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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Very impressive project/crafts/construction pics! We are a creative bunch, aren’t we!

Good news hereabouts! I was finally able to register my car! I may have been able to for a while now, but no one ever notified me. I recently emailed our accountant to see if she’d heard anything and she asked if I’d heard anything. So, on a whim, I checked and was able to do the registration, so huzzah! I’m no longer driving and unregistered vehicle!

You have no idea how paranoid I’ve been since the tag expired, rehearsing what I’d tell the deputy/trooper if I got pulled over. Now I just need to print out the temporary registration and wait for the new sticker to be mailed to me. Whew!

I’ll be helping FCD pull wires today. Not sure how long it will take, so it’s all we’ve planned, except for breakfast out. Of course, that might just be a McBreakfast - we shall see. If we get back in time, I’ll make a run to the convenience center - we’ve got enough trash and recycling to make the trek worthwhile. :wink:

That’s pretty much it. Happy Saturday!

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Morning, mumpers! It’s a balmy 15c/59f outside with a predicted high of 16c/61f, and mostly cloudy which explains why it’s blue skies and sun out there. Weather app says “It’s probably a good day to stay the fuck in bed. Today will probably fucking suck.” I disagree - been out to the gym this morning, going for lunch in town later and then off for more musical shenanigans.

This time we’ve deliberately double-booked ourselves…we have tickets for a dementia awareness charity festival this afternoon, we can’t stay for all of it but we booked because Sam Millar and the Sass Bandits are on, and he doesn’t play very often so that’s something not to be missed. Then we have to be on a train by 7.30pm to get back to our home town for the end of the Primordial General Mayhem event for some of South Wales’ finest!.

No decisions yet on what we’ll do after that, might end up in the local rock pub, might not. Jury’s out!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 60 Amurrkin out and N.O.S. with a predicted high of 81 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse predicted for this afternoon and evenin’. I shall take myself to the Food Kitty in a bit as Poopsie products are on sale today only. There will also be the usual sloth and general overall uselessness. Sup shall be beastloaf, cabbage, Mac n’ cheese, and cornbread.

{{{RealFish}}} feel better soonest!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then onward into the day! Rah!

Happy Sattidy Y’all!

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That is exquisite!

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awwww i want … and im not really a dog person even though I’ve had them …

I always wanted a pet otter…they just seem so fun to have like ferrets

res or chivo for the birria?

and wow van go 30 years ago you could of made a mint making arcade cabinets…

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Otters and Hedgehogs and Puppies, oh my!

Morning all, up bright and early to do my 8:15am referee chores, will down a Instant Breakfast in a minute and then see if I can manage to remember everything. Will be out for about 6-7 hours at the fields. At least it looks like a clear and N.O.S. day, with temperatures heading to 75F.

Flyboy, looks like a bit of a race between you and Wheelie on who finishes their project first…

{{{Real Fish}}}, but at a distance, y’all take care and feel better soon.

Happy (and undisturbed) dreams, Pilot

JtC, quite a nice piece, no reason to be humble.

FCM, happy for you no longer being a law-breaking desperado…

I had to look that up and that’s the actual title of the thing…hope the music is good because that is the greatest event title I’ve heard in quite awhile…

OK, need to break fast and finish getting ready for the soccer stuff. All y’all take care.

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Story Time!!

In my misspent youth (e.g. college) I had not one, not two, but three ferrets. Yes, at the same time.

Different colors, too: Ziegen was dark sable, Snuffy was a light almost grayish sable, and Cirrus was ermine - pure white with a dark tail tip.

Utterly different personalities: Ziegie was a bog-standard happy-go-lucky dude, Snuffles was lazy to the point of having multiple double chins, and Cirrus … well, she was insane. My late Other Shoe adored her from the moment he stuck his tongue out at her and she promptly bit his tongue to the point of drawing blood.
She was obsessed with wine corks, flip flops, and the buttons on TV remotes. And raisins. She’d run laps around the edges of the living room, pausing occasionally to glare up at us. “Raisin? No?” Okay, back to running laps, as Snuff looked on from his puddle of fur.

Ah, ferrets. Yes, they are fun lil’ rascals, prone to mischief and mayhem when they’re not sound asleep. (Ferrets sleep like the dead - literally. You can pick them up and shake them, and they’re still out cold. Ten minutes later, wheeeee!) They retain a penchant for playing until the day they die - they never outgrow that childish sense of fun.
But oh, mah gawd, the poop. They’re poop factories, and barely litter trainable. Mostly, they decide where they’re gonna go, and you put a litter box there.

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Good morning everyone.

It’s currently 51 degrees and clear outside. The expected high is 80 and we’ll have sunny skies all day.

I plan to go to my favorite nursery to see if they have some good plants so I can spend today and tomorrow getting them into the ground and in my planter boxes. I also need to mow the lawn today and Polar needs a bath.

