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Ah, that’s why I forgot. None 'round here nor near wherever I’ve ever lived. Never even seen one. So my brain goes, “Meh, unnecessary info” { waves hand dismissively } and flushes the data.

That’s shit, and I { glares } would like to speak to your manager.

There’s a cath’lick joke in there somewhere.

(What are holy peas? Are they anything like holey socks?)

Jeebus. I can stomach a lot that most folks can’t handle, but that kind of competitiveness would … oh gawd the anxiety … I’d be a whimpering ball huddled in a dark corner.

That was a lot of my yesterday at work, too. With various values of “attempts.”

As outdated as the tech is (floppy disc! HA!) some lessons from that movie will never grow old.

Heh. Heh heh heh.

Man, I’m still in a mood about last night. I thought a day or two ago that I’d be all, “Oh, noes, 45 pizzas!” but I honestly don’t even give a shit about worrying about those anymore.

It’s the weird interpersonal dynamics that will probably rear back up again, and piss me off, and a cranky Shoe is herself not the best team player … I’m just glad S.M. will be at the helm today, at least until Le Bigge Order goes out (she’s Early Out tonight, not a closing manager) so I don’t hafta keep saying, “I don’t know, man, I just work here” and also hassling a certain co-worker to, yanno, do her damn job … along with literally the entire crew.
(“[Name] where are you? Can you get that phone?” Her job was to answer the phone and take orders. Not to stand around the break table stuffing her face.)

Ugh, too cranky! Must go kill zombies for a while.

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Afternoon all. Shopping took a bit longer than expected but the list is completed and everything is put away. Mowage will commence in a short while and then we’ll see if swimming is advised. Might skip it as Friday is a low-calorie intake day and between pushing a shopping cart in three stores and coaching soccer, I’ll get at least some exercise. But habits…

Oh, bought a bunch of King-Sized Snickers to give to the boys tomorrow for Halloween; partly because I’m a good guy but mostly because I remember this cartoon: x.com

Shoe, now play nice with the juveniles… :wink: :grin:

FCM, at least Ziva has a good reason for her doing the business on the carpet.

Lily, JtC, envy you both, I never grasped a foreign language, have enough problems with English at times, so who knows what I have missed in my life.

I borrowed it from an old saying “Helicopters don’t fly. They beat the air into submission.” Being around US Army helicopters for nearly 30 years I grok it.

And JtC, very nice picture.

Taters, hope the other parties get things together and make your life less complex.

Talkie, best of luck to overlygirl. My neighbor’s daughter was on a softball travel team and HS team, but found college softball a bridge to far.

And the lawn isn’t getting mowed with me sitting here. Take care and off I go.

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But wait!!! I have more to say, in order to put off doing actual things.

Local high school. I wanna say it’s these guys?

Pretzel has exited slithered out of the chat.

A video of you strummin’ a guitar in front of a pickup truck, and you gotcherself a newfangled country music hit.

Oh, my goodness. He had that “I am amazing, I know it, and YOU know it” expression.

Looks like an orange version of Clint, a dearly departed brown tabby Maine Coon who … well, Best Cat In The World title has some competition.

:people_hugging:

Um. I forgot that part.

Couldn’t get a babysitter that day? Bring your kid to work day?

Karma. She’s not always a bitch.

Oh, yeah, on that note …

… took an order for a small deluxe last night. Guy calls back less than a minute later, asks how much for a large. I give him that price, and add, “… and for a medium, it’s $X” cuz that’s usually what they ask next.

He says, very politely, let’s stick with the small, please, ma’am.

(You can metaphorically hear people pinching pennies and scrounging in couch cushions during conversations like that.)

(Also, when the fuck did I turn into “ma’am”?!?)

Well, we had a half-made “ooops” sitting around the fridge from a while earlier - did I mention the friggin’ chaos yesterday? - that just so happened to be ezzactly what he wanted, and we were desperately trying to offload it … except it was a medium.

I didn’t get to hand it out to him, but it was reported that a “thank you!” and a gigantic smile came back.

It’s the not-so-grown-ass adults that are the problem.
The sixteen-y-o is a friggin’ rock star.

When she stays off her damn phone. But I will say, she’s gotten way better about that.

I was gonna say, “Knowing what pendejo means” and then remembered, if someone is cursing at you directly, it doesn’t matter what language. You’ll know.

I watched backup-manager beat a pizza into submission, more than a few times. Sometimes the crust bubbles up and just will. not. stay. down.

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Today’s plans include borrowing Ms. Dog for a walk. I can’t go down to Capital Swamp (OK, Lake, but it’s getting swampier as they let it go back to an estuary) without her, as I feel guilty enjoying the ducks by myself. I’ll also call my eldest sister, as we talk Mondays and Fridays–and sometimes in between, if she runs into a problem of some kind.

