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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hi folks - Had a somewhat busy day without much time for MMPin’

Up shortly pre-dawn, balconatin’, and a pilot txts that he’s driving to irk & wanna yak? Sure. An hour later he’s finished his drive and I’m reminded that even though today is only Day 7 of official retirement, this feels darn good. Sux to be him.

A bit later Her Ladyship was then up and it was time for all that togetherness stuff, shevelment, and feeding.

As I may have mentioned, another old pilot pal just transferred to Miami and is renting about 30 minutes away further south and right near the beach. Today we met for lunch down there. First I’d seen him face to face in about 18 months. He’d been bustin’ ass all morning emptying his U-Haul truck so he could turn it in. Of course the single elevator in his old building is broken and he is on the 3rd of three floors. He’d schlepped a lot of stuff up two flights. Less easy in your late 50s than late 20s. My timing was excellent and I carried up an empty bucket; the very last item.

Off we wander in search of a suitable low-rent eatery. Find a place with the walls festooned with dollar bills & lotsa beer tappers. Capish? We had fine lunch & yaks, but no beer. He wanted to keep unpacking after a nap & I had an evening to attend yet. Beer next time. The first of many no doubt.

Drove home via the hearing aid place for a tune-up then the car wash. Her Ladyship is just back from a soap-making class at the library and soon we’ll wander over to the craft taco place for Taco Tuesday with another couple from my old condo. They’re great fun despite being 80-something and plenty old enough to be both our parents. I hope to become them when I grow up.

Congrats, hugs, and condolences as appropriate. I did read everything.

And now … Tacos!!! Cheers all!

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I’m sorry for the loss of your cousin shoe. Even family whose lives are a train wreck are loved by someone.

Fingers crossed for getting your car back this afternoon metal mouse.

Give Harvey a good Mumper skritch for us all doggio.

Well, the interview was, how shall I put it, full of red flags. First of all, they wanted to reschedule to 6:00 PM, which I put the kibosh on, so they settled for 2:30. Several red flags came up, mostly concerning the training and likely OT, so I respectfully noped out of the position.

My granddad was a Polish immigrant who married a second generation German. I was never interested in learning Polish until too late to have him teach some to me. I do, however, know some basic Polish cooking. My grandmother actually wrote down some of her MIL’s recipes and passed them down. For the past few years, when I go north to Dad’s for Thanksgiving, I make pierogi, golumpki, haluski, saffron buns and poppseed cakes to celebrate.

Growing up, we were taught by my mom to use going to visit Mrs. Adams when in polite company. No clue who Mrs. Adams was. :stuck_out_tongue:

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Popping in because I realized I hadn’t said this: Shoe, I’m so sorry about your poor cousin. Her son sounds like a good guy. I hope it’s OK that he’s already been in my prayers.

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Howdy Y’all! The sloth was high quality and laundry got done and put away. I decided against pepper steak as I was worried about ruinin’ two perfectly good pieces of medium rare steak. Instead I sauteed (sweated?) some onions and green bell peppers, melted some pepper jack cheese, toasted hoagie buns and did some oven fries. So we had semi-sorta Philly cheesesteaks and oven fries. 'Twas excellent if’n I do say so myself.

shoe so sorry to hear about your cousin!

Now it be time to batten down the hatches and be chillin’ to some Netflix. AAAAARRRRR! That’s about as talk like a pirate that I can get right now.

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Spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time trying to change our mailing address with Social Security until the automated phone program got confused and kicked me over to the waiting queue to talk to a real person, who was very nice and helpful. She got us both straightened out in no time. We think that the automated program had trouble with the fact that our town shares a zip code with another town 4 miles away.
Anyway, all sorted.

Pilot Person, I used to make and sell cold-process soap. If Her Ladyship has any questions, I prolly remember enough to help her out.

Now, to dinner. Spaghetti Squash with chili, chopped onions and grated cheddar. Fart fest to follow.

