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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I sorta figgered that was the story. I can certainly relate. Sometimes the best part about a vexation is the whining rights it confers around here. :slight_smile:

“Amusing” would totally be my word for it. Physically inconsequential (thanks to modern miracles) and involves childish fun with pooooo–oo–oo–oooping!!1!!1. Let your inner 4yo run wild with it! And you get pix of your innards when it’s done. How cool is that?!? :grin:


Aaaand the bastids got me. Off to irk. Sigh.

Was having brunch at a Mom’n’Pop café near the beach with Her Ladyship when the Dreaded Phone Call arrived. She was enjoying her breakfast tacos and mimosas while I was munching a patty melt with too much ketchup and too many onions (AKA almost enough of both), a salad, and a coffee.

We finished our meal in the normal pace then walked home in the noontime heat & blazing sun. She’s wilting; I’m exulting. Once home she collapses in her chair to cool off & I mop out my pits, change clothes, freezing in the blasting HVAC while half-dressed, prep my toys, and leave. Don’t quite have the reaction time to take the train, so forced to drive. And to pay for parking. Oh bother.

The parking apps for the parking lots I use foretold a near capacity crowd, so I was a bit worried about parking. Rain between home and MIA portended a slow commute despite the lighter Sun afternoon traffic. So I left a bit earlier than I might otherwise, to forestall a problem. In the event, both proved speedy and painless. Si I had an extra ~30 minutes to kill at the gate in addition to all the time wasting inherent in the job.

Today is easy, just ride up to Cincinnati = CVG. I’m sitting in the back awaiting departure as I write. I have no idea what went wrong, but I’ll be meeting my FO up there. He was in the middle of 4 days of work and was shanghaied somehow to end riding there too from someplace else. It’ll be “fun” to compare notes on how that happened. Anyhow, we’ll be together for real work all day Mon & early Tue then quit and go home noonish on Tue. I might meet him tonight, or might not until it’s time to leave the hotel together tomorrow around sunrise.

I had the good fortune to get a good seat: bulkhead window. Only thing better is bulkhead aisle or first/business class. Even seats this good rarely happen when the reservation is made < 4 hours before departure. Crappy seat assignments are one of the sad side effects of being the crew-janitor sweeping up the pieces of other folks’ shattered work schedules. Oh well.

A ~35yo woman who is totally the now-grown up Girl from Ipanema is sitting next to me while falling out of her jungle print very short romper. I saw her with a guy in the terminal, but he’s seated elsewhere. Sux to be him, at least for this ~2 hours. I’m gonna bet the rest of his life is going very nicely. Lotta sighing and samba-ing while she goes by. Or hangs around. Or sits. Or … :grin:

I didn’t realize this before I lived down here, but I now think Brazilians are probably the most attractive humans of either gender. A really great mix of many of the various flavors humans come in.

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I forgot to tell this yesterday. I mentioned there were 3 Proud Boys at the Pride parade. Two of them arrived, and then another one came in on the other side of the parade. The first two walked over and escorted him through the marchers. Apparently they found several hundred marchers wearing rainbows and striking poses while singing along to “Vogue” while striking poses really scary. Maybe they were afraid he’d come out on the other side, and I do mean “come out.”

Anyway, still chillin’ the knee nonstop. Laundry is chasing itself in the dryer, and in a minute, I’ll Igor my way outside to water the plants.

Happy Birthday to VanGogh! :birthday: :gift: :champagne:

red, so sorry I got you confused! You and JtC DO have a lot in common–talent, compassion, humor–but that’s no excuse.

Pearl, when I clicked on the link, I got a warning: “Bad Gateway.” I always thought my gateway was rather nice. I’m sure the kittehs are cayuuuuuuute!

I don’t mind the bathroom part, it’s the “no food” part I hate. (Jello is not food: it’s wiggly water.) Plus around here, you have to eat a low-fiber diet for almost a week before surgery.