Shoe, your theory makes the most sense, though I don’t know what they did with the cameras and lighting equipment when the maintenance guy was up there. Maybe it was low, LOW budget or a photoshoot for OnlyFans. Imagine the fun I could have had if I’d known, pounding on the door and yelling, “Police vice squad! Come out with your hands up!” before sneaking back down the stairs. Oo, I could play doggio’s version of “Bad Boys,” too!

Oo! I like both of those theories! I don’t think they were Russian spies, though, because she wasn’t wearing a strapless black dress, and he wasn’t wearing a black trench coat and black hat. Yes, all I know about Russian spies, I learned from Rocky and Bullwinkle. If they were aliens, I missed seeing Big Giant Head.

I see from the replies that I need to clarify, as the upstairs apartment has changed tenants a few times recently. First there were The Boys, a quiet oldish couple who had one huge, loud, knock-down fight annually. They moved out when rents increased. Tenants #2 were the couple with the little kids who ran nonstop in cement shoes for hours until about 1 a.m.. They left in a huff and without notice when management told them to knock it off. Tenants #3 were the porn stars–no kids, no arguments, just those 6-inch heels clomping across the floor for a little while.

wordy, my fingers are crossed for overlygirl! I hope she’s one of the lucky (talented) winners!

My school district had a board member like this. He said he drove around at 4 p.m., and the school parking lots were empty, so teachers clearly had it easy. I was ticked. My car was parked on the street and had been since 6:30 a.m.. ALL the faculty parked on the street at the HS because the kids parked in the lot, and we liked our cars sans dents. Also, people went to take their kids to soccer practice, where they sat in their cars and graded papers. The sweet irony was that he got fired as Assistant DA shortly thereafter. I like to think it was because he was surveying parking lots instead of working at his desk.

Anyway, Taters, glad I don’t have your job! It sounds exhausting.

JtC, wow, that’s a gorgeous cat who really must have been the best cat in the world! Is there a story behind that name?

FCM, I got a kick out of your Stones dream. I imagine you telling a docile Mick Jagger to strut around the furnace during “Tumbling Dice.”

Yipes. They didn’t charge me anything. Maybe Discover felt sorry for me because I lived in Wyoming.

Goodness! Do I ever shut up?

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Different shoot. Three doors down the hallway.

We can always be friends.

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I did a minor home improvement involving wood glue and Super Glue. I now have S.G. on my right hand, and no nail polish. I guess it will wear off. Eventually

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Ever have one of those days when you load the washer, put detergent in the dispenser, and forget to turn it on?

Yeeeaaaahhhh…

dammit

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Been done, but as a soft rock song in the 1970’s (my time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWdcZqG02Ls

Nellie, you and Ms Dog enjoy the duck walk.

You’re like John Adams…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAyPiioZ-kk

FCM, BTDWT (Been there didn’t wash that)

Mowage and some other misc.yard work is done, as expected my motivation to change and go to the gym is low, so I’ll just try to be more active at soccer practice tonight.

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:joy:

Ok, but you must concede that Bubba is the best dog ever.

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Heh. (She says while looking at super glue on her fingernail from, uh, several days ago!)

I’m contemplating a nap soon. I finished the holy peas and even made one wearing a yarmulke! Then, of course, MusicMan asked how you circumcise a pea!

Oh, and shoe, they’re just more of my little pea ornaments. Catholic, Episcopalian, Jewish, etc…

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16 years ago today, an ex and I walked into a PetSmart – after learning that a puppy we’d seen on Petfinder would be at a local rescue’s adoption event – and left with a 9-pound, 3-month-old ball of fur wearing a tiny blue collar with a tag that said Bailey. :dog: The ex already had a dog, so this one would be “mine”: I’d had a different name picked out but he was never crazy about it, and when we saw the Petfinder listing we both liked “Bailey” better. Seven months later, the relationship ended: thankfully/luckily the puppy had bonded with me way more than with the ex, and when I moved out I took her with me. It’s been her and me against the world ever since. :two_hearts:

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Home Depot just called: my new storm door has been ordered! Yay! The installer now has 3-5 business days to contact me and schedule the installation. The whole shebang came to under $600, which is less than I expected; the labor costs aren’t bad at all. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have bothered asking my property manager about having his brother do the installation* and I would have had it by now…ah, well. At least it seems like having the new door before Thanksgiving won’t be an issue. :crossed_fingers:

(*Guess who texted me at 10:30 this morning?! “Are you home? Can I come measure the door?” NOPE. :roll_eyes: )

Yesterday’s in-person work event went well – the presentations and discussions were interesting, it was good to see some folks in person and meet others for the first time, the food was yummy, etc. – but it was a long day: I left the house at 7:45am, and got home about 11 hours later (including a quick stop at the grocery store, which I passed on the way). Combined with working in the office on Wednesday, and Tuesday evening’s crappy sleep, it’s been kind of a long week: I’m glad to be working from home again today, really glad it’s Friday, and even more glad that all three of today’s meetings were either cancelled or rescheduled.

