(Old) So you want to be a star in the MMP

Nah, I’m blaming Fox and tucker. I keep Nextdoor non-political and shut down COVID threads right away. Unless someone is asking for prayers or support for a family member with COVID, I leave those open until the CT’s start with their shit, and then I shut it down.

Cordes Lakes Unlimited probably owes about half their membership to me and most of them start by bitching about the moderation on Nextdoor.

Fun fact: there are 347 people with my name in the state.

Oh, well, that is totally different. I would certainly want to be able to turn something in as long as I knew I would be getting it back so I could fix it.

You were rushed and you have to work without seeing what you are doing. I think you do amazing work, I would never consider trying to do something like that because I would judge myself against you and come up short every time.

He most certainly is! He’s had on-line fans fly all the way from another state just to visit and scratch his fuzzy ears. (On their way to visit family.)

That’s how it was when I was asked to be a mod. It’s not that way anymore. Nextdoor is meant to be the place to look for a lost pet or buy or sell a used appliance, it’s not meant to be FB and I won’t let our little piece of it be used that way.

I’m actually wondering if they could be dyed. Here’s hoping that they are fairly easy to clean.

Is your keyboard corded? If so, tie the cord up and put it on the top rack of your dishwasher. Remember to shut the heated cycle off. Let it air dry. If it works, great. If it doesn’t, well it was broken already.

That’s a hard nope from me. I’m a weenie and I live in one of the two skin cancer capitals of the world. I spend a bunch of time outside, playing in my garden is one of my favorite things closely followed by sitting on my porch and stitching while admiring my garden. I just like to keep at least one barrier between my lily white skin and the fierce Arizona sun.

Well, that sucks!

Are you able to reverse the hose to maybe loosen the clog up enough to finish sucking it through? Maybe a little percussion therapy?

I really REALLY wish there was something I could do to help.

Hurray! You certainly do deserve to have a good one more often!

I’ve had several friends with asthma who smoke flower. Once they were able to vape, they all moved to that because of the impurities in flower smoke (which is what probably caused your headaches). As a not-expert, I would suggest you ask someone who knows more about it than me.

I know that me smoking pot during menopause kept hubs alive but not everyone goes on a hormonal roller coaster.

That’s how I know I’m doing a good job as a Nextdoor lead!

Today was another lazy day. Coffee on the porch while the sweet spicy smell of the carnations filled the air. The 4 o’clocks are setting flowers, I am really looking forward to smelling them with the carnations, the fragrance is just heavenly.

All of my baby plants (pomegranate, mulberry and pyracanthia) are doing well, but I am a little disappointed that we don’t have pomegranate flowers this year. It’s not that surprising, they don’t usually set fruit for a couple of years, but I don’t want fruit, I just want pretty flowers. The various lavenders are covered with bees and there are butterflies playing in the white clover.

I like my garden better every year :slight_smile:

He’s on a different side of the international date line than we are, so it’s still Friday for him. I think, it’s been a long time since I had to try to figure out what day it was in a country on the other side of the world.

Thinking even harder, no, it isn’t Friday, it is Sunday. Now my brain hurts and I probably need to smoke some weed to get over the effort.

Oh, I’m already on that roller coaster. I think Hubby needs me to start just so I don’t throw meat at him again.

Hooray. You’ve not had too many of those recent. Got the rest of us worried you do.

Honey, them ain’t hot flashes. Them’s power surges. Feel the awesome power of concentrated female hormones! Harness that and you could, I don’t know, boil water or something. :grin:

Ctrl-Y (redo) is your friend. It’ll put all that suddenly missing typing right back where it came from.


Nellie, that’s a tough row. Doesn’t matter what we suggest, you’ve already tried it and it didn’t / won’t work. Nastly luck for sure. {{Hugs}} ain’t much but they’re what I have.


As to me:
Eventually we’d had enough sun & warm poolside, so came inside to cool off & Dope’d a bit. 'Bout like swampie.

