Louis Armstrong was just repeating the cleaned up version of what Fats Waller said decades earlier. Someone asked Fats to define Jazz. his response was : “if ya gotta ask, don’t f@ck wit it”
Uh-oh: active shooter not far from here. Lots of sirens going by.
Sorry.
If we hadn’t been given the impression that they would take us back early, I would agree. Three hours of hearing each name be called that isn’t yours and not going to go get something to eat when you’re sitting there starving. and scurrying off to the bathroom quickly because you might be next made it very unpleasant.
Speaking of unpleasant, remember the religious school that I worked for briefly? They finally paid me and sent me a check today. They deducted $700 for some as yet to be determined reason. I’ve emailed them, but don’t really expect a reply until tomorrow. I think the real irony is that I was so worried about acting appropriately the whole time that I worked there and here they are the ones who don’t seem to have acted very appropriately themselves.
At home today because lager had a vet visit.
I believe he is having a bout of pancreatitis. He was a bit off last night. Then got sick this morning. Good thing the visit was planned.
I put his Halloween cape on so he would look cute. He had the inaugural ride in the new pram. He did his usual acting out at the vet. I rubbed his nose and sang the song.
They gave him some anti nausea med and sub cu fluids. Tests will be run. Hopefully his remission is holding.
He was happy about the after visit tiki cat.
Good thoughts for ailing pets. 
No change in Amazon delivery status. Figure my books are in a corner somewhere, by some sort of slide or pig or whatnot.
Nellie yay for an easy fix for the computer woes! Hope mine is an easy one when I get around to doin’ sump’n about it.
Taters yay for usin’ up comp time! Savin’ that little one was a heroic act, IMO.
Beautiful 78 degree out.
Friend is bringing me toilet paper soon.
This is a pic of her with her brother Frankie (Nelson’s father) at her shoulder. She was a sweet and spicy little dog.
Perhaps just in the German speaking part of Switzerland.
Yeah, if you have a smart TV, a Roku stick or other streaming device. The last Roku stick I bought was only $30 and installation is just plugging one end into an outlet and the other into the USB port on your TV.
Would she use a bedside commode if there is room for one?
You could fix my supper any night of the week!
I’ve had tight shoulder and neck muscles all week, with headaches thrown in for good measure. I made the decision to take tomorrow off. I’ll put pants on long enough to go for a massage, then hang out in my jammies the rest of the day.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Howdy Y’all! As I mentioned earlier today has been a day of high RDOS inactivity. I should have taken my laptop to the hospital, but I didn’t feel like leavin’ da cave. I did manage to get sup cooked and et. Go Me!
Nope. We tried that, to no avail. She is trying to be as normal as she can, and denial is strong in this one.
Just finished half an hour of stationary biking - it was more of a workout than walking. I passed on walking today because of shin splints, and I’m thinking I may stick with the bike. No fresh air, but more of a workout.
I don’t trust the heart monitor on the bike, tho. It showed my pulse in the 200BPM range. Nope, I’m not buying that, especially on the lower tension at the beginning of my ride. It would occasionally drop to a more reasonable half of that, then jump right up. Whatever. I just need the time and distance to be accurate and I’m good. Oh, and the resistance settings.
The rest of today is for chillage. And an apple.
So the active shooter turned out to be some guy who was taking shots from his balcony, trying to hit his ex and her boyfriend (he missed). Cops showed up, but somehow he got out of the building. They finally caught up to him in western Minnesota and he was arrested.
I went to one of the almost daily free dinners at a church.
A young guy who lives in my building was there.
I heard him telling someone he was in the psych ward for 9 days.
Then this woman came in. He apparently hadn’t seen her for awhile.
They hugged face to face smiling.
He says, How’ve you been? You wanna get laid? You wanna go to my place? and they left.
Dammnnnn.
In cleaner news, my church friend brought me a 45 pack of toilet paper.
This will likely last me a month and a half.
Wow. Glad they found him.
I got a response about my money. They said that I had not given proper notice. I forwarded them my proof of proper notice and they said they would discuss it tomorrow and get back to me. I feel a little better about the situation now.
A much smoother Tuesday, a combination of most people being Tues-Sat people, Tuesday being slower, and the loss of some of the volume to the Garner building. I did my Aldi run, and Spot and I napped. Now it’s time for a Manhattan and some hockey.
Yes.
Counterpoint: Parliamentary democracies can call more frequent elections. Italy had something close to 40 governments in the first 50 years post-WWII.
