(Old) The Joy of Brain Farts in the MMP

Happy birthday sari!

{{{sunny}}}

I was going to take Nelson to the dog park after irk this afternoon, but it began to sprinkle as I pulled into the driveway. Maybe tomorrow.

Saturday, I’ll have lunch with some old friends from Indiana who are coming to Nashville to play tourist. I went to school with Carolyn’s late big sister and spent a lot of time at their house. She’s traveling with her mom, so no wild nightlife there. :stuck_out_tongue:

I went to my 5 year, 30 year and 40 year class reunions. The five year was more like a kegger in HS. By the time the 30 year rolled around, FB had taken the element of surprise from seeing our classmates. I actually enjoyed the 40 year, since some of the folks who hadn’t been to one before came (they were more my kind of people). I likely won’t go again until at least the 50th.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

Happy burpday, sari!

Sadly, I don’t think any of my outside plants survived the frost. Basils are definitely toast, marigolds might make it, begonia is dubious. S’not supposed to frost in mid May!

I like that! Oh, and happy birthday as well!!! :grinning:

@Sahirrnee

Happy birthday, dear heart! :partying_face::confetti_ball::tada: :birthday: :confetti_ball::tada::partying_face:

You ever wake up with someone snoring gently in your ear? Was it a tuxedo cat? Just me? Also, the boy has a banana peel fetish. :thinking:

Hopefully just a brain fart. and sorry about BIL.

I always try to get wing seat so I can watch the flaps, slats, and spoilers in action.

I’ve never gone to one. If I want to relive high school, I’ll watch Lord Of the Flies.

I feel him.

< mumbles back >

Fair enough. Having a bad bonked brain day. Could not get @Sahirrnee typed to save my soul. Had to wish the birthday girl :musical_note::notes:hippo birdies two ewe :notes::musical_note:

{{{{BBBoo}}}}

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this, but I went to 2 - one at 9 1/2 years (yeah) then a combined class of '71, ‘72’ '73, '74 about 10 years ago. Both times, there were live bands that were SO LOUD that any conversation was impossible. And the few people I would have liked to have seen didn’t show up. So I have no interest in the combined C/O '72/'73/'74 fiasco next month, with or without the choir reunion. Honestly, high school was just something I had to get thru so I could get on with life.

I almost forgot about the load of unders in the dryer. But it’s been retrieved and folded and hauled to the bedroom. I’m about to retreat to bed to read myself into oblivion. Gotta remember not to eat in the morning - just hydrate. After I’m bled, it’s home to mow and vacuum and scrub and whatever.

I’m exhausted already!!!

Happy Birthday Sari :cupcake: :heart_decoration: :rose:
I hope sleeping downstairs works out for you.

Happy Birthday Sari!

I hope it was good cornbread at least!

You are getting a puppy and puppies have sharp little puppy claws. You will probably be very happy that you have a spare mattress.

This.

I deliberately bought GG for his color. A black tux is as far away from a ginger tabby as I could get and I didn’t want to unconsciously compare GG to Steve.

In the excitement of the storms the last couple of days…I forgot to make GG do his “trick” annnnnd he forgot. I tried today and it was like he had never learned to sit up and beg, so we are starting over again.

I am kinda annoyed about my new tree, I was assured it was a fruitless tree…and it is not. I saw something colored on the branch and though it was a butterfly so went out to look and saw three berries.

At least it is in a fenced in yard so we don’t have to worry about the javalina going after the deadfall and then finding our trash can. Birds like the berries and we like watching the birds, so it will probably work out.

As a bird lover, I would say you should take the nest down now. Wild birds shouldn’t be raised that close to hoomans and the nest makers will find a better place in no time at all.

Go you! Are you going to walk? I didn’t, it wasn’t important enough to me to pay for the gown. I do kinda wish I had sprung for the senior portrait though…

I’ve never been to a reunion and don’t think I missed much. I graduated young (joined the USAF a few days after my 17th birthday) and didn’t really have a lot in common with a graduating class that were all at least 2 years older than me.

Did she have a linen closet at the last place? Many apartments don’t have them nowadays so it would be easy to forget suddenly having one.

When Dad died, Mom was foggy for over a year. Grief does strange things to the sufferer.

But…don’t you feel super productive now?

:cry:

I’m looking at billowing monsoon clouds again tonight. The dew point is wrong and it is the wrong time of year…but here we are.

:people_hugging:

You should probably have a nice glass of water now as well. You can’t hydrate properly in just one day, you need to start a day or so in advance.

When one of us has fasting bloodwork, we have to put a sticky not on the Keurig to remind the victim they can’t have coffee because we are so habit ridden.

Yesterday, I spilled an entire cup all over the counter and used two kitchen towels wiping it up, so I did a load of towels today. They are still waiting in the dryer because the disapproving stares of hundreds of grannies only kick in when the unfolded towels are in the laundry basket, now when they are harmlessly sitting in the dryer.

