(Old) The Joy of Brain Farts in the MMP

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I can sure understand wanting a garden or at least a couple of pots. Do you have to deal with tomato thieves?

Today was surplus produce which was mostly bell peppers. As we only use one or two a week, we had no use for two cases of bell peppers so I gave most of them to a friend with chickens. They also gave me a flyer for a new food sharing program the next town over, but it looks to be food boxes for low income folks so I’ll probably give it a pass.

Hubs is seeing his doctor today and is going to ask about getting a gimp tag of his own. He didn’t turn his Dad’s placard in when FIL died because it was easier than having to move mine from car to car but now he’s finding he wants to use it when I’m not with him, so it’s time to make it legal.

We had a wonderful long, soaking rain yesterday and our new tree looks very happy. I’ve seen wrens sitting in it which makes me silly happy to see. The white clover is covered with flowers and there are butterflies flitting around. Life is good at Casa Cane.

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Lots of good progress upthread.

Glad to hear FCM’s idjit teacher has departed. There are such things as legit threats by wacko students. And then there are adult overreactive ninnys.

Truefish and the battles of the last few days of school are progressing about as expected. Good on ya for having the IEP running smoothly.

Flyboy, that is a dapper look. Not for me, but you wear it well. All the local women must follow you around.

And hooray for all the critters coming, going, and staying.

As to me.
We parked the jet uneventfully around noon local in sunny 70F Quito. But that’s when the wheels fell off.

There is a lot of political unrest in the country and periodically it erupts in mass protests, rioting, burning of cars, etc. Which it did last night and this morning. So instead of riding an hour through crowd-clogged streets to downtown to stay one block away from the epicenter of the protests, we’re staying at the hotel near the airport that’s normally used for short overnights.

It’s a very nice hotel in a perfectly decent semi-suburban semi-rural area, but we’re just stuck here. There’s nothing bad going on, but except for the local equivalents of a convenience market and Mom n Pop mostly take-out hole in the wall diner there’s also nothing good going on within any reasonable walking distance. So it’ll be a quiet shut-in sorta day.

We do get to sleep in an extra 40 minutes tomorrow morning due to the shorter drive to irk. So there’s that.

My GPS reports that sitting here in my room the latitude is South 0degrees 11minutes 23seconds. So we’re about 11 miles into the Southern hemisphere. I flushed the toilet here in the room and the water went straight up. What does that mean? :crazy_face: It actually means I flushed the bidet! Euro-style hotels can be baffling to gringos! :grin:

Ref @SCAdian’s question, there’s actually a marker for the equator not far from here. It was erected by the French 100+ years ago. Unfortunately they missed it by aways and nobody is in the mood to move it now.

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Had no problems last year. A number of people put in tomato plants, so maybe that’s why. We also shared the ones we couldn’t use.

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Howdy Y’all! Provisions were procured followed by sloth, general overall uselessness and nappage. I ordered some non-perishable stuff from Sam’s for pickup, so we did that and went to Sonny’s for early sup. We got back to da cave, unloaded, and stored said stuff and are now in chill mode. Rain will allegedly be here in just over an hour. We shall see.

MOOOOOOM glad “victim” is gone from daughter’s skool. Hope she does not continue to make trouble.

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I didn’t get the old laptop fixed, it’s still chugging along waiting for me to decide if’n I’ll get it fixed, and letting me grab the last few files off of it. In the meantime, I got a new one. Unsure about it. Windows 11 is…different. And I had to turn off the nanny state, cuz it wouldn’t let me load and programs from outside of Microsoft. Kinda need to be able to program the CNC.

pilot Water going up made me chuckle. Glad you are staying safe, if bored.

I’ve got some 'maters waiting in the kitchen. They said frost warning for tonight! I already planted some basil and marigolds outside. Hope they’re OK.

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Of course, now Daughter’s got the stress of covering her classes, plus it’s end of the year, so, yanno, finals… It was a stressful lesson learned, but I expect during the summer, she’ll be working up forms for documenting situations. I know she’s counting the days till the school year is over.

