(Old) It's the heat AND the humidity in the MMP!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Afternoon all. Calories have been cycled off and then a few added back on via snacking. The 70% chance of rain today is down to 15%, so I may go out and mow today, since the Weather Guessers are saying an 85% chance of rain tomorrow. Or maybe I’ll just wait for Monday or Tuesday…

Taters, good luck with the water meter. After my leakage problem got solved they put a new (digital) one in since my usage dropped so much… Take all your evidence with you, because it they are like my department the problem is yours in their estimation (to be honest, it was my problem, but they weren’t very nice about it).

Flyboy, been to REI locally just once, looked like an interesting place, hope the new kayak works out well for you.

Oopsie, enjoy Kennedy Center Day and am expecting a review… :wink:

nellie, you just know putting the plants out will mean the painters will be at your place bright and early…

Me too, albeit I’m quite ready to believe it about Olive Garden…yet it does a great business everywhere I go. Strange.

Maybe he’s remembering seeing The Deadly Mantis as a child. The Deadly Mantis - Wikipedia

OK, probably should clean up my kitchen. Will see if there is anything on the idiot box that will keep me entertained while I am doing it. Take care all.

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I’m a big REI fan. Here’s my most recent purchase:

Using rewards and a gift card, my out-of-pocket was less than a dollar.

Up next: shoe-shopping.

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I used to think like that: huge job + few men = bad demoralizing situation. Then I ran a couple of big buildings and learned to see it from the workers’ perspective.

From their POV, the next 20 or 40 years consist of getting to work in the morning, putting paint on something, and going home at night. Which something it is today doesn’t matter. Whether today is the end of a 1-week project or a 1-year project doesn’t matter. Nor does whether it’s a day somewhere in the middle of either project. Tomorrow will be putting paint on something else, just like yesterday was, and today is.

A lot of life is that way. When I have a meal I often think “Boy, that was futile. I’m just going to have to do it again in a few hours.” Whether it was wonderful or nasty or just functional, it still only lasts a few hours until it needs doing again.

Truthfully, most trade workers prefer long projects where the end is far off. All their disruption, uncertainly, and time not working and not being paid occur between projects, not during them. Long projects have more “during” and less “between”.

Depends. Some lightweight foam thingies don’t do anything to reduce the noise. In fact whatever music they might play would be additive to the MRI noise. Earplugs or the big “mouse ear” fully-enclosed muffs would represent real noise attenuation.

Like you, I’ve had several head / neck MRIs over the years. Noisy IME, but not dangerously so. Definitely unpleasantly loud though, and foam earplugs are appreciated.

And before anyone asks … Yes, on each head MRI the readings come back positive for rocks.

There is nothing weak about you, sister. Nothing.

You’re a Force of Nature more like.

Few people go broke overestimating the Unwashed Masses appetite for large portions of cheap food delivered in faux opulent surroundings. National chains make lots of money from people who hate variety and prefer certainty. Whether they’re at home or traveling halfway across the country.

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Tell the young sensei that his recommendation worked, and I bow in thanks. It took some patience, but I managed the killing stroke on my kitchen counter, Of course then I had to do a serious wipedown of the whole place, but it was worth it,

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I cleaned the critter fountain and made a blueberry crisp. Go me!

:grin:

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Quoted for truth. And add freelancers to trade workers. I love to have, as I do right now, a multi month project, versus a few one-week gigs. Now I just gotta bust this one out and hustle to find the next one.

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One of my brothers is in that mode. He’s a one-man construction / repair company. Rejuvenating a 6-store strip mall is great; keeps you busy for months. Refreshing a bathroom in a restaurant sucks; keeps you busy for an afternoon to do the work, and the following morning to paint.

Kinda like a shark, you’re always actively looking for the next meal and never able to sleep. Just swim, swim, swim.

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I see. Jokes are difficult online, I didn’t pick that up.