You crafty people all do fine work! Some day I’ll slow down enough to take up some kind of hobby.

Work kept me very, very, busy yesterday and of course, even though it was my short day, I ended up working late.

I’m looking forward to getting some plants. I know I’ll spend too much money, lol!

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Res. I’ve never seen goat up here. (And in L.A., I only had it from taco trucks.)

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I haven’t read anything here since I posted Tuesday morning. I did do a quick search for Darci news, though: doggio, I’m so sorry that she’s still missing! :frowning:

…and in the course of that search I saw a puppy photo: congrats, Sari! :heart_eyes:

What a long week it’s been!

Bailey had the mass on her leg removed on Tuesday morning; I picked her up at a little after noon. She was out of it most of that day, but the sedation wore off right around bedtime…and she wouldn’t eat anything, which meant no pain med…which meant it was a rough night. For most of the night she just paced and cried. It was so heartbreaking. :frowning: I was awake/out of bed with her several times, maybe sleeping for 2-3 hours total, and I got up for good just before 6:30am on Wednesday. She still wouldn’t eat, and I didn’t have enough hands to both hold her still and try to put a pill down her throat, and she was crying again so I called the vet for suggestions: they said if I had a syringe I could mix the gabapentin in some water and shoot it in her mouth. I did have one (d’oh!!), but probably managed to only get about 20% of it in her. Heh. I tried offering her every food I could think of: chicken, turkey, cheese, peanut butter…all favorites that have never failed before, but she wouldn’t eat a bite. I was planning to call the vet before they closed if she continued to not eat, but they wound up calling me at around 3:30pm to check on her: the doc suggested bringing her in for IV fluids and injections of pain and anti-nausea meds. She slept Wednesday night (thank goodness) but Thursday was still kind of rough; however, yesterday morning she turned a corner and actually ate something! She’s a little better again today. Still not eating enough, and still a little weak, but I’m seeing glimpses of the “real” Bailey.

The doc said to use the inflatable e-collar/leave the incision site uncovered for at least 3 days, but the collar really bothers her and she started licking her leg on Thursday afternoon. I decided that the licking is worse than not getting air, so I put the recovery suit/sleeve on her a little early:

I pull up the sleeve once or twice a day to check the incision, but I think she’ll be living in this for the next few days. :slight_smile: Maybe on Tuesday I’ll take it off and see if she starts licking again. And I’m hoping we’ll have the biopsy results on Tuesday or Wednesday: the mass came out cleanly and the vet didn’t say anything about it looking scary, so I’m not worried at all and am expecting a “benign” result but it will still be good to know for sure.

The weirdest thing is that Bailey hasn’t barked at all since she came home. Normally she barks several times a day – at dogs/people/squirrels she sees out the windows, or just to play. I think I’ll know she’s definitely feeling better when she barks again.

In addition to the doggy drama, work has been very busy because of the proposal I’m helping with. I will probably do some work on that today/tomorrow. I was off Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday wound up being fairly nonproductive: I spent a lot of time catching up on emails, but mostly I was so damn tired from not sleeping Tuesday night (and I was already tired from the Sunday drive/not sleeping well that night/Monday’s funeral and drive/getting up early for Tuesday’s procedure). I was exhausted – English nearly became my second language – and worried about my dog, and then I logged off early to bring her to the vet for the additional treatment. So I only had Thursday and yesterday to do any real work this week.

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I got three more pieces put on this morning after my first cuppa joe. When I finish my third cup, which I’ve just drawn, I’ll put some shoes on and get started in earnest.

Straight lines intentional. :wink:

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We scored Diet Coke and Coke Zero at the Food Kitty. I said Poopsie in my earlier post, but Coke products are what’s on sale. It was limit nine and we got nine each. Since we use our cell numbers gettin’ the discount was easy, plus we both had a buggy (southern for shoppin’ cart) and checked out separately.

Oopsie hope Bailey is back to her usual self soonest.

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Take care Fishy! My daughter hasn’t been feeling good so I hope I haven’t infected anyone here. :rofl:

The in-laws have come up from Taiwan to visit for a week. Our place is too small for them so the party of four is staying in a nearby traditional Japanese inn. Nether of my sisters-in-law are married so our kids are hopelessly spoiled.

Grandma, grandpa and the two aunts brought a lot of things we hadn’t been able to bring with us, including the IR kitchen thermometer, and 140 kg of other things with them. Finally we’ll have enough forks, something less critical in the chopstick-using household, and lots and lots of other important items.

I drove my wife to the airport to pick them up, a two-hour trip there and then back again through the backwoods of Hokkaido. Missed a deer, a fox and two raccoons on the way home.

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That looks very much not like knitting. It is some lovely embroidery on grid canvas though! :wink:


Yes, this. I should’ve been effusively complimentary last night, but today will have to do. That is amazing. Looks like it’ll be a big hit w the kids.



{{realfish}} get better soon and take care of yourself first, not last.

