(Old) Top O' the Mundane To Ya- A St. Patrick's Day MMP

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After this long, you’ve done due diligence, so I wouldn’t feel bad about using it. Once you check to see if there is anything left on it and if your conscience is uncomfortable with it, you can donate it to a worthy cause.

Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, houseirk done and the last load of laundry is in the dryer. Maintenance was here a bit after eight. Apparently, the guy they sent last week didn’t change out a gasket when he put in the rest of the innards. I got the regular guy today and he got everything in working order.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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I hope you’re feeling much better soon!

Believe it or not, my glasses were in Anchorage yesterday and they are literally out for delivery now. My mom says she’ll believe it when she sees it, but I’m excited!

OMG, same here.

Just shaking my head… {{{taters}}}

My mom and I just got back from Dollar Tree where we bought some things that we definitely need urgently. Yeah. In about 45 minutes I have webinar to learn about an AI job. After that off to Walmart to pick up groceries so I can, amongst other things, make some Hamburger Helper for dinner! (<— speaking of ‘don’t judge’)

Somehow I don’t think there’s going to be time for a nap today. That’s ok, though, I have gotten quite a bit done. Unfortunately everyone at MusicMan’s job has to work tomorrow. He’s not happy about that, so I figure the least I can do is cook some good food while he’s gone.

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Another sort that took longer than it should. A combination of being understaffed, and having a bunch of people sorting who must have flunked fucking kindergarten. Plus the people on the 100 table who look at a 300 table package, say “screw it” and toss it in the wrong cage.
But anyways, it was 70 degrees when I left work yesterday. Today it was 49. I stopped and got some catfish for dinner.
Spot: < sits facing wall with back towards me."
Me: “I piss you off or something?”
Spot: “Can’t talk. Shunning.”

{{{{Taters}}}

That makes me happy. sometimes it seems like the company motto is “UPS: It’s only fragile once.”

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Two things have changed in the ~24 hours since my last post:

(1) I will not be doing the corporate cybersecurity program. The kickoff was, quite frankly, kind of terrible: the instructor was horrible, and I learned that the bi-weekly meetings (2 hours a week for the next 8-9 months) would be on our own time and not chargeable like we’d been told. In short I had a bad feeling about the whole thing, and decided that I’d rather just focus on my new job. I might think about trying it again next year, but first I’ll want to hear from someone in this cohort.

(2) You know how yesterday I wrote “I won’t start building the Atari set until the Batwing is done”? Well… :grin: It’ll be at least another week before the rest of the pieces I need for the Batwing get here, and even though I got great news on Wednesday I could still use some Lego therapy this weekend. This morning I realized there’s no reason I can’t simply put the Batwing aside, and start building the Atari set. I might even finish it before the Batwing parts are delivered: it has the same number of pieces as the Pac-Man set, and I built that one in four days. So, Atari assembly will commence later today. :alien_monster:

I don’t have much left to do on my part of the draft proposal (and I still have all day Monday + Wednesday morning), so today’s entertainment has been cleaning up files related to my old contract: both on my hard drive and in my inbox. I’m a bit OCD when it comes to records, and have held on to a lot of data over the past 5 years. It feels good to be deleting a bunch of stuff that I’ll never need again while also organizing the things I might want to reuse/refer to someday (templates I created, certain bits of info, etc.). I’m also clearing out the two shared inboxes that were used by my junior employee and me for our procurement and staffing stuff: I have no idea whether they’ll get archived, but I’m doing the same “delete what we’ll never need again and organize the rest” spring cleaning. But because I’m not really doing anything – and a new Lego set is waiting for me – I’m likely to knock off work early today. :smiley:

Right now it is 53°F and very windy (there were gale warnings this morning)…that’s amazing! :astonished_face:

The gusts are strong enough that I decided to skip hauling the biiiiiiig trash can to the curb this morning, because it would almost definitely blow away upon being emptied if I didn’t go get it right away. I can wait a week.

