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And a good morning to all. Have already done the Firday shopping, my Kroger points total is near an all-time high and I’ll run my tank down to the fumes because this fill-up will cost me next to nothing. Some rain clouds in the vicinity, but looks like it is clearing up and will be better later on today. Have my last weight training session today, so hopefully I’ve got the routine down and will keep doing it on my own. Signed up to referee a couple of soccer games tomorrow so that should keep me busy and out of trouble.

Looked that up and if I ever visit W. Virginia I’ll be looking for one of them…pictures look delicious…and laughed at this one:

Pilot, don’t recall having a truck burn out, but do remember a shipment being delayed because they found the driver sitting on top of his semi talking to himself…

red, sounds like things are progressing; hope neighbor can be of assistance.

VanGo, glad you’re feeling better, and a duck-mobile? You sure you’re mot quacking up?

JtC, you’re probably in the middle of the procedure as I type this, but look forward to hearing about the results.

All that discussion about typewriting made me think about this notable piece of symphony music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c

Sticky Buns, so far my glasses are working well, my prescription changes very little year to year, so sometimes I find myself wearing an ‘old’ pair and hardly noticing.

flyboy, hope the prework, procedure and the awakening go according to schedule.

Jasmine, enjoy the time off!

Man, some schools go long; Ali-bama finished before Memorial Day.

FCM, how does one go about discouraging a woodpecker from pecking wood?

I’m surprised, I figured a couple of Ex-Navy folks would have dress blues…

And I’m at the bottom of the thread, so off to new adventures. Have a good Firday all.

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i have “party jeans”. they have a sparkly pinstripe on them.

best of wishes to johnny and jtc! i hope all is well and easy.

today is potato day! i know here in the mmp we do like potatoes and tater!

i have an eye appt. today. i’m hoping the cataract that has been seen for the last few years is finally ready for removal.

on to shredding!

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Pfffft - even if we did, the chances of fitting into them is pretty much nil. Except the hats - I think they’d still fit. :joy:

I saw where the woodpecker was pecking wood. It was an area about 4" X 6" with maybe half a dozen holes. I had an old mat on the deck, and I just hung it over the pecked area - so far, so quiet.

I’ve showered, dressed, started the laundry, and I have a big pot of sketty sauce simmering. Two more loads of laundry to go, and somewhere in there, I’ll strip the chickie carcass and make salad.

I got my lab results - man, they’re fast!! All my numbers are in the normal range, tho bad cholesterol, glucose, and A1c are at the high end of normal. Still, can’t complain. I see Christine next Thurs for my semi-annual once-over.

FCD is heading to the marina for something. No rain yet, but hourly forecasts show t-boomers coming this evening and overnight. Sun is in and out. As usual, your weather guess is as good as mine!

Time to stir the sketty sauce!

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Good morning, everyone.

It’s 51°F and clear outside. It’s expected to be sunny for most of the day, with an expected high temperature of 80°F. Clouds will move in starting around 6:00 or 7:00 p.m.

JtC, I hope everything went, is going, well.

Johnny, I hope all is going well for you, too.

The rain lasted much longer than anticipated yesterday, and once it let up, my get-up-and-go was gone. I took care of some indoor chores, played with the pups, watched a new Prime series, and did not do much else.

The last day of school here is June 19th. Of course, the kids don’t start until the Wednesday after Labor Day. Additionally, there are likely make-up days for inclement weather, etc. High school seniors typically graduate a week earlier. It seems that school lasts much longer than it did when I was in school.

In other exciting news, well, I guess there isn’t any. I need to finish my coffee and hop in the shower. I have some errands to run, and then I’ll plant some more in containers and in the ground.

I need to run the roll-suck around, but I think that’ll hold until tomorrow.

I hope you all have a good day.

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Not that anyone cares, but my typing teacher was Mrs Thomas. I remember almost all of my teachers from grade school and high school.

My colonoscopy is next Wednesday.

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Who turned the lights on?

I can already see a big difference in colors and light levels, but Im also wearing a plastic eye shield.

Heres hoping Johnnys procedure goes well too. More later, food on the way.

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Depends a lot on the boss-folk :slight_smile: There’s only one person in my office who lives in easy walking distance from work, so one way or another, the rest of us are commuters. Some are drivers, others as bus-users, I am the only one who uses multiple forms of transport. We are contracted to work a certain number of hours a week, I told my boss that my hours are notional! I leave home around the same time each campus day, what happens after that is totally out of my control. Hybrid work patterns have made things much more flexible, and since we are all usually in before we open our reception to the couple of people who may decide to stroll in, nobody is that bothered any more.

The same person who gave you the happy drugs! Glad you are already seeing the benefits. Oooh…I made a funny!

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Breakfasted and exercised, although I really wasn’t in the mood for the latter.

The NYT crossword was basically unsolvable for me today. That doesn’t happen often, but today’s clues were just too obscure and referenced a number of people I’ve never heard of. Could be I’m just having a bad brain day, as the Spelling Bee was also more difficult than it should have been.

A lot of forest fire smoke in the air today. The sun was just an orange ball this morning.

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So I got sent to Orange 32 to break jams and split sort. It was the smoothest running PDC sort I’ve ever seen. I mean apart from the large box that tumbled down and tried to Final Destination me, but missed and merely pushed the one steel roll up door out 6 inches. First load of the week’s laundry is churning, then Spot and I will nap.

Heard that one before

3 weeks without other people’s spawn? Sounds great.

I have a cat. This is a weekly occurrence.

Yay!

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Dr said my toe looks good, no need to keep soaking or wearing a bandaid. It still is uncomfy with a shoe but I think my toe is still swollen.
Got my scrips.
Bible study later.