A bit later we walked to dinner at a moderately scruffy sports bar nearby. It’d be perfectly OK except their Muzak is urban rap played very loud. Which is a pretty comical fit for the well-off yuppies & well-off fogies around here. Does. Not. Fit. Food’s OK, but each time I go there I swear I’m not going back. Too loud and too annoying. One or the other I could withstand or maybe even enjoy, but both is too much.

Her Ladyship had sliders and fries and I had a “Mac Daddy” which was a large oblique bowl of penne pasta blended with diced chix breast, diced shrimp, diced asparagus, diced red peppers, all tossed in a Cajun-spiced cream sauce. Real tasty. Had to work some to eat only half the penne and all the other stuff but it was worth it. It sprinkled a bit as we walked home, but the rain has missed us. So far. Should be a pretty night.

She’s watching an Amazon movie, I’m trying to understand any of the dialog while yakking with y’all and most everything is right with the world around here.

Take care all.

@JaneDoe42

Class went well this morning. I sat at a table with three ladies and we discussed the block. I was not the only one that had trouble. We heard the other tables also discussing it. There are twelve people taking the class. I am the only man in the building, but they have seemed to be ok with it.

Up from naptime. Watching the Stanley Cup Finals, and drinking a Cuba Libré.

It was Ground, but it was missing any stickers:

And that stuff looked more like ordnance than 1.4 Explosives, anyways.
Hazardous Ken: < puts broken toilet on motor along with boom sticks >
Me: “Too bad the toilet’s broken, we could fill it with the ‘fireworks’ and some flammable liquids from Haz-Mat, and set it off in the parking lot.”
Hazardous Ken: “You grew up with the same friends I did” .:smiley:

Well, Ivanavoa would be pleased, and Ivanova is always right.

I listen to Glen Beck and Unhinged Evangelical Radio(today’s question: How to beseech God to strike your slightly liberal preacher dead) for entertainment value, but I wouldn’t watch it exclusively.

[Sci-fi trope]We have to reverse the polarity![/Sci-fi trope]

Edit: Dagnabbit, my Cuba Libré evaporated while I was typing this.

The Cuban-style roast pork, white rice, black beans, and mojitos were good.

I don’t know if the mint plant the Spousal Unit bought (and today, transplanted) will last through the weekend.

Went through the box of pictures, took out the dupes, put some in the shred bin. Have some mystery people to figure out. Always a good time.

I give thanks to God that when I went through it things were easy. At least no major mood swings. I was just glad not to have a monthly period

Did she put it in the ground? If so, you will be telling us about your battle with it for as long as you live there. Catnip is a mint. The plant I carefully isolated in a pot over 5 years ago keeps popping up all over the back garden.

Some people get easy, some have it harder. The no period thing is wonderful, as is the longer time between pap smears.

JtC, I took off the shift key and cleaned under it with an isopropyl alcohol swab and it seemed to do the trick. I have no dishwasher with which to try your trick.

I finished up a gift set of cards for SIL this morning in the studio. She’s turning seventy and came of age in the seventies, so that was the theme. In recent years, she’s requested a card set as a birthday present, which is always fun to figure out a theme and make.

baker and JtC, I’ve been lucky to not have had a period in 15 years. I’ve had an IUD since BtY was born and have never had a period on it. I apologized to Hubby and BFF for being bitchy today and Hubby pointed out that I haven’t been able to use my period as an excuse for bitchiness over the last 15 years, so I deserve to use my menopause as an excuse. :rofl:

I understand all of those words individually…

He’s a keeper!

We are going to have to put child locks on our cabinets. The doors have those spring loaded hinges that close them. GG has learned that we keep things behind the doors, and he has also figured out that he can hook his claws between door and sill to open it. What a smart kitty, right?

