Mornin’ all. Right at 6am as I start driveling. Been up a bit less than an hour. Was caffinatin’ and balconatin’ while watchin’ a busy Donner & Blitzen show out over the ocean. Very pretty. Which show is just now arriving here in town and the light misting (mizzling; thanks be to thule) has begun, so I’m chased indoors with the doors open. The happy news is it appears that unlike yesterday this might become a fine sunny day after this line slides past us over the next hour-ish.
From yesterday afternoon / evening = previous thread …
Teela: you are a brave woman to put in all that window-cleaning effort. Some tasks just suck.
I am humbled at the Master’s praise for my weak efforts. But I shall redouble my slothful practice as you’ll read more about below.
FCM: hooray for rain, at least as long as it doesn’t turn to flood.
I expect you know this, but a reminder can’t hurt. The doors on most fridge/freezers can be adjusted to increase the closing force. If she toddles off with the door wide open that won’t help, but if she sorta-closeses it but not real vigorously, more closing force will stop at least some of the ajar events.
Ah ha! Inspiration …
At the scruffy but yummy chicken place I’ve cited, they have a typical glass-fronted upright drinks cooler full of sodas in the small dining area. As in “help yourself after you’ve paid”. The fridge have a doorbell-like thing that beeps continuously while the door is open. So the staff who’re facing the fryers and whatnot know to turn around and see who’s getting what. Reduces pilferage.
I just Amazoned and this gizmo Amazon.com: WSDCAM Freezer Door Alarm is not what they have, but it might be just the ticket for you. I’m sure there are another 50 kinds for the choosing. Including one for both fridge and freezer or that hook into Alexa or … Heck, you could outfit the whole house with sensors so you’d know when she’s up and about or away from her walker or …
Metalmouse that sounds like an awesome day at a great train museum. Color me envious in a supportive way. I imagine you’ve done the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, since you too used to live there. For those not from The Lou, despite it’s generic name it’s about 90% railroad stuff.
Good luck getting home with minimal vexation.
As you rightly say, the “Can’t force 'em” is an obstacle.
But the sad truth is that we have actual effective help for actual mental illness about like 19th century medicine had actual effective help for cancer. NOT!
We can tamp down some of the worst external symptoms in some of the easier cases, and (sometimes humanely) jail those who need it to prevent greater harms, but beyond that we as a society are at a technological and moral loss about what to do with these unfortunate folks. And that moral confusion conveniently offers the government and the citizenry who elects them a budget-lite solution: just ignore the problem.
Hooray for a fox sighting. I would occasionally see them around the lake house at the edge of suburbia. Always a heart-warming sight.
Yaay! Just like Roxy & Tobias today.
Been a couple years for me now since my last box, but before that it was a good long time. Some kid food ages better than others. Kraft Mac’n’Cheese is one of the better ones. Speaking from experience, Cap’n Crunch is … not.
Thanks for the inspiration; it’s now on my list for my mini-groc run slated for later today.
From this thread this morning:
Yes, doggio that title is a thing of beauty. Your bow is well-deserved. As our resident Poet Laureate and somebody who’s often up shortly after midnight, I’d like to encourage you to start MMPs early and often. Unless roundly beaten by thule or boofae whose head starts on our days are even greater than your own.
And a happy Canada Day to all. Are you sure you all can’t be persuaded to invade and conquer our country? A) we could sure use it, and B), it will avenge certain unpleasantnesses that went the other way back in Ye Olden Dayes that doubtless still stick in a few Canadian craws. I for one would hail our new Canadian Overlords.
Boofae, you have the most interesting weekends when you launch out to festivals. Can hardly wait for the live on-scene reports.
Thule: It is always amazing how much better work goes with less supervision. Shame you can’t create some anonymous piece of paper with a graph showing daily production stats of whatever you and your section-mates produce alongside a graph of “boss present” vs “boss on holiday”. Just leave it lying around where the grandboss or great grandboss might find it. :evil leer:
The trip to Sri Lanka sounds really neat. I hope you’ll share at least your observations, if not some pix with the crew back here.
Well, former Empires down on their luck have to get their neener-neeners in where they can. 
Soon enough it will be the US’s turn to eat some humble pie for a century or three. It would certainly improve our character if not at first our disposition.
Yes; those are awesome there red. Color me wowed.
Are the layers cut with something like a cricut, or are those hand-cut?
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I keep gettin’ interrupted while everybody else wakes up and posts more so this just keeps getting longer and longer as I try to catch the moving end of the thread …
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Swampy: sounds like your day ahead is just about RDOS-optimal, net of any rain. I’ll be curious in due course to hear about how you prepare your ribs.
FCM: MIL’s cognition isn’t that bad if she can come to the correct conclusion about dealing with BIL.
Sadly, he seems to be a write-off at this point. Partly from the bad luck of the genetic draw, and partly from the cumulative results of 60+ years of bad decisions about nearly everything. One can be concerned for his outcomes, but one can’t beat oneself up over trying to manage his outcomes, much less force them.
The serenity prayer applies and this is one of those things where nobody can change it, so we all need to just accept it. 'Twould that it were not so. {{Hugs}}.
Metalmouse: Hooray for a good start to the day; Remember: “Nothing can go wrong … go wrong … go wrong …”
Jane: Welcome back!! Hooray for impending w/d, and once the ceremonial First Load is merrily spinning, perhaps you could light off a celebratory joint instead of a firecracker? A) you already have those at home, and B) it’ll be quieter for poor GG’s shattered nerves.
This. Far better to ask and be told “no” than to be afraid to ask. Don’t forget to ask for a bit more than your true minimum. That way when they come back a smidgen lower you’re not in the hole.
As to me …
Had a very lazy day on Sun after my last report. Post-nap I hung around the apartment and tried to reorg a couple drawers but sorta abandoned the effort half complete. Now I have stuff out and strewn about and need to stuff it back in. Oh bother.
Finally watched part of a James Bond DVD I’d gotten from the library a month ago, but after ~20 minutes realized I just wasn’t up for it. Despite this being from ~15 years ago ISTM modern drama has gotten too complicated; too many plots within plots within plots. That was certainly my experience trying to join HL in the trash she liked to watch.
I think something closer to the old Batman TV series with Adam West is about the degree of dramatic complexity I most enjoy. And always have.
But along the way I did inadvertently learn about Kanopy which is a video streaming service at least some libraries (including mine) subscribe to. Which led in turn to setting up an account on my PC, installing the app on my phone, and best of all, figuring out how to install and enable the app on my smart TV. Another small, hesitant, and unsteady geezery step into the 21st. century. Go me!
But now I have another source for a vast supply of zero cost video, all of which is professional stuff, not the mostly-amatuer grab bag on e.g. YouTube. Not that I intend to watch any very often.
I made dinner at home, a dry-rubbed and pan-fried poke chop, reasonably fresh cob corn, and frozen spinach.
Successfully resisted the temptation to have any alcohol; doc is right that even 3 a day well spread out is more than my aging bod can withstand long term. I’m far from addicted, and have no-booze days fairly regularly, but this was an attitude shift from “The opportunity happened to not arise today” to “Here’s ample opportunity, but I’m gonna say ‘no’ for no’s sake”. Quite a different thing.
Finally at 9-ish pm I bestirred myself enough to take out the trash 30 feet down the hall. First time I’d opened the door all day. Trash done, it was bedtime. So how’s that for RDOSin’?
Back to the present moment …
It’s now over 90 minutes since I started driveling. Along the way I noticed that when I came in from the pre-dawn rain starting that I’d left my phone on the table out there in the dark. Where it was now sitting in a puddle and had been for over an hour. Oops.
It seems none the worse for wear, but all the stuff I tuck into the elastic pouch on the back as my wallet are a damp mess, as is the pouch itself. That’s all gently drying now in a slightly warmed oven. It’s always something.
Time now to overcome the avoidance of all laborious tasks and start my weekday.
Narrator: We’ll see about that.
Happy Moanday to all!
Cheers!!