What’s especially galling to her - she defended this teacher earlier in the year when her #2 wanted her fired. So he’s got a big I-told-you-so in his back pocket. And she’s learning the hard lesson that being the boss means she can’t be everyone’s friend. Anyway, now begins the search for a replacement teacher.

Tobias absolutely refused to nap. He did sleep in the car while we went to get Roxy, but that was less than half an hour. I hope he crashes early tonight for his parents.

FCD has rented a small uhaul on Sat and we’ll empty the old apartment with SIL’s help before he goes to work. Then I guess we’ll go back on Sunday and clean. I don’t think we’ll have the energy to move and clean all in the same day.

Boat goes back in the water next week.

You’re now up to date with my exciting life. :wink: Still no ice cream on the premises.
Dammit.

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Woe is me, our housekeeper threw out my little bleach bottle that I have had for years.

We use a lot of bleach and hubs likes to buy the big bottles because they are more economical. I find the big bottles hard to control and wasteful due to spills, so I bought a small bottle to use and refill. She knew this and had been using and refilling the small bottle on a weekly basis, but oopsie. I’ll pick up another small bottle tomorrow and all will be good in my world again.

Housekeepers are allowed to have brain farts too!

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Good morning to me and good evening to everyone else.

Yeah, I went through that before back when I was in the corporate world. Fortunately, my boss at the time was very understanding, but yes, you are the boss and not people’s friend. You can try hard to help them, but have to be careful at the same time.

My laptop is fine, but the battery is dead. Since I’ll be going to the States in the summer, I need a replacement.

Damn! Stay safe!

I was in Thailand in May of 1992, and happened to miss the protests by a couple of hours.

TrueFish, that is an impressive reading list.

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VanGo my new laptop has Windows 11 as well. It is different. I have had to make it behave for a few things I want that it does not like. It had a kinda toddler meltdown on me wantin’ to have Google Chrome for one thing. The brat!

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ETA: @FCM two above …

We have ~15,000 crew people sleeping in hotels worldwide every single night. Can you imagine how many hotel points HQ gets on their Visa card? We have people sleeping in about 100 countries.

There’s a whole department that does nothing but track riots, criminality, political risks, civil wars, earthquakes, tsunmis, volcanoes, etc., in real time. Everywhere. 24/7/365. Shit is always going down somewhere. Always.

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USA! USA! USA!!!

A-FREAKING-MEN!!!

There is a sign on US23 on the way to Alpena that marks the 45th parallel.

Real history or sanitized history? (just a shot at the person trying to out Trump Trump)

I’m so sorry to hear there’s political unrest in Ecuador. We support a young lady who lives in Ecuador. She was just a young girl when we started; she has to be getting close to being an adult.

I do the same thing with dish soap. We also do the same thing with hand soap. We have the smaller dispensers in the bathrooms and the kitchen and a huge container that we use to refill the dispensers.

Walked to work, mid 50’s sunny with a breeze from the NE at 8mph so needed a jacket over my long sleeve shirt. Didn’t need to go in until 10am since manager wouldn’t be in until then. Worked then hoofed it quickly home to make a sandwich then take Hubs to PT. But first had to yell at top of lungs to get the attention of the electrical workers who were taking a HUGE pole down behind our garage to move their vehicle so I could get out of the driveway. When I finally was able to make myself heard, I politely asked them if they would please move their vehicle so I could take Hubs to PT. They were very cooperative.

My friend, the expediter, called asking if I could take an assignment to drive up to White Hall for a pickup 3+ hrs before 8pm. Since my sister was coming a tad after 5pm, I had to decline.

Sis actually completed her day at the Country Club about 3:45. We had a very nice visit. She told us all about rating golf courses and slope rating for scratch golfers and bogey golfers from all the tees for both women and men. Then she and Hubs talked about CBD and use for pain. She’s going to set up an appointment with her source which grows their own so you know it’s pure as they don’t use any pesticides or other nasty chemicals. I had no idea there’s tinctures, atomizers, elixer.

Fried some potato with garlic & chives pierogi and heated golumbki for dinner.

