Morning all. Up at 6:30 in the ay-em, seems that as I exercise more I sleep less, except for that one day every week-10 days that I stay in bed until 9am or later. Hasn’t happened yet but hope springs eternal…
My ‘dead’ phone, which I think I mentioned last week has, like Larzurus, risen from the grave and is working fine now. Will have to go back to the Verizon store and see if I can return the new replacement phone they gave me. Since there is an 80% chance of Thunderstorms after 10am today, best do that early, I think.
FCM, happy Sailor-Mom Anniversary!
Swampy beat me to all the good comments on Boo Fae, Nettie, and JtC’s posts, so I’ll simply add “what he said”.
Well it does involve multiple turkeys and an aircraft…
So you were Ely coming?
Somebody call Shoe!!
OK, fast has been broken and need to make myself appropriate for outside activities here in a bit. Take care all.
Morning all, stick humid this morning, possible thunder boomers today. I hope so. We are still in drought conditions.
FCM, I hope you get to see the duck. I haven’t seen it myself but I enjoy all the rubber duckies. I used one once to lure a kitten into the bathtub. It worked. Kitten was angry, but cleaner than before.
Ewww, ewww, ewww. But I can’t disagree. When grandparents were around, our cabin always smelled like dead fish. I don’t think my step-grandpa noticed that maybe he wasn’t burying the offal deep enough. But the flower garden thrived.
Fingers crossed that you and mom get to the eclipse next year.
Seanette, yah back muscles complaining about sitting at attention is normal every time I start a new job and have a new chair to get used to. It has gotten worse as I’ve aged. We both need to take JtC’s advice on exercise. But time for it?
Taters, that Polar is urping for attention. Seriously though, I hope he is improving.
It’s 58F and sunny outside; temps will top at around 87F. Once again, there will be abundant sunshine.
I didn’t really do too much yesterday. I took care of the flowers as usual. Around noon, I decided to treat myself to a pedicure. That massaging chair was just the thing for my back too!
After the pedicure, I fueled the Jeep and drove to Lowes. It’s “end of season,” for sure. Halloween decorations are up, and summer stuff is sparse. So is the selection of plants. I did end up purchasing three plant stands and two pots. After Lowes, I drove to Home Depot to pick up the pavers for my storage box base. However, late in the afternoon, that nursery is hot. The sun beats down on the manure and compost bags, and the pavers section is near. The smell was something, and the heat was atrocious. Suddenly, loading pavers and 50-pound bags of gravel base seemed like a crap idea. I wandered around the rest of the nursery to see if any plants struck my fancy, but the selection was sparse, and nothing caught my eye. So, I stopped at Jersey Mike’s on the way home and picked up a couple of subs for myself and my husband. Since it was so late in the after, those subs, which were filling and delicious, became dinner.
JtC, I hope the rest of your drive is peaceful and pleasant.
boofae, if you ever get up to this section of the PNW, we’ll have to meet up!
We are probably going back to downtown Tacoma to check out the art museum and might also check out the history museum. My husband was also talking about going out to brekkies, but you have to get up in the morning to do that, so I don’t know if we’ll do that. He came to bed late and will probably sleep in again.
I need to finish my coffee and give my flowers a nice drink of water.
Here’s a quip/quote I’ve enjoyed for years. It’s maybe not quite applicable to you today, but it’s still handy in general:
Of course your Mom knows how to push all your buttons. She installed every one of them.
That was/is certainly true with both my wives albeit in different ways.
My late first wife was the “ugly duckling” of her family. Definitely an Industrial Strength woman.
But she aged far better than did her sibs. With the result that by age 40 she was the plenty-good-looking non-disaster in the crowd. Which pissed them off something fierce. As the saying goes:
Aging well is the best revenge.
Yaay! That is touching and wonderful! Here’s hoping!
Some airports the opposite direction is quite a treat. At others it’s “more of the same”.
From my POV both ends of RDU are about the same: a long run over rolling forested hills into the relatively flat spot where they plopped the airport. Someone with more detailed local knowledge of the stuff on the ground might really appreciate going “wrong-way” to better see their house, or their burg’s downtown or whatever.
And double-yaay here! You go girl!
That describes it perfectly. Not quite “miserable”, but definitely full unto near bursting. The short walk home helped.
Giant rubber duck fest sounds like a must-do event. This spring we had this one:
1000 kids, many thousand numbered rubber ducks, then fling the whole pile in the river and whoever drifts past the finish line 1/4 mi away wins …???
The “river” there is pretty captive and slow-flowing, so recovering all the ducks afterwards isn’t too hard for the organizers; it’s not like umpteen thousand little blobs of never-decomposing plastic were just dumped willy-nilly into the ecosystem.
