A crispy 31F under blue skies this morning at 0730. I’m glad the heat is working.
Not much is going on today other than a second load of laundry and an exercise session. The wife is in her annual impulse-buying mode, which I try to discourage. I try to intercept catalogs and ditch them in the trash before she sees them, but there’s always the damn internet.
I’m a bit scared to ask, but how on earth does one botch such a simple task?
I wonder if this is one of those inventions that somehow hasn’t managed to cross the pond yet. Can you give any details? I’ve never heard of such a thing …
Wow, ferrealz?! That’s the best part!
I’d recommend having it chilled & ready if needed last minute.
Muy bueno! She’s at a good age to learn another language.
Aw, naw. One cannot be expected to live like some medieval peasant.
guess what happened this morning?!? noooooo, not a fire alarm. we had blessed silence at 5:54 am. i only heard my personal wake up alarms.
since the time change, i’ve been getting up at 7 instead of 7:30. trying to get in a quick workout video before getting dressed. i figured it would be less painful to get up a bit earlier after falling back an hour. so far so good. on weds morning, i did not do a video as i had gone up and down 4 flights of stairs.
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the pram i have is like the 3 wheel jogging one. i am always amazed at pictures of people clutching their cats during an emergency. i might be able to do that with lager. koritza is way to wiggly.
i don’t drive so it is a great way to get them to the vet. so much easier than a carrier. lager thinks he is the emperor of all when he is in it.
on to a rainy friday in philly…
Good morning.
It’s 47F, dark, and wet outside. Rain of varying intensity will fall throughout much of the day, with a daytime high of 57F. By evening, it’ll be cloudy, with minimal moisture.
Hippie, I love a good pedicure. I’ve been trying to convince my husband to go for years. The massage is the best!
VanGo, yeah, my feelings would be a little hurt, too, if they do that for everyone else. When I was an active Fed employee, they recognized milestones: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, etc. I worked with a couple of people during my career who reached 50-year milestones. However, I worked for some organizations that didn’t always recognize everyone (such petty shit), and HR was always late with the certificates and pins. So, it was just kind of stupid, anyway.
BooFae, yay for a non-troublesome minion finding a solution to a problem.
Swampy, I worked with a gal who brought her own mini-Keurig whenever we traveled. She didn’t trust the hotel coffee makers, which, to be fair, some were really gross. I liked having coffee in the hotel room in the wee hours to knock out some work ahead of whatever I had to do while traveling.
I still find my Costco membership worth having. I buy paper towels and toilet paper there, dishwasher tabs, laundry detergent, chips for my husband, limited-ingredient dog treats, and sometimes deli-made meals. I sometimes buy their meat and individually seal the cuts with a Seal-A-Meal, and sometimes I find some cute shirts or jackets there. Also, their bananas are usually pretty good. I usually make enough on my Executive Membership to pay for the renewal.
Shoe, I love the lights.
I spent yesterday washing bedding and towels, but I’ll need to wash the guest room bedding today. Other than vacuuming up dog hair, that’s the extent of today’s plans. I may run to the grocery store to get pot roast fixings, though.
I have managed to mostly fight off whatever cold bug was trying to invade me. Not sure if I’ve won the war, or merely a battle, though. It’s sometimes like that. I fight it off for a week or two, mainly winning, and then it swoops in and knocks me down.
Well, I guess that’s it for now.
Please take care of yourselves.
Good morning. I believe my statement about Mrs. Nott’s new laptop was mistaken. I said it was for her purse biz, but it’s for the HOA stuff. She got the updating done, and now she’s trying out the accounting software. As of last night, it was giving her a hard time. She’s a retired accountant, and she could explain it better than I can. In trial mode, she was making deposits and coming up with a negative balance. That’s not supposed to happen.
This talk of martinis got me thinking about gin & tonic. I asked Mrs. Nott to get a lime when she’s shopping. We no longer use alcohol, so I use an alcohol-free gin substitute and 3 pieces of lime with the tonic. My usual mocktail is a Free Spirits “bourbon” & 7-Up.
I hear the yowl of leaf blowers and such things outside my windows. The HOA’s grounds crew must be corralling the leaves. That’s good. Hey, it’s Friday, so thank whoever you thank that it’s Friday.
I have read all the posts, and so I wish you well until tomorrow morning.
It’s very untidy! When I do laundry, I make sure all the socks hang in pairs and the underwear is turned the right way round (he will take his undies off the rack and wear them without checking to see if they’re inside out or not!) and he hangs t-shirts without making sure the sleeves are out instead of stuffed inside the body of the garment. He tries to squash everything up on one drying rack instead of using two of them…it annoys me immensely, so I ask him not to do it!
