Mornin’ all. Was up real early after a semi-late night and it’s now about sunrise on a semi-gray day. NWS sez 67/19 on the way to 82/28 w scattered rain in the late afternoon.
Doggio: hope your work holds up. Does anyone have any insight into the bigger picture? Is this the post-covid reduction in online buying dropping the volume to something more like e.g. 2018, or maybe an effect of Amazon building up their own parcel service when they used to contract all that to you folks, or ???
Best of luck in any case.
I always liked Marty Feldman, but this guy’s eyes were even weirder if you can imagine such a thing. Poor bastard.
When I was laid off from flying the first time I grew a big beard. When I went back to the airline 3 years later I had to shave it. My wife’s comment at the time: “I liked you better with the beard. It hid so much more of your face.” She was kidding of course, but it was a great line. 
I miss her wit and her kindness.
Ouch!
I’m always amazed at how many mobility ramp retrofits I see with sharp turns, no railings, etc. Somebody with a mobility challenge going off a 3" curb (much less a 9" one) is a guaranteed fall with likely injury. Whether they drop a shoe, a walker leg, or a scooter wheel over that edge, once that happens they’re goin’ down hard. And usually with no way to self-recover or self-rescue. They’re down until somebody finds them.
{{{Hugs}}}.
Do you suppose you could work out a way to get him off Fox / Carlson? Having him forget those channels might be very helpful. More helpful than quitting coffee.
Yes. Taters I’m sorry your hubs is being childish here.
The married MMP women seem to be suffering from an infestation of goofy man-childs in their lives. Some of which is unavoidable aging and some of which is inflicted by the guys.
JtC that does sound like a really tasty pork roast. Thanks for sharing. The glaze is probably sweeter than my decrepit pancreas can stand though.
She’d consider an appetizer as an entree. And often not finish it.
Some way into our relationship I realized that her prior MO as a single person was to mostly obviate cooking and stretch her budget by eating out once, then eating 3 or 4 meals of leftovers from whatever she brought home. Which led to very unorthodox ideas about what makes a good breakfast.
Unrelated to the leftovers …
If I offered her some of whatever I ordered, she’d refuse it saying “If I’d wanted the chicken, I’d have ordered the chicken”. It amounted to an oppositional POV where my offer to share sounded to her like me forcing my meal decision onto her. If she took any of the chicken that meant I had made a decision that affected her behavior. Which is me being controlling and evil. “Nope! Not gonna fall for that!” was her mindset. Sigh. So tiring to deal with. Happily that’s over.
Meanwhile my POV at every meal can be summed up as “Bring one of each and we’ll graze on it all. I wanna try everything.” I make that joke to waiters fairly often and one of these days with enough friends at a place with a small enough menu I’m gonna do it for real. Just to say I’ve done it. 
I love it when my writing delivers the effect I was aiming for. Thank you! You’ve made my day. 
Clutter can wait. Playing with the grands sounds … grand!!
Teela sorry to hear your rellenos project had a glitch. But IME anything that involves having more poblanos in your life is good news.
As to me:
About to feed, then might golf or beach or ???. I got the cruise laundry done last night, and started the check-in process for the next cruise. Other than a stream of trivial Amazons coming in I have no real errands in the upcoming days.
Also oughta do my half of the joint taxes. That’ll be a decent approximation to the final numbers; HL was retired all of 2023 and not drawing SS while I was working then drawing SS survivor’s benefits. So her income contribution is a relatively minor fraction of the whole.
Given the short overnight last night and several previous nights, an afternoon nap might be just the ticket. 
When emulating swampy is the order of the day, you know it’s gonna be a good one.
Assuming the rain cooperates I’m going to outdoor geezer disco tonight. Solo so far, but the day is yet young. Tonight’s band is probably not ideal for dancing, but they’ll be fun to listen to in any case. I’ve not seen them perform before.
Cheers all!!
We were out late last night so I didn’t go to the gym this morning, cats have been tended to, litter trays are clean but I need to haul another big bag of litter upstairs soon. I have no need to go into town today so I won’t bother, I think an afternoon of sloth on the sofa with a book and a snuggly cat is today’s plan.