I’m confused that FCD can’t walk much, but is climbing ladders to install networking gear, PA systems, etc. I guess I’m just a selfish shit; if I had limited stamina it’d be spent on recreation, not work, even volunteer work.
Happy Navyversary to you !!!
Happy Navyversary to you !!!
Happy Navyversary to you dear CPO Moo-oom!!!
Happy Navyversary to you !!!
Good bet either your charging cable or the connector on the phone are flaky. This problem will recur.
As to me: slept well, awoke earlier than desired versus local time, but plenty late for body time. Another problem I won't be dealing with much longer.
Now Doping while slowly grazing through the hotel’s breakfast buffet. As is common here, the day dawns clear & cool, 65/18ish, the clouds will slowly build over the surrounding mountains all day then invade the valley in mid or late-afternoon and hose everything down thoroughly. Late night they disperse and the cycle repeats.
Should (that word again) be home later tonight shortly before bedtime. Then back to on-call awaiting my next easter egg.
Happy Thors’-day to all! Send not to ask over whom the Hammer of Daily Irritants is poised; It’s poised over thee.
They gave it to you? I say keep it. If your old phone died once, there’s a good chance it will again. Why not have a backup at the ready?
Went swimmin’ at the clubhouse yesterday afternoon. We’re usually in the water for 20 or 30 minutes max, but our neighbors happened to be there and we ended up yakking for almost an hour and a half. I was quite pruney. And hungry; it was past dinnnertime.
That’s pretty much all the excitement from these parts. I’m going to start the final exam for my proofreading course today. There’s no time limit, so I’m going to go slow and be thorough. I think I’ll do OK.
Light heaving in smalls. I got sentt to Secondary for a bit, because the 200 belt slipped a pin, and they had a bunch of Blueberries up there. When I got back to smalls, Panamanian Vince bonked a bag of bags off my head. A few more of those, and I’ll only be mentally fit to be Mr. Indictment’s legal council.
Well I wished we had landed the other direction the one time I flew into Memphis. I just happened to look out the window and down about a hundred feet before touchdown and saw nothing but dirt and construction equipment. My brain went “ABORT! PULL UP! PULL UP! PULL UP!” for a second, then the plane reached the actual runway and touched down normally.
< whispers >I don’t think snakes like pizza.< /whispers >
Happy Navyversary Moooommmm!!! I guess since you married a boat owner, you still have a thing for seamen.
That sounds kind of like the approach to SFO. If you’re looking out the window you’ll be absolutely convinced you’re about to land in the bay. Then suddenly, at the very last second, there’s an airport under you. Whew!
There was a six-ounce burger patty in the fridge that was looking a mite grey, so I decided I’d have to eat it now. So breakfast was a burger patty and two over-easy eggs. And psyllium husks as a chaser.
Happy Thorsday!
Nice cool morning, but we skipped the park. My son got off a bit early and I came home and went back to bed. Echo and Misiu are tired from daycare yesterday anyway.
Rayleigh slept all day yesterday, I don’t know if he was a little depressed being by himself, or he took advantage of the quiet to catch up on sleep.
Yesterday I was talking with my son and casually mentioned that we are looking at the house again tomorrow. He said ‘okay, and do you want the master bedroom?’
I think he is coming around to the idea.
I told him to pick whichever bedroom he wanted and I would work around that.
I honestly don’t know which bedroom I want; they each have advantages and disadvantages. I like the bedroom with the door to the backyard, but it is very small. I’m not sure my queen-sized bed will fit in there.
All the bedrooms in my house are nicely sized, and despite being Victorian, all of the bedrooms have nicely sized closets. Although I have no closets downstairs, which is a pain.
All the bedrooms in that house are small, and so are the closets.
I keep thinking about how I will arrange the furniture and what I want to do with each room. That’s why I need to go back and look at everything again, and be a little rude by opening closets and such.
I want to talk with him about money though.
We have options.
I was trying to use only the cash we got to pay cash for a house. However, we are going to have to dip into the stock or take out a small loan. However, if we do dip into the stock, we could buy up. We also have equity in this house.
I want to keep it as simple as possible. I don’t want to take out a mortgage.
But it may be worth it to dip into the stock and buy something that costs a little bit more.
We got the corrected version of the estate papers yesterday, and they aren’t even the same type of form as we got the first time.
Somebody screwed up, or somebody tried to pull some bs.
I read them over, a few things I don’t understand. I’ll read them over again today.
Yesterday we got a scare when the carbon monoxide detector went off.
My son unplugged it but left the battery in and took it outside, where it continued to beep.
It seems that 4 beeps mean call 911 and get out of the house now, but 5 beeps mean your detector is old and needs to be replaced. I thought it was 4 beeps, my son kept saying it was 5.
I don’t know who designed that fucked up system.
It was 5.
I ordered new detectors from da jungle and got them the same day.