“We slapped a PAL sticker on it, but we’ve hired so many Blueberries that we only know it’s on a package car, not necessarily the right one.” 
Awwwwww.
< takes notes for the next time I go out to the bars >
You can’t dock people money, let alone $700 for lack of notice. That’s wage theft. 
Gotta admire the efficiency of communication.
Some jerk pulled the fire alarm at the entrance of the building.
It could’ve been anyone as you don’t have to come into the building to do so.
I hate that my hearing is compromised because of the loudness. I need ear protecting headphones.
Message returned, thank you so much!
Oh no, don’t stop now! I’m loving all of the very fun stuff!
It’s odd what people pick up on. I was seriously proud of myself for being able to think about bringing towels to a flood, usually I only think about that sort of thing after the situation is over.
So, I’m not a hundred percent positive. I’ve got really crappy eyes and it might not have been flying squirrels. I know fer sure that it wasn’t bats. I’m also pretty sure that it was too dark for birds to be flying around or even awake.
Harry (he might josh me about Cryptids, but he does know the local wildlife very well) said that he knows that there is a scurry of flying squirrels by the river and also told me to not fuck with them (he used nicer words).
When I asked if it was because they had a radioactive bite that would turn me into a were-flying squirrel, he really thought hard about his next words…I could tell that he wanted to agree…but he said that they were super fragile and if someone messed around their nesting area, they would leave and not come back. Plus, they are federally protected and nobody wants the feds to come messing around in our woods.
I just sent that link to my BFF. That is just the sort of thing she would wear to the monthly office “bonding” afternoon.
Hurray for free and fast fix! I once had a phone stop charging because it had too much pocket lint in the port, so I do know that it is a thing…kinda.
Our fobs are horrible about opening our trunks. Both of us had to learn new habits about taking our keys off our belts before sitting down lest a trunk or two popped open.
She seemed to take things more seriously after the CPS lady laid into her. The police were just the icing on the cake.
I was there to help people feed their children, I wasn’t there to watch children get run over while their mothers were playing around on their phones.
They are small and fast. They don’t fly, they have a built in hang-glider that they steer with their tails. I’d turn the outside lights on next time Jolene says they are there, but I’m afraid that would be considered to be fucking with them and I don’t want them to go away.
Don’t get ahead of yourself now!!!
Bin went out and has been retrieved. Someone knocked on our door and asked that I text her when we are putting aluminum cans out again so I agreed to text her and put them behind the fence instead of in front with the can.
I’m happy to have someone regular to come and get them, I worried that if we put them out at night that the trash guys would grab them and take them to the landfill.
I really “enjoyed” that book. Actually, I hated it. I had no idea how badly poor women were treated in London and got very angry at several parts. I did enjoy how the writer focused on the women as people instead of “the victims”, it made them so much more real to me.
Despite hating the impotent rage it made me feel, I highly recommend it to everyone no matter their level of interest in the killer.
I will be SO happy when it is over. I don’t know enough about the local issues, but did take the time to research the judges. I won’t vote for anything I don’t know enough about though.
Oh, an Oort blanket, that sounds delightful. Making an Oort ball of yard first would make it so wonderfully random. I approve!!!
Back in AZ, trash went out in Wednesdays no matter which town we lived in for the last 30 some years. Changing to Tuesdays has been a little challenging to say the least.
Sometimes I’ll see littles come running in the door and just throwing themselves into the pool. I always start moving to a ladder because running would be faster than swimming under all of the lane markers. No worries, all of them come bobbing up laughing and shouting. Teaching kids how to swim early is important because the body memories last a life time.
New phone is here. Gotta get used to the different inputs.
I thought Jolene was telling us that the squirrels were flying, but she was actually telling us that a moth had gotten in. She is a fierce hunting cat after all!
She’s also gained almost three pounds since we brought her home and she’s got a bit of a belly now. Not fat, but it is obvious that she doesn’t miss any meals. They get four cans a day and she eats most of it. It will be much cheaper when she stops being a teen aged eating machine and turns into a cat.
Remember to dust your ports!!!
I always hate teaching a new phone how to do what I want as well.
I can’t easily get to the forest from here, so tomorrow we will be going north to find a place where I can collect red and yellow leaves. We do have public river access close, but no sidewalks and I don’t do well off road anymore.
My phone is at full charge, expect many pictures tomorrow!