Well, no. He pulls the door open with his foot, then lets it go while he is looking inside. This allows the door to smack him upside the head so he runs off crying while VBC just gives him the dumbass look. Hubs thinks that GG will figure out that if it hurts every time he does something, he will eventually stop doing it. I think hubs is really over optimistic about this so child proof locks it is.

No, in a planter. Sadly, the mint I did plant in the ground never took off. I had high expectations based on my experience in our back yard in Lancaster. Up here? Just didn’t spread. And the weeds virtually killed them off.

I’m sorry not to be tracking all of you well. I wish you all the best, and I just can’t keep up if I miss even one day :frowning:

As for me, it’s countdown to colonoscopy time. I’m starting the diet a day and a half early because Ozempic slows my gastric emptying. I was able to find the one store with apple jelly, a non-red, fiber-rich spread.

Next time, ask here and I will make some nice apple jelly for you. No artificial sweeteners or preservatives or colors.

I don’t usually ask for hugs, but I need a few tonight. Mom is left handed, I am right handed. Needlework thread usually has a left twist so that right handers don’t untwist it as they are stitching, we just need to let it untwist every so often. Lefties untwist their thread with every stitch which causes tangles and knots. I know this because Mom has complained about it all of my life.

Mom has forgotten this.

I haz a serious sad right now.

Thank you, and I’m sorry about your mom.

Vegas wins the game(what are the odds!), which makes me happy.

You showed up, that’s enough. :slight_smile:

{{{{Jane}}}}

That’s just desperation on my part. I’m hopeful about the TENS unit, though!

Guess which kind I had? :rofl: And it simply refused to go away. I thought I’d be the only one in the Happy Gums rest home that still had to order out for supplies. Turns out I had a condition that could only be treated by yanking the works. And since right now, the guys and some of the gals are probably in the fetal position begging for the mind pictures to go away, I’ll change the subject…

I think it’s so cool that you make your own cards! I couldn’t see the photo, though. And I’m sorry about your mom’s memory. I’m not appalled at the thought of losing my memory; I’m appalled at the thought of my kids having to cope with it. I’m sure your mom felt the same. And thanks for the GG story to share with my daughter!

Wow, really? Not my exper–whoops, I said I was done. Good for you, though.

You have my sympathies.

Sorry, y’all, Long Night kicked my monkey ass.

I saw her followups. I will state that combo THC/CBD products are often more successful for pain relief (the short cut term is “entourage effect” where the two combined are more effective than either separately e.g. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts) and there are also a lot of people who swear by what’s called “micro dosing” where you take just a leeeeeetle tiny bit … rather frequently. This allows it to slowly hit your bloodstream, rather than giving you a big wallop over the head at once.

Ah, and as to the TMI topic at hand, my mother went through menopause at the exact same time I hit puberty.

… my poor father …

Taz used to do that. Many a morning, I’d go to the kitchen and find half the base cabinet doors open. He could even get the pantry door open, since it’s held closed by magnet catches. Cats are toddlers in little furry suits.

Ah, menopause - all it took was a couple of hours in surgery and WHAM - there I was at 35… I was bummed that Daughter would be our only child, but on the plus side, I saved a fortune in feminine products over the decades. :grin:

We had to turn the a/c on yesterday, and we’ll do the same today since it’s supposed to approach 90°. Then rain tomorrow, which will be most welcome. On Tuesday, Daughter has invited her entire staff and their spouses for a picnic at our marina (there will be maybe 10 attending.) SIL will man the grill and I’ll be First Mate when FCD takes folks out in the boat, if any want to go.

I’m mildly ticked because the two of them did all the planning and I heard about it in an oh-by-the-way manner - that happens way too often with those two. It’s not deliberate - it’s just that FCD’s brain shelves things when they’ve been decided and he doesn’t always remember that I wasn’t present for the planning. But heaven help me should I do the same.

OK, no more whining - after nearly 40 years, I can’t see him changing.

So, cushions go back today, cleaning continues. But first, caffeination!

Happy Sunday!