I think THoDI is always hanging over my head.
I grew up near BWI, and often drove the road that ran next to the airport.
You could always tell the out-of-towners, because they were the ones who slammed on their brakes going up the hill under the flight path. We knew the landing gear was not going to rip off the roof of our cars, but it sure scared the shit out of people who weren’t used to seeing planes that close.
I know I am not going to get much done today.
I should log in to irk early as I already have a line of customers waiting for me.
For me, the two airports that landing at are an adventure if you have a window seat are Washington DC (south approach you are over water until seconds from landing) and Chicago Midway (has buildings/housing literally right up to the street across from the airport). Always have wanted to go to St. Maarten’s and watch the planes land over the beach (Extremely Low Landing at St Maarten Princess Juliana Airport- American Airlines A319 - YouTube)
Wheelie, I mis-spoke, they charged me for it (3 years of payments), so returning it will save me some dollars. And Pilot, I thought the same thing, but the same cord I used on my trip and then to try and bring it back to life last week is the identical one that powered it up this week, and the other cables work just fine…weird. I’m blaming the new TSA machines at Atlanta for no other reason than I can.
Nettie, happy to hear work is going well, I expect your body will adjust to the changes in a week or so…least I hope it does.
Sari, think it is wise to discuss the options with Sah-son; if he feels part of the decision-making it will make it easier for him to make the change when it comes.
OK, I think this will be nappage day, more rain is forecast in about an hour so sleeping through that shouldn’t be a problem. Take care all.
And then you wonder why he runs your life. You’re in charge. Take command. The boss who chooses not to lead is failing at being a boss.
You probably know this, but take good measurements of every room and of your existing furniture.
Then spend an hour with some 1/4" ruled graph paper and scissors laying everything out in several trial arrangements. This will pay great dividends. It is much easier to rearrange slips of paper than it is heavy furniture. Eyeballing it never works. There’s always something about a room or a piece of furniture that deceives you.
Also measure how far apart you put things like beds & nightstands, or sofas and end tables now. Pretending you don’t need that same space at the new place is another frequent source of major frustration later. Saying “It’s just a few inches” is a recipe for failure when you only have a couple of inches to spare.
As a bonus, you’ll also find out whether your bed fits in that secondary bedroom or not.
Quoting myself for context:
Not so fast there, Junior Birdman!
Our airplane taxied out at the previous hub airport, broke down somehow, taxied back, they fiddled with it for an hour, then gave up. So time for plan B: move the FAs, passengers, baggage, and catering to a different replacement airplane they shanghaied off a different flight. And also shanghai two pilots to replace the ones who were supposed to bring us the jet, who in turn went to fill some different hole in the floppy semi-molten swiss cheese that is our daily operation.
So now, about 2 hours after we were supposed to leave the hotel, our jet has taxiied out again and I see now that it just got airborne for the multi-hour flight to here. Now that it’s in the air the rest of its / our timeline is pretty solid and I can set up our transportation to leave the hotel to properly meet the flight without blowing an afternoon sitting in an airport, or contributing to additional unnecessary delay. Those FAs will be coming with us to home, so they’ll be real crispy by then. At least I’ll be able to find out the juicy details of what wrong.
Meanwhile I’ve enjoyed a couple hours’ walk in the nearby park on a sunny relatively cool (upper 70s) day. Folks jogging, playing softball, tennis, and soccer, a rollerblader on a proper banked-turn roller-track. Lotta toddlers out with Mom or Dad. Good to see all that.
Late at night back home Customs closes. The alternate arrangements for late international arrivals are … slow and tiresome. If nothing else goes wrong we’ll get there with about 30 minutes to spare. If.
Anyhow, gonna be at least midnight when I get home. Which then intrudes on my irk day on Fri. Delays are a gift that just keeps on giving. Sigh.
I really should edit this test report and send it to the lead for approval, but I don’t wanna so here I am instead. Less than an hour to go until it’s time to log off work and head to the gym…this report might just wait until the morning.
Thank you.
Turns out my therapist had a great idea: she suggested monthly sessions. I did wonder (out loud) about the efficacy of that frequency, but she said it’s common for her to have monthly sessions with patients who aren’t working through anything super significant and mostly just need/want a touchstone. So, we’re going to try that for the rest of the year and then I’ll decide whether to stop altogether (and, of course, she’s available between sessions in case of emergency). We’re also moving to Fridays, so I don’t meet with her the same day I go to the gym. The first Friday in September is Labor Day Weekend and the following Friday I’ll be in NJ, so my next session will be in mid-September. This might actually be a really good compromise.
I would NEVER!
