messy but it will taste good.
I may have broken this rule, though only if you’re being pedantic. I seem to remember mentioning that it was something that I was called back in the day and it was glommed onto. Which, between it and it’s variants that come up from time to time is fine with me. 
Certainly not me! I’m fighting a bad case of dowannas myself. I should be working with getting BtY to clean, or cleaning my own room or getting some breakfast for myself. But my chair is too comfortable and my internet homes are too shiny.
Sensei, I get companies needing to do their due diligence, but sometimes the hoops they make you jump through just leave you shaking your head. Hopefully it won’t take too long for you to be “official”.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work too well with BtY. Contests worked great when he was a lot younger, but there came a time around 7 or 8 where he decided that there were very few inducements that would get him to do things that he really didn’t want to do. What gets me is that this is the same kid that regularly reads the dictionary for fun.
Metal Mouse, I actually prefer those departures. I don’t mind getting up early and it’s far less likely that the line through TSA will be nightmarish. Hubby did say that the first leg of their flight had an almost empty flight so he had a row to himself. The second leg, unfortunately, wasn’t the same. But he made it through, which is the important thing.
I did talk to him last night through chat a bit. He was beat and he said his mom looks much more frail than he’s ever seen her, reminding him of his grandmom not long before the end. But he spent the day talking with his parents about a little bit of everything. I’m not sure what’s on his agenda today, but I hope he got enough rest for it last night.
hugs I’m glad you were finally able to get it resolved. Insurance companies can be such dicks sometimes. I’m so tired of the bottom line being more important than the individuals in need. And when people can’t afford the out of pocket costs, they are just stuck having the make the best out of a horrible situation.
I hope you have fun at D&D tonight. I’m desperate for a good session, but between the busyness of this summer and the fact that my gaming friends live everywhere but here, I’m out of luck. I may see if I can talk friends into gaming on Discord after the school year starts back up.
I’ve been having a bit of a hard time getting motivated today. I’ve been up since around 3:30, though I did get a couple hours of sleep in there. I know that I need to get up and eat some breakfast, take my meds and start some of the cleaning chores but I’ve finally gotten into a comfortable position in my chair and I’m very loathe to leave it, especially since my heating pad is working on the spot causing me the most trouble. I will get up, but I’m going to enjoy this a little first.
I’m (hopefully) going to meet up with one of the local poly groups in a couple weeks. It’s on the 19th, which is a Wednesday, at 1830. The biggest problem with it is that CtE has therapy at 1800 and I have my graphic novel book club at the same time. The book club and the therapy are only a few blocks from each other, but the bar that everyone is meeting at is about 9 miles from the library and therapy location, which doesn’t make it easily doable. Plus, I’d have to bring CtE home before I can go. They’re supposed to be there until around 2130, so if I’m not exhausted after getting dinner for CtE and dropping them at home.
I’ve been wanting to get to know some of the people in the poly community here, more to have connections than anything else. Yeah, I’d like a local partner to spend time with sometimes, but my emotional needs are being met fairly well by Hubby and my partner that lives almost 1,000 miles away. Plus, having new local friends that don’t give me the side-eye/call me a cheater because of how I love is a refreshing thought. Especially living in Tennessee.
I really should get my booty in gear and pretend to adult for a little bit after eating something. I don’t know if I’m feeling up to acquiescing to CtE’s request to walk today. Yesterday I found that sitting in the car for the time they were gone was actually painful. So… we’ll see. If I do, I may lay on the concrete to do some back stretches. Which is some good multitasking.
Have an enjoyable time doing whatever the day may bring!
Yep - I haven’t played in-person since before COVID hit. Discord seems to be the paradigm right now, for good or ill. At least there are many more good VTT options now than there used to be!
Very true! Discord has made it easier to attend conventions for the Amber community and it’s gotten CtE into a regular game. But there’s the part of me that’s still old school enough that I don’t trust the soulless RNGs online. My dice know what will happen if they fail me. An RNG doesn’t give a damn.
It was hot. We were busy. SSLAW #2 broke down. They had Technical Terri, Telepathic IT Guy, and another tech guy working on it, and it still didn’t go.
Cast Magic Missle at the insurance company.
[NASCAR]It’s only cheating if you get caught[/NASCAR]
Nothing wrong with using a good blend.
Filth! Chaos! Heat!(which sounds like a pig orgy)
I’m totally stealing that!
