(Old) The first day of school in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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wheelie I’ve done that before myself. I hope you were able to get to meet him today without any problems.

Shoe the program actually does the:-) face for me which is kind of cool. Of course as you can see there’s one small problem with it in that when I say the words it actually puts it in. :slight_smile:

Boo, thank you so much I am glad that I can be back.

Nellie, I’m so glad that you finally decided to go and that everything’s okay. Hopefully they’ll be able to figure out what the swelling all came from.

Metal Mouse, I think part of it is that I was talking so slowly so there was no errors in it. And it has been helping my hands that’s for sure.

Pilot I didn’t have tacos for dinner last night. I had mac and cheese and sausage. Not sure when I’m going to have tacos again but I’m hungry for them!

Metal Mouse, and now I’m hungry for Culver’s too. I think I’m just hungry.

Sari, I could probably use this all of the time. It helps my hands but it also helps me get my thoughts out a lot easier I think. The only problem I have with this particular app is that it is not easy to do things like spelling something that is differently spelled or bolding things or any kind of customization like that. So I’m having to use my hands but far less than I used to.

Oopsie, I need to get my antenna up. I don’t have cable anymore but I do want to watch some of the secondary channels here. Supposedly Doctor Who is on some of them.

Carnut, this one actually does pretty good without having to do a lot of repetition. My biggest problem is like I said to sari, that sometimes it’s hard to get it to say exactly what I want it to especially with spelling changes. Every time I say sari, I get sorry. :slight_smile:

Today’s been a pretty low-key day. I’ve been wanting to go outside but it is so so hot that I’m just staying inside until tonight when I get my porch time then. I was able to get time on the porch last night. I was up in the middle of the night because my stomach was bothering me. Finally got that under control but it meant that I slept a lot this morning. So I just woke up a little bit ago.

CTE is on their way home. Apparently their AP music theory teacher is scheduled to be out today so they knew it ahead of time and right before that they have PE and before that is study hall and they forgot to bring their charger for their laptop so they can’t do any school work. So they asked if they had permission to come home which, after talking with hubby and coming to a decision, we decided that they would have permission to come home. We made sure they understanding that this is not going to be a common occurrence happened as well.

I’m hoping that BTY manages to get home without any trouble today. CTE was supposed to let them know that he needs to take the bus himself and that they won’t be there to make sure that BTY gets to where he needs to be. The last time he had to do this it wasn’t terrible. The principal contacted me to make sure that we were getting him on the right bus. Then BTY had to call us from the bus terminal to make sure that he got on the correct bus. But he got there without any trouble so there’s that. We just have to hope that he can do this again today.

I don’t think that the text to type is going to be a permanent thing for me. It’s taking a bit to get my brain around the fact that I need to state punctuation. But I suspect the longer that I use it the more I’ll get used to it. And now I’m off to do some other things like some writing and answering some messages and things like that. At least it’s saving my hands!

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Holy gods, that sounds so good.

That’s a shitty feeling.

I know you love the place, but from here it’s starting to look like Stockholm syndrome.

Through the snow, uphill both ways … ?

{ glares on behalf of millenials everywhere busting their damn butts }

Can I have a slice, with some of swampy’s onion gravy?

The childcare situation in this country is almost as deplorable as healthcare.

What would they do without you?

I mean, literally, what on earth would they do if something (og forbid!) should happen to impact your ability to wrangle two toddlers? For free?

Never, ever, stop doing this. You can go along with … once you’ve thought it through for yourself.

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Isn’t that also called “Salisbury steak”?

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“Salisbury steak” is what was slopped onto our plastic trays in the middle school lunch line.

“Hamburger steaks in onion gravy” sounds all fancy in a down-home way, and also delishush.

(And yes, I’m aware there’s no difference. This is why marketing is a multi-bazillion dollar industry.)

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I’m aware. It was actually one of my favorite Swanson TV dinners when I was a kid, but that love affair, like so many, crashed on the rocks of reality. I do love me a good gravy, though.

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My elementary school cafeteria was the worst. It was like prison food.

