She’s so resilient! Good for her.
Well, shit, shows what I know. Ignore me!
It will feel like you’re shouting into the void. And you very well might be.
… or you might be one more voice in a growing chorus.
You’ll never know. But if you have the bandwidth, time, energy, and inclination … can’t hurt, might help.
Or years from now, when they’ve gone completely under because no customers = no profits, we can join you in the pointing, and the laughing, and the jeering, and the taunting.
Afternoon all. Garbage can was taken out, calories pedaled off, and empty Garbage Can put back in the garage. Checked the water main and according to it, I used about 800 gallons of water on the yard yesterday. Don’t know if that is good or bad, but it ain’t happening too often, I can tell you. About 3 hours until soccer then Chee-burgers for dinner.
Taters, I think we call that Kicking A** and Taking Names. Good on ya!
Sensei, glad to have you back. I understand, the trip took you places in your head and heart you’d rather not be, but you made it through and the family (YOUR family) had a ball. I call that a win. Take care and ease on back into the MMP.
Shoe, you’re quite welcome. And hopefully GC will also be welcomed. And have you called maintenance yet?? 
FCM, kids have such short memories; hope the voyage home today is less stressful for all.
Yanker, I use the Discount Tire near me and have been satisfied with their work and helpfulness so far…albeit I’m hundreds of miles from your site. And most interesting about the dashcams, I’ve thought at times of getting one, but too much of a klutz around cars to do the install like you’re doing.
OK, need to sort out my Goalie gloves for the afternoon practice (I’ve accumulated quite a collection) and try not to fall asleep before then. Have a good afternoon all.
I am so proud of Taters. I can’t say it better than others, and especally shoe, have already said. If that batch of losers can’t shape up the next step is a transfer out for you. Let the whole damned department cave in around your grand-boss’s ears if they won’t demand performance from their staff. You going insane or getting ulcers is not worth indulging their laziness.
Welcome home *Sensei! In one sense you’ve stuck your head back into the hornet’s nest and gotten stung a couple more times. In another sense, you’ve done it for the (probably) last time and proven to yourself that you can survive unscathed (mostly). Bad business all around, but you and your family now are so much bigger and better than what that mess was. So many bad family dynamics are passed down the generations. You can take great pride in stopping the cycle in your part of humanity’s family tree.
Your place or mine, baby. Any time any way! Now that’ll get the MMP tongues a-waggin’! /jk.
Seriously Shoe: no urgency; I understand.
Welcome back Yanker; Jeez that was tough duty on top of all the other criminal trauma you and your family have dealt with personally. The world is a better place for stalwarts like you. Damn shame we have so many sewage generators for the rest of us to tolerate and clean up after.
The Firestone story beggars belief. Not that I disbelieve you, just that … wow. Talk about corporate suicide.
When I lived in St. Louis we had both MLB and bush league minors (Frontier League) in town. I much preferred the minors as an evening outing. A now-defunct team played about 5 miles from our house. The Cards were hot then and it was great to go downtown and attend a big game with 35K other rabid Redbird fans. I saw some of McGwire’s biggest homers. But for basic baseball watchin’ fun, you can’t beat the minors & bush leagues.
Now living here in SoFl we have two MLB-affiliated minor league (now single-A, were double-AA pre-COVID) teams plus the ever-pathetic MLB Marlins. It’s about the same drive one way or the other for me. Minors are totally the entertainment bargain.
Ticking clocks are totally a device of Satan. Throwin’ 'em into a quarry is far too good for 'em.
Not eating much for a week will do that to a girl.
So you mean
Not come and go in a heated rush 
Considering the volume of crazy drivers in Florida I’ve thought of doing the same. But considering my own contribution to Florida’s driving craziness, I’m not sure the recordings would be a benefit to me or a liability. 
Mo hours, Mo OT, Mo money = Mo bettah. Mo beer. Go Lynnwood!