Never, ever doubt the joy popcorn (especially heavily buttered) can bring.
Good luck in your gym search - hope you find one that works really well for you.
Our servers at work hath pooped their pants. So while I wait for that to come back up, I’m posting here.
I haven’t waddled yet today, but I’m afraid I’ll need to do that as soon as possible to a) make sure I do it and b) avoid some of the day’s heat, though it’s only supposed to get up to 85 F or so.
We found out a couple weeks ago that the mega corp I work for wants us back in the office most of the time, starting in the fall. It’ll be a pain in the butt; however, working from home permanently was never an expectation for me because I’m somewhat close to an office. What really gets my goat is that employees who were hired strictly as remote employees have also been told they’re required to go into an office or quit, even if there is no office close to them. When it was pointed out that many employees do not have an office near them, megacorp decided they’ll buy some, which makes no sense whatsoever. Many of my remote employees don’t even have cars because they’ve been at home for over a decade. And, us managers are required to enforce the requirement or we could be fired. So that’s a nice morale booster. Shockingly, many employees are now looking for new jobs.
Gotta love working in corporate America.
Ah, nice - servers are back up. Definitely getting the “quiet quitting” trend at this point.
I sure hope you don’t work in a restaurant! 
T-boomers and rain mean it’s an indoor afternoon. And I’ll have to drain the pool later since the kids won’t be back till Tuesday. Oh well…
I love wildflowers as well. I’ve been on 3 spring wildflower pilgrimages in the Smokies and 1 in southern Ohio. Hubs likes having mildweed also because he is a fan of monarchs.
ps. I’m glad the boot is helping. How are the exercises going?
Pretty boring day so far. Bagel for breakfast. Worked; had another training session. Home, internetting, watching soaps and Wimbledon. I need to go to the Fitness Center and workout. Hope I get some motivation.
Take care all.
Heh, no, no I don’t, but I’ll probably laugh about this comment all day.
Afternoon all. Dropped off mail (the outdoors mailbox at the Post Office has been sealed shut, so had to go inside in my gym clothes) and 500 calories pedaled away. Weather forecasts show we’re going to get wet stuff between 5-7pm today, so best I did the workout when I could. Have found a place that might take my old luggage, will contact them Monday (don’t like to do things at the end of the week) and got a reminder that my dentist appointment is next Tuesday (oh joy). Ham-n-Cheesers are on the menu for tonight.
talkie, the bigger the corporation, the more out of touch they are with how work is done…and I worked for the US Government, so I know… Hope it works out for those folks.
Niner, glad you got the insurance FUBAR straightened out, don’t know enough about hormones to comment further, just hope the prescriptions help.
Welcome to the Sloth Club! We’re not lazy, we’re slothful!!
OK, need to think about doing some house-irk for a bit (probably will limit myself to thinking about it) and do some more reading. See y’all after dinner.
Ugh, it’s 90 degrees out there. I’m contemplating putting the AC in the window, but it’s not supposed to get above 80 for the foreseeable future.
Hi all. Irk on Sun-Wed was good. Early start each day, but good. No major stupidities and early most of the time. Good dinners, good yaks, good co-workers, etc.
Today I was up pre-dawn, out to the beach for an hour’s walk / swim, an ordinary breakfast out, a car wash, then home to shevel. Her Ladyship is out all afternoon at Mah-jongg, so I hit TJs for some cheese & chocolate snax, got fuel, and a tidbit from the hardware store. I’m now back lazing slothin’ w y’all until she returns & we settle on a dinner plan.
Last night we hit the local ramen place and I was pleased to find that if I can avoid the sweeter sauces and only eat about half a serving it doesn’t blow my pancreas apart. The first time we ate there I flunked both those maneuvers and the result wasn’t pretty. Often it’s hard to tell which flavors are sweet or not, and the staff is cluless.
Last night after dinner we had the sad experience of exiting the elevator on our floor to encounter a ~70yo lady looking bewildered. She could not find an apartment she was looking for. She had the number, but it wasn’t where she expected; the hallway just ended. Other than that she was pleasantly conversational.
Our building is large and a bit complicated, consisting of a primary building with ~200 units on 10 floors, and two wing-buildings each of ~100 apartments on 8 floors. There are interior connections between all 3 buildings but not on every floor. The various corridors are not straight. She was looking for an apartment in one of the wings on a floor with no connection to the main building. And here she was on the right floor but in the main building with a dead end where the connection ought to be.
