(Old) What's the winter forecast in the MMP?

[JaneDoe42]

@LH75

. The Chess Club blackballed me due to my attitude and discipline problem

NO! I just cannot imagine!!!

When I retired, I started losing words. I know the word I want to say, but I can’t make my mouth work right. I think that’s probably because I learned most of my words from books and didn’t (still don’t) know how they were pronounced so didn’t speak them lest I embarrass myself.

Those words are gone and I’m sure that like you, I am in a Use It or Lose It situation.

As long as I have your attention, how are your treatments going? Please be sure to tell use when you are in full remission so I can stop holding my breath!

[dogbutler]

t started out like a smooth Wednesday, then, hooooooo boy. Part of that is that apprently among the remaining clerks in the building, I have 2 unique skills. Critical thinking and data entry. I didn’t get out till 12:45, and one of the Sups called me at 1, while I was on the way home, because the found even more stuff. So obviously I didn’t make it to the other building today. Oops. But my bank account is happy. Spot napped with me, and cleaned my head, so I guess he’s not to mad at me. Martini and Teriyaki Stir Fri for dinner tonight.

@scareyfaerie

I’ve got no scheduled meetings for the rest of the week

Yay!

@scareyfaerie

Obviously, no pub night for me

Boo!

@Taters

One more wake-up, and then I’ll have a four-day weekend.

You deserve it. Maybe Hubs could move breakfast so you could go mushroom hunting? And also what caliber rifle do you use on 'shrooms?

@LH75

I rolled into work right on time at 5.30am. No one was there. The parking lot was empty. It was Sunday…

Back in my retail days, I’d wake up, look and the clock and see “5:00”, and panic. “Am I late? Am I off?
Did I sleep for 18 hours? What day is it?”

@FairyChatMom

We just had to have Higgs put down. She could barely breathe and there was nothing they could do. FCD is a mess… On top of everything else. Dammit.

{{{{*FCM and FCM}}}}. For creatures so small, they do take up a big place in your heart.

@JaneDoe42

I’ve always felt badly for deaf folks who have never been able to get rid of frustrations by yelling bad words at them.

You can, in fact, cuss in ASL.

@missred

If anybody asks, you were at Hop Springs with me drinking a Jackalope .

That looks like the type of place I’d drink to give somebody an alibi.

{{{{nellie and Sil}}}}

@Trieste

Hi!

I’ve been mostly lurking and pop in occasionally (pretty much an introvert) I’ve also not done this site enough to know I should have replied to fcm vs. just reply.

Sorry…

T

Do individual relies when you have the spoons to do so. Otherwise, just post. I try to reply to new Mumpers and lurkers, so they feel welcome and come back.

[LH75]

@JaneDoe42

As long as I have your attention, how are your treatments going? Please be sure to tell use when you are in full remission so I can stop holding my breath!

I was finished with mt radiation treatments on September 20th… At that time my PSA number, which should be lower than 6.5 was down from 11 to 0.18. This was a very good result. I had all of the listed side effects but none of them were very severe. They are gradually disappearing. I have shifted to hormone and steroid meds. The odd side effect for the hormone medication is hot flashes.

Evidently, I have reduced my PSA number but I am now going through menopause…

[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

@Sahirrnee

I didn’t see, is your AC fixed?

Yep. However it’s been cool enough here that I haven’t needed it…And that is one screwy room, sounds like you’ve made the best you can from it.

Hippy, I have a chessboard and set which I haven’t played on for many years.

@JaneDoe42

I think that’s probably because I learned most of my words from books and didn’t (still don’t) know how they were pronounced so didn’t speak them lest I embarrass myself.

It took me 40 years to learn how to say 'paradigm" correctly.

@LH75

Evidently, I have reduced my PSA number but I am now going through menopause…

Went back to the gym and did some pedaling and walking, then came home with an appetite and calories to spare, so baked some frozen cheese bread (how many is a state secret…) and am now looking at bed-time in a short while. Garbage is at the curb, so of course they won’t be around to pick it up until 2pm or so…

Catch y’all tomorrow.

[Paintcharge]

@JaneDoe42

I used to watch the evening news in Hawaii and wonder if the weather person just used their same clip over and over in full confidence that nobody would ever notice.

Thats how I felt when I lived in San Diego. Just substitute 70’s for 80’s depending on summer or winter.

Been working for the school theater dept for the past few weeks. It would go so much better if not for the director of the department. (She’s a bitch) Done with that for a while…now I gotta figure out how to build a boat and get it in through their tiny little door.