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Evening all. Getting up too early today lead to nappage this afternoon and so far, no gym time (they are open until 10pm so we’ll see, but doubtful). Garbage and recyclables are out at the curb and the weather has stayed dry, so all in all not a bad day.

Pilot, sorry you couldn’t get downtown or to the Equator, they had a nice place to visit it when I was there the first time, a few years later I returned and someone had done some re-measuring and the Equator site was about 500 yards from the original place. Would have liked to know if it’s moved again…

FCM, at least the story is over–I hope–for Daughter.

Real Fish, that’s a lot of reading. Not greatly into graphic novels, do have the complete (well, as complete as they have printed it–17 of 20 volumes) of Schlock Mercenary and one of these days I’ll acquire a copy of Digger, an anthropomorphic comic of a lost Wombat and the…interesting…characters she meets. As for light reading, I’m working my way through the Nero Wolfe mysteries, still have a few to go.

Dicey, much thanks, I’ll have to put that on the list.

Bumba, I missed that unfortunately, but did spend a rather long time at Powell’s Books…

Wheelie, glad things are going well on your first assignment.

Niner, have never played D&D, I simply don’t have the imagination for it, but glad you have fun doing so. And your characters sound fascinating.

Sensie, according to Google I get about 56" of rain here in N. Ali-bama a year, so I’m right in-between. Can’t speak of the egg situation, don’t keep any at home.

OK, sammiches have been assimilated, now need to see if I have the ambition to get out of my chair and go forth to the gym… Either way, all y’all take care.

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There are also sublingual melts and topical creams, for those who cannot smoke or reliably keep anything down (chemo/cancer, AIDS, lung problems) and I believe I’ve seen CBD in chews and hard candies, too.

Source: used to work at a Michigan dispensary. And that was two years ago; I bet product choices have expanded!

Out of work early, and it’s still light out, and I passed a bunch of lilacs growing wild by the road nearby and blooming like it’s about to be made illegal. I think I’ll take a nice walk, with my snips, and cut a few of those heavenly scented clusters.

Check back in with y’all later.

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Happy Hump Day!

It’s nice outside.
We skipped daycare because I wasn’t feeling well this morning and it took me too long to get moving.
My son got off work at 1am, and I was soooo tired. It took me forever to go get him.
He texted me every 15 minutes or so, did you get up okay? did you make it downstairs okay? text me when you get in the truck.
Other than Adam trying to kill me, by walking in front of me and then suddenly sitting down, I was good.

Boo Fae, I have been giving my son hell.
Lots of hell.
I keep telling him, this is a wakeup call. What are you going to do if I get hurt again, or sick, or when I have knee surgery? I won’t be able to drive and he will lose his job. He has already used up his sick leave for the year, he doesn’t get more until Feb 1, 2024.
I told him I can’t keep doing this, especially when he gets out in the middle of the night.
If he irked a full shift I’d at least get some sleep.

Don’t even get me started on this half a shift bullshit.
Sometimes they’ll call and ask if he’d rather stay home when it’s not busy.
He doesn’t get paid of course, but half shifts aren’t worth going in for anyway.

Tonight, they are getting dinner, so sometimes the perks are nice.
He thinks it’s from the BBQ place, and he’d better bring something home for me.

I’ve been spending too much money.
I bought an air mattress and a recliner so I can sleep downstairs on the nights he irks. Both were on sale. I think I should have bought the 20" high air mattress instead of the 16".
16" canceled and 20" ordered.

My other new shoes were delivered today, a week early.
They fit and so far, are comfy. The only thing I worry about is the soles are much thicker than I am used to, I’m going to have to make sure I pick my feet up.
They are made for people with plantar fasciitis. I don’t know that I have it, but I feel like there is a pebble under my heel. Off course it could just be that my heel is bruised and swollen from the fall.
Either way, the shoes seem to help.

Very spiffy, FlyBoy

I like Gouda and Saffron, Rocky
My son nixed Gouda, but he is thinking about Saffron.
I had a cat named Percy, although he didn’t work out.
I had him for 4 months and he was still hiding in the cat room. Then he started hissing and growling at my son when he went in to feed him. I felt bad taking him back to the (no kill) shelter, but they didn’t seem to be the least surprised when I did. I’m pretty sure he had been returned before.
He seems to be happy living in a cage and hiding under a blanket all day.