Taters, loud music all night is torture. I think you need to go all Manuel Noriega on 'em. About an hour after they turn off the music, set up speakers facing their house right at the property line. Then crank up Tiny Tim Does Zeppelin, Tammy Faye Baker: Hymns on Helium, Disco Duck IS Madam Butterfly, or just play “Baby Shark” on endless repeat. Then grab Nelson and hide in a sound-proof, bullet-proof panic room. Soon you’ll relish the silence that wafts through your broken windows.

Sigh. Maybe they’ll move.

shoe, thanks for the info! I may have to try the micro-dosing. I did the combo thing when I was dating the grow operation guy, but I started blacking out whenever I tried to stand up. He said, “Yeah, no weed for you.” But I’m intrigued by the micro-dosing. I’ll have to find a way to get to a weed shop.

Cherry Kicks would be a good stripper name.

She’s invented a new Olympics competition: Shit put.

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I’ve never had entrail-related surgery so cannot comment on that.

For my three colonoscopies IIRC the prep regimen was no bright red food or spicy food for the day prior or the dinner of the day prior to that. So ~36 hours before the procedure. On day prior, eat normally for breakfast then fast thereafter. Get serious with the laxatives in mid-afternoon so you’ll be both a) empty, and b) done pooping uncontrollably, by bedtime. Fast that evening and into the morning, then show up for the procedure.

I was good and hungry afterwards, but really only skipped 3 consecutive meals and the big one I ate before starting covered for one of those. IIRC.

It does seem from the perennial [Ask / Tell Me About Colonoscopy] threads over the decades here that various medical practices have wildly different ideas of what constitutes adequate prep. Now that substantially no Dopers are young enough not to have had the experience themselves already :frowning_face:, I predict these sorts of threads will become few and far between.

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Happy birthday VanGo! :balloon: :birthday: :balloon:

Yikes rocker! I don’t envy anyone having to put up with the resulting traffic issues that it will bring.

pearl, I got a bad gateway message too. I’m sure your new kittehs are adorable though.

Ah, nellie, no harm, no foul. (btw, I believe that taters’ doggy is named Polar :slight_smile: )

Watched more of the air show today, picked up my prescription and was told that I needed to contact my PCP and insurance about the other because it’s coming up as not being included on my insurance and therefore ineligible for the manufacturer’s price support, making it, yanno, actually affordable, even with insurance. Jeez!

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Good afternoon all. Typing this from my home computer, soccer refereed this morning (in the rain), then changed from my Super-Ref costume to my Clark Kent clothes and had dinner as soon as Olive Garden opened, then 3.5 hours of driving to get home. Have unpacked and more or less organized myself, so time to catch my breath and catch up on stuff. Hot here (87F) but rain is almost assured between 6-10pm and that should cool us down some. For doing 9 games in what amounted to 50 hours I feel pretty good, no major aches and still quite awake and aware (albeit I slept real good Friday and Saturday night).

FCM, FCD and family forgetting to tell you would have aggravated me no end. My Mom used to say when Dad did something like that was “Divorce, never; Murder, possibly” Hope it all works out well.

Nellie, too bad JtC wasn’t at the Pride parade with her stick, or those wackos would have learned to behave… :wink: :smiley: :smiley:

Pilot, happy flying, sounds like you’re already in a good mood from the Brazilian bombshell sitting next to you (Her Ladyship doesn’t read this, does she?).

doggio, your pic of all the Hazmat labels reminded me of this page from my all-time favorite webcomic: Schlock Mercenary - Sunday 25 Jun 2000

I don’t know nothing about menopause and from what I hear I don’t want to know about it…one more proof that women really are tougher than men.

suzie, happy butt-probing time!!

JtC {{{{{hugs}}}}}. Humans were never meant to get this old, and our minds can often fail us in the end…oh, and {{{ }}} if the above weren’t enough.

Happy Birthday VanGO!!!

rocky, :astonished: :astonished: :astonished: Glad nobdy was apparently hurt, but yeah traffic tomorrow in the city is going to be difficult.