Shoe I’ll say you were in the shop helping me build nice high schoolers sets for their musical. And we can hang out behind the loading dock and have a few puffs.

[purplehorseshoe]

@JaneDoe42

used to watch the evening news in Hawaii and wonder if the weather person just used their same clip over and over in full confidence that nobody would ever notice.

I’ve thought the same about weather folk in Texas in the summer.

Granted, they earn their salary esp. fall and spring (“don’t like it? wait five minutes”) but Texas weather in summer is … look, it’s hot, it’s been hot, it’s gonna be hot.

@Trieste

Sorry…

Apology rejected. Pop on over any time you like.

@nelliebly

read this TWICE as “a corrupted bedsheet.”

Some of us do have our floozy moments.

@Baker

Maybe our pets have a group across the Bridge and talk about us together.

Nobody listen to what Nikki says; she never forgave me for bringing Monks home.

@JaneDoe42

I understand that WV takes high school football far too seriously.

I’d stay outta Texas if I were you.

@JaneDoe42

@Misnomer

“She was in DC with me at the jazz show…and in Southern Merrylande! Honest!!”

AND was in West Virginia advising me how best shop at dispensaries.

Lazy bitch gets around!

@dogbutler

Back in my retail days, I’d wake up, look and the clock and see “5:00”, and panic. “Am I late? Am I off?
Did I sleep for 18 hours? What day is it?”

Yeah, I’ve done that.

@dogbutler

You can, in fact, cuss in ASL.

Oh, I can foresee a YouTube rabbit hole in my near future.

@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

took me 40 years to learn how to say 'paradigm" correctly.

You know that 70s song about Chama-chama-chama-chameleeeeooooonnnn … took me ages to figure out what the hell they were singing about, and also, separately, that the word for the color changing lizard is not “CHAH-mah-LEE-on.”

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Tonight was a really good night. Might’ve been the edible kicking in, might’ve been remembering to eat my chocolate covered coffee beans. But we didn’t have a single manager call (“you screwed up!”) no assholes - except for the one bitch who would NOT stop calling right when we closed, after the answering service was turned on, until S.M. finally picked up and politely explained that we close at midnight, and the same bitch KEPT CALLING BACK WTF - but otherwise, it was a chill, fun night.

And someone left two paper towel tubes in my locker and nobody on tonight’s shift fessed up, so we had some fun trying to guess who is my ratties’ Secret Admirer.

(It became a thing to save paper towel tubes for me, plus baking the occasional “cracker” and it’s hilarious how much my crew likes hearing about my critters.

Oh, and one of the other locations apparently has a bit of a rodent problem, and one of the other managers, who is also the G.M.'s daughter, half-jokingly asked if they could borrow Pretzel.

My face, and S.M. face, were both )

Oh, and S.M. brought me her mom’s homemade chicken salad, and said her mom specifically said, “Make sure you bring this for Shoe” and, I mean, what’s not to love about a job like this?

Plus, there were some of the cyoootest puppers in the cars today. We all know, when someone goes “Squeee!” at the window, if you can drop what you’re doing, there’s probably a doggo to coo at.

[dogbutler]

Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

@Paintcharge

now I gotta figure out how to build a boat and get it in through their tiny little door.

Gibbs, is that you?

@purplehorseshoe

My face, and S.M. face, were both )

Monkey would be a better choice. Also, < makes joke about pizza order with extra mouse-erella cheese >

[wolfpup]

Here in southern Ontario it turned suddenly cold enough for me to switch the thermostat from A/C to heat, although trees are mostly still green. Although tomorrow it will be 21°C (that’s 70° 'Murrican).

But the snowplow guy who does my driveway has already dropped off the contract for the coming winter, and as always, I struggle with whether it will be worth it, because we have not got much snow the last few years.

But I always go for it, because, boys and girls, we all know exactly what will happen the first year that I turn down the contract! In case we don’t, it will be this: there will be blaring headlines about “greatest snowfall ever recorded since 1850 when records were first kept” and “entire east of continent paralyzed by unprecedented snowfall” and “scientists mystified; blame an exceptionally strong polar vortex due to La Niña”. I will call the snowplow guy and beg him to come do my driveway, and he will laugh and hang up on me.

So I guess this year I’ll pay him again, and those of you in the northeast can thank me for saving you from Snowmageddon.

[scareyfaerie]

Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 7c/45f with a predicted high of 10c/49f, and mostly cloudy. Weather app says “Boring as fuck”. Fair enough, but I’ve got some sun!

{{{{{FairyChats}}}}} I was so sorry to hear about Higgs, that dog had the absolute best life with you though.

Wolfpup thank you for your generosity in saving everyone else from snow this winter! I hope it extends to my side of the pond

@Paintcharge

now I gotta figure out how to build a boat and get it in through their tiny little door.

I’m sure there’s a tv series devoted to that question

@dogbutler

Spot napped with me, and cleaned my head, so I guess he’s not to mad at me.

That’s always a good result, Cherry was displeased with the coughing in the night and chose to hassle me for fuss and then run away.

@JaneDoe42

When I retired, I started losing words.

Menopause did that to me - I sometimes can’t remember a word for something. That’s why spoons in our house are always referred to as stirring devices!

sari that does sound like a very oddly designed and frustrating room.

I’m feeling a bit better today, my sinuses have dried up now so there’s less sniffing and sneezing but much more coughing. Consequently, everything from my head to my ribs is aching. I’ve got two more doses of medication before i have to consider going out to get some more or not bothering with it.

I have irk today, tonight’s dinner will be leftover chilli from earlier in the week so not really got much to do after I log off from here this afternoon. I need to run the rollsuck because the catsitter’s coming on Saturday and I don’t want her thinking we have descended into more squalor than usual. Always something…

[nightshadea]

{fcm&family} i cried over a dog id only seen in pictures …

@LH75

Evidently, I have reduced my PSA number but I am now going through menopause…

heh When I was 14 i was taking something with fem hormones in it for something they never quite explained to me …lets say I don’t make many PMS jokes cause if the real thing is half as bad as I felt id think about getting those parts responsible removed asap…

[nightshadea]

{fcm&family} i cried over a dog id only seen in pictures …

@LH75

Evidently, I have reduced my PSA number but I am now going through menopause…

heh When I was 14 i was taking something with fem hormones in it for something they never quite explained to me …lets say I don’t make many PMS jokes cause if the real thing is half as bad as I felt id think about getting those parts responsible removed asap…

[swampbear]

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 59 (BRR!) Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 78 and N.O.S. for the day. I have decided on a day of high RDOS inactivities. OYKW will get a little productive and make a pound cake, which he does well. When I got back to da cave last night I noticed pound cake makin’ stuff was out on the counter. He said the urge struck him to make a pound cake. No complaints here. Sup shall be cubed steak 'n onion gravy, smashed N.O.T., peas, butter beans and okra cooked together, deviled aigs and corn bread. OK, I will be somewhat productive as all that will take effort. Plus there will be pound cake with macerated strawberries and real whipped cream!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Thursday Y’all!

[Sticks_and_Scones]

Hey Sari, it sounds like your son will learn to drive when he has no other option. I think it would be better to give him a strong nudge in that direction now instead of sometime in the future when there are no other options. It’s hard to have to do something like that, but it’s probably better than the pressured alternative.

Swampy, onion gravy???

Not sure what’s on the agenda today. It depends partly on how well I can move around after been out all day yesterday. I’d like to go upstairs and play with resin for a bit.

[Seanette]

I’ve been neurosing about bird flu (H5N1) since hearing about a human case with no known animal contact. The fact that this has jumped from birds to mammals is worrying me enough, and apparently if it gets good at going human-to-human, we could have another pandemic on our hands.

Then I see this article, about domestic dogs and cats being susceptible…

Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?

[FairyChatMom]

@JaneDoe42

When I retired, I started losing words. I know the word I want to say, but I can’t make my mouth work right.

Yeah. I can see the thing in my mind, but the word for the thing isn’t there. Ever-so-frustrating. Dammit.

@dogbutler

wake up, look and the clock and see “5:00”, and panic. “Am I late? Am I off?

Or the ever-popular “Is it 5 in the morning or 5 in the evening?” BTDT

@purplehorseshoe

her mom specifically said, “Make sure you bring this for Shoe”

[singy-song] Someone’s been adopted!!

Today started after 7 at 47° and no pup to let out and feed - it was so strange to have my morning routine change so abruptly. Or last night when I was in the kitchen not having her underfoot when I pulled out a knife and cutting board. How a small animal can leave such a huge void…

Today, I’ll launder the assorted bedding bits from her crate and the living room, then I’ll find a place to stash them. We’d been using the crate as a table - maybe I’ll just put a tablecloth over it and pretend that’s what it is. I’ll also grab one of the Amazon boxes from our recycling pile and load it with all the supplies that will go to Trevor. I’ll try to do all this while FCD is out - it’s hit him especially hard. He truly didn’t expect the vet to tell him there was nothing to be done. On top of everything else he’s dealing with, it just crushed him. I wish I could take him away for a few days, but there’s no way. Dammit.