I’m sure you have some variation of a Maggi Bag over there. Open the top of the packet and remove the oven roasting bag and tie, then open the bottom part of the pack with the spice mix in it. Put the spice mix in the bag, add the chicken, shake it up, put it in the oven until it’s cooked through.
I sometimes put a chopped onion in the bag as well because it all cooks in the juices from the chicken boobies/thighs and then you can use the juice to make gravy too.
Afternoon. Currently heading on the train through England; I was planning to look through the window, but my ‘window seat’ is aligned perfectly with the gap between the windows. Bah. Hopefully I can swap seats soon, when people leave at the next swap.
I have a train change at what I believe is BooFae’s local biiiig city station, and not much time to do it, so wish me luck.
I think the price difference is taking all that into account. The tech is quite new, so hopefully it will be rolled out more if people demand it.
Good morning, all. I’m a little tired today, I was out after my bedtime playing Brass: Birmingham with my Dads group. I believe I had mentioned last month that I had told one of them about me. I noticed that every once in a while, I’d hear a “she” referring to me. It’s crazy how good something like that feels.
Other than that, not much else happened here yesterday.
My favorite is the paraffin dip. I love having warm feet.
boofae I’ve had a Vesper. Once. And I like gin.
rocker - We had gotten Chloé a pram for when we were at the Hershey RV show. She cried the entire time. We also had a backpack for her that she loved.
fcm - FCD’s laundry work sound like my sons’.
i have a backpack. they struggle like the carrier going in.
My late brother called that truck driver coffee when he ordered it. 
VanGo, I’ve worked places where they considered your hire date the date you were a company hire and others that took your temp-to-start date as your hire date for anniversary purposes. The company that I retired from had me as a permanent employee for 20 years, but I had been temp-to-hire for seven months before that.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. I need to do a load of laundry today, but otherwise, RDOS.
Y’all have a great day!
And a good, albeit late, morning to all. Slept in until 7:30am, then did the Firday shopping (two stops) and got everything put away before sitting down to my Pecan Sticky Buns breakfast and checking the e-mails and other stuff before finally getting here. A nice day outside, bright sun but only 68F and not supposed to get any warmer, with it dipping into the 40’s tonight. Some soccer to referee this evening ‘under the lights’ at 6 and 7:15pm, so need to plan meals and gym-time around them. Otherwise should be a quiet day.
VanGo, you be careful with that toxic stuff.
shoe, timing is everything, I guess that manager didn’t know that. Hope they correct it next time and give you a day’s notice. And nice decorations for the season.
swampy, most places I stay at have stuff ready to go at 6am as you note, guess maybe the person in charge wasn’t there that day? Glad you were able to get your caffeine fix.
boo fae, hooray for NTM (non-troublesome minion). Happy fixin’!
FCM, hope Roxy learns another language; I never did and sometimes regret it. Good luck with the internet.
rocky, yay! for having only annoying noises that you can’t avoid.
Nut, may you make your connections, I managed two changes in France/Spain in April as a raw rookie at it, so sure you can make it.
That’s all for now. Have a good one.
Our kitties love their carriers. We put them out as a special treat!
VanGo, that would bother me, too. (On the other end of it, when I left my university position after 20 years of full-time instruction including rising the the equivalent of full professor, often including summer teaching, leading two undergraduate programs, and engaging in a large amount of service, the dean would not even acknowledge this at the end of year faculty meeting.)
I just finished my telehealth visit with my endocrinologist. She’s doubling my dose. I’m excited/scared right now.
Called my dad for his 80+th birthday. (How horrible am I for losing track of exactly how old?)
Had a turkey/stuffing/mashed-NOT frozen tray as a pre-work meal, while Monkey enjoyed a brief outing into the chilly dampness that is the current outdoors. (The weird unreasonable warmth seems to have finally checked the calendar, and noticed that it’s supposed to be late autumn or early winter.)
Long/Late Night, but the ones I’m scheduled to close with tonight are usually fast & efficient - hell, I may wind up being the weakest link - so hopefully not tooo terribly late.
(She said, totally jinxing it.)
Bringing a strawberry yogurt[1] and the last of the spinach quiche I made, so I should be appropriately fueled.
also mini M&Ms to mix in - can’t be TOO healthy! ↩︎
Try it. You might like it. My dad started going when was in his late 70s, and he finds it so much easier. Sometimes he even gets them painted.
Very nice. I’d like to see a bit more fall decorations around here before everyone starts putting up the Christmas lights. The Christmas lights are already lit at the main train station in Luzern. With the darkness I like having lights, but I’m not ready for Christmas.
Hubby’s getting pretty good at it. There are two drying rooms in the basement for the entire building, and on Sunday he met the neighbor downstairs when hubby was getting the sheets. Neighbor was in the process of hanging up his sheets, so they were commiserating that hanging up sheets is men’s work.