My friend’s grandson named one of his cats Jiro, Dicey. I think it comes from Anime or Dragon Ball. No looked it up, it’s just a Japanese name. I think his other cat is Akiro. Her grandson just moved out leaving her with both cats, both of which are problem cats. However, she loves them, so she’s happy to keep them.

The breeder sent an email.
When I got Ripple, he was 9 weeks old (delay because of the eclipse) and he weighed 8 or 9 pounds. Echo was 8 weeks old and weighed 8 or 9 pounds. I can’t remember which was which.
This chunk is only 7 weeks old and weighs 12 pounds.
I knew he looked big.

I got some sad news tonight though.
Our original park group was Lucy dad, Lily mom, and me with only Ripple at the time. Lucy and Ripple have gone on. I saw Lily mom tonight and she is not well. I hope she doesn’t have a MCT like Ripple did, Lily is having surgery on June 7 to have the lump removed, and her liver biopsied.
She has also gained weight, almost 100 pounds.
A bit more than fluffy.

My son won’t be getting off early tonight so I’ll get some sleep.
The BBQ place is serving dinner, I told him he’d better bring me some food home. They have brisket, and pulled pork, and mac and cheese. Something else I can’t remember. Lily mom told me all about it and how there are lots of leftovers and it’s all very very good.
I should have sent a container.

MetalMouse
This Train Stuff
has been showing up in my feed lately.
Made me think of you.

What a mess for your daughter FCM

Time for bed. Today has been a long day and nothing much got accomplished.

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Sweetie Darling!

Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
Spot is not a big fan of thunderstorms.

Standard mechanics’ rate is $149/hour. :wink:
So after the post not going through:
So last night’s storm took out power during the midniht sort, and apprently rendered a bunch of people incabalbe of coming to work for Preload. I know this sinc I ended up on the 100 Sort Table again. Also: BOOM SQUEAL BOOM SQUEAL YIP YIP YIP

That looks and sounds tsty

I could do the history part.

I have roomie’s spare in Carmne. 99% of the time I use it to take people to bars.

LMAO

2 of the options for scanning undelivered pacakages at UPS are “building burned” and “Civil Unrest”

:frowning:

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An old girlfriend saw that picture and said, ‘Snappy!’ I said, ‘I tie my own bow ties, thankyouverymuch.’

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The monsoons are early this year and thunderstorms always make me miss Steve so much water comes out of my eyes. He was terrified of them and wanted to be held and to hold. I miss being needed like that.

I didn’t know that I could get a spare gimp placard…but no matter, using mine when he wanted to park close would have been just as much of a cheat as using his dad’s.

More storms are moving in, thunderboomers have happened and water is falling form the sky. It would be so nice to have a normal Monsoon season again, I’m tired of losing trees.

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Where I came from, the monsoons would start in August.

:frowning:

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Niner I haven’t met you yet, I think. Hi! I’ve managed to find games for my son, but nothing for myself yet. I do seem to be amassing a collection of purty math rocks… I don’t need them all, but I sure enjoy having them anyway.

Metal Mouse I think, knowing your taste in reading, that DnD might actually be something you enjoy. It’s worth a shot, if you ever have the chance.

:cry:

I won’t be going to the induction/naming ceremony. I’ve been having too many days lately where I just can’t get out of bed. I’d rather do that at home, with my critter brigade, then in some hotel room. I’m sort of looking forward to having then house to myself, but we’ll see if I actually like it once it’s just me and the fur beasts.

Take care everyone.

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The dew point isn’t nearly high enough for these storms to be called monsoons, but they come with the billowing clouds, rain and lightning, which is what really counts to me.

He was such a sweet cat. He came to us as a stray and was so grateful that we had taken him in. It sucked that he had FIV and we were only able to share his life for a couple of years before his body shut down.

We’ve loved all of our pets, but some of them were more special than others and Steve was my best cat ever.

:people_hugging:

Please do remember that you are loved by many, and I’m one of them.