Now that’s cool!


As to me.
The wheels fell off my day of rest at 3am when the my fone farted forth the frankly fun phonemics for flying overtime. I have a standing request for that on every day off, but managed to not get any for all of Apr until this morning the 29th. It’s lucrative, but their idea of convenient timing and mine never seem to align. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, and better late than never. Sigh.

Kill the noise before Her Ladyship awakens, get awake, sheveled, snacked, and out the door quickly. Zoom down to work in the waay pre-dawn non-traffic.

Although compared to Sensei the most exciting thing I saw was a jacked-up pickup truck with ridiculous garish undercarriage lighting everywhere. I wish I could say these are exotic around here, but they’re not; about like pigeons, they’re everywhere and rather an eyesore.

It’s a lovely warm dark calm time in all of Greater Miami. Get an almost ideal parking space, get to the gate early even. The poor customers were supposed to have departed last night at 9pm. But did not, probably due to massive thunderstorm delays in MIA and last night’s crew running out of time. We are by far not the only such flight that’s trying again in the morning to go to wherever using a combination of reserve and overtime crews. Our basic goal in these circumstances is to get ready as quickly as reasonably possible & get those folks moving again.

It’s now 5am and we don’t have a quorum; one FA isn’t here. Sigh. So no boarding. We can prep everything except putting the people on. You know, the slowest part of our various processes. If she’d been here timely we’d have gone a bunch earlier than the 6am target departure time. She eventually gets there just before 6am (somebody had crashed on the freeway, snarling everything), then we load the relatively few passengers in a trice & launch for Dallas as the morning sun is about to clear the horizon. Dallas was cloudy, windy and 50F when we arrived. But at least it was bumpy too.

I’m now hanging out in Dallas awaiting my ride home while the clouds clear out but it doesn’t warm up. Perchance to nap some more on the ride home. If nothing else goes wrong, I should beat the late afternoon Sat traffic and be home in time for a nice dinner. If.

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OMG is that the Mumper name everyone settled on for TokyoBayer? I love it! :smiley:

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hippy*, that’s a beautiful block! I really like the batik.

VanGo, that’s a really creative set. Great job!

Your bed is beginning to look like the picture wheelie.

Pretty knittin’ JtC

Gentle hugs to Bailey oopsie. I hope that she heals up soonest.

Sis, BIL and I went for BBQ (BIL was going through withdrawal) last night and they were off ~0530 today. I need to go to TSC for a few plants and get everything potted today, plus go to CVS to pick up prescriptions. We may go to Bark in the Park this afternoon to celebrate Nelson’s sixth birthday (and a happy 90th to his namesake!).

Since everyone is sharing their crafty endeavors, here is a sample page of the cookbooks that I just completed : Dessert in keeping with the theme of this week’s MMP.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Finally, after about two weeks of her doctor screwing things up, my wife got her heart med prescription filled. Now she needs to get it changed to Express-Scripts, as this pharmacy is pretty hopeless. She could hear the tech saying to the pharmacist “I can’t find anything back here!” :roll_eyes:

Breakfast was a fried egg sandwich, for the win.

Tomorrow we go meet the dawter and grandson for a birthday lunch (his) in WI.

Otherwise, everything is budding out and spring is doing its thing. Yay!

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I have a question about how I should approach an issue in my family.

I have a cousin whose grandson in graduating high school soon. His parents are a mess. They all live in the same city as I do, the cousin lives in another city. Recently my cousin’s sister(the young man’s great-aunt), had him move in with her and her husband, she’s his guardian. He’s stayed with them from time to time before, but things are so bad at home he’s better off away from his folks. It’s thanks to her he’s turned out well, he has always seemed like a good kid thanks to her oversight.

Now he is going to go to college, here in town. He wants to be a nurse. We have had lots of nurses in the family, so it’s kind of like a family tradition. The guardian is a nurse, his greatgrandmother(my aunt) was a nurse, my own mother was a nurse. I don’t know where the money for school, will come from, maybe he has a scholarship. For sure it’s not coming from his folks. Perhaps some from his grandfather and guardian.

I don’t have a ton of money but I would like to help out at least a little. How should I broach the subject to my cousin, his guardian? I’m afraid of sounding snoopy. Nursing is a tough career and I don’t want the young man to be too stressed about getting through school. Do any Mumpers have advice on how to ask about this?

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Straightforward and matter-of-fact is always a good approach. I told all of my kids that I’m willing to help out any of their kids going to school, post-high school, be it university or trade school. The offer is there; it’s up to them to take advantage of it or not. I would suggest talking to the kid, also, to get a good gauge on his sincerity and to stipulate any conditions that you may have on his getting continued help (grades, etc.).

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I do think he is sincere about this career. When I’ve seen him at family events, for at least a year, he has talked about this. He is not a wild kid either, but polite and well mannered. I’m sure he would not waste aid he gets, at least I hope he wouldn’t.