That being said, Sam the Cooking Guy has a YT video for Salisbury Steaks and they are delicious:

Salisbury Steak

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Shoe I had the same reaction as you did. Many of my contemporaries at work love to bitch about “lazy Millenials” and “touchy fussy spoiled 20-somethings”. I work with exactly the same set of co-workers the complainers do doing the same work as the complainers do and I simply never see that stuff. Then again I’m not exuding generation-hate or spouting political nonsense everywhere I go.

IMO far more likely Taters co-workers are lazy Boomers or early post-Boomers who learned long ago that in many office jobs you don’t need to work to get a paycheck; you just need to show up & look vaguely busy. In a complex bureaucracy there’s always a reason something can be put off to later. Once you get good at finding those reasons / excuses you don’t ever need to work again. Just sit there and if asked cite the reason you can’t do whatever … yet. If your boss practices the same non-work techniques it’s especially easy. Which I suspect is exactly how the MPA gets away with it.

If they’re all but unfireable civil service folks it’s even more likely.

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I have a now-vintage aloha shirt I bought over 20 years ago that I have seriously shrunk out of. Very nice material, so I took it into town for alterations. Then to Trader Joe’s, and Costco, and the supermarket.

I knew I should have taken the kayak down to the beach before I ran my errands. I missed the tide. Again. :frowning:

I just found out I can’t post to Facebook groups for 24 hours. A friend posted about the coming Biden Gun Grab, and I jokingly posted ‘Anyone want to buy mine?’

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I could tell you stories (well, one)…

Back from the gym and pedaling off a few hundred calories. Also mailed my bill from Cook’s for annual termite protection, guess it works cause I haven’t had any in the past dozen years. Will get ready to go coach soccer in about an hour, it’s 96F now so not much running today, for either the kids or the coach. Then the usual 2sDay Mac-n–Cheese to finish things off.

Spelling, however, you needed to work on… :wink: :wink: :laughing: Hope the Doc visit went well.

Real Fish, hope BtY made it ok.

OK, need to check the e-mail traffic and then get ready for the littles soccer time. Take care.

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Honestly, I don’t know. Daycare is so $$$ and they don’t make all that much. But they will have to figure it out after June. We will continue to pay for Tobias to go to Starmaker because it’s important to us. But they’ll have to figure out after-school care.

As far as lazy, slacker workers, I don’t believe any generation is better or worse than any other. There are hard workers of all ages and worthless piles of protoplasm in any age group you care to mention. I think work ethic is more due to how you were raised and the examples you saw around you. And managers should be the ones dealing with the slackers - bad managers are everywhere.

For the record, thd onion bread was good but not very onion-y. Gotta try another recipe.

And so my day slides into chillage…

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Howdy Y’all! Been an innerestin’ day with far more productivity than I care for, bein’ a retired drain on society. Mowage was accomplished, along with laundry. Then nappage and day drinkin’, two of my favorite slothful past times. Then sup got cooked and et, and the kitchen cleanded up. I also spent a couple of hours readin’ online sermons. The priest we had scheduled for Sunday can’t be with us as she has a medical procedure on Firday and knows from past experience it takes a few days to get back to normal. Thus, we switch gears. The service shall be The Service of The Word as we Whiskypalians like to call it. No Communion, just everything before Communion, which includes a sermon. I get to lead the service on Sunday cause it’s my time to be up. As a Lay Leader I can read a prepared sermon. The church has this handy dandy site called Sermons That Work for this purpose. Thus the readin’ and choosin’ of a sermon as an activity. Betwixt now and Sunday I will read the now printed out sermon many, many, many times as I am all obsessive like that. I baked a thaw and bake pee-kahn pie, so there’s that and ice cream to be had shortly. YUM!

shoe it turned out to be onion and 'shroom gravy and was way num. There’s even leftovers for tomorrow. I call it hamburger steak cause I make 'em thicker than run of the mill salisbury steak. Also it’s a more down home name.

I read all, but cannot brain real good right now, so yays, boos, hugs, trouts, chitlins, and how you doin’s all around, as needed.