I’ve got to remember that line; it’s wonderful.

OK, boos, cheers, hugs, tears and general merriment to all. If I don’t get back to here tonight, all y’all have a good evening and I’ll catch you on the next MMP.

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I went out for my 3.1-mile walk today. I decided to keep walking to the C-Shop, 1.82 miles from the house. Why not walk a little farther to the two-mile point? That way I will have walked four miles when I got home. Well… I’ve gone this far. May as well walk to where the houses stop. OK. But the gate to the State Park is just up the road. I’ll turn around there. When I got to the gate, I could see the building and playground. I can’t turn around now! Besides… C6H12O6 + 6O2→ 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy. I should probably hit up the urination station to offload the H2O.

So my three-mile walk turned into a six and a quarter-mile walk. Now that I know I can do it, I don’t need to again. For a while, anyway.

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I took a long walk. I took a short shower(hiking in the woods in June is sweaty). I did a load of laundry. Naptime before cocktails.
And I enjoy wiggly water. And spiked wiggly water even more.

KITTAH!
(and I’ve been put pics on Tumblr.

I’d like to do that to my water jug. And “Naked Singularity” sounds like a strip club that caters to physicists.

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I’m trying Sutab, which is handfuls of pills + water. The prep described isn’t too many days, but with Ozempic, I’m not taking chances on low motility. In good news, UCLA’s colonoscopy prep diet says I can eat avocado until I go the clear liquids route.

Why, thank you!

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More hawt / refined than pneumatic bombshell, but still …

God I hope not.

But I am a little bit self-conscious about that possibility however remote, so certain punches are routinely pulled. OpSec is a hard habit to completely break.

Great comic! Thanks for the reminder …

So you had incoming unlabeled explosives / flammables leaking from broken-down packaging, you notified “Hazardous Ken”, and his response was to load it on a “motor” which I assume means an outbound truck. Color me … uncomfortable.

Or is the “motor” a motorized cart you folks use inside the sort center and he loaded the sorta bomb onto that cart to take this stuff outside for safe disposal?

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OMG - you and my sister… may you never meet - the world couldn’t handle it!

I made tuna-noodle casserole for the first time in forever. It was yum! I don’t use cream-of-whatever soup tho - I overcook cauliflower in chicken broth, drain the excess broth and dump the mushy cauliflower in the blender with some milk and whip it good! Then I add it to the tuna, noodles, and peas, mix it all up, put it in a baking dish, top with cheese, and bake 30 minutes, MegaYUM!! If I’d been more motivated, I’d have added 'shrooms.

A little more chillage for the evening. Maybe some ice cream later…

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D’oh! I meant colonoscopies, not surgeries. Sorry about that!

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You could just say ‘anal probe’. :alien:

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It’s extra fun when the they do an upper & lower at the same time and the alien probes meet in the middle to shake appendages and swap mystery fluids.

The wheels are falling of my work already and I haven’t really begun. The weather is craptacular in much of the Midwest and although I’m at the hotel a bit late my poor FO coming from elsewhere will get here very late. So we’re going to delay tomorrow’s work start enough so the poor dude gets the required sleep. Which will cascade through the day for us and our customers. Oh well; at least it isn’t wildfires. It’s floods.

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Happy Sunday!

Happy Birthday VanGo

Cool morning at the park, but it heated up quickly.
It’s nice and breezy outside, it would be even nicer if the people next door could take a day off from hammering, and drilling, and sawing, and whatever else TF they are doing over there.

I’m being lazy, again, but we have gotten quite a bit done this weekend.
I made a list and we may actually get everything done by tomorrow night. Some of it can’t be done until tomorrow since phone calls to businesses are on the list.
If I could walk without pain, I think everything but those calls would be done.
That and the laundry, because I have big things to wash and I think we may have to go to a laundry mat for that.

The puppies are making me crazy. They don’t want to sleep at night anymore.
We’ll have to start playing with them to wear them out before bedtime.