Hubs was offended yesterday. He asked his doctor about getting a gimp tag and his doctor didn’t even ask why he thought he needed it, the doctor just pulled the form up on his comp and started filling it out. When I got mine, I got a learners tag (temporary red tag) first so I could try it out and see if it was really something I wanted. Hubs has the paperwork for a permanent blue placard.

We have a case of suet that our spoiled yard flock won’t eat that we were planning to take to a bird rescue place in Prescott, so we can make a day out of driving to the DMV, then getting lunch at the town square before strolling around and looking at birds at the rescue place.

For the record, Chewy will accept returns of any pet food for any reason for a year after purchase. We were willing to deal with taking the suet to UPS to be returned, but they told us to donate it to a rescue, so that is what we will do. Hopefully, those birds aren’t too good to eat beef suet with mealworms.

Evening all. Spent the morning pulling my annuity records (I have 2) and putting them in an excel spreadsheet, to see where I am at money-wise (upshot-still good but 2022 really hurt more than I thought). Then pedaled and sauna’ed my way into the afternoon and watched some European soccer. There were storms and delays due to weather so very little soccer was practiced, our last game is Saturday and there is a 50% chance of rain then, so we’ll have to see. Garbage and Recycle cans are back in the garage and dinner has been ingested, so all is right with the world.

Herald, enjoying the saga of Fluff and kittens.

God Bod, an early Happy Grad day!

Niner, hope the fires are dying down. And I’m more of a loner on games; Spider Solitaire works well for me. And you might want to read the General Aviation thread, Pilot and Flyboy both contribute to that thread too.

doggio, regarding the bosses timing, I’m reminded of a Science-Fiction term; TANJ (There Ain’t No Justice).

Pilot, I found your flight on Flight Tracker, kinda fun to see an icon and know you’re up there flying it.

Flyboy, you know your wife the best, if you can stay home and surprise her with the new table, sounds like a plan.

I don’t know, this is the second year they’ve been here and I already took one nest down. We’ll see. Plus I need some plan to make the place impossible for them to build a nest there.

OK, 9pm and need to finish up some things, so all y’all take care.

I am particularly perturbed. I’d actually spent an hour writing a post earlier today, answering lots of people and updating on the excitement of my life. I finished, went to post it and… nothing. I thought that maybe the best option would be copying it and pasting after a reboot of the app.

I hit select all.

I hit refresh.

When the idiot box asked me if I wanted to save as a draft or actually delete (or whatever the idiot box said), I confidently hit delete.

I opened up a new reply window. I hit ctrlV. Nothing happened.

Only then did I realize my brain far of not remembering to copy what I selected and now having lost it all.

I was going to start back from scratch, but writing this out was both more fun and more cathartic.

So quick and dirty update/commenting:

I read a lot of graphic novels, especially when I’m busy, because they go so quickly. I can feel like I’m keeping up with my reading that way. I read a lot of other things too though: urban fantasy, sci-fi, YA novels, mysteries, popular fiction, books on whatever has caught my fancy at the moment.

Hubby had his upper endoscopy this afternoon. Everything was a-ok, though they want him back in in 6 months. Which is slightly… concerning? I don’t know. While he got to be unconscious, I got to have a lunch that didn’t hit the spot and do a little reading.

Last night was graduation for CtE’s high school. I have a few friends that have seniors there and it was great to see the pictures they shared. But as I’m looking at this, it dawned on me - in one year, that will be me taking pictures of CtE as they walk across the stage. I just can’t believe how quickly time is flying by.

This weekend, I need to take BtY to buy a nice shirt. His “transition ceremony” (aka: 8th grade graduation) is Tuesday night and I really don’t want him wearing the old usual stuff. Normally, I’d just go pick something up and present it to him, since I know he doesn’t care what the look is. But I don’t want to buy a fabric that ends up driving his SPD crazy. So, this weekend, shopping.

Trying to hang out with more friends, but it’s really not going well. I did get to see MFN last night, which was good. And I’ll be seeing him on Saturday because I “will look like a lost puppy” if I go into the shop where I get my special gummies without him. But I was hoping to get together with another friend on Wednesday, but she’s hurt. Don’t blame her in the least. But I need to get better at making connections. Actually, I need to pick a time and place for a DopeFest. Because I’m falling down on the job.

Tomorrow is the last Project Lit of the year. I keep having people tell me how much they’ll miss me next year, but they don’t seem to realize that I don’t have to have a student in the school to attend as a community member. They are usually happy about the fact that I will be back, which makes me feel pretty good.

Happy birthday, sari!!! and Happy Soon to Be Graduation Day, GodBod!

There was probably more that I wanted to say but I believe my brain is still farting. I am REALLY looking forward to this weekend when things won’t be (quite) as busy.

The Spousal Unit just called. She made it to Olympia. Four hours. *shudder* I don’t envy her that drive. Burien is far enough for me, thankyouverymuch.

I think we’ve decided I’m not joining her Saturday.

One time a pair of doves thought they would make a nest in the wheel well of a car at the autobody shop hubs worked at. He told me that they had to pull the nest out hourly until the car was moved to the other side of the lot before they left for the day. The next day, they showed up to find the doves busy making another nest in the same car.