Got up early & beached for a couple hours just post-dawn while Her Ladyship slumbered. Our building was sponsoring a waffle breakfast which doesn’t match my carb profile, so while she did that I took myself out to a diner near our old residence. It’s a small scruffy storefront diner, but the owner is a retired restaurateur from France and the food is amazing. Tres yummie. Got the car washed, then back home, and got sheveled. I hate washing off the salt, but the ocean doesn’t really rinse away BO. Sigh.
Got dressed just in time for her to leave for her Mah-jongg club. So I set out on foot to the nearby park & hung out by the water and under the shade pavilion for awhile. Two of the sort of folks who hang out in parks decided to have a political discussion while sitting 30 feet apart. So everybody else within 100 feet (all 2 of us) got to listen in. Ughh; so much ignorance in such a small package. Despite loving the heat and loving being in public I had to leave. Picked up my dry cleaning on the walk home: uniform pants I might wear once more or might not; they last several workdays between cleanings.
Just finished my phone interview with Social Security for my survivor’s benefits. The interview whose appointment was set 2 months ago. That was 15 minutes we could have dealt with 2 months ago if simplicity and customer service had anything to do with their processes. The lady who called was knowledgeable, professional, and called within 1 minute of the scheduled time. Color me impressed with SSA’s people so far.
I now need to hang up on you folks, locate both of my original marriage licenses, and hustle down to the local SS office to have them copied. If the papers are where I think they are and I move smartly I will make it before they close today. If not I’ll be in their area tomorrow too and can turn them in then. After they make their officially certified copies all I need to do is wait until they get around to starting to send me the money in Nov or something.
If I do leave for the SS office today, Her Ladyship should get back about when I do. No dinner plans yet, but she has an online book club meeting mid-evening tonight, so whatever it is it’ll be early or it’ll be in or both.
Cheers all!!
That made me laugh, partly because you live in Satan’s asshole and I’d lean into a gun pointed at my forehead before I’d go there, and partly because I would not wanna tangle with Her Ladyship based solely on your description.
(She and I would probably get along, tho.)
Jeebus, that gave me a huge laugh.
Also, sang along with every word, cuz that’s what sheltered lil’ child me grew up hearing … apparently, the Parental Units just tuned to “adult contemporary” music in the car and paid no attention to the lyrics.
Aerosmith’s “Pink” or “Walk This Way” anyone?! I think I hit puberty figuring out the lyrics to that those. 
ETA: I lied. Just looked up “Walk This Way” forgot how absolutely dirty that one was, and wandered into lyrics for Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar.” YIKES.
Like, damn, this is why I don’t have children.
“Mommy, when the nice man says …”
“Ummm, LOOK OVER THERE! See the cute squirrels?”
“When the prez-oh-dent said he could grab …”
“SQUIRRELS!!”
Howdy Y’all! Stuff got did and we brunched. The rest of the day was inside and in the a/c. I am a Summer baby but the heat this past week has been just too much. I feel like I could go to bed right now but 'tis only seven p.m.
Hi, everyone! I did go to the appointment. The pandemic sure changed the way I think about illness and contagion. Before Covid, I never thought twice about taking my feverish, miserable self to the doc. These days I think I might get others sick and/or might get rescheduled if I’m symptomatic, so maybe I shouldn’t go. Anyway, I went. My temp was almost normal by then, so though I mentioned it, he didn’t say anything.
He said the swelling and extensive bruising are due to the tourniquet used during surgery. The incision looks good, and he removed the two stitches. (The rest of it is glued.) He took me to task for not using the walker. See, my sister only used hers for two days, so we thought getting off it sooner was better. The risk of a fall is high, though, so I promised to do better. He replaced the bandage and told me to keep it covered. But the GOOD news, the really, REALL good news, is that I’m ahead of the game in both strength and flexibility, even though I haven’t had PT yet. YIPPEE!
I did a really dumb thing: I left my purse on the bus. I realized it 10 seconds after the bus left. I called the bus co., and the driver found and secured it. Thank heavens for kind people. We had to go downtown to get it. Long story short, I put in a lot of walking today, and I was out of painkillers so hadn’t had one since midnight. I’m a hurting unit, but a happy one.