Night.

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Evening all. The Dodge Durango is back in my garage where it belongs, and my credit card account has numerous thousands of dollars charged to it, so hopefully both me and the shop are happy. Having to learn how to drive/sit in the thing again after a month, but made it to soccer practice and back without too much fuss and added $50 in gas to get me through the rest of the month comfortably. Uber came through again, if I use nothing else on my cell phone, the Uber app has made it worth it’s while.

So hope to get back to the gym schedule after missing a couple of days, temperature is down to 70F now and supposed to get below 60F later tonight, so good sleeping weather.

nellie, a surprise visit by any dog is a nice experience in my book.

Pilot, sounds like a perfect ‘retired day’; may you have many more.

Bumba, in my few contacts with Social Security, I’ve found the people to be quite helpful and the on-line system…not so much.

OK, Mac-n-Cheese is quietly assimilating and all is well with the world. All y’all take care.

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Happy Moonday!

It was a beautiful day; I should have spent more time outside.

We were supposed to move some stuff to the new house today, but my tummy said, ‘You aren’t going anywhere today!’

I spent the day going through a stack of papers.
I’m clearing out my 12-drawer craft cart of anything that is not paper.
I hate Medicare, they are constantly sending me shit. I got the big ass book today.
Only the government can take 300 pages to tell what a normal business could tell you in 10.
I also had the survey from hell from Bank of America. I was going to quit halfway through but I thought that since I had gotten that far I may as well finish it.
By the end of it I was dropping ‘f’ bombs and telling them exactly how stupid I think they are.
Maybe they’ll stop sending me surveys.

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Happy Toosday!

It was a nice 54 degrees at the park this morning.

Sorry about your cousin, Shoe

No Slovak for me. My father and his siblings were not interested in learning it. My grandfather taught me a few words, but I don’t remember them.
He was a grumpy man and we didn’t talk much.

How scary for your friend, Nellie
You just never know, and crime happens in nice neighborhoods too.

Sorry about the interview Red

Glad you got your vehicle back MetalMouse
Getting it back makes the world right again.

My son is supposed to get out around 1am.
I hope it won’t be hard to get a cab for him.

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Yay for dropping f bombs on stupid people. I suppose that’s wrong of me to say, but at this age I don’t have time to waste. I want to buy a shirt I saw “The older I get, the less ‘life in prison’ is a threat to me.”

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Had a Manhattan and Redneck stirfry. Catching up on my TV watching.

We don’t judge. :wink:

But it’s not listed in The Master’s column.

Says you. :stuck_out_tongue:

Will do!(just waiting to hear from the foster parent so I can schedule the meet).
And sorry the interview was a Soviet May Day parade.

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I read that as ‘Redneck stiffy’.

Mrs. L.A. has a heavy paper towel holder that was bear-shaped. She had it on the barbie to keep Abbey from trying to climb out of the catio. She just broke it. :frowning:

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“Paddle faster, I hear banjos”

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You certainly drew a picture with your words! It sounds like you are pretty infatuated :slight_smile:

We still want camera pics though!!!

Oh hurray, how could it possibly get better?

I’d like to think that, but no. They weren’t that close and a 16 lb critter shouldn’t lose a whole pound in a couple of weeks, that is super concerning. I’ve avoided checking with Dr. Google, but have been able to come up with several life threatening causes for that anyhow. The one thing I know for sure is that this is going to be expensive. Like probably more expensive than my upcoming trip to Texas. Goddamned cats, they steal your heart and then get old and die. They are assholes, one and all.

Speaking of Texas, TC friend sent me links to some good deals on round trip plane tickets. I was really surprised how inexpensive they were considering the event, but my idea of one in a life time events might be different than other peoples.

I doubt that I will be seeing NF at TC on Thursday, she says she is still really feverish and unwell. I offered to run their laundry to the wash and fold place in PV (cause ain’t nobody wants their friends to wash their undies) but haven’t heard back.