He was very happy to hear that, and quite proud of himself now!

I did freelance before and it was also a bit of stress getting the next job lined up.

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Yesterday was a bad day for pain and nausea. Called the triage people and they changed my narcotic to tramadol and prescribed something for the nausea. Fucking hiccups still keep popping up. Getting around much better today and PT continues tomorrow. Sleeping a lot because of the narcotic.

My overnight in the hospital was. . .interesting. I think the guy in the next room had Tourettes. Shouting, mumbling, making weird noises and cursing. I finally had the night nurse close both doors, as I couldn’t sleep. At one point, the guy was cursing at his chair. “This fucking chair! What’s this chair doing here! Get this fucking thing out of here!” Weird. Anyway, thanks for the good wishes.

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Badly ill, plus heavily medicated, leads to lots of bad or semi-crazy behavior. He’d probably be fine if he was at home and not suffering from whatever put him into the hospital.

Good to hear you’re coming back together, albeit with a few hiccups (sorry) along the way. Soon you’ll be better than new.

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Howdy Y’all! Much sloth has been accomplished today. We hung at the cee-mint pond for a couple of hours, then we were back inside in the a/c. 'Tis hawt and hyooomid out! Anywho, showers and nappage were achieved. Sammiches have been consumed and now we chillax. TWPTB claim we shall have rain within the next couple of hours. We shall see.

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One of the perks of being my friend is that you can just assume the error was on my part, and you’d almost always be right. :slight_smile: Sorry for the wrong link. This is what I get (and you get) when I try to do genealogy and MMP-ing at the same time. HERE is the right link. Sorry about that.

Apparently they were here Thursday, when I was out all day (shots and ortho). I can’t see any difference, but then, I have Photoshop vision: all the wrinkles, acne, and dirty paint have been magically erased! Everyone looks marvelous to me.

Sing it. I think everyone who’s been in charge of all the cooking for a family realizes this a few months in. I once calculated I’d made pizza from scratch 790 times. (Or about .08% of shoe’s weekly output.) Same thing with housework.

In this case, I don’t think the workers are slow; I think the complex owners were just wildly optimistic. Each building has three floors, two entrances, and 12 apartments’ worth of exterior trim. There are 9 buildings, 10 with the office/clubhouse. They were supposed to get the trim painted in 6 working days. You’d have to hire a consortium of octopi to get all that trim done that fast, especially in the heat.

I just looked it up, and MRI noise varies from 90 to 130 decibels. A rock concert is 112 dB, a jet taking off is 120 dB, and a construction jackhammer is 130. I did read that the decibel level varies according to the type of MRI and the machine, so maybe that accounts for the differences. Speaking of jets taking off, what do the aircraft marshallers wear? I’ve seen the headphones, but they look different than other sets I’ve seen.

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Agree that that much trim in 6 workdays sounds pretty optimistic. Presumably the building management got that estimate from the painting contractor, and who knows what they were thinking? Or how badly they underestimated the labor hours to win the bid.


The people who won’t be communicating over an intercom wear anything from foam earplugs to gear like this and sometimes both:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPCHBCQ
Whereas the folks who will be talking to the pilots over a comm cord wear stuff like this, again sometimes with foam earplugs too:

Far too many ground crewfolks end up using their profound hearing loss as their main means of hearing “protection”. As in “Jets just doesn’t sound very loud to me anymore.” Ouch; that’s bad!

I know my own loss and tinnitus is a direct result of the rather cavalier attitude to occupational noise exposure in the military and the airline industry way back when. Plus a lot of recreational noise exposure as a kid.


As to me ... Dinner is next on the agenda here. The rain has abated, so we're about to walk a few blocks over for a nice steak or grilled fish; haven't decided which yet. It being Sat night they'll be mobbed but I have a reservation. There will also be live music, so that's good.
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Woohoo, skipped farmers market, picked up various house fixing stuff (boards, filters, switchplate), got crutches for my lovely wife’s upcoming surgery, went by the post office. Then moved garage stuff for the contractor, put some out on the street for the yard sale cruisers, trashed some junk, stacked up stuff to clean, sort, and put away differently. Later, I shall pour out cans of expired food, and take not expired/just expired to the community food box. Not so slothly today.

