Brand’s Ativa, not sure about model number or other specs, but it’s definitely more office-grade. He found it while working in a thrift store.
Every time I see someone mention this store I think of the movie Animal House. Officer, they’re looting the Food Lion!
May I have ten thousand marbles please?
jtc, i have 5 spherical ice molds. none look like that high tech devise. they are silicone molds.
death star. Silicone Wars Death Star Round Ice Cube Mold Tray Desert Sphere Mould DIY USA | eBay
snitch. HARRY POTTER™ Snitch Ice & Glass - Set of 2 | Williams Sonoma
just plan spheres. Perfect Sphere Ice Cube Molds, Set of 2
give away sphere. Customized Silicone Ice Cube Sphere Mold | Custom Drinkware Accessories | Promotional Silicone Ice Cube Sphere Mold at Executive Advertising Customized Products
eyeball Eye 3D Silicone Mold by Celebrate It® | Michaels
fun times with ice
Then you’ll be happy to hear that I dropped my ballot in the mailbox yesterday morning. Feels good to have that done. The ballots arrived the day after I left town for two weeks, and Mrs W sent hers right away. I was itching to get home and do mine.
We had trivia night at the clubhouse Monday. Our team won! I was the only one at the table who knew that the Washington Nationals used to be the Montreal Expos, and the only one in the room who knew the name of Linus and Lucy’s baby brother. (That one surprised me.) Mrs W identified a song lyric as belonging to Beck. So we were personally responsible for at least 3 points, as well as helping with consensus on many others. We ended up winning by four.
Yesterday I had a cardiologist appointment to follow up on some tests I had done last month. The good news is my heart is in excellent shape. No blockage or valve issues. But it was (unsurprisingly) confirmed that I do indeed have a-fib. It’s not severe enough to warrant ablation, but due to that and some other risk factors, he suggested blood thinners. I’m highly reluctant to do that; for now I’m going to commit to losing weight and lowering my blood pressure. Blood thinners scare me more than a stroke does, frankly.
Much cooler today from yesterday’s 80F. The apartimento was uncomfortably warm all night. Exercised, cross-worded and wordled, so the brain is percolating somewhat. Croissandwich for breakfast and a tasty H&D pear. The wife is back in bed for the first of her two or three daily naps.
I’m NOT looking forward to DST ending next weekend. That means sunrise won’t be until after 0800, and I’ll be waking up at 0500 instead of 0600 until adjustment hopefully kicks in. Is there actually anybody who thinks this is still a good idea? Possibility of a deadly flurry tomorrow, and some much-needed rain over the next few days.
The niece had to cancel out on the trip up to their cabin, so we may be starting our new cat hunt earlier than thought. Stay tuned.
As I sit here crocheting, MIL is talking in her sleep. In the last 15 minutes or so, she’s gone from a witness program at church to biopsies and cancer to beef broth is stronger than chicken broth to asking if I have reservations for a trip tonight. Her mind must be a very jumbled place. I don’t know if it’s dementia or just disjointed dreams. But she seems to forget from one minute to the next.
It’s weird.
So it degenerated back into chaos. Which is good for the ol’ bank account. I filled up Carmen(3.5 gallons) on the way home. Now it’s naptime.
For a minute I thought that said Chemtrails. But I like the switch.
For when you want to celebrate the destruction of Alderaan with Scotch on the rocks.
Apparently keeping it Standard time year round would be best for health and sanity. And pet feeding schedules.
It’s an Ativa 16MC06. Fairly heavy-duty. 16-sheets of paper at a time, it’ll eat a CD as if it were nothing. “Micro-cut”.
I got it at a thrift store at which I was working, several years ago, so I didn’t pay much for it.
We probably don’t need a shredder this good, but I am of a mentality that I very much hate to replace something with a new item that is inferior to what I am replacing. Shopping for a new shredder, I found only shredders that are clearly inferior to this one, or shredders that are superior to it and cost more than we want to spend. It seems there’s a big gap in the market, as far as available shredders that are comparable to this one.
Much thanks and glad you have it working again.
Cupcakes, my favorite Braunschweiger is locally found in the Food Land stores, so close enough, albeit i don’t think any of them have been looted recently…
Wheelie, I can picture the kid on the back of Mom’s bicycle, but for the life of me I can’t remember his name (Rerun?), Good luck on the weight reduction. Have never been prescribed blood thinners, but if it adds to your stress levels probably a good idea to abstain for now.
Cookie, good luck on the cat search and remember that pics are mandatory! 