Taters, your Mumper name should be WonderWoman. I’m so impressed with your resolve and bad-ass attitude!
Have to go. I can’t type when my sister is with me because we talk so much. I’ll try again later.
So glad to hear all of it~knee, purse and good times with sister. Keep it coming.
And I agree with taters=wonder woman!
Got my flu 
shot today, this is my unsubtle nudge to all of you to be getting yours in the next month or so. Got the new RSV vaccine in the other arm, for those of you 60 or older, ask for it next time you’re at the pharmacy. My Medicare part D drug paid for both and with my lungs being mean to me, I’m glad of the added protection. The RSV one is just out in the past few weeks~the pharmacist said I was the first one he’d given. At least I’m an early adopter of something. Too bad it wasn’t Apple or Berkshire Hathaway stock.
*the RSV vaccine is a one and done, not annual like the flu. I’ll let y’all know in a few days if it made my arm sore or anything.
Next will be the latest Covid booster but that’ll have to wait a week or two, I ran out of arms.
IDK, Ricky Skaggs and Marty Stuart began playing before they went to school. :d&r:
Yay on Overlyboy getting accepted wordy!
Glad that you went to the doctor nellie. Now you know.
Mooooooom, the dill onion bread is a variant of the casserole bread recipe from the Betty Crocker cookbook of the late seventies. Here goes:
Dill Onion Casserole Bread
1 package dry yeast
1/2 c. warm water
1/2 c. lukewarm milk (scalded then cooled)
1/3 c. margarine or butter, softened
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
1 small onion finely chopped
1 TBSP dried dillweed
Sesame or poppyseed to sprinkle on top
3 c. AP flour
Softened margarine or butter
Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large mixing bowl. Add milk, 2/3 c. butter, the eggs, salt and 1 c. flour. Beat on low speed, scraping bowl constantly for 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally for 2 minutes. Stir in the remaining flour, onion and dill until smooth. Scrape batter from the side of the bowl. Cover, let rise in a warm place until double (about 20 minutes). Batter is ready if the indentation remains when touched with floured finger.
Stir down bater b beating about 25 strokes. Spread evenly in a greased 2-quart casserole. Cover, let rise until double (about 40 minutes).
Heat oven to 375F. Place loaf on low rack so that the top of casserole is in the center of the oven. Casserole should no touch the sides of the oven. Bake until the loaf is brown and sounds hollow when tapped, 40-45 minutes. Immediately remove from the casserole. Brush the top of the loaf with butter and cool on a wire rack. To serve, cut into wedges with a serrated knife.
I haven’t made for a while, but it makes a nice, fine even crumbed bread.
Irked, dragged my sorry butt home (we will be irking OT again next week 
), et, napped and am now semi-conscious. I’m gonna get some sleep and clean house tomorrow.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
National Burger Day, DH tells me, so we decided to treat ourselves and DoorDash. Picked a diner-type place, since neither of us was much in the mood for standard fast food.
AC is still doing its job, and the vent isn’t dripping, so the TV will go back into service tomorrow. That’ll be nice. (Note: these are connected by the fact that the offending AC vent is right above the TV’s spot.)
We’ve got an appt next week for flu and covid shots. CVS texted me to nudge…
Gonna head back to bed shortly. Pulling ethernet cables in classrooms tomorrow. And probably other stuff. So I need my beauty sleep. Plus I’s tahred.
Mwah!
Harrison Ford does cross stitch!
The pandemic was simply yet another virus, many of which have spread themselves globally before there was 24-7 news, some of which are at least as deadly, and most of which still grace us with their presence now.
The appearance of Covid years ago should never, ever make anyone think, “Yanno, maybe I shouldn’t go to the doctor.” 
Shouldn’t think that then; shouldn’t think that now.