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Scooter. :slight_smile:

I remember an unplanned visit to a shrine on vacation once. Mom whipped out five starched white handkerchiefs and a pack of bobby pins for her and us girls.

Those look like the needle threaders that I use JtC.

fishy, the only drawback to OTA TV in our area is that you can kiss channel 4 (NBC affiliate) goodbye. Shoot, even when I lived a mere 4 miles from the station on Knob Hill, I couldn’t pick it up over the air. They broadcast over the top of the Nashville basin and you don’t really start picking it up until you’re out around Dickson to the west or about halfway up the Cumberland Plateau to the east. Other than that, I get ~40 OTA channels with my little $30 antenna and pretty much whatever I want to watch with the Roku.

Irked, came home, walked Nelson (he barked at the crew removing trees and brush along the fence in preparation for replacement), et and am now slothing until bed.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Ughhh. We just had a bad start in my area to the 1st day of school with a bus crash. One child was ejected and fell under the rolling bus.

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First day for my students. Two of 'em I know from last year, one’s new. We’ll start learning about the new kid ASAP. There’s always something you find out that they didn’t tell you.

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Oh no; so sorry to learn this. I asked Siri about this and it appears to have happened in German Township, OH where a Honda Odyssey crossed the center line and struck a Northwestern Local School District school bus which went off the road and overturned. One child was killed and 23 taken to hospitals. Condolences to the family of the young child. Hoping that the injured recover soon.

shoe I’m so sorry; I didn’t mean to impugn any individuals in the MMP and particularly not you. And I didn’t think you fell into that age group; Siri tells me that millenials were born in 1981-1996.

Laundry done, went to Fitness Center and worked out; going to Kroger as soon as I finish this post. So, 3 out of 4 is good in my book. Credit union will have to wait until tomorrow.
And the zucchini patties turned out to be decent; first time I made them.

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So the first half of naptime was good, with Spot snuggled by my shoulder. The he decided to use my head as a pillow(which is like having a fuzzy hot water bottle on your head). The he curled up right next to my head, and started loudly cleaning myself. So I’m up and having a Manhattan.
Oh, and the UPS/Teamsters contract was ratified by 86% of those voting. It will go into effect as soon as the Florida Local renegotiates their Supplement, since they voted that down(What is it with Florida and screwing up voting, anyways?)

Mine took the stuff that was rejected from the Old Roy pet food factory.

These phrases are usually uttered by people who are puzzled that nobody wants to destroy themselves physically and mentally so a billionaire can buy an Emotional Support Yacht for their #2 yacht, and consider employees “liabilities” :roll_eyes:

Hopefully it’s “child learns better on the right side of the classroom” and not “child is an unholy mix of Bart Simpson and Calvin”

:frowning:

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I could not have said nearly as well myself. The story of my life lately.

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{{{{all y’all}}}}

That was ninth grade for me – a 45-minute walk, and the street dipped down into a ravine somewhere along the way. So going both ways I had to walk uphill, though at least I got to walk downhill a bit first. :slight_smile:

Not real big on tacos, at least not the ones with crunchy tortillas. I much prefer burritos. And my most common breakfast is a freshly nuked frozen chimichanga.

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Evening all. Only 4 of the 7 boys made it tonight and I kept practice short (about 45 minutes), but we had a lot of fun and worked on a lot of stuff, and everybody was pretty sweaty at the end (including coach). Tomorrow will be mowage and I might split it up between morning and evening, just to avoid the hottest times of the day (Weather Wizards are calling for a high of 96F tomorrow). I’m more worried that High School football is due to start this weekend, hoe the heat stroke cases are few and far between.

swampy, have fun preachin’ on Sunday. Nice that you don’t have to create your own.

doggio, sounds like most folk figure you got a good deal on the contract; hope the Florida issue doesn’t mess with things.

Need to do my evening reading and get ready for tomorrow…the AC stays on tonight.

Take care all.

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Today was one giant irritant. Everyone was getting on my damn nerves today.

On the plus side, the car AC fan is behaving, the home AC seems to be fixed (although we are still having an occasional problem with one of the vents drippiing), and the Irish pizza was good.