So that will be part of my day. Probably some rollsuckage also. And the dishwasher needs to be emptied. And I’m thinking I can put away the critter fountain also - Ziva will drink from a dish of water so I can put it next to her kibble dispenser. Keeping busy should be the key, right?

Happy Thursday, I guess.

[Chefguy]

So sorry about your pet. We lost our kitty a short time ago and it’s still painful. But it’s important that at least one of you was with Higgs at the end. When pets are in extremis, they need their trusted friend to be with them to ease their passing, regardless of how difficult it is. The ultimate betrayal is to leave the room when the time comes.

[Taters]

Good morning, everyone.

It’s 48F and partly cloudy outside. The expected high temperature for the day is 66F, with partly cloudy skies. So, another dull weather forecast.

FCM, I remember waking up the day after Polar was gone and feeling lost. There was no fresh water in the bowl, no giving him his meds and a small treat, and no 10 to 15-minute snuggle time. It just felt weird, and I was bereft. It’s good FCD could be there, and show Higgs the final act of love by being with her as she left. I know how hard that is.

Sari, make finding transportation for your son HIS job. Stop making it easy for him and have him call a cab to pick him up from work. Maybe once he discovers what a PITA that is and how expensive that is, he’ll edge closer to wanting to get his license.

Nellie, I’m so sorry about your SiL. I hope they find the cause of her pain and treatment options.

LH75, I’m so glad the numbers are down. I hope the menopause systems abate soon!

I am TAHRED. And if my boss wasn’t off today, leaving me as his POC, I’d have burned some comp time off, but alas, I must work. I had too many meetings to accomplish much yesterday, but I did get some stuff done.

Okay, I must go upstairs to my WFH office and begin the workday.

Everyone take care!

[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

Morning all. Up about 6:30am and the garbage guys were here 20 minutes later so glad I put the bin out at the curb last night. Not much planned for today, soccer is at 5:30pm and I just scheduled pictures for Saturday, so need to get that information out to the parents. 55F this morning but supposed to get to 82F so another nice day in N. Ali-bama.

VanGo, it’s always fun when someone knows your job better than you (and tells you all about it). Good luck threading the needle with the boat.

As for weather reports, it changes here fairly often, but during my 4 years in the United Arab Emirates, there were two types of days: Hot (only getting to 90F) and You Gotta Be Kidding Me Hot (115-120F), and being right on the Arabian Sea we had humidity as an extra bonus attraction…think it rained twice in the four years I was there.

Shoe, of course you should use Pretzel; charge them for rodent removal and then again for snake removal…

wolfie, thanks for taking one for the team, bet that snowplow guy already has his retirement place in Florida all picked out…

swampy, sounds like feasting is planned for the evening.

OK, today is pancakes and bacon day, and they won’t get eaten if I don’t get to it. Have a good Thorsday all.

[Trieste]

@nelliebly

Does anybody else here share a birthday with a family member? (Pets count.)

My grand-nephew-in-law (is there such a thing?) has my birthday. At my age I officially turned it over to him Now I’ll never get older!! hah

T

[FairyChatMom]

@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

charge them for rodent removal and then again for snake removal…

Regarding shared birthdays - SIL and my mother are both Jan 7. Both grands were born on 15th of different months - that doesn’t count, does it? Oh, and my dad and my mom’s sister shared Feb 25.

I just finished clearing all of Higgs’ stuff out. Her blankets are in the washer, her leftover food and treats are boxed for Trevor. Her torn up toys have been trashed, but the antlers and bones are bagged for Daughter to either give to Trevor or pass to her friend who fosters pups. I vacuumed out the crate - it may used for afghan storage - and I vacuumed where her toys and living room bed sat. I needed to get it done while FCD was out of the house. On one hand, it feels cold and heartless, on the other hand, it’ll never get any easier.

Daughter is coming to stay with her grandma tomorrow and FCD and I are going away for a few hours. It’ll get easier…

Picture day at school - I had no idea she had so much hair since it’s usually braided.

She always smiles so nice for her mom and so wooden for the school pics. Kids - whacha gonna do?