Nice shirt…
I have no idea what my trainer has in store for me today, but hopefully it won’t be nearly as painful as all of that sounds…
Me, too! Dorsey Road! I know exactly what you mean about out-of-towners. We used to joke about submitting an insurance claim for tire marks on the car roof…heh. I remember when the aircraft observation area got built; I always thought that was a good/smart idea.
Yep, Dorsey Rd.
I lived in GB and my horse was on a farm off Montgomery Rd in Ellicott City.
Back then you could take Dorsey Rd out to Rt 1. I think Dorsey Rd got closed at the other end now.
So many times, I’d be driving along, minding my own business and the car in front of me would slam on their brakes.
If the plane was low enough to take out your car, it would already have taken out the trees and houses along the road.
When I was a kid, it was Friendship Airport and you could go inside where there was a big window to watch the planes take off and land.
He has a problem walking because of the work he’s been doing at the school. And he’s doing the work at the school because our daughter is a priority in his (and our) life. Same reason I keep the grandkids - my MIL helped us out watching our daughter when I was working. I am able and willing to help her, tho we’ll be getting Tobias into pre-preschool in January, so I’ll be reduced to picking the two of them up in the afternoon and getting them home.
But we do what we do because that’s how our family is. And once the work at school is done (probably next week) we’ll get back to our boat. That’s the nice thing about retirement - we can choose what to do.
The talk of approaches takes me back to NAS North Island, where I learned to fly. The base (NZY) was right across a narrow bit of San Diego Bay from SAN. We had to stay to the base half of the bay for our approach/departure. Many times, there was an aircraft carrier tied up right under our approach path. I had dreams of losing power just as I crossed the Coronado bridge so that I’d have to land on the flight deck! Of course, that would be stupid - when the ship was in port, there was all kinds of crap on the flight deck. But a girl can dream!
One of my sisters lives just off North Hammonds Ferry Rd. My late Uncle Bob used to have a house on property that abutted the airport - when they wanted to expand, he made a few bucks. Heck, I remember when it was Friendship Airport and they had an observation deck on top of the terminal - my dad took us there to watch the planes take off and land. That would have been in the early 60s. (Ninja’d by sari, dammit!)
It rained while I was in Aldi with the kids, but no precip when we came out, so yay! Needless to say, I’m home, about to indulge in some major chillage.
Howdy Y’all! High sloth and general overall uselessness has indeed ruled the day. We had some good weather for quality cee-mint pond time and day drinkin’. We squeezed in nappage (gotta work on our timin’!) and have had sup. Now ‘tis Netflix and chill time. We’ve been watchin’ Legacies and sorta don’t like it, but kinda like it, so I guess we’ll see it through to the end. A whole lot of teenage vampire/werewolf/witch angst in that show. Some cool monsters though.
I really do want to make this happen if she can. I don’t think I’m getting her on another plane (and I would be willing to fly clean for her), but she likes being a passenger and looking at the scenery. It could work now, I’m not sure about 9 months from now.
Thank you guys for the reminder, congrats! I’m glad you fitting in so well. Remember to stand up and stretch at least every hour. If you can take a quick walk around the building on breaks do that too. Desk work is really hard on the body, so take care of it!
I waved in your general direction today wheely. I drove across the bottom of Nevada to Utah and waved when I saw the sign saying Las Vegas because I figured it was the closest I was going to get.
You are soooooo bad!!!
Bring pizza. Treat him like a wild animal, and reward the good behavior. Every time you say you like something and he doesn’t protest, give him some pizza. Eventually he will come to associate the house with good things which should make him more amenable.
Many interior walls aren’t supporting the roof and can be safely removed by a licensed contractor. Perhaps you can turn two small bedrooms into one large room with a door to the back yard. (This is especially true for manufactured homes.)
My trainer gives us healthy snacks after our work-out.
Then she lectures us about the importance of eating a good diet while slugging down an energy drink. I have gotten very good about not saying things…
Watched the Strange New Worlds Musical Episode
It fits in canon, truth be told
I’m sure online the haters will rage
But they probably had issues with The Cage
Evening all. Did do some nappage and after dinner went to the gym to get a little exercise in for the day. About 50 minutes of pedaling and 25 in the sauna got a good sweat going, so that worked out well. Got one rainshower this afternoon, weatherman is saying we’ll get more tomorrow morning. Temp is down to 74F, so time to give the AC a break and open up a window or two.
Pilot, looks like your flight was about 3 hours late; hope you made it to bed before midnight.
Oopsie, sounds like monthly is a good compromise, see how it goes.
Yeah, the Age of Terror shut that down. As a kid I remember going to the Cleveland airport to watch planes, the TWA Constellation was the big ‘too see’ at the time.
OK, about time to improve on nappage and head off to bed. All y’all take care.
Happy Navyversary to you !!!
I guess since you married a boat owner, you still have a thing for seamen. 
Watched the Strange New Worlds Musical Episode