In other news, the World Series starts tonight! Let’s Go, Yankees!! :smiley: :baseball:

IIRC, several (dozen? hundred?) MMPs ago you mentioned having trouble finding them: I’m glad they didn’t actually disappear!

Personally, I’d likely say no: I’ve brought all of my food for the day and don’t need/want anything else, plus I have to stop working and take a break whenever I want to eat something. Whether someone else might, though…? :woman_shrugging: If things are busy it could be disruptive for an officer to leave their station even long enough to accept something and put it in the lunch room (we aren’t allowed to have food/drinks at the tables), but I could see someone doing so who’s either (a) interested in the item or (b) more worried about possibly offending strangers than I am. :grin:

My (only) credit card got compromised twice last year, and I never had to deal with customer service/a person: I updated my payment method by accessing all of my accounts/profiles online. And, the first time it happened I got inspired by some wise Mumper (whose name I no longer remember!) who mentioned that they used PayPal for as many services as possible. I switched as many things as I could to PayPal, and doing that wound up being super helpful after the second compromise. Also, as mentioned earlier, I made notes about what payment method (credit card, debit card, PayPal, etc.) is associated with every recurring/regular charge and when that charge usually hits. My “personal stuff” spreadsheet is a bit OCD, but I feel better prepared in case of another compromise – it was even helpful last month, when my debit card expired and I was sent a replacement.

Good to see you! :wave:

Ooooooo, it never occurred to me that there might be LED replacements for fluorescent tubes! Thank you!! My kitchen was remodeled shortly before I moved in 10 years ago, and the laundry room addition was built at the same time, and I will never understand why my property manager went with fluorescent lighting in both rooms. I hardly ever turn the laundry room lights on because there’s a window and I’m not usually in there at night, and I don’t turn the kitchen lights on much more often, but I had to replace a few tubes a couple of years ago and it was not fun. In fact I still have all of the old tubes in the laundry room, up on a shelf, because I can’t be bothered to bring them to the dump – all of 12-13 miles away – that will accept them. If I need to replace any others before I move out, I’m getting the LED ones.

Aww, so cool!

Yeah, my French – which I’d studied off and on since the 6th grade but, at best, was about as good as a toddler’s – has gone way downhill. I went to Paris with friends back in 2017 and spent time with Duolingo beforehand, brushing up. Once there, I was amazed at how many basic words and phrases came back to me relatively quickly. And my French would get better after I’d had a beer or two, because I got less self-conscious about it. Heh. But I started just about every conversation in French with “Je suis désolé que mon français soit terrible” (“I’m sorry that my French is terrible”), and would switch to English pretty quickly. :slight_smile:

Every now and then I will put things in the dryer and forget to start it…which, of course, I don’t realize until the next time I want to put things in the dryer.

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Howdy Y’all! Laptop woes continue. I called two different places today and left messages askin’ for a callback and why and they didn’t. :rage: However I shall persevere as there are other places. Outside of that and gettin’ stoner specials from Cookout, it was high RDOS inactivities at da cave Now I need Netflix, chill, and popcorn or ice cream or maybe popcorn and ice cream.

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Booooo!

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We’re back from our trip.

Goo is very vocal and happy to see us.

Abbey is mad at us.

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Welcome home!

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Posting from the south east shore of Beaver Lake in Eureka Springs AK. It is a beautiful day. Our deck looks out on the lake:

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I knew that this would be the one you would link to. :stuck_out_tongue: One of my all time favorites. Your boys will love it!

While Bailey is a nice looking girl now, she was an absolute cutie patootie as a puppy oopsie.

Got the chores done and the groceries bought. Now to mess around in the studio.

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Lily boo (NOB) indeed.

Hippie I could be very happy sittin’ on that deck wardin’ off malaria and scurvy with a few g&ts.

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Okay, they’re tucked in and Alexa is playing bedtime music. We shall see if they fall asleep or come up here. Wagers?

And I didn’t even finish the post before Roxy came up to tell me Tobias hit here. Siblings…

And before I finished this sentence, Tobias was up. Sheesh.