We offered her directions to get to where she wanted to go. But real quickly it was evident she was lost / bewildered as in slightly senile or definitely Alzheimer-ish. We offered to take her to her destination which she readily accepted. She had that calm matter-of-fact nature that getting lost in a building was completely ordinary and happens regularly to everyone. Which I recognized from the several senile residents I’d dealt with when I was condo prez.
So off we go on the adventure. Down the elevator, along the connecting corridor to the wing building then up another elevator back to our floor, then over to the apartment. At which point she thanks us, says “ahh, home sweet home”, opens the door, and disappears inside. To that moment I’d held out the slim hope she was just visiting her daughter or a friend, and by dint of not visiting often she’d simply gotten ordinarily lost just as furniture deliverymen do every day. Now I know she got Alzheimers lost at home.
Ouch. Poor dear. She seems a sweet sort. What a sad way to exit the world.
This morning I talked to building management to see if they had an emergency contact for that woman and asked if they’d be willing to act on my info. I have no idea what they may have decided. If When she gets lost again, she’ll probably be found near our apartment again.
Also spent an hour on the phone with a long time pilot friend whose wife is down to her last few months of battling with aggressive cancer.
Just a bad few days to be human I guess. Tragedy nearly everywhere in one form or another.
Howdy Y’all! Twuck got its spa day and I survived Wally*Jr. Then sloth and general overall uselessness ruled the day. We had an early sup and now 'tis rainy(ish) out. Such is life in swampland.
Today was my appt. with the PA. I left there upset and frustrated. First, he hadn’t read the radiologist’s report and spent the first 10 minutes showing me stuff on the MRI that didn’t quite fit what the radiologist said. Hey, kid! Do your homework! THEN he read the report and disagreed with the radiologist on some points. Hey, kid, the radiologist knows more than a PA!
Anyway, he said the “fracture” in the report is really bone edema (bone bruise) “from when you fell.” I said I hadn’t fallen in years, and he changed that to “from overuse.” It usually takes bone edema 6 months to heal. I said it’s BEEN six months. He said it could take another 3 months. Or maybe longer. Nothing to do for it. Just suffer.
He said the meniscus is torn and sticking out of the joint. Also, there’s cartilage floating around in the fluid that’s probably irritating the joint. Arthroscopic surgery to remove the meniscus is a possibility. The tear, etc. might not be causing me pain, though. Or it might. Surgery might relieve some pain, or it might not. Surgery increases the odds of arthritis. Or continued irritation from not having the surgery might cause arthritis. And I can’t fly after the surgery, so it’d have to wait until I return from Chicago in a month. I’m supposed to decide yes or no, only I have very little risk-benefit knowledge.
I asked if the doc could look over the MRI and give his opinion. PA: “He’d only tell you the exact same thing.”
I confess I had to work hard to keep from crying. I called my brother, who said, “The person doing the surgery is the person you should talk to.” So I made an appointment with the knee doc for Monday. I hope he’s not irritated because I’m coming in when I just saw his PA, but I don’t know what else to do.
In happier news, today is my brother’s birthday AND my son’s birthday! (And my daughter was born on my sister’s birthday because I’m all family-ish like that.)
Pilot, that’s a sad story about the poor woman who was lost. Good thing she ran into such nice people as you and Her Ladyship.
Wordy, I am facing your general direction and giving your employer the Single Digit Salute.
And you’d know this how, exactly? Er, never mind. It might ruin Babe for me.
For me, it felt like a week with two Mondays.
I’m glad you’ve resumed the upright position sunny. 
I like the suggestion of vroooom too cat glove.
niner, the hoops one has to go through to get insurance approval (and keep it!) for meds is ridiculous. I have to go through flip-flopping the insulin brands every couple of years, I’ve had to switch blood thinners and even then, get a manufacturer’s subsidy. Right now, I’m sherpaing Sis through the blood thinner process. All of those folks who think UHC would result in rationed care don’t stop to think that that’s what most of us are getting already and paying dearly for it. :steps off soapbox to avoid having the thread moved to the pit:
I’ve pretty much taken over receiving and wiping one of our smaller accounts (some of you are customers of it and it’s aimed at most of the Mumper demographic). I’m fine with that except that some of the trade-ins come in taped to high heaven. C’mon people! Those nice boxes and the bubble wrap bag that we furnish you have been well designed to keep your iPhone 6 in the same condition as when you mailed it. To top it all off, most of them leave the sim cards in their phones. Frankly, I wouldn’t give away, sell or turn in any device with my sim card left in it, but most of them can’t seem to follow the instructions provided. Oy, vey! I guess this kind of stuff pays the rent. 