The talk about turkey and stuffing is making me hungry for stuffing/dressing. I think I never got around to making any last year, especially as I was still recovering from surgery. I have a lot more energy this November compared to last year.
Speaking of energy, I went to the gym this evening and got the privilege of turning out the lights when I left. I only left about 10 minutes after the trainer, who left about 5 minutes after the other customer. I thought it had stopped raining, but I ended up getting putting up my umbrella on the way home because the drizzle was getting to be a bit much. On Monday the weather forecasters thought it would be dry today. Yesterday they said 1-2 mm. This morning they said 8 mm. Now they’re saying 3-4 mm.
Guess it’s time to call it a day. Good night!
Howdy Y’all! Makin’ a quick post, as we are on a break until convention Eucharist at the local big Episcopal church at 5 p.m I came back to my room for some chill before I head out. We had a speaker who had us do some breakout stuff that was fun. There are numbers on the back of our badges that corresponded with tables we were to sit at and it was designed so that we wouldn’t sit with just our local peeps. My table was in front of the stage. Guess they figured I would behave better that way. I did not. I enjoyed my table mates very much.Tomorrow we can sit with peeps if we desire. The luncheon rubber chikin was actually surprisingly juicy and tender. Also had some really good penne in a light cream sauce, nicely steamed veggies and some awesome lemon cheesecake. Guess I should get myself together now and ask Google Maps to get me to the church on time.
Behold! My new Precious has arrived. All bow before her magnificence!
Fewer missorts today, but the one salad shooter in unload had a bit of schmutz on the thermal head, so we had to relabel a bunch of boxes because of the blank space. Things ran long because of the weather? Blueberries? Them? Damages and retapes took a while, because we had to rebox 4 trees, and 4 bales of cardboard bailing wire. I had to stop and buy offerings for The small Egyptian God(dry , flavorless bits and crack sticks), so I got home at 1:30. Since laundry will take a bit and it’s an early start tomorrow, I’ll just stay up and take one continuous nap rather than 2 short ones. Dinner is stir fried tuna, bok choi, and broccoli, with soba noodles. And a gin saketini. Spot has had several bouts of attention, and is currently watching vermin.
swampy walking into the Starbucks:
I need to make one one of these days. I enjoy Negronis and other bitter things.
This.
Also, I thought your avatar was a Weird Al Minion for a sec.
I took 3 years of French 30 years ago, but I can understand a lot of Spanish speakers better than some English speakers.
I for one enjoy the generic form email celebrating my x year(s) of service.
Good. Abstaining is no reason to perish from scurvy.
I’m reading this from several though kilometers away, and now I’m begging him not to do it.
At Brown, your first day is your Anniversary Date. Unless you were hired as a Temp during Peak Season. And listening to Senior Clerk(also one of our Shop Stewards) and the training PT Sup, there are 42 different answers to when “Peak Season hiring” starts.
Yay! and {{{{mollie}}}}
If only half the toxic stuff you told us was true, Pope Leo should canonize you as a Saint for still talking to them. {{{{shoe}}}}.
I’d use one if there was one!
I try to remember to use seasonal minions, but, well, I don’t brain real good these days.
Chillage is in store. Apart from laundry and a load of dishes, it’s been a lazy day.
Well, I decided to go back and read the unread posts from the Spot of Fun MMP of which there were approx 150. Finally finished.
We pronounce it doll-e-ah
Wouldn’t it have been even better to have been there? When’s the last time you attended a Jawja game in person?
this was also the processional hymn at my church up here in the Mitten
Thank you. For All Saints Day my daughter and I went to the cemetery, cleaned off my parents’, my grandmother’s and my aunt/godmother’s headstones. Then we said a rosary. I took a mum plant but when I drove into the front gates, there was a sign that said fall cleanup started this week; they were going to remove all decorations and dig up all flower beds. So, I just had the mum plant between my parents’ headstones while we sat for awhile. It was so pretty sitting there seeing all the beautiful colors of all the trees in the area.
omgosh, that is so, so, so gorgeous!!! I love the pattern but absolutely LOVE the colors!!! Now I’m glad I went back to finish reading the posts that were after my computer froze.
Can you use chicken breasts in place of chicken thighs?
Now for a few of this week’s posts:
I shoot news in our nation’s capital
Do you know Jen Golbeck? I first came to know of her on Twitter through The Golden Ratio about 9 years ago.
all right, just cut it out with the old lady stuff. Yesterday Rachel Maddow said she was very very old, that she’s as old as or older than trees. I burst out laughing. looked it up and she’s 53 anna half. 4/1/63 yep she’s an April Fools baby. Anyway many/most of us are definitely older than her and we don’t think YOU are old. Rachel might qualify for AARP but just barely.