That’s probably best because if tomorrows news is as bad as I’m afraid it is, I’m going to be not very social for a while.

The shows that helped me the most were American shows dubbed to Nihongo. They were popular TV shows that I had seen before so knew what they were saying. Who would have thought that watching Charlie’s Angels could be educational?

I also learned that everyone watches the same stuff, it is just filmed in different places with different actors and languages. It was easy to tell when Lassie was barking “Timmy fell down the well” in Nihongo despite Lassie being a GSD and the rescue party was getting rope and rescue gear.

Polish is such a pretty language, I just looked and you-tube is your friend. There are even soap operas.

Well dang. At least you were able to see the red flags before accepting. I’m sure something better will come along shortly.

Dad “saw a man about a dog” and I learned to “powder my nose”.

I lost most of my fucks when I turned 50 and by the time I was 60, I had no more fucks left to give. Life is so much less stressful now that I don’t care.

Our housekeeper was here today so we decamped for breakfast and chores in town. One of our stops was at a C-A-L Ranch store because we walked around inside a few weeks ago and noticed that they had 40 lb bags of wildbird seed for less than we were paying for 20 lb bags.

We took a couple of buckets with us and had their carry out person open a 40 lb bag and pour it into the buckets so we could get it out of the trunk. The carry out lady seemed pretty happy about that because the next carry out person got to load a bunch of hay into a trailer while got to deal with our little bag and go back to be ready for the next customer.

After we got home, I spent the rest of the day porchinating and t’was wonderful The weather was perfect and the clouds were fluffy and light. I watched the hummers, admired our babby trees and listened to the birds. I did see a jet which was different. We are so far out in the sticks that we aren’t even flyover country so I notice jets.

It was 40F this morning but I’m still seeing Turkey Buzzards soaring, so it isn’t fall just yet.

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I checked everything off my To Do list today! Of course, add it all together, and it’s less than FCM accomplishes before breakfast, but it’s still a nice feeling. Old Flame called. Then I ate dinner, and now I’m going to spend the last few hours of being this age on the Good Ship Lollypop.

Red, I wish the job had turned out to be better, not worse, than it seemed at first. If I had a squillion dollars, I’d hire you. I don’t know what your job title is, but how does Vice President of Canine Development sound? It pays $8 million per annum, and Nelson would be included on your health insurance. :slight_smile: Hell, I’ll make him Honorary Bone Master. (And I love “going to visit Mrs. Adams”!)

swampy, you ought to make cooking videos for YouTube. I’d subscribe!

Bumba, glad the Social Security person got everything sorted.

MetalMouse, I’m so happy the Durango is back where it belongs! I hope it has a very long spell of good health.

Sari, fingers crossed your son can get a cab. You sound like you’re feeling better. Are you?

And I thought sword swallowers were impressive. How do they–never mind. I don’t want to know, but after reading that, sticking a pacifier in the mouth sounds better and better. . Also, “ingrown gerbils” :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Happy Birthday!

You are too sweet for words. Of course it’s okay.

Y’all, I did a thing at work today! :slight_smile: We had some “dead” crusts (the dough is only good for 3 hours) and it was quiet as hell, so since they were going in the trash anyway, I took a couple for practice: specifically, “flooring.”

This means sliding a pizza off the pan and cooking it directly on the oven floor. You do this when the toppings are pretty much done but the bottom crust, for whatever reason, needs more baking time.
Often, it’s because the customer requests an extra crispy crust, but baking it the regular way for that much longer would burn the shit out of the top.

That part’s fairly easy: slide it off, and don’t fucking forget about it or get distracted; they go from “crispy” to “charcoal” in no time flat.

The hard part, for me, has been getting the damn thing back onto the pan for removal. Each time I tried before, I just kept pushing the stoopit thing further & further back into the hot, yawning void of the oven.

