This. Excellent news. Keep moving, but succumb to the nap attacks willingly.
Happy for you, cookie, and filled with admiration for JtC’s monkey business.
So I’m at Lynnwood Grill and Brewing Concern , and the Miller Lite Swilling Old Coots Club is meeting on the other side of the bar.
If it was the Miller High Life club you could recognize them by their shiny white undershirts worn as outer shirts. 
Those ads were inspired. That guy’s voice and dialog were pitch perfect for their target market. And (ref recent ructions w Bud Lite) not a hint of nastiness in any of it.
We use 5 hotels in the RDU area. The airport ones are all just west or northwest of the airport. So not quite walkable to the Lynwood, but certainly Uber-able. If I get a suitable overnight in my few remaining workdays I’ll check it out and also see if you’re available. The other hotels are in downtown Raleigh.
Miller High Life: The Official Beer of 80 Year Old Guys Named “Ed”
And if you’re ever on the area. Let me know.
Who in 1980 were 35yos with union jobs down at the plant. And lots of plaid “sports shirts” to wear on weekends over their gleaming white undershirts.
And a happy mid-afternoon. Timing was about perfect, made it to the gym about 5 minutes before the heavens opened up, got 800yds of backstroking in along with a nice whirlpool soak and 20+ minutes in the sauna. Best was my Moanday weight check (which I keep records of so I have a sameday/conditions check) was 249.2lbs, the first time I have been below 250lbs in…well, a long time. Goal is still to be at 240lbs by the end of the year, but won’t be getting a start on it tonight as the rains have now returned with more Bowling Angels so soccer will probably be cancelled.
doggio, looked up the menu and the beer list, will note it as a place to visit if I’m ever up in your neck of the woods. And I’d be the rebel at the Coot’s table, I drink Coors Light.
OK, we’ll see what the rest of the day holds.
Came here for the weather reports. We are under a storm watch for this afternoon. It is so hot and sunny it seems off. They are warning power surges and tree damage.
As for laundry. I am tackling the floor of my walkin closet. There are boxes and baskets of clothes I have not touched in years. Laundry and then donation boxes and hanging up the remaining few things. I should be more brutal. If I didn’t miss it for 5 years–why keep it now.?
The whole world is awash in cast-off clothing. Much of which ends up in landfills. Skip the laundry and donation process and just trash them. The Earth will be better off for the water & soap you save.
And you’ll be better off for doing the easier thing.
Howdy Y’all! I am proud to report that I did indeed accomplish the yahd irk I set out to do this mornin’. Go Me! After that it was cee-mint pond time, sloth, day drinkin’ and nappage. We et a late N.O,L./early sup and are now in high chill mode. 'Tis waaaaaay hawt out with a heat advisory in effect through tomorrow. Glad to be inside in the a/c.
sari yay on the new digs! The advise others gave re the account info is wise and sage and would be good to heed.
Cookie yay for good sleep and doin’ stuff. Like Pilot said, do stuff and so forth, but give in to the nappage. Nappage is good!
doggio those old coots are your future and my present.
I don’t remember laundry day being any specific day of the week when I was growing up. Mom was a SAHM with three boys, so it was surely more than one day.
Nowadays, Mrs W and I mostly do our own clothes. She’ll throw in a load of mine once in a while, but I don’t touch hers, lest I screw something up. But there’s no specific day. I wash when the hamper gets full.
I submitted my final exam for the proofreading course this morning; it’s supposed to take 5 to 7 business days to get graded. I think I did well, but commas are tricky little bastards, and I could well have missed enough to drop me below the passing threshold of 90%. No sense worrying about it now - just need to wait and see.
Meanwhile, I still have no forthcoming assignments from the inventory company, so I have to start finding ways to keep myself occupied. Sitting on the sofa watching TV while one’s wife is in the next room earning money is bad form.
Thursday night, though, we’ll be on the red-eye to North Carolina for my brother and SIL’s surprise 40th anniversary party this weekend, which will be a welcome distraction.
Today’s our last full day at my parents, and it‘s Monday, so it’s laundry, except for the sheets which get wash on Tuesday. This is how it’s been since I was in grade school.
At our own home, it’s a bit irregular as we had established different habits when we worked from home and now we’re 100% in the office.
So we were trying to set new habits, but being away from home for six weeks really interferes with habits.
Next Monday we’ll be back home and get to unpack. Most of our clothes will be clean, so we’ll wear clothes from the suitcases and then put them in the laundry.
Speaking of packing, I should get back to it. 
Congrats on the house, sari!!! 
No particular Monday traditions here, just the occasional volunteer-related evening meeting – like the one I have at 6pm/in ~30 minutes. It’s “office hours,” where various executive committee folks are available to branch members or the general public for an hour via Zoom; it’s offered on the 1st Monday and 4th Thursday of each month, and I’m signed up for one every now and then. We’re expecting a pretty significant storm right about 6pm, so here’s hoping the lights stay on long enough to get through the session.
