Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. Darci left me behind 2 tumbleweeds, so I have something to pet while the adoption process grinds forward. 
Yeah, that is a definite red flag.
Morning, mumpers! It’s 7c/44f with a predicted high of 9c/49f, and rain showers. Weather app says “Should you wear a raincoat today? Do whatever the fuck you want. Do I look like your fucking mother?” Clearly app is feeling a bit grumpy today! I did not wear a raincoat, I wore a hoodie instead. It wasn’t raining, just a bit of drizzle on my walk to the station so I was only very slightly damp when I got to campus.
doggio Darci knows a good thing when she sees it, fingers crossed that she doesn’t like the other person and insists on it being you.
pilot my commute is a combination of Shank’s pony, bus and trains so I’d already walked half an hour before I found out about my milk-less tea! Today I managed to remember every bit of the tea construction but didn’t put the lid on the cup properly so when I tipped it up over the sink to ensure it would stay put, it didn’t. Made a second one to top it up again!
JtC* I have a very simple irk password, using a combination of digits, memorable word and exclamation mark. It exceeds the University’s requirements by 3 characters. Now they have decreed that next time they’re due, passwords will need to be 14 characters instead of 8. Totally screws up my password plans.
Jack_Batty That sounds like very creepy behaviour indeed, I would be suspicious too, especially if someone’s that insistent on offering alcohol to an underage person who’s already turned it down once.
Got home from irk yesterday and put some food out for Shadow, he scoffed it and then started miaowing at me. This has been going on for a couple of days so I called the vet and they gave me an appointment half an hour later. Saw the vet, we’re starting with the idea that he has toothache or possibly arthritis in his jaw which is causing pain when he eats. She gave him an injection of Metacam, and a bottle of Loxicom to use at home for a week. I’ll see how he gets on, and we are going back for a check up next week. I’m hoping it’s nothing serious and we can schedule some dental work for him as well.
Five!! She’s turning FIVE!!! What happened to that little babby girl?? Heck, I can’t believe her mama is 37…
I started coughing and nose-dripping after yesterday’s mowage, so I suspect I OD’d on pollen. Woke this morning with a sore throat and drippy nose, plus cough and occasional sneeze. I think next time I mow, I’ll be wearing a mask along with ear protection. I should probably get a full-head helmet with face shield. And overalls to keep leaf fragments out of my underwear. I swear, those bits get everywhere! When I stripped down last night, I shook out bits all over the bathroom floor, and my shoes seem to still have a load within.
FCD didn’t get home till nearly 6 last night. The eye doc in FL hadn’t bothered to send the referral and MIL’s records so the eye doc here couldn’t determine if her macular degeneration is getting worse. Plus they were nearly 2 hours late seeing the doc because of the lack of a referral. Needless to say, my sweetie was pissed. Maybe it’s cynical of me, but I’m guessing Ocala docs don’t bother rushing to get things done because their patients are likely to die in the interim. Yeah, maybe that’s a tad too cynical…
Big plan for today is wax on/wax off. My shoulders are aching already!! Actually, the worst park will be up and down (and up and down and up and down) the ladder. I don’t like ladders. But one does what one must.
Weather forecasts for tomorrow are all over the place. Daughter will let me know today what she plans to do for the b-day party. So till she decides, I’m in standby. But I figure I’ll be doing laundry tomorrow morning.
Fingers crossed, doggio! But it sounds like your dog has found you…
OK, onward! Happy Firday!!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’ YAWN ‘Tis 60 Amurrkin out and foggy with a predicted high of 78 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse for the day. We shall see. The usual sloth and general overall uselessness is the plan of the day. Sup shall be burgers’n fries with fixin’s.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Firday Y’all!
Good morning.
It’s currently 35 degrees and dark outside. The expected high is 56 and once the sun rises the skies will vary between cloudy to partly cloudy. No significant moisture is predicted.
Well, what a week! I’m glad it’s Friday and my short day. I may opt to make the day even shorter by taking some admin leave that was granted to employees in my agency. But, I’ll need to make sure nothing critical needs to be taken care of today.
I don’t have any plans for the weekend. If the weather cooperates, I may get out and play in the dirt tomorrow. It depends on how long the rain holds off. The forecast shows rain moving in tomorrow evening/late afternoon.
doggio, Darci knows good people. Fingers crossed that your home is her permanent home.
I like coffee, plain and simple. I’ve been drinking since I was a kid. As a child, it was half coffee/half milk or cream during kaffeeklatsch (mom is German). When I was about 16, I switched to full-on black coffee; no sugar, no cream. When lattes started becoming a big thing here, I started drinking them but noted I had stomach issues after, so I switched to black Americanos if I bought from a coffee stand. I also had an espresso machine at home since the husband enjoyed lattes too. Now, I mainly make coffee at home and in my office when I work there. At home, I switch between my Keurig, french press, and pour-over modes. I have my old Mr. Coffee in the pantry in case the Keurig dies and I need coffee. I used to drink coffee throughout the morning, but now limit myself to two cups in the morning; sometimes three.
Speaking of which, need to finish the second cup and unload the dishwasher.
Roughly how old is the kid? A mature-looking 17yo and a boyish 12yo are two very different situations, much less an 8 yo. Is Mr Touchy giving off a cannibal vibe or a gay vibe or both?
Your local or state / provincial government website might have a sex offender registry online. Which you might choose to search for this guy. If he’s there, notifying the local police of what you saw would be appropriate since it’s almost certainly a violation of his terms of release. Also figuring out which apartment on the higher floor belongs to the kid and speaking directly to him and/or to his parents about Mr Touchy would also be appropriate.
Oh yeah, almost forgot …
If he invites you over for a nice Chianti and some fava beans, decline the invitation. You really need to wash the cat that night. Or at least bring your own wine. And glass. And pistol.
Hooray for a successful inversion test! It did its job. Now you know the test really works. And into the sink to boot. Success all around.
Shame you had to make more tea, but at least it was a cuple minutes’ warmer than the older stuff. As another wise Doper often says: “When you don’t get what you want, instead you get experience.”
Like you, when I goof my go-coffee I never figure it out until I’ve driven (or Lyfted) away. By then it’s far too late in both time and effort to return to fix the situation. So I’m forced to do without. Oh, the Horror … The Horror!
Not to gloat, but I made coffee perfectly today. Zero false moves, zero wasted time, zero clanks or clunks, and no beeps beyond the bare minimum (5). Yaay MEEE! Now to see if I can drink the rest of the pot over the next 3 hours without dropping and breaking something.
Mornin’ all! Up & balconying (balconing?) here about an hour after sunrise. Went to bed early & slept in a bit. Feels good. The day has dawned warm & tropical, and the sea is flat, not whitecapped for the first time in several days. From all the rain recently we’ve got a bit of humidity in the air. Supposed to maybe have scattered showers later today, but that part of the forecast will be true nearly every day from now to about Halloween.
Having accomplished several pent-up errands on the way home with the newly-fixed car yesterday, of course an hour after getting home I remembered another one that had been waiting for several days to get done. Which place I had driven right past during my peregrinations anyhow. Oh bother.
Anyhoo today I shall retrieve a supply of new contact lenses from my opto doc before the weekend hits.
And perhaps try to chase down some particular Chinese hot sauce I’ve been meaning to try (Lao Gan Ma’s Chili Crisp sauce). The hard-core Chinese grocery is not far from the opto’s clinic. Sadly, hot+sweet has become such the style these days that I can’t eat most of the more interesting commercial hot sauces; the sugar tastes nasty to me and they play hell w my decrepit pancreas. Stoopit diabetus (RIP Mr. Brimley). When I had to give up carbs (AKA both sweet and crunch), hot was my refuge of flavor enjoyment. Now the bastard sugar industry is encroaching on my last bastion of eating happiness. Bastids.
Other than that, slothage shall obtain. Might make big plans for swanky dinner.
Well, no rainbow playground, so my basement will get rainbow decorations. Which means when I get back from the boat, I need to move the exercise equipment and anything else that 5-y/o kids could mess with. But that’s for later.
FCD is gathering stuff and we’ll be off shortly. Good times!
Definitely a gay thing. Possibly a senility thing. I remember hearing him ask him if he was homosexual when I was eavesdropping.
I make it sound a little more sinister than it was but the guy was definitely trying to pick up the kid, who I would have guessed was over 18, but who knows. The neighbor has got to be 117 if he’s a day, I think I can take him if it comes to that.
At least the kid is old enough to know what “sex” and “gay” even are. So able to knowingly (if immaturely) decide if he wants to try that walk on the wild side.
An e.g. 12yo, not so much. They’d blunder into a bad situation completely unwittingly. And therefore need to be protected from their own bad decision-making.
There’s always this PSA about the dangers of strange neighbors. 
Morning all. A bit rainy outside but going to be nice and warm tomorrow, so soccer should get played. Was gong to give the lawn it’s first mowing of the season but with the wet grass I’ll wait for Sunday. So probably swim and sauna are on the agenda.
J-Bats, that does sound suspicious, at least the kid got out of an awkward situation ok, but keeping an eye out sounds wise.
FCM, hope boat work and party go as planned. And hard to believe Roxy is turning five now; seems like only yesterday you introduced her to the folks here at the MMP.
boo fae, hope the doc can cure what ails Shadow.
JtC, I use airport codes, dates of birth and some special codes for my facy passwords, so I can write something like ‘Hawaii(c)-Mom-Star Wars-Tokyo1’ and know that means HNL1911@@nrt is the password (mind you, I never have and never will use that password anywhere).
Ok, fast has been broken and now need to be about the day. All y’all have a good one.
Good morning, kids.