Readers, tonight, I pulled it off. TWICE. The first one was a complete fail several times in a row, and then somehow, what everyone was standing around saying at me (this had turned into an entertaining spectacle for the rest of the crew) just suddenly clicked and I slid that friggin’ dead dough right back onto the pan like a champ.

Everyone applauded. I curtseyed.

Did it again with another dead dough, this time getting it right on the 2nd try.

Now I’d like to practice with something that actually has toppings, but I don’t wanna waste expensive cheese etc. So I just need to watch for the next time we have a complete fuck-up, and intercept before it goes in the trash. (I’d like to practice more before attempting this maneuver on someone’s actual food.)

Tonight was a really good day.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

:partying_face: :birthday: :champagne: HAPPY BIRTHDAY nellie!!! :champagne: :birthday: :partying_face:

Congrats!

Gordie used to do that, instead of sitting.

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Morning, mumpers! I didn’t make it here yesterday as it’s Welcome Week and things were absolutely manic at irk. It’s 16c/61f with no predicted change today, and we have rain showers. Weather app says “Think of the rain as a fucking shower for your car (or truck, I don’t fucking know you).” It was definitely more than a shower on my way to the office and we’re expected to have rain most of the day.

We were just leaving the house to go to the Gettin’ Sto’ yesterday evening when a stray cat wandered into our path. Poor skinny thing is limping on a back leg, looks to be riddled with fleas and stuff, has a bloody mouth and was drooling a lot. We took him straight to the vet and they looked at him, but couldn’t take him from us without a case number from the RSPCA…gave us a number to call but the phone line shut at 5pm so there was nothing they could do. We brought the cat back, put him in our porch with bedding, food and water, and a litter tray. 'im indoors will have to call the RSPCA this morning and then take the cat back to the vet so they can treat him properly. Chances are he will be put to sleep because they said his symptoms look like FIV/FLV amongst other things and he may be too far gone to save and safely rehome. At least the poor mite had a comfortable night in a safe place.

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Many years ago my sister and I saw someone stop near a busy intersection and put out a dog, then drive off. It was really cold out, we picked up the dog and Monday took it to our family vet. He said it had a lot of things wrong, besides bad eyes, bad teeth, and being old. So he put it down for us. But it got a day and a half of warmth and rest. What broke my heart was when the car drove away I had seen a small childs’ face looking out the back window.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 63 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 85 and N.O.S. for the day. We have an actual plan for this mornin’, and that is to go get Covid stabs and then procure provisions from the Pubic Sto’. We shall also get fried chikin N.O.L.s from there, which will take care of today’s main need to feed. As a reward, we shall engage in sloth and general overall uselessness for the rest of the day. Life is just a whirlwind around here!

red sorry the job interview was a bust. Hopefully sump’n better will come along soonest.

CupCakes how sad about the doggie, but yay for sis and you takin’ care of things and givin’ the poor critter a good endin’.

BooFae at least kitty will be comfy and fed in its last few hours on earth. Good for you and 'im indoors!

And now this…

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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR NNNEEELLLIIIEEE!!!
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Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and bother, I suppose I must needs purtify and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. Life is so difficult!

Happy Hump Day Y’all!

ETA: I see it’s also another Mumper’s birthday. So…
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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR BBBUUUTTTEEERRRSSS!!!
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That is a sad enough story without knowing there was a small child in the back of the car. How heartbreaking for the child, and the dog. But so good to know that you and your sister had kind enough hearts to pick the dog up and make those last days comfortable and safe.

I don’t know what will happen with the cat we found, I’m hoping he’s treatable but with the list of things the vet nurse said yesterday, it sounds like putting him to sleep might be the kindest thing. I know the staff there, they are all very kind and caring people so even at the end, he will be surrounded by love.

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Didn’t want to add this to my previous post, keeping it more cheerful instead!

Happy birthday to both Nellie and Butters! :birthday: :birthday: :gift: :gift: