I had a plan for today: Instead of going for a walk, I’d mow the lawn(s) and then get out the Cyndis and lop up the cedar branches PSE trimmed. (I did LVM for the tree guy to see how much it would cost for him to take them away, but that was Tuesday.) Once lopped and stacked, I could see if the tree guy calls back, or I could take them to the back yard to await incineration.
Then Mrs. L.A. made an appointment to have her oil changed this afternoon. It will take about 45 minutes, so she wants me to pick her up and bring her home until it’s done. Now I don’t know what I’ll do.
Correct.
Charm is about as big around as my index finger; Pretzel is as big around as my arm.
Off for a short shift. Tomorrow’s my blurfday but I hafta work Long Night. Bleah!!
However, they do a thing on your birthday where you can keep customer tips pinned to you or something, and I ain’t turnin’ down free money even if it does seem a bit stripper-ish.
But that’s all for tomorrow.
I have a voicemail … let’s see if it’s spam, or someone responding to my NextDoor post looking for someone to mow.
And an early afternoon greetings to all. Got started on reading the MMP but didn’t finish it early enough to reply before heading off to my ear Doctor appointment. They did some looking/testing just to make sure the hardware was OK, (it was) and then tested my hearing in much the same way it was done decades ago, put me in a room with headphones on and sending ‘beep-beep-beep’ sounds at various frequencies at me. They also had it send me words that I needed to repeat, which was something new.
Upshot is that on repeating words, my left ear is at 84% and my right is 52%, but both ears show a sharp dropoff once the frequency gets higher than 1000Hz (need to hear the high frequencies at 70 decibels compared to hearing lower frequencies at 20 decibels).
So…since my right/left ear differ so much on hearing words, they want to do an MRI to see if there is anything else going on there and then recommend hearing aids. So we’ll see how it goes.
Came home and ate my cheeseburger early, since I am going to the gym to burn calories and then to the baseball game so the ability to fix stuff is limited. Will try and burn off calories because I know that I will be snackin’ a lot at the old ball game.
So trying to catch up with y’all:
JtC, glad Bright Tree could help, let’s hope that is the last problem you have. And kudos to our Mumper Moderator for his active and useful help.
swampy, thanks for the explanation. See my Doc only once a year so was a bit confused.
shady, hope you are living up to your MMP name and staying in the shade, 107F is no fun at all.
Taters, I know what those days are like. Hope you got a good nights rest. Enjoy the pocketful of posies…
All us old geezers apparently were fans. Now with Animal Planet and other channels, not to mention You Tube, it’s like having those shows 24/7 (I admit I sometimes binge on The Incredible Dr. Pol).
Yanker, Lucy sounds like a joy, but that habit of putting everything in her mouth is, like little children, going to get her in trouble someday.
FCM, Been too long, but as I recall getting my Secret clearance wasn’t that tough; it was the folks like you who needed Top Secret clearance that really got the going-over. Glad daughter is starting out well; who knows, I went from being a substitute teacher to a 32-year career in the DoD.
Pilot, yeah, I thought I had typed Marlin. Should have known something was fishy about it…
Sticky Buns, as a substitute teacher many years ago, just remember that it usually means getting up real early (they sometimes call you around 5am), probably not having a lesson plan, and having a group of kids (especially middle school age) who see you as “fresh meat”. But if you’re ready for it, then give it a go.
Sari, thanks for the info, glad to know other folks have the same frustration with the Medicare checklist.
OK, need to get myself ready to do some serious sweating at the gym. Have a good afternoon all.
Interview went ok. He said he didn’t have many hours available ( so why advertise you’re hiring) but he knows I don’t need many.
I forgot to ask what he paid. He said he’d call me tomorrow. I am usually hired on the spot.
So then I called a job I trained ( online 2 hours and wasn’t paid) because I stopped training as the video wasn’t letting me click things and progress.
I called because when I fill out a w2, and then don’t work, Housing insists on a letter from them saying I no longer work there. No letter and they raise my rent to 500, which I can’t pay if I’m not working.
So I ask the GM for the letter and explain the training wasn’t working. He asks if I’m willing to come tuesday and finigh training. I guess.
I was last there 5 weeks ago.
I went to get some treats off the top of the armoire (it’s about the only spot in the house inaccessible to Monkey) but I can’t see up there, and after feeling around discovered not one, not two, but three bags of catnip - all opened, because why would I check if we have any before buying more?
Anyways, he got some 'nip, and I’m polishing off some unicorn-shaped Easy Mac, because I’m secretly 8 years old.
I did take a multivitamin, tho.
ETA ratties got bran nubs and doggie treats - they lurve those - and fresh water. Oatmeal will be next on their menu.
Only way I’d have missed it is if I was just skimming the thread.
But there are certain MMPers who always (or as 100% as any human effort can be) get a full reading. You are one such.
