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Good morning! Every time I start writing, another fire needs to be put out. Shoe’s talk of chicken salad made me want tunafish for lunch, so I made me some tuna fish. I used to give the apple scraps to the late rabbit, but he’s not with us any more. That made me tear up. I guess the E has brought some emotions closer to the surface.

Mrs Magill’s hair.

I think it’s a little more subtle than she wanted, but she’s finally one of the “blue haired liberal women” that JD Vance is always on about.

I like the way you think. Unfortunately, Mrs Magill forbade ice cream for breakfast when we were dating[1]

The path brings it up from Alabama and through Tennessee and Kentucky, where the trade winds will blow the remaining moisture your way. They don’t usually turn east that far north. Enjoy the buckets of rain that North Carolina will be missing.

Taters - I usually do self-checkout because they do a shit job of training baggers these days. But, if I see some check-out clerks looking bored, I’ll go to them. I think most of them are Band kids, because I’ll often get a “Hi Mr Magill,” which throws me, because they all look the same to me.

Good. Keep it up. Anthropic was going to put one right next to the Nashville Zoo. The legislature, governor, and metro council had been bought off. The mayor and the massive turnout at repeated metro council meetings put the kibosh on that shit.

It’s like Anthropic asks itself, “Where would be the worst place to build one of these monstrosities?” And then puts it there.

  1. I never really wanted ice cream for breakfast until it was forbidden.Have I ever mentioned that I’m a middle child. ↩︎

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Less than 30 miles of Ohio left. Theoretically we’ll be home in 6 hours or so. I hate long drives… whine whine whine

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And we just crossed into WV. About 330 miles to go.

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Yesterday’s slacking wound up not biting me in the ass! Woo hoo! The job fair was fine, but tiring. Almost 30 other hiring managers were there, but I was the only one looking for project managers: I wound up talking for 70 minutes straight. Then I was finally able to take advantage of the coffee station (with baristas) our recruiters had arranged for, and got an iced green tea for my throat. Most of the people I met weren’t good fits for one reason or another, but I do have a few names to follow up on. Not today, though: I’m focused on the delivery that’s due by COB. Our tech editor is currently doing his thing (hence having time to post), but as soon as he’s done I’ll be splitting up the presentation and uploading a bunch of separate files. This morning I also volunteered to take the lead on drafting a program-level risk, so when I’m not working on the delivery I’ll be working on that. I’m hoping that the delivery stuff goes smoothly and I’ll be able to knock off for the day at around 4:30. :crossed_fingers:

My HOA is replacing our mailbox clusters[1]: they gave out some new keys at the “homeowners only” annual meeting a week ago, and finally announced that the rest of us can pick ours up from 11:00-1:00 on Monday, 1:00-3:00 on Tuesday, or 3:00-5:00 on Wednesday. The new mailboxes get installed on Thursday. The Monday window is the only option for me, but it’s not ideal: it’s a federal holiday for some but not for me, and I need to be in the office (which is too far away to simply run home during lunch). Now I’ll be going in late, and will need to reschedule a meeting. Anyway, tenants have to bring their lease and written authorization from their homeowner(s); I just sent an email to my property manager asking for the latter.

In other news, on the 23rd I’ll be getting a liver ultrasound. Wheeee. My liver enzymes have been moderately elevated twice in a row (the tests were three months apart) and are climbing; I had a telemed appointment with my primary care doc this morning. The problem might be my cholesterol medication, so I’m also going to stop taking that for three months and get bloodwork done again: if my liver numbers come down, she’ll put me on a different statin. The ultrasound is to check for fatty liver (but…but…I’ve lost 30+ pounds in the last nine months! :rofl:). Anyway, if the ultrasound results are weird and/or the numbers don’t come down in January, I’ll go see a hepatologist. It figures: my weight, blood pressure, A1C, and cholesterol are finally all great, and now my liver is doing its best alcoholic impression!