Got up early this morning and headed to the gov’t service center to get a duplicate birth certificate. She printed it on the spot, gave me the info I needed on how to go about getting an enhanced drivers license so I can easily drive to visit a friend in Winnipeg as my license needs replacing anyway and then she told me that that particular county is hiring. I can’t believe how much I want a job like hers after being burnt out on my career and now dealing with the stressed control freak I now work for. Today she yelled at me about her lack of vacation time because I mentioned that I was driving up to Brainerd (i.e., vacationland) on Saturday. Never mind that I’m there to spend 10 hours working a volunteer job, then turning around and driving 2-1/2 hours home again in the same day. She sees my activity as a vacation and I see it as an obligation to the person who agreed to replace me in my managerial role. Geez. She is wound so tight. I don’t really take it personally, but it wears on me. I’ll be looking for that posted gov’t job.
Tonight I’m doing something I haven’t done since before Covid. I’m making a batch of peach-raspberry-prosecco jam. The peaches were not ideal and I used less sugar than before but I still have hopes for it. This tart number ought to be great on ice cream or in yogurt. It could even be a good barbecue sauce with some chili in it. Yum.
Wow, We are all so thankful for that and so glad everyone is safe.
Yay! Keep it up, Nellie too!
This is true, and there will be a bit of backsliding but two steps forward to one back is still progress, @Buttercup_Smith. I should know. Plus take a walk every single day. It’s weird how much that can help.
Boo, that lamp sounds perfect. I have been bemoaning my inability to thread any of the needles my mother left for me in her massive sewing supply. And I have mending to do too. I love being able to make something wearable again, and I’d also like to start making rag rugs out of old sheets. Seems like a good thing to work on while I watch documentaries or nature shows in the depths of winter.
pilot, you have a wonderful daughter. Thank you for supporting her endeavors.
shoe, I’ve been there with the electrolytes. I tend to drink water mixed with PowerAde (works better than Gatorade for me, not for others) on hot days to help keep it in check. Also, rule of thumb for working in the heat. Always drink enough to feel like you are going to need to pee in another 1/2 hour or so. Dehydration and heat exhaustion can be deadly, no lie. And it doesn’t matter how old you are either. The good news is that it is already cooler and drier here in Minnesota and it’s headed your way.
Y’all have a good Friday.
1a.) When you covet a job working for the friggin’ driver’s license office, you know you need to brush up that resume and GTFO.
2b.) We got Polar to sack up … surely we can do the same for you.
3c.) She’s yelling at YOU about HER problems? What would happen if you just laughed in her face?
(Maybe don’t do that.)
Please do so. Let us know how it goes!
Enjoy your peaceful jam session. (Heh. I so funny.)
{ laughs in Retail / Customer Service / Construction / Landscaping / Restaurant }
That’s … yeah, I can’t. I’m sorry but that’s too funny for words.
I mean, I can do that on my days off … ? But while I’m working? 'Tis to laugh.
I don’t think that adding peas to the jam will improve it.
Will it make it peas-ful? Yes. Improve it? Probably not.
Evening all. Soccer has been coached and I ended up staying late, a 10 year old boy was looking for his team, turns out he went to the wrong field and his parents had simply dropped him off and taken off. I didn’t have my cell phone but there was a 14-15 year old girls team practicing there and of course they all had their phones, so we got in touch with his family finally and they came and picked him up. The good point is while we were waiting the Ice Cream truck came by so I let him get something on me and that gave me an excuse to get an ice cream sammich, which I had a gnawin’ and cravin’ for. Didn’t spoil my Cheeseburger dinner either. So I did good deed and got a treat for it.
nellie, good news from the Doc. Glad you are feeling better. And got your purse back intact…good bus crews there.
BBBoo, usually get my flu shot later on in the year, but definitely will get that…will look into the RSV thing.
Nettie, since I had two Cheeseburgers for dinner, I guess I’m good for the National Burger day this year. And glad the AC is doing fine.
vroom, I think most of us have had bosses like yours; hope another job comes along that will suit you better.
OK, need to finish the night’s internetting and do some reading before heading off to bed. All y’all take care.now.
May I gently suggest that you do not listen to your sister for any medical advice heretoforewith?!?
{ shakes head sadly }
Sir. Please. Have some dignity.
Huh. The fever and other symptoms are back. I wonder why. I was fine earlier.