Oh, don’t get me wrong: OG chicken Rice-A-Roni is the best! Back in the day I would often make a box of it – just that – for dinner (yes, there’s a reason I needed bariatric surgery). But I also love the cheesy flavor that swampy mentioned. :slight_smile:

Awesome! Be sure to let us know how it is!

Ha! :joy:

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Laundry is done. Dentist office has been spoken to. Check has been deposited. Strawberries have been rinsed and sliced. Cuke salad is made and starting to marinate. FCD called - he might be home in a couple of hours. It’s a clear, sun-shiny day, but windy and chilly. I think I’ll have some recliner time now.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Well, it must be Friday because. . .are you ready for it. . .the heat is out again. I went downstairs and was actually able to catch the maintenance guy in the building manager’s office. He actually said to me “I’m off duty!” to which I replied “Guess again.” The guy has only been here a few weeks and to me is already showing signs of burnout. But nighttime temps are dropping into the teens tonight, so he needs to get this shit figured out. Fuck!

We went out to lunch at a Mexican place with eight other residents. It was predictably mediocre and in serious need of salt and seasoning. I got some sopapillas to go and they are actually pretty good. Minnesota, the home of the bland.

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Howdy Y’all! We brunched and then became our usual slothful selves. It’s coolish and windy out. We achieved nappage and day drinkin’. We noshed on cheese straws whilst sippin’ martinis. Netflix, chill and popcorn are on the agenda tonight. Tomorrow is an outdoor workday over to the church house. N.O.L. will be provided. I will be chef de cuisine. OK, it will be burgers, dawgs, fixin’s, chips, sodas and beer. I have to fire up the grill and get stuff ready, so that counts as chef-(N.O.C.)like stuff.

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I logged off before noon today, having completed 40 hours of work for the week. I’m showered, shaved, and packed for an overnight stay down in Tacoma for El Jefe’s retirement party. The party starts at six. We want to check into our rental before we go to the party. It will take over three hours to drive down there (149 miles).

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I went out to get the mail and was looking at the forest instead of where I was walking. I now have a walking cast on my left ankle and a splint on my right wrist. Despite the drugs, I’m so stinkin’ pissed at myself it isn’t funny.
I’ll be reading but have the feeling that once the drugs wear off I won’t be moving my fingers much for a while.
shit

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Egad, JtC! That’s dreadful! (((((Jane)))))

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May I present tonight’s dinner, a flashback to the 1960s and Mom’s bridge parties, Chicken a la King! Minus the peas. Served on a crescent roll cuz I’m fresh out of toast points.

JtC, what the FFFFFFF? I am so sorry.

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Oh no! I’m so sorry.

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JtC - let that be a lesson to you! Or something. Heal fast! It hurts just to read about it. Have a :lollipop: and :ice_cream: - medical, of course.

And so the day winds down. Grandspawn tomorrow. Chillage tonight.

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Hello! Remember me? I kept trying to catch up before posting, but then I’d get interrupted and would get behind again. So like a wily sophomore, I’m going to sneak in and pretend I was in class all along.

My son and dogs just left. I dogsat today while he went to Tater’s town for a pulmonologist appointment. He’s had asthma since he was 9 months old, so many trips to the ER, and we came very, very close to losing him when he was 4 because croup triggered the asthma, and his respiratory system shut down. Hence the pulmonologist. The dogs and I had fun, and they were good as gold.

My sister-in-law has been calling me when she feels particularly down, which is fine, as it’s what I signed up for. She can’t understand why I don’t want to move in with them, but it’s just not happening.

Here’s a random topic: when you were little, did you ever want a wildly unrealistic pet you didn’t have room for? My sister wanted a pony and insisted they could keep it in the garage. We lived in a near suburb of Chicago. Not exactly horse country. I wanted an elephant we could keep in the basement. My sister texted me today: “I’ve got a name for your elephant! Ernestine!” Yes, she was thinking up names for an elephant that existed only in my imagination. Was it just us? Anybody want a panther or a pet orca?