The car got moved inside and the doves moved on and there were no more nests in wheel wells.

There is a reason they are called bird brains yanno.

I’d suggest using a hose. Spray the birds every time you see them, they will get tired of it pretty quick.

I am still happily using my gizmo to turn the sprinkler on to chase the neighbors’ cats (two of the females had litters. again.) away.

I had noticed that there were a couple of wasp nests on the back porch ceiling, but kept forgetting to knock them down when it was dark so they got golf ball sized. I finally got that done today, hopefully they will find somewhere else to nest. There are very nice eaves on the other side of the sheds that would be great places to raise little pollinating wasplets.

I’ve spent some time researching fruiting mulberries and its not as bad as I thought, plus I doubt I will still be living here when it gets to the big and obnoxious stage that I remember from when I was a kid.

Happy Birthday Sari!!!

I shall never, ever forget your birthday now :slight_smile:

Awww. Hugs to you too! :smiling_face:

My mom has swallows who nest every year on her front porch. They had two nestings last year; first batch fledged and then the second batch hatched. They’re back again this year. So far, just 2 chicks. Her swallows seem to be on the timid side, fortunately. They all “run away” as soon as a person comes into view.

My favorite wing seat was in Europe, flying into Frankfurt. We had the rising sun on one wing, and the setting moon on the other. I did take pictures in both directions, but unfortunately, there wasn’t any way to capture that effectively.

Word.


Please don’t worry about me guys. I’m doing ok. Promise. Staying in the bed for the day ain’t that bad. It could be worse, I could still be working. Staying in bed was frowned on… Weird.

This weekend my niece graduates from high school. I swear they’re all still toddlers. Time really contorts itself sometimes.

The family has safely reached Seattle, then Tacoma, in preparation for Saturday’s ceremony. I have fed all the animals here. I may take a bath. Or not. We’re all crazy up in here, me and the aminals. Akiko would like me to point out that she has been faithfully sleeping in front of the door, just in case her (other) people come back. Sorry kiddo. Not today. :confused:

Sari, I hope this isn’t too late to wish you a Happy Birthday.

True Fish, I learned the same lesson, equally painfully. Nowaday, I save a lot of temporary documents in a temp file.

Sunny, I hope you feel better soon.

FCM, that sounds fun! I have never been able to sing, so I envy those who can.

One of the kids in my 7th grade class just isn’t getting English. His father works in the office so we’ve spend the last couple of days trying to figure out what to do. That’s the thing about teaching, or any job, there are always challenges.

When the hockey game goes so long you switch from beer to coffee. and they lose. Still up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

{{{{Fish family}}}}

Morning, mumpers! It’s 12c/54f with a predicted high of 16c/60f and rain showers today. That would explain the blue sky and sun outside. Weather app says “Better fucking prepare yourself for a bad hair day”. Not quite sure why, I washed my barnet this morning and although it needs some colour on it now, it’s not looking that bad.

{{{{{Fishies}}}}}

Godbod I think I forgot to congratulate you on graduation…so congrats! And double-congrats if I didn’t forget!

BBBoo sorry to hear you’ve had a bad day or two :people_hugging:

Last irk day of the week for me which is good, and I get to leave my laptop in the office as I’m back here on Monday for a school-wide event that we’re all supposed to attend. That means four days on campus next week which isn’t a bonus for me :frowning: Anyway, the following week looks more promising, bank holiday on Monday and train strike on Wednesday so three days at home, and two on campus. Swings and roundabouts, people!

Last night was fun, we took Rental Cat back to her fosterer and had a chat with him about how she’d fared with us (and Shadow) so he has a better idea of what kind of home she would like for her permanent one. Then we went back home, dropped the car off and went to the pub for curry and a beerverage. It was pleasant enough to sit outside in the beer garden to eat, so we did. I was home before 10pm though, and in bed soon afterwards as I was pretty tired.

Much excitement today though, I am off to see my favourite band in the whole entire world tonight. Yes, I know I saw them last Saturday, but you can’t have too much of a good thing, right? So we’re off again tonight to one of our local venues, some of our friends are coming too so it’ll be good to catch up with them. I have deliberately not booked any gym classes on Saturday so I can have a proper lie-in before I have to get up and deal with Saturday’s chores.

Right now, it’s time for a cup of tea!

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 64 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 81 and cloudy for the day. The big item on today’s agenda is to take care of candle duty over to the church house. Then we shall be bears who brunch at Eggs Up Grill. This will take care of the main need to feed for the day. Then the usual sloth, general overall uselessness, nappage, and day drinkin’ will take up the rest of the day.

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

Happy Firday Y’all!

Good morning.

It’s currently 54 degrees and partly cloudy outside. The expected high is right around 77, and the sun should bust out sometime around noon.

Today is the official start of my last year in the 50s. I hope to treat myself to a pedicure and perhaps go out to dinner tonight. That will probably be the extent of my celebration.

The kids are probably coming over sometime this weekend too, so it’s looking to be a very busy weekend.