By “significant storm,” I mean not only is there a tornado watch but the Office of Personnel Management – HR for the federal gov’t – closed all local federal offices at 3pm so that folks who needed to could get home before the really bad weather hits. There was some darkness and rain at a little after 5pm, but now it’s suddenly very dark and rainy and the thunder has started. Bailey has been a little beside herself, pacing all around the house, but right now she’s lying on her dog bed behind my chair; when the thunder gets loud enough she’ll move to the bathroom, on the mat in front of the tub. If the tornado watch gets upgraded to a warning, I may well go in there with her! To be on the safe side, about an hour ago I moved all of the patio stuff into the laundry room. I’ve never had anything make it over my fence due to wind, but I’m not trying to start now. I also figured it couldn’t hurt to connect everything that charges to a charger, make sure I know where the flashlights and portable power banks are, and download some movies and TV shows to my two iPads (stuff I already bought from iTunes). Between them and my fully-charged Kindle, I’ll be able to keep myself entertained without power for quite some time if needed.
The rain and thunder are starting to get pretty noisy! (Aaaaand, there goes Bailey… I know my dog! 
) I need to log into Zoom in about 5 minutes; time to run a brush through my hair and work on being presentable. I was told that four people have registered for this evening’s session, but maybe they’ll all stay away because of the storm and I can end the meeting after a few minutes… 
Good luck, I hope the electricity hold!
At 6:20pm no one else had joined the Zoom…I ended the meeting.
Time to go make some dinner and relocate to the living room to ride out the rest of this storm. My house/neighborhood actually tends to do pretty well in terms of not losing power during weather events, but I feel better knowing that I’m prepared. I’ll feel even better when I’m fed and prepared!
Glad that you’re getting some sleep now cookie.
doggio, the Miller High Life guys sound like the draft Blatz guys back when I tended bar in the eighties, when they were all of $.65 each.
When I irked 5 day weeks, I usually did laundry on Mondays. As a kid, we didn’t have a washer / dryer for several years, so Mom trekked to the laundromat on Tuesdays and Thursdays. During nice weather, she would bring the laundry home wet and hang them on the line.
It’s a m)(*&f !@#$ing Monday. I had to contact corporate at my complex, since the manager hasn’t been in the office (I haven’t even met this one), nor is he returning calls and my lease is now 2 days overdue for signing. Holly at HQ sent me a copy of the new lease for signing (nothing unexpected, the usual $50 a month bump). I’m going through it, signing and returning it to her via e-mail.
Also on the home front, Rocky Raccoon went AWOL this afternoon. After looking all over for him, I got a flashlight out and checked under the bed. I caught a glimpse of him between the two under-bed storage boxes there, but couldn’t get him out, even with the broom. I knocked on my next door neighbor’s door and asked him if he could help me move the bed to get Rocky out. He just laughed, given that he’s slave to two standard poodles who have their own lovies. I would have tried it myself, but I was afraid that I would catch the mattress / box springs on the blades of the ceiling fan.
I got word of a man who I used to do volunteer work with’s passing. Father Strobel was one of the good ones. He worked with congregations of all stripes (even the heathen congregation that I belonged to) and really made a difference to the unhoused of Nashville.
I’m hoping that today isn’t a pacesetter for the rest of the week.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
So very much mulch.
Yay!
I’ll at least be drinking the PBR tallboys, instead of Miller.
Judging by the high and tight hair, and the ramrod straight spine(and Captain Pike jaw) of the one dude, he was probably in the USMC in 1980.
Gaaah!
Our lease is also up for renewal. We’d procrastinated a bunch but it’s gotta be done this week. So today we … Log onto the complex website, click [Renew lease], pick a duration, agree to continue the accessory items we’re also renting, then [OK]. A few minutes later we each get an email from Docusign saying “Click [here] to sign”. We each click. Step through umpteen pages of legalese amounting to “we are so-oo screwed”, initialing each one and signing many. A couple minutes later receive another email from Docusign to download the completed set. A minute after that we get an email from the management company saying “Congrats, you’re renewed.”
Modern commerce is really cool when it works. And sucks donkey parts when it doesn’t. Sorry you’re getting the donkey version.
Evening all. Soccer was indeed cancelled so I helped with uniform selling (and finished the Monday NY Times crossword) and a local Burger place called Jack’s provided the evening sustenance. Also booked my flight from LAX to STL in November on Pilot’s favorite airline, so that much is done. Now we’ll see what tomorrow’s weather holds (Weather .Underground says 16% chance of showers, but that can change hourly here) in regards to soccer practicing Tuesday; it’s the 12U boys so probably 60-80 10-11 year olds to corral…oh joy.
HiveMind (Beesnest) welcome and stick around after the storm passes. As for clothes, I give mine to a group called Purple Heart, they come around and pick it up, all I have to do is put them in bags and set them outside, so it’s a good deal.
Wheelie, hoping for a perfect grade on the proofreading; drat those pesky comma’s anyway.
Oopsie, be safe now, about once a year we have the siren go off meaning something wicked this way comes, and I head for my walk-in closet.
red, hope Nelson appreciates your work retrieving Rocky.
Been mowing a lot, suzie?
OK, need to finish the evening’s internettin’ and get back to my comprehensive re-reading of my “Schlock Mercenary” webcomic books (just got volume 17 in the mail today). Next up is “The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse”.
Stay safe all.