I’m often hesitant to try new chicken pot pies: most crusts are fine, but I don’t want any veggies fancier than peas/potatoes/carrots and there’s no saving a pot pie if I don’t like the sauce. I know the Blake’s will be alright in terms of veggies, but I need to pick a time to try it when I won’t mind having to make something else if I don’t care for the sauce. I have very little patience when it comes to making food for myself. :grin:

That’s how I read it!

I moved in June, but will be working at my old precinct in November (at my request). :slight_smile: That polling place is only a 10-minute drive from where I live now, and is where I’ve worked all but one election in the past six years. Maybe I’ll be up for somewhere new in 2027, but this year I’d rather be in a familiar space with (some) familiar people. The devil you know, blah blah blah.

:blush:

I tell ya, the older I get the harder the 16-hour days get…and the longer it takes me to recover from them. I deliberately skipped the June primaries, which typically have low voter turnout. For me, that juice ain’t worth the squeeze anymore.

  1. the current mailboxes are nice and roomy; I hope the new ones aren’t smaller! ↩︎

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{ licks remnants off finger }

Long Night shift ahead. Yet more adulting and administrivia looming in my path, too.

At least the pot pie was tasty.

Bringing raw salmon (a poke kit) to work for tonight, cuz sometimes I don’t feel like sharing, and some of the young’uns are horrified at the thought of sushi and such.

Oooh, and spicy sesame sauce! Yay, already looking forward to my break!

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Current ETA is 6:37. We are both sooooooo done with being in the car. But the end is in sight.

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Howdy Y’all! I did the church thangs and then settled in da cave. It’s been rainin’ since around eleven a.m. Not a hard rain, but steady nontheless. We’re promised heavier rains and winds over night and tomorrow. We napped, day drank, and did an early sup/late lunch. Now 'tis time for stoopid teevee and popcorn, or ice cream, or both. We are willy-nilly rebels like that!

MOOOOOOM safe travels!

Lily has S-cat let you out of her sight yet?

nuts have fun with your new found robin friend.

JtC I understand the grr about the chestnut grove.

Taters hope Pumpkin Seed shows up again soonest.

MetalMouse I considered mowage yestiddy, but RDOS sloth took hold and I soon recovered.

WetOne bein’ hunkered down with snacks is wise. Also, yep, 'twill be a cat 3 'cane.

Mollie I am also a forgotten, forlorn, and unloved middle child. Don’t tell me I CAN’T do or have sump’n. It then becomes a quest!

Oopsie hope one of the names turns out to be a good fit. Hope everything is OK with the liver. As we age, our organs like to act up, do they not!

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Ms Peach discovered a new way out of the yard. :angry: I’ll need to deal with that tomorrow, gotta get some supplies. She almost got hit by a big truck and a small car. Her thing when she gets out is to pace about 8’ away from me, if I take a step forward, it’s sprinting. Fortunately I found a neighbor with a fenced in garden, she followed me in, I shut the gate, and off back home.

Fun way to start time off.

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Well they cancelled soccer for tomorrow already so I guess we’re going to get wet (unless the Weather Wizards decided to play a little joke). At the gym now and soon will be heading home where it looks like I’ll be for awhile. Did make it to the Mart of Wal and have some new bathroom rugs so now I will be motivated to give the floors a good cleaning.

And now back on the treadmill for set #4 (22 minutes at 3.6mph and 11 degrees elevation) and that should finish the planned sweatage. Be back in discussion mode once I’m home.

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Ooh - Sushi. That’d make a good dinner tonight.

Ms Peach plays a good game of You Chase Me And I Run Away.

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This is a bad idea. The whole thing is very dangerous.

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Swampy & Metal Mouse - It looks like the outer bands are reaching you now. We’ll be getting them tomorrow morning.

See you on the other side.