Took Nelson for a brief romp at the dog park and then called the dealership to get something done about a sensor in the car that’s driving me nuts. It began with an occasional ding when I made a right turn and was touching the driver’s door. It would show that the door wasn’t closed. I didn’t think much of it until this week when any right turn, veering right or even a bump in the road would set it off and it would just keep dinging. It doesn’t happen much in teh cool of the morning when I’m going to irk, but in the afternoon, it’s non-stop and annoying as hell. I can do a drive-thru at the dealership tomorrow and see if they can disable the sensor, but the first that they can get an appointment for me is 20 July, when I’m scheduled to drive 400 miles north for the family reunion. I hope that they can just stop that !@#$ing little bell.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Crazy-making! Good on ya for pursuing an appointment with the surgeon.
Hubs mentioned that our patch kits are meant to keep the water in and air out, so they might not work well for keeping air in and water out. Modern glues are pretty amazing stuff…if used properly.
I’ve read about the process and it doesn’t seem that complicated, we just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Consider that to be stolen! I’ve handled praying mantis in the past without a bad reaction because I play nice with them. The one squaring off with GG looked like a Sameroi Velociraptor and I did NOT put my hands close to it. We all came inside and closed the door (to stop GG from going back out) and I waited until the mantis was calmed down before relocating it.
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We were both pretty horrified when that happened and have since taken steps to ensure it does not happen again.
Good job on the chili (like the others have said, you aren’t cheating by using a mix). I personally think there is no way that baked carrots would every turn out good. My grandmother used to smother them in brown sugar and top them with baby marshmellos which just ruined perfectly good marhmellos IMO.
Ain’t retirement grand!
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You can get 15 seeds for free or you can buy larger amounts for small amounts of money. Flowering milkweed is one of the best scents in the world, plus hand-raising Monarchs to release makes you feel like a real Earth Goddess.
Today was Tai-chi and we had a new person (looked to be mid 50’s) join us. It made us all secretly happy when she had to drop out because it was too hard for her. Not because we didn’t like her, but because it made us old farts happy to be able to out work-out a kid like that. We all said nice and supportive things to her and I hope she comes back.
I brought some date bars to class and TC friend brought some of the cream cheese I had given to her, along with some bagels so snack time was kinda embarrassing because all of the attention was on me and what an awesome cook I am. I am not an awesome cook, I am very good at following instructions and I understand the science behind using heat on food. Awesome cooks can come up with amazing recipes all on their own on the fly if needed, which is not something I can do.
NF happily accepted some to take home and share with her husband. He had been having some severe stomach pain every time he ate or drank anything, which wasn’t great for his health. His doctor was blaming it on the antibiotics he was on and gave him even more drugs to combat the problem. It didn’t help and she was getting pretty scared about the no drinking water thing, so she gathered up everything he was taking and sat down with their pharmacist for a review. The pharmacist told her to stop giving him the iron he was prescribed while he was in the hospital and she could see the difference in him within a day.
It was good to see her smile instead of looking scared when I asked about him.
After class I took her to the new boutique “Made from the Heart” in the same town as class. The shop sells handmade items from local artists and is constantly changing stock, so every time I visit, I find something new that I suddenly can’t live without.
Any doctor worth his or her salt will agree that getting a second opinion is always good. I hope he helps you understand what is going on.
nellie So sorry to hear about the knee issues. I’ve had multiple meniscus tears over the years, and still get the occasional “floating object” in my knees. I was much younger then (40-ish), but getting the surgery and having the stuff taken out helped a lot. My knee would sort of lock when the meniscus was mis-aligned. Kind of scary and it sucked.
My first arthroscopic thing was way back in 85, back at the beginning of arthroscopy, and they just sort of looked around and said I was young enough that I’d heal. Cue 8 years later and the damn thing exploded. Since then, an ACL replacement, and three clean ups of meniscus damage, and I’m hobbling OK. Although the last few weeks the worse knee has been barking. The screws don’t like drastic temperature changes.
Anyway, it’s still hot here, have not installed the AC. I’m using my patented method of doing nothing about a problem and hoping for the best.