Hmm. I guess I never knew any details about Charm. I thought you had a pair of pythons.
Happy blurfday. Just don’t drink too much celebration and then have blurfing. I’ve ruined a birthday or two that way, albeit not recently.
So far, so typical. Including the MRI to preclude trying to use hearing aids to offset what’s really a tumor. Yikes!
All those freqs above 1000 are the ones that distinguish real words from “murfle blah hmm”.
Hooray for baseball! Hope the weather holds for you. There are no calories at a baseball game; none.
As to me …
The good news is I got my oil changed.
The less good news is one of my tires is about to disintegrate. They all probably had 6 months’ worth of mileage left before replacement, but this one won’t survive even one more pass down the freeway. Tread is separating from sidewall. On the inboard side of course so invisible unless the car’s up on a service rack. So four new fiercely expensive tires will be delivered to the shop tomorrow and meantime I’ll run the car the 5 miles to home and the same back tomorrow and that’s it. I’d intended to walk to dinner tonight, so not driving otherwise is no big deal.
Now that I type that, I’m considering instead leaving the car and ubering home; that’s a far more hassle-free thing if that tire decided to blow on the way to/from home. As Yanker said, do it the easy way. Two ubers will be cheaper than one tow-truck. That’s the smart move. Decision made.
Forgot to share this last night - when Daughter told Roxy that Cozmo was gone, she was briefly sad, then asked if she could get a hamster. Kid view of mortality…
Nurse has been here and gone. MIL continues to insist she’s fine. Denial is strong in this one.
We get out and walk every morning. The central place is a mall not far from home. In nice weather we walk outdoors across the street from the mall parking lot. There are a bunch of medical buildings, a Top Golf and a couple of strip malls.
Today we noticed in the green space in front of one of the strip malls a beer case. As we got closer it turned out to be a 24 bottle box of 7 ounce Modelo, which is my preferred beer. There were five empties in the grass beside the box.
We continued on our walk and when we got to the truck we drove back to the beer and it was still there so I loaded it up and took it home.
Glad to hear it! I’m a big believer in PT, did it for almost 2 years after my brain injury-did me more good than anything a medical doc did. Avoiding surgery is always wise-just ask my paralyzed lung diaphragm and oxygen 24/7 after a botched pain management procedure.
They don’t start happening until you’ve been enrolled in Medicare approaching a year. Just be real diligent about what kind of appt you are making with your doc-always say “I don’t want an annual wellness visit, I want a traditional physical checkup or a problem solving appt, NOT AN ANNUAL WELLNESS VISIT.” Keep checking and repeating “I do not want a Medicare annual wellness visit” every time and don’t ever respond and make an appt when the office sends you a tickler text “time for your ZYZ visit”-it’s a trap.
Yep, it is very sad. It’s Maryland’s kids and families and communities who are losing a good teacher. Same thing happening here in the Midwest because of politics and BS with education.
Similar brain drain happening with doctors and nurses because of BS politics with politicians writing medical decisions into laws when it should only be trained, licensed providers making those decisions, not governors or state legislators. There were 25 states my newly double board certified child psychiatrist son wouldn’t even interview in recently because of that. Every state is desperate for psychiatrists, especially child psychiatrists. Half of them drive the new, good ones away with just that same BS politics. So, goodbye Washington state, Utah, Ohio, Indiana,Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, hello Denver, Colorado. Their loss, Colorado’s gain.
Good idea, I do too.
Not a good idea-at our age, we need that annual physical, just not that asinine ‘Medicare Wellness Visit’ caca. See reply to pilot above. Just say no to Wellness visit. We ought to get t-shirts made with that on them.
The Wellness visit brings wellness only to the business expense bottom line of the office and whoever owns them. Medicare reimburses big bucks for them without a corresponding amount of expertise or effort needing to be put out by the provider.
BTDT. In your state is your doctor able to request a temporary handicapped parking tag for you so for 6 months or so you can more likely reliably find a spot near the door? That’s what mine did when I needed a walker (and to lower my risk for falls) a few years ago. In my state it comes in the mail from the Dept of Motor Vehicles and costs a max of $5.
It’s a federal law and everybody has to do that every 28 days. Depending on the particular drug, since Covid, you might get away with just a phone call to request the refill, or a virtual visit, but you still have to make contact every 28 days and the doc is limited to prescriptions for a 28 day supply at a time. Pain in the butt for 99% of us non-abusers, thank you Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family.
Yep, truth again. Don’t ask me how I know. I was a little slow learning that lesson, but I learned.
Pretty close to the results I got, just not quite as much difference between the two ears. I was told the degree of my loss was as related to being female as it was to my age-I was only 66 at the time and didn’t have occupational or lifestyle related risks.
And when they do, take the prescription to Costco and save yourself thousands for the same brand hearing aids. [sorry, **FCM, but we’re literally talking thousands of dollars]. PM me if you’d like the particulars.