Four loads of laundry and washed and dried, they still need to be put away in their proper places. Used up the last of my Tide pods so the last load or two won’t take place until Firday (gotta get those Bonus Kroger points). Up to 74F, just beautiful outside.
Need to put the old swimsuit on and beat the water into submission again. Take care.
My best friend, who is part of the pasta joke, thought that it was cute. MusicMan said that it was good that my friends love me.
I thought that it was fairly ridiculous.
Nonetheless, here he is, King Ramen, king of the Pastafarians.
The sad part is that my original intention was to make something that looked nice. However, the more that I tried, the more ridiculous it became. At one point he had a body made of wire, lasagna, and small bits of spaghetti noodles. Since uncooked pasta is not flexible, it was very difficult to get it to behave in the manner that I desired.
I hope that my friend finds it amusing and it brightens her day. That’s really all he needs to do.
It’s not finished, yet
It’s in a condition where it technically works, but it is unsafe. The new switch, being of a different physical format from the original, is not yet mounted in any proper way, and there are exposed conductors, posing a shock hazard. That’s one of my projects for today, to figure out secure and safe mounting for the new switch.
sticky, can you use cooked pasta shaped around a form till it dries then go from there?
MIL has had her shower and she futzing with her heated blanket. Pot roast is smelling yummy. I watered my poor porch planters. FCD has been to the dentist and he’s now at his computer doing something with the boat design. I’m almost done with the latest blanket.
Excitement all around!
“I have 2 pairs of brand new shoes that I’ve never worn. I don’t like the colors.”
“Then why did you buy them?”
“They were on sale. They were only, like, $31 each.”
Is there some logic in this exchange that I’m missing? 
ReRun?
I got some new to me compression socks to try to help the foot neuropathy. After 30 minutes, they feel pretty good.
Howdy Y’all! Provisions were procured and stowed. Then high RDOS inactivities commenced. We even sat out beside the cee-mint pond while we warded off malaria and scurvy. Sup got fixed and et and the kitchen got cleanded up. Up next is Netflix, chill, and popcorn. Also cookies probably.
Swimming is done, Cheeseburger has been assimilated and the World Series is on in about an hour. A night of slothage beckons…after I take the garbage out to the curb.
I did screw up earlier today and deleted a bunch of my saved bookmarks; have put about 80% back but a few that I seldom used are being added as I remember them.
Sticky Buns, that is a nice…thing.
Onward into the night.
I woke up with a very crummy tummy, but today was shot day, and there’s no postponing that. Luckily I was able to contain myself until I got home. It’s so wet out there that even though I shook out my umbrella, it was dripping on the floor of the infusion center, a bad thing because most of the cancer patients there are frail AND/or elderly. I had to stop at the bathroom and wipe it down.
I hope I feel better tomorrow, as I have Ms. Dog.
I managed to bring all my plants in, as the cold and rain had them shivering in their pots, or so I imagine. Then I gave up on human-ing and went to bed. I’m reporting live from Bedville.
My daughter and husband are driving over the day after Thanksgiving. I don’t know what son and wife are planning. I told my daughter to call her brother. I’m content to let them decide things.
I notice they conspicuously left out “melt in the bag” as an option.
MetalMouse, I doubt I’m getting new upstairs neighbors very soon. I think that when the flooring guy comes here, they have him do all the apartments that need it at once. A month before the Stomper family moved in, all the vacant apartments in my building got new appliances, and two of the three vof them still don’t have tenants. The one next door has been vacant almost 3 months.
You really should! I think you’d like it, in that so-bad-it’s good way that of some old horror/sci-fi movies have.
That is so cool! It’s in a whole different league from the macaroni art my mom pretended to love. Does she sell those?
I know it’s not fun or easy, but I prefer standard time, and so do sleep experts. Since few people listen to them, though, I expect we’ll do without standard time entirely in a few years. In the meantime, feel free to cuss me out. I don’t mind. 
They’re worth $.01 each. Supervisors can give up to 1000 per person at a time, limited to a monthly departmental cap. We also earn them on anniversaries and managers can really inflate your haul without as many limits. We have an online catalogue with merch, but I usually take them out in Jungle gift cards.
Have you considered ordering one from someplace like Grainger or Graybar?
Why? Are you losing yours? :d&r:
Yay!
Pro tip: a pair of rubberized gloves (think the kind you use to handle boxes) make putting them on and smoothing them out a breeze.
Irked, stopped at the complex office to put in my maintenance work order for my storm door (the glass guy should be here Firday), walked Nelson and et. After, I played around in the studio.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
I just want them to settle on one or the other and stop jerking everyone around.