Chefguy, sorry for the hiccoughs and hoping for good effects from the med change.

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Hope that the med change helps with both the pain and nausea cookie.

Got the rest of the Friday chores done, got the the post office, the pharmacy, the dog park and Bojangles (had a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for some chicken tenders for my salad for supper) before coming home. Now it’s kicking back in the studio and listening to the T-boomers outside.

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I’ve been a member since 1983, back when the lifetime membership was $5. Love the store, and I’ve used the rewards to get ‘free stuff’ many times over the years. (I still use my Yakima roof rack and Load Warrior basket I got ‘free’ almost a quarter of a century ago.) But right now, I could have used the cash. They stopped the cash redemptions when they switched from US Bank to Capital One. I’ll redeem rewards for products. But if I’m being forced to buy stuff from REI, I’m going to stop using the card.

I suggested we drive the MG up to Drayton Harbor Oyster Company for oysters and beer. SWMBO wanted to take the Jeep, since she said she didn’t have enough hands to hold herself in the seat, hold her hair, and hold her hat. DHOC initially appeared busy, so I was directed to the roundabout. I pointed out that there were open tables. But as we approached, and then came back around the roundabout we saw a new restaurant called Que Onda. ‘New’, as in it opened less than a month ago. I just wanted a snack and a beer at DHOC. I certainly don’t want a lot of carbs. (I’ve been stuck at 210 pounds for months – though I was down to 208 this morning.) God help me, I had a cup of tortilla soup and half of a California burrito. Mi Esposa had a chimichanga and fries. We both had two beers. Got home at 15 o’clock, but we’ve already had dinner.

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@susan

Two days ago I stooped in the local REI at our outlet mall. I have been involved in a fruitless serach for a new pair of cross trainers. My last stop was Cabela’s a week or so ago. I found the pair of Keen shoes I wanted, and noted that they had some sized in “wide” which I need. I asked the nice lady at the shoe department to please look in the back of a pair of size 8 wide. Five minutes later she came back and told me that Cabela’s only stock these shoes in size 9 and above. No size 8 wides.

Skip ahead to Friday. REI stocks the shoe, but not in 8 wide. Their wide shoes start at size 10

I hate shoe shopping

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Now to get serious:

It has been a strange day. Our daughters have a pretty large friends group. One of them was found dead this morning.
The suspect went to an ex girlfriend’s (Girl A) house this morning and stabbed her. She got away from him some how.
He went looking for his most recent ex girlfriend (Girl B) at Steve’s house. After the suspect and Girl B broke up she went on a few dates with Steve. a couple of months ago, the suspect showed up at Steve’s house looking for Girl B. She was there, but Steve managed to hide her in a closet and convince the suspect that she was not there. Steve ended his short relationship with her after this.
After stabbing Girl A, the suspect showed up at Steve’s place this morning, forced the front door open and killed Steve.
Neighbors heard the shots and called the police. The suspect left the scene and went to Girl B’s house. She is out of town. He crashed his car through her garage door, abandoned it there and fled on foot.
He is a convicted felon. They have flooded the media with his picture. My bet is that he will hole up some place, force a stand off and then commit suicide by cop.
My girls are very sad, as is the whole friend’s group.

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They got the guy. He carjacked someone and led the police on a high speed chase into a neighboring state. He was shot at the scene and was declared dead at the hospital. No details past that at this time

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I am so sorry for everyone. Please encourage everyone you know to talk to a grief counselor even if they don’t think they need to. Traumatic events like this take a serious toll on a person’s mental heath and it’s best to get on top of it right away.