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it was a mess. There was a major belt overload somewhere, someone ran Brown belt, which resulted in multiple non Brown Belt package crushed, so I had to go and retrieve them, there was drama between a Blueberry on the 200 Table, the PT Sup there, and Screaming O. Things went slow due to all the Blueberries, so I got slammed at the end of the sort(not including the 66 Sumitomo boxes that came to the 100 Slide, which necessitated the Air Route driver backing his package car up to the Slide, so I didn’t see the car of stuff someone ding dong dashed, so Screaming O had apoplexy because of the cart, the cart of stuff to be carted around to the package car for Wearcheck, and the 10(ten) missorts and clerked packages to run. Also, because the 200 table was so backed up, they didn’t get to the smalls bags and totes till the end, so I was deluged with empties, along with the clerk stuff. Also, both terminals at the 300 Slide were down for an hour, and J had the train and get help from the one dude from Smalls [Narrator]He was not, in fact helpful[/Narrator], so she didn’t get to help me till 11:30, and our Shop Steward who had been helping this week didn’t(not sure if he was tied up with union stuff, or just said “Fuck it!”, and went home and got blind drunk). So I got out of work at 2:00p.m., after having gone in at 0400. Also: Things must have gone heinously bad building wide, because I heard The Supreme Shouting Officer say "Do no send anybody(management) home. Also also: One of maintenance techs is on vacation this week, and they transferred the other one to Garner, so we have no maintenance personnel on site. Also3: They are doing training for seasonal clerks(and us regular ones) next Thursday. I heard about it from J, not from my chain of command. She only found out in passing. And they are doing it in the Mez, where we used to clerk stuff, but that has been shut down and cannibalized for the last 4 months. :thinking: So, I got home so late, I’m just staying up for a bit, doing laundry, having dinner(Old Bay fish stew) and a Boulevardier, then sleeping till morning get up time.
And all of y’all in the path of the storm stay safe.

Mine wasn’t bad, apart from having to slam on brakes and miss a light because a jogger ran across the road without looking.

And nothing is dryer than the gin in a gin&tonic.

You know how cats have handedness like people? Spot smacks me ambidextrously when I’m late.

:face_with_symbols_on_mouth:
I wonder if the guy with the mini guillotine is available when they discuss it.

If those folk get riled up, the data center people are gonna wish the Bolsheviks had gotten to them first.

It’s never too late to stuff yourself with good salmon, and take a long nap.

Bless their little hearts

[The Doors] :notes: the futrue’s uncertain and the end is always near… :notes {The Doors]
Sounds like the beagles I’ve had. And aslo like my "amputate

Sounds like the beagle’s I’ve had. And also like my “amputate three legs” idea might be the best solution.

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Watching live feed of the hurricane landing. Philly starting seeing cloud cover from isaias this afternoon. What they call “milk” sky. Landfall is around 9pm. There is a building crane in Destin that is swinging like a weather vane. The storm chasers are fascinated by it.

Waffle houses are closing.

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We pulled into the garage just a few minutes before 7. When I carried my bag into the bedroom, Alexa reminded me to take my meds (which happens at 7.) We ordered and picked up Chinese on the way home, so I’ve stuffed my face with shrimp and broccoli. I wanted/NEEDED veggies. Aunt B wasn’t too big on them. We had salad once and cabbage once.

Anyway, long-ass drive. There was an accident on the DC beltway that backed things up on to I270. Then traffic choked up for a couple of miles on route 5. From door to door, it was 12.5 hours, and I’m pretty sure less than an hour of it was for gas/food/potty stops. I shall shower shortly and veg for the rest of the night.

FCD will fetch Otis in the morning and I’ll attack the laundry. I may share some “highlights” of our visit, or I’ll just let it go. At the moment, I’m to cranky too think kindly of much of anything.

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Howdy Y’all! Lots of rain herebouts. Glad to be inside and dry. Also stoopid teevee has been watched and ice cream and popcorn et.

MOOOOOOM glad y’all are home safe. Go crash. You need it.

doggio ummm… don’t know what even half of all that means, but just daaayuuum! Dry martinis are inside me.

VanGo glad Ms. Peach is safe and sound. May this be the worst thing that happens on your time off.

MetalMouse and Mollie heavy rains here right now and we have a tropical storm warning. Eight years ago about this time, we had an actual cat 1 hurricane come through here.

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Evening all. Weather is not here yet but the skies (before sunset) looked ominous enough and the weather radar shows the rain and storm is about 60 miles south of me and heading this way. I’m in and battened down, my only worry is my back fence, I had planned to replace it this spring but it’s weak in a couple places and I just hope it stands up to whatever is coming. Definitely cooling down, 74F now and we’ll get below 60F sometime tonight.