From the few things I read before giving up or happened to see on my way down here:

pilot, I’m sorry to hear about the end of the wonderful romance. It was so nice to read about two people who were so besotted with each other. It says a lot that you were both sad and that neither of you were angry. As for the future, I read once that people take longer to recover from a breakup/divorce when they rush right into a new relationship–something about masking the loneliness or pain or something–but that sure doesn’t seem to be the case for you, so I hope it’s on to another wonderful adventure!

JtC, oh nos! A messed-up foot AND an injured wrist! As my mother used to say, “Too much is enough!” Will you need PT? I’m sure Gormless George and Jolene will be a great comfort. If you’re not on opioids, my sister would advise “liquid painkiller.” I urge you to follow The Doctor’s Orders. (It sounds delicious to me, anyway.)

I’m definitely going to try to keep up better than I have lately.

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Nellie I’m not in pain, but I would follow The Doctor’s Orders. Sounds delish.

I only wanted a dog, a cat, and a pony when I was a littler kid. We had the dog and cat but no opportunity for a horse as I grew up on the south side of Chicago. Not exactly exactly horse country. But now I have a cat and a horse. I love dogs, but don’t want to own one.

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Thank you, I’m sure it will help.

I’m just so mad at myself. If I had thought to throw myself to the right, I would have landed in the grass.
ain’t nobody got time for this shit, I’ve got stuff that needs done.

Happily my Magic Finger still works “hun, I think I want this ‘points’ over here ‘points’” and it magically moves.
I wanted a goat. She could pull me in a little cart and would give us wonderful milk.

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Just wait until tomorrow. It was 26F when I walked Nelson at 0700 and got up to ~55F this afternoon.

:open_mouth: I hope that you heal quickly. It sounds like your dignity was wounded as badly as your body.

I wound up doing a fourth load of laundry. Seems like I had my semi-annual wash a tube of lipstick in my pants pocket schtick. I wash jeans inside out, so the only two pair that I had to pre-treat and wash over were the light colored ones.

When I got to the grocery store, I found that I had forgotten my list. I managed to get all but four things on the list and none of the missed items are absolute needs right now. I’ll just pick them up when I hit Tar-jay tomorrow.

It was nice enough to take Nelson to the dog park this afternoon. He got some socialization in and ran off some zoomies. :slight_smile:

SIL wound up in the hospital earlier this week with A-fib that began with strep throat. Today, she got moved into a regular room and should go to a rehab center for about a week in a few days. I worry about my 43 year old nephew. He has always lived at home, not been employed most of his life and, from when I talked with him, sounds really scared. I think he’s in for a reality check. He does take care of his mom and even took care of me somewhat after I had surgery. I just hope he finds his way.

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Sorry to hear this. Hope you mend quickly.

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Well, of course I did this out where everyone on the highway could see it and stop to help. An ambulance was called before I could get anyone to knock on the door and get hubs. Ambulances don’t come alone, several cop cruisers and a fire truck showed up as well.

So now the entire county knows that I’m too stoopid to know to watch where I’m going.

I know, right! If you’d seen the grands running around with their heads in the clouds, you would have shut it down before they tripped and got hurt. They would have had an excuse for it!

For the record…the Red Buds are blooming.

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Do tell! I’ve only done this with sweaters. There must be some advantage to washing jeans this way (sans lipstick), but I don’t know what it is.

Oh, dear. Did the strep affect her heart then? I didn’t know it could cause A-fib. That must have been scary. I hope she’s OK. And I hope your nephew finds his way soon, too.

Sounds like a great way to liven up a day! I’m reminded of when Zelda Fitzgerald (F. Scott’s wife) was a little girl and got bored. She put up a ladder, called the fire department to say a child was stuck on a roof, then climbed the ladder, got on the roof, and knocked over the ladder. Also reminds me of when I had a cop who taught at the police academy in my class to talk about the Fourth Amendment, and a kid asked why when he got pulled over, two more cop cars showed up.

“Sometimes we get bored.”