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As with me. I can still understand spoken Nihongo, but my tongue has forgotten how to make the sounds. Your first sentence was the same as mine, “Please excuse me I only speak a little Japanese”. (and that one rolls off my tongue like I last said it yesterday, LOL)

I self taught myself Latin as a hobby and it was hard! I rarely had occasion to use it and knew I had to keep up with it. Mostly I just wanted it because I like knowing about words. Because it was SO hard, I try to practice on a regular basis. Learning makes my brain feel good.

My knuckles also shrink or swell as the mood fits them. There are times when my ring is too tight and times when it will just slip off my finger if I’m not paying attention. All of those times happen at least once a day. This getting old shit is fer the birds.

I kinda think that’s why GG hasn’t ever managed to shake that fourth brain cell loose. He doesn’t need to, he has everything he needs or wants given to him on a schedule, or even between times if he asks for it. He used to have VBC to open doors for him and now has Jolene for his thinking brain cat.

Maybe the doctor telling you that your liver is OK and you can still drink a bottle of mead a night?

I can’t speak for Lily, but the main reason I learned Japanese and later Spanglish is food.

While I was stationed in Okinawa, I could eat on base or I could eat off base. If I went to the places all of the other Longnoses went, I would basically get the same food, with waitstaff that spoke English. If I wanted something different…the stuff that the locals ate, I wanted to be able to ask what the food was and if I could please have a fork.

The Okinawa I experienced is not what tourists see in Japan today. (I was there when Okinawa was officially handed over to Japan and they changed from driving on the right side of the road to the left side of the road like they did it in Japan.) English was not that common and many people still had a lot of resentment towards America.

Not only did I need to be able to talk food to people, I also needed to know what people were saying around me.

Of course I learned Spanglish to order food in AZ and CA, but I used it often as a food stamp worker. The parents might not be qualified due to citizenship, but their babies were Americans and were going to grow up and enter the workforce in America. I wanted their little brains to develop properly so did what I need to to be able to communicate with the parents.

:people_hugging:

You are a pretty good person too yanno.

I am so cracking up right now. The picture in my mind of the pizza being beat into submission with a hastily grabbed long wood rolling pin by an over excited gay man filled my mind.

I believe you are probably right.

My BFF has a mouse jiggler. The state has a spy thing that notices if she hasn’t moved her mouse for a while and her manager gets a notice that she isn’t working. Hence the jiggler.

Lack of imagination and the Trap Neuter Release songs online. I was actually inspired to put one together myself.

"Steve pads warily down the street, his tail hanging low
Ain’t no sound not even his feet, this tomcats ready to go!

Are you ready? Are you ready for this? Are your claws digging into your seat?
Out in the alley a trap snap rings to the sound of a feral scream!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

And another ones lost his nuts!
Another ones lost his nuts!
And another ones fixed, another ones fixed, another one lost his nuts.

HEY

I’m going to trap some more, another ones lost his nuts!!!"

Do you hate me now, LOL!

Oh, Happy Gotcha Day to you both!!!

Dang! Is there a We Fix It place close, we have used them with very good results.

Hey, take what you can get!

How lovely!!

Today Hubs took my car to get the oil changed and the wheels balanced and rotated. He left before I got up and tried to be quiet. I would have blissfully slept until my normal time but GG and Jolene started whining and yammering. At one point, Jolene ran across my pillow and hooked a claw inside my ear. I liked it much better before GG got door knobs figured out.

I was all headachey so didn’t feel like taking his car to the gym. When he got home, I fed him lunch and then went back out and reset everything AGAIN and went to they gym and soaked my head for an hour.

They are setting up for a thing tomorrow, not sure what, but I am pretty sure I’m not going to want to deal with it so I’m glad I went today.

Behold our cats:

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She’s getting too big to share that dinky crows nest with him, but they somehow manage.

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I napped. I was briefly disturbed by what I thought was Spot attempting to hornk on my bed, but turned out he just had a cat hair stuck up his nose. Having a Caipirinha and bacon Parmesan crusted haddock for dinner.

A soldier loses both legs in a battle. When he awakens, the doctor is standing over him. The doc says, “I have some good news, and some bad news. the good news in the soldier in the next bed would like to buy your shoes…”.

I took 3 years of French in high school. One time at a job 2 beautiful French girls walk in, speaking in French, and the only thing by brain could put together was Je suis un chien(I am a dog). So I kept my mouth shut to avoid an international incident, and a meeting with HR.

That and hour long conference calls are what I don’t miss management.

Indeed, but
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Happy Gotcha Day, Bailey!

Yuo showed me your Beaver. My day is complete.

I :heart: you even more.

AWWWWWWWWW!!!

“It was a preemptive counterattack!” - Tobias