Now to catch up with the day’s doings…

JtC, could be worse, it could be the 1870’s-1890’s and they would send the Pinkertons to take care of any protests in W. VA…

wet one, if sister is on the coast, she might have encountered a Cat 3 hurricane, which is a slightly bit more serious than a tropical storm. Hope she is OK. Enjoy watching the Weather Channel on your new TV.

Mollie, never dyed my hair, but my U7 soccer team will get to paint my beard in a couple of weeks… Storm isn’t here yet, but it’s closing in. You’ll see it not too long after me, so take care.

FCM, welcome home. 12.5 hours on the road would exhaust anyone (about 8 hours with stops is my personal limit these days).

Oopsie, hope you made the COB deadline without too much stress. And that’s a weird time window, unless everyone there is retired, nothing in evening? Hope your liver checks out well and is not a liver wurst…

Shoe, I don’t like cooked fish, much less the raw stuff, but if you find it tasty, well de gustibus non est disputandum.

Swampy, looking at the Weather Underground map, looks like you had (or are having) some stormy weather (and I see by your last post you got it). Enjoy the TV and popcorn; I’ve already had my ration of ice cream for the day. And like you, the lawn will be allowed to soak in the coming rain before I sic the mower on it.

Van Go, Ms. Peach is a bit too clever for her own good, I hope it doesn’t end up costing her (and you) any agony.

doggio, sounds like the daily SNAFU moved into FUBAR territory, glad you survived.
And look like tomorrow is your turn for the rainy weather.

rocky, if Waffle Houses are closing, you know it’s a serious storm.
And that’s all for now. Nearly 8pm and we’ll see what the future has in store, outside of bedtime. Take care all.

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I do like cooked fish, but am highly suspicious about how safe raw might be (and I’m pretty sure my issues with the texture of my food would be a problem too).

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at least the Yankees made the post season and won their 1st round series against the Red Sox. The Tigers season was ended against Pittsburgh, PITTSBURGH ugh on Sept 27.

We currently have a bottle of Duke’s mayo in the kitchen refrigerator and another bottle of Duke’s mayo in the dorm refrigerator.

I concur.

red I :heart: the Fat Bear notecard :heart_exclamation: Very nice work.

not exactly sure what you mean but 2 interpretations:
If you mean you don’t know how many fuel points you earned today, all you need to do is go on the Kroger ap, click the Save icon in the lower left, then on the top click the Redeem Points icon, scroll down to Points History and click on the month that you want to check out, in this case October. It will show all the dates and amounts of points earned during October. However, if you mean you don’t have the receipt so you can fill out the survey, go back to Kroger and just buy one or two things and use that receipt. IMS, you generally go on Sundays to get the NYT and a sticky pecan bun, there you go.

My favorite female artist. (now I see my gal JtC is also a fan and ninja’d me on some of the lyrics)

Krogering went the best of all year, we were in and out in record time and still spent about the same as normal. We always use the self-checkout. I generally scan the items, hand them to Hubs and he fill the bags, cloth bags that we bring; my motto: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.

Hubs gave me a report about an hour ago that instead of being downgraded, its been upgraded to a category 3. (I continue to pray for your sister, BIL and niece)

VanGogh sounds like Ms Peach must have been a middle child.

Nice walk this afternoon, the sidewalks where we walked were lined with :jack_o_lantern: :jack_o_lantern: :jack_o_lantern: . There is also a frozen custard stand. Normally the flavors are vanilla, chocolate and both swirled. Today there were also some special flavors: green apple, caramel, pumpkin and cheesecake. Hubs had a cone of caramel, I had a combo of caramel and pumpkin, tasty.

Dinner was leftover chicken, fettucini alfredo and broccoli and some semi-dry white wine.

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That is not metaphysical, that is serious, unstable mental illness.

And schizophrenia does not have levels, you either are or you are not. That is an invention of his delusions.

Agree, very, very dangerous.

Find your companionship in safe places and with safer people.