{{{Jane}}}

Okay, I wanted to say more, but I am going to bed.
I hope the GR are tired, they were outside a lot today.

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Happy birthday!

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Happy Birthday VanGo! Jimminies are the best!

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Had a Wisconsin Old Fashioned while the poke loin was cooking. The apartment is clean, but my ducks are not in a row. Heck, thanks to Spot, I don’t even know where half my ducks are.

So a quick refresher in UPS terminology:
Pig: 20-30ft box truck(as in wallows around curves like a). Used for Surepost and large bulk stops.
Package Car: The brown van that delivers your order to your porch.

Motor: battery powered 3 wheel cart used to tow irregs trains around the building, and used by Hazmat to take leaking packages back to the Hazardous Zone.
And I ended up with some of the powder all over my shirt and pants, so I was probably more uncomfortable than you. :wink:

[Yellowbeard]With your head on my shoulders, we could wreck Civilization![/Yellowbeard]

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:wave: I wanted to be Shirley MacLaine, the early years, Singer, Dancer, Actress. I was a thespian in HS. But no support from parents.

I’m watching the Tony’s and the Tony’s are the absolute BEST awards show!!! A lot of great performances, a lot of great musicals (my favs) and also plays and also acceptance of people for exactly who they are.

I’ve never been a person who thought much about bucket lists but I now think I have an item for a bucket list. I’d like to go to NYC and see a lot of shows on Broadway.

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Showed the pic to Hubby (he does shipping training for the labs in the Medical Center) so he could tell me what each placard meant. I’m easily amused.

Yep, he sure is. I’ve got him just about trained right after 20 years. :crazy_face:

{{{JtC}}}

I love my TENS unit. I use it for my back and occasionally will wear it when I know I’ll be out for awhile. I hope it helps you just as much.

I think I’m wired to not have them if I’ve got the baby making cut off. I had the same thing happen when I was in Depo Provera. The only reason I stopped that was about 50 pounds of weight gain.

BooFae, I’m regularly forgetting words, so that wasn’t a giveaway. The weight gain is something in trying so hard to avoid. I was in rybelsus for 18 months and lost 60 pounds. Now that insurance won’t let me take it, I’m already starting to gain weight back. I really don’t need any more help in that department. :yum:

Happy, happy birthday, VanGo!!! Hope it was a great one!

They’ve changed a few things in the last few years. (Hubby needs to have one yearly so I’ve gotten very familiar with the procedures.) They are having you be on a low residue diet for several days before having to take the Jug of SuckTM. It’s supposed to make it easier to get everything out. Drinking the prep has also been switched from one time to two - taking half the day before and the other half six hours(?) before. Hubby says it’s a little better than previous but it’s still a PITA.

rc, that collapse is a bit scary. I made sure to show Hubby, as he hadn’t seen it yet.

janis, love the kittehs!

That would have been hilarious! I’d have loved to see it. Unfortunately, anyone like that would refuse to believe themself if they did “cone out” on the other side.

{{{everyone}}}, especially those going through tough times.

Today’s been a bit of a day for me. I got my walk in with CtE this morning and, even though I wasn’t thinking I’d make it, I walked my two miles. Then I played a couple boats games with Hubby and BFF. I got a bit pissy at the last game because the cards were all against me. I ended up winning the game, but I was in such a mood that I want happy about it. I napped for a bit to get rid of a headache, woke up to beautiful rain storm. I was going to take my laptop out and work on the porch but the rain was blowing sideways.

Now Hubby and I are sitting in the living room, watching the 11th Doctor from the beginning. I’m playing Any Pond in one of the games I’m in at the convention later this week and I want to get myself back in an Amy mindset. I still have a few things to do for the Con, particularly the games I’m running. I’m hoping to get to those done after storytime tomorrow.

And now I’m getting back to watching The Doctor take on the Daleks. I hope everyone has a great night and I’ll see you all in the new MMP!

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DOT Hazard Class 4: Flammable solids, spontaneously combustible materials, and materials that are dangerous when wet

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