I think we’re all pretty clear on what you’re most likely to over do celebrating and it ain’t birthday drinker.
I found that what I started hearing a lot more and much better was what women and children were saying. Their voices being more in those higher frequencies. As many soccer moms and thousands of kids you’re around, you are going to be glad you did! Going to make a big difference as soon as you get acclimated to them.
Wise indeed. I just learned that the other day, to the tune of over $220. That is a whole other story. Maybe another time.
It’s this:
…from da internetz….What sets off a smoke detector?
They’re triggered by foreign objects interacting with parts inside the detectors. This means that anything that can float into your smoke detector, like vapor, steam, smoke and large puffs of dust, can trigger your smoke detector.Sep 26, 2021
So it’s the water vapor particles in the steam that are setting off the smoke alarm. Not exactly you burning water, the smoke alarm isn’t selective enough to know the difference between steam particles and smoke/combustion particles. Had it happen to me. Finally learned to place my smoke alarms farther away from the stove. Old house, no kitchen fan to exhaust the steam, etc. Haven’t burned the place down yet. You can buy more precise, more appropriately sensitive and discriminating smoke alarms but they are much more expensive and have some annoying drawbacks of their own. Where’s @LH75 when we need him?
And a late afternoon missive from Casa Rat. Baseball game starts in about an hour, so once I am through with this message I’ll dress more or less appropriately and head off to the ballpark. Did get to the gym for a couple of hours so I have some calories burned off, so snackage is definitely in my future. Weather is hot (84F) but only a 5% chance of rain, so of course I know what’s going to happen… We’ll see if the new rules help move the game along a little faster.
BBBoo, Pilot, thanks for the ear information, not a Costco member but might see if BJ’s has something similar.
Coppertone, I do declare you have the most mercurial set of employer(s) I’ve ever seen. Hope things work out for you.
Shoe, well look on the bright side, you won’t have to be buying catnip anytime soon…
Pilot, true, the game has no calories; but the concession stands are another thing…
Think you made the best decision on the tires and transportation. I have a drive to-from Knoxville and then New Orleans in June and I think after that it’ll be time for an oil change and maybe new tires. Only plan to have the car for another 2 years at best, so won’t looking for any 60,000 mile treads.
Hippie, good call on the free beer.
No time like the present.
OK, need to get ready and head off to the game. Have 1st base line seats, so maybe a foul ball might come my way…ya never know…
My standard lecture on home smoke detectors:
There are mainly two types of detectors.
The photoelectric detector has a chamber inside with a light source and a receptor, which is out of the direct path of the light. When visible smoke enters the detector it reflects the light into the receptor and the detector is triggered.
The ionization detector does not actually detect visible smoke. It is triggered by the non visible particles of combustion. Ionization-type smoke alarms have a small amount of radioactive material between two electrically charged plates, which ionizes the air and causes current to flow between the plates. When smoke enters the chamber, it disrupts the flow of ions, thus reducing the flow of current and activating the alarm. however, the visible aspect of the smoke is not what causes this. This detector reacts to the non visible product of combustion. The delightful odor of frying bacon, for example, is actually the non visible product of combustion.
The differences of these are important. An ionization detector will not pick up smoldering fires such as a cigarette fallen between couch cushions or most wastebasket types of fires. Extension cords under carpet also are smoldering type. A chimney fire due to creosote build up will also likely be unnoticed.
HL’s daughter who used to live with late wife & I and who remains one of my heroes and favorite humans despite her Mom = HL was a child development major and God’s gift to teaching 4-8yos.
She abandoned teaching both public and lster private / parochial school due to the politics and hate-filled “leadership”. And the wacky entitled parents who the management inevitably kow-towed to.
Thanks again for the good travel wishes. We are happily ensconced at the motel Bright Tree suggested, I agree that we have the best mods evah!
We have a 7 and half hour drive left. I will be so happy!
GG has figured out doors. I’ve been fairly sure he had, but we rarely close th interior doors so I wasn’t sure. The first night he got out of the bathroom in the middle of the night and I didn’t wake up enough to remember that I shouldn’t have a cat cuddled next to me, so he stayed out.
Last night I was going to let him stay out but wanted him in the bathroom while I was returning the cart. He was out when I got back.
The first drive day was pretty bad, he wailed for hours and wouldn’t eat\drink\use the litter box. I took the box out the next day and filled the cage with papertowels in case he peed. He was more comfortable with more room but he was still very vocal about his displeasure.
Today he entertained himself by shredding the blanket covering three sides of his cage. I know people could see what was going on, I passed a school bus and saw many little fingers pointing at my big box o’ claws.
Heis also reaching out on my side to grab everything in reach co he can pull it into his cage and rip it up.
I am almost out of the weed I have out for the trip.
but I hafta work Long Night. Bleah!!