Around here, if you called my GP’s office before the vaccine, his recording, like other docs’, said if you had Covid symptoms, do not come in! You could go to the ER or stay home. This was also true at the eye clinic, allergist’s, oncologist’s, and rheumatologist’s. and was pretty typical before the vaccine. All these places still ask if you’ve had Covid symptoms; I just don’t know what they do if someone says yes.
I wish it were no deadlier other viruses we take for granted, but according to researchers, that’s just not so:
COVID’s death toll is unlikely to sink to flu levels any time soon, experts say, even though U.S. health officials have expressed hope that COVID boosters will soon become an annual occurrence, much like the flu shot.
“I think COVID deaths will continue to exceed flu deaths for a while, unless we see something new in influenza,” like a deadlier strain developing, Dr. Stuart Ray, vice chair of medicine for data integrity and analytics at Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, recently told Fortune.
When it comes to leading causes of death in the U.S., COVID has landed as No. 3 for the last two years, while influenza and pneumonia, grouped together, have landed as No. 9, according to the CDC.
Anyway, I appreciate everyone telling me to go, especially you, shoe. Clearly, that was the only saner choice here.
red, thank for sharing the bread recipe. I can’t wait to try it!
My fingers will remain crossed until you get a job there. Your boss sounds psychotic.
cookie, a big thank you for telling me to extend the bad leg when arising from a chair. It hurts way less that way.
There were 4 new houses built near where our daughter lives and 2 of them have real grass and 2 of them have fake grass. The fake grass looks much better than the real grass.
Cool, thank you; I’ll also let our daughter know. She’s preached several times at her church. Right now she’s at a discernment meeting with the Discernment Committee.
FCM How did Roxy’s 2nd day go? Originally I typed asking if she was experiencing any trauma aftereffects but you answered that before I could post. I was hoping that she was able to roll with it. She seems like a strong young lady.
taters 
<this is me giving you a standing ovation.
Do they still do the Tommy Bartlett WaterSki Show? That’s what we saw when we went on vacation to the WI Dells. Loved it; I tried to do a weak imitation when we returned home and went to our Grandparents’ cottage. Sounds like you had a great vacation (maybe once you left NC IIRC), kayaking, visiting a HS friend, eating MANGOS!!!
It all came over to the SE’n corner of the Mitten State. My office is near the Rouge River and it breached it’s banks this morning so we all had to move our cars to higher ground, then were told to leave early afternoon. Received a call from my manager about 6pm who said the parking lot is now flooded and not to come in tomorrow.
I don’t know if Belle Tire is only a local chain but we have gotten very good service from them.
I too had a call from Soc Sec today; mine was 40 minutes long. It went VERY well. Told me I’ll get a pretty gosh darn amount in September going back 5 months then regular payments starting in October. All told, my SS bene’s will exceed my annual pension. There were 2 women on the call, one was a trainee and one was the trainer. Like your rep, mine called within 1 minute of the scheduled time and they were professional and knowledgable. I’m also impressed.
Nellie, Nellie, Nellie. Well all’s well that ends well. Glad you got your purse back and that you’re doing well in strength and flexibility. Hope you were able to secure more painkillers.
BBBoo thanks for the info on the RSV vaccine. As much as I hate needles, I still get a flu vaccine every year at work. I just don’t look, turn my head and close my eyes. Normally they are available late Sept/early Oct. I will also plan to get the RSV vaccine. As far as the COVID booster, I read an article that said if you can possibly wait about 3-4 weeks, they will have an updated vaccine available. So, that’s what I’m going to do.
MetalMouse good to hear that a good deed not only went unpunished but you received a nice treat. Good on 'ya.
AAAAAAAAGGGGGGG! The weather service issued a tornado warning. Hubs had been outside so I asked him to check if I closed the moonroof on my car. He said it’s raining; I asked, would you please check. He came back in and said, GET YOUR KEYS, it’s open. Ran out and started up car and closed it; not too much rain in car yet, dried off the console. Now back inside and drying self off. I had enough water earlier today when I swam a 1000. 
[pats self on back].