We didn’t get the promised thunderstorms yesterday, instead they seem to have arrived overnight while I was asleep. It’s a shame, I love thunderstorms - “Wild nights are my glory,” Mrs Whatsit said." I’m about halfway done with my lego movie theater, it’s fun to build - there’s a lot of really clever and aesthetically-pleasing stuff in it. Particularly the big glass doors.
They really were. Superman TAS gets a bad rap as the inferior production, but I really just think that’s the long shadow of Batman TAS talking. Looked at independently, I really think it’s 95% as good.
J-Bats, that’s intensely creepy. I’m glad the young’n seemed to be picking up on the bad vibes.
Pilot, I can enthusiastically recommend Lao Gan Ma’s! It’s easily my favorite of the three or four different chili crisps I’ve tried.
JtC, for some reason my default password generation method has always been to memorize the name of a Russian port city and tack a number (guess which) and symbol onto the end. I used to use “Vladivostok” back when I started doing it and since then I’ve just continued down the coast…
I am getting to the laundry I was planning on yesterday. The cats are in their favourite spots.
I use Irish for my passwords. Good luck figuring out that spelling. Every now and again I will use a danish word.
The right answer to passwords is something like this or one of its several competitors
I have 247 passwords. They’re all different and they all look something like these two it just whipped up with a click:
tqtY763R2%MNDPRSj@&scUedO
ihEnpvjZqy@u&#nv2Pv7xIyaF
Other than the main password / passphrase I use to get into my password store, I have no idea what any of them are. That’s what computers are for: to remember gibberish so I don’t have to.
Maybe it’s just me but I’m not a fan of “cloud” solutions in general and for password storage in particular (not sure if that’s what this is). The password manager I use was a very simple local solution that, naturally, isn’t available any more, like all good things. But to show how old it is, it has “32” in its name to show that it will run nicely on Windows NT!
Same. “There’s no such thing as the cloud, there’s only someone else’s computer.”
@NinthAcolyte :Granted. But if the only data stored there is useless without the PW that is never stored there, the risk is less. There’s also the question of whether they’re better at IT security than you are. Modulo the fact they’re a fat target and you’re not. Modulo modulo the fact that modern malware can attack millions of personal devices per day every day. So statistically you are still getting hit rather regularly even if you’re just a schmoe like me.
As to @Wolfpup: I need all those PWs available on my phone and on my tablet. And used to also need them on two additional laptops and one other tablet and one other phone for a total of 6 devices. Kinda hard to do a 6-way near-realtime sync across dissimilar devices and OSes without a cloud in there somewhere.
The mom unit’s appointment is done and she has a treatment start date, which is good. It’s not for another week and a half, which I hate, but I guess I’m not the doctor, though I have no trouble calling the dude and asking questions. I love the guy’s resident - he was so easy to talk to and I got the impression he was far more calming than the radiologist himself. I keep complaining that this is hard for me, but it’s a million times harder for her, so I’m glad she’s got someone she feels comfortable talking to.
I just got off a super stressful call - I can negotiate car prices like no one’s business, but when it’s at work, I get all weird negotiating contracts. Having to be a hardass in semi-public makes me want to barf. Guess I just fake it 'til I make it, then rock in a corner. Either way, I’m glad I slapped on some makeup today. It’s like armor when you’re on video.
The kids don’t have afterschool activities this evening, so if overlygirl is home I’m going to suggest cookie making, then binge-watching The Good Place unless she has other plans. Overlyboy’s already going out. I ordered a Hello Fresh box in a fit of annoyance last week because everyone keeps asking what’s for dinner and I couldn’t care less, so at least past me will be able to tell future me what to make and I won’t have to make that decision myself (or at least my now self). And I can just point to the box and say, “Choose one of those.”
Off I go. I hope all of you guys have a lovely day, or a not-bad day at the very least.
My passwords are all either the name of our cat who died 20-plus years ago or a favorite cartoon character, followed by a couple digits and an exclamation point or two. I do rely on Dashlane (probably too much) to remember the numbers, which are usually random. But I keep the passwords simple in general, so if I do need to type them manually, it’s easy to do so. Secure enough for me so far.
We’re getting our window coverings installed today after two months of blankets and cardboard on the windows. Yay! Here’s hoping it all goes well. They’re due in half an hour.
Moooom, hope Roxy’s not too disappointed by the change in venue. I think she’s owed an extra-special play day at the Rainbow Playground sometime soon!
Somehow with all these discussions of sick & dying pets {{hugs}}, I find the conversations about taking young kids to a Rainbow Playground to be … jarring.
A SSLAW broke down. Then they broke down in unison. Then the belt broke down We were shorthanded, so the Big Kahuna started flipping people around. I ended up with Deb and Insurrectionist Boomhauer in the loft. Panamanian Vice was bitching to the Big Kahuna. The Big Kahuna was bitching to Panamanian Vince. But somehow things got done(I guess the Screwup Fairy was too hungover to come in). It monsooned when I got home. Laundry is in the dryer, now it’s naptime. And DogWatch 2023.