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Bailey and I had a bit of an adventure last night: around 11:30 I was woken up by the sound of her crying, which she only does if she’s slipped on something and can’t get back up (she has arthritis + muscle weakness). I got out of bed, and found her spread-eagle on the kitchen floor*…in a pool of urine. My poor girl had peed on the tile and slipped in it. I picked her up and dried her off with paper towels, then cleaned her belly and legs as best I could with wipes before mopping the floor and cleaning myself up. Eventually we both went back to sleep. This morning I wiped her down again (and mopped the floor again), and called around to various mobile groomers in the hopes someone could come out and give her a bath on short notice. A groomer who actually lives in my neighborhood said she might be able to come at the end of the day, depending on how her other appointments go; she knows what happened, and seemed somewhat optimistic. Everyone else said no, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed! :crossed_fingers: If she can’t come today, I’ll do the washcloth/wipes thing one more time and make the next available grooming appointment.

*The only flooring in the house that isn’t covered with non-slip waterproof pads. Sigh.

In other news, almost 48 hours after my toenail removal I’m amazed at how little pain there is (I wonder if my diabetic neuropathy might actually be helping in that regard??). I’ll do another soak + bandage change when I eat lunch, but so far so good. I did put a “real” shoe on this morning in order to haul the biiiiiiiig trash can to the curb: my “walk through the grass/be out in the rain” shoes are waterproof clogs with nice roomy toe boxes, and it wasn’t bad but right away I could tell that I wouldn’t want to keep that shoe on that foot for more than a couple of minutes. I’ll put them on again at the end of the day to return the trash can to the patio, but otherwise I should be able to get away with open-toe slippers/sandals for the next several days (I’ll simply use an umbrella whenever I have to take Bailey out back during the coming storms). I haven’t needed any Tylenol today, for which I’m grateful.

A lot of my co-workers are on a 9/80 schedule that gives them every other Friday off: today is the “off” day, and my boss and two of my direct reports are out of the office. It’s making for a nice quiet day and letting me focus on some documentation that I’m developing. When I’m not posting, that is. :grin:

There’s no “doing my best”: I have no control over how quickly I heal. :grin: But 16 hours of definite pain vs having to be a little extra careful (which I will be anyway)? I’ll take the latter, thanks!

Yes; they each move a type bar! :slight_smile: The platen also works (Lego provided a letter than can be rolled in), and the carriage moves from side to side. There’s no bell/ding, though. It’s all pretty cool, but also typical of the features you’ll see on more advanced sets.

And I also remember having to untangle type bars! A hazard of typing too quickly.

Niiiiiiice.

If you were in QA in 1985 you probably got my parents’ report. :grin:

I actually warned the podiatrist about my personal “thing” the other day: I have no problem with needles, blood, etc., but I am a huge baby when it comes to pain associated with injuries – sometimes even if it’s just anticipated or sympathetic pain (e.g., seeing someone else’s compound fracture). Blood and gore don’t bother me otherwise, and I actually volunteered in a couple of hospitals in my 30s (including an ER). So I told her I could watch the numbing injections but not the removal, even though I knew I wouldn’t feel a darn thing, and that I didn’t want to see the nail afterwards. She kind of laughed, because she totally got it!

I’d forgotten about that; thank you!

There’s a short number in the musical Chess that uses a typewriter as an instrument about halfway through and again at the end: “Embassy Lament.”

Hooray!!

That doesn’t bode well for me later… :frowning:

Excellent! My instructions are to only soak/cover until the wound is dry and healed, which they said should take about two weeks. Sounds like that’s right about where you are timing-wise. :slight_smile: I have a follow-up appointment scheduled, but the doc said I can cancel it as long as I don’t have any issues or see any signs of infection by then.

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We certainly hope so!

Fantastic! Maybe someday we’ll get to see a picture of your glasswork. :upside_down_face:

MusicMan forgot to take his morning meds, so my mom and I drove them over to him and then went to the gigantic store on the edge of Amish country. We got some cheese, miniature chocolate dipped pretzels, and some really tasty looking ham. I also got a very inexpensive frozen pizza with a croissant crust that sounded like a good idea, but didn’t end up tasking so great.

It’s funny all of our memories about typing.. On a good day I can type 90 WPM.

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I recently saw a pic of a half cut woodpecker’s head that showed the tongue starting at the roof of their mouth, then wrapping around the brain to help cushion it before coming out it’s mouth the normal way.

We had an empty screw hole on one of the pressure treated wood porch up-rights and a Downy Woodpecker went after it for a while. I distracted it by putting up a suet feeder with a tail rest and thats where they ate the rest of the tiem we were there.

The food is as good as it looks, the staff are always very nice and you get to eat on china with heavy metal cutlery.

(Red or Blue, everyone always agrees that politicians are full of bologna.)

I’m home now, and still pretty dilated. There are no lights on in my room, the sun in the window and french doors is more than enough for me to easily see the difference between white, blue and yellow. I can’t read fine print, but did expect to be in readers afterwards so this is not unexpected.

Seeing the forest in living color is amazing. I don’t think DMC makes enough greens to match the variety I’m seeing now.

My eye is scratchy feeling and my eyelid feels lumpy(?) when I blink. If I close my eyes for a few minutes, it lets the tears wash around enough to bring relief. I expect I will be over that in a few days or less.

I am really looking forward to getting my left eye done and healed because I can feel some eye strain. My right eye is telling my brain one thing and my left eye is saying Nuh-huh!

I thought they wore white? (seriously, no snark involved) I have a Scarlet and Gold velvet ballgown. When I had it made, I knew that I wasn’t going to want to pay a grand for another dress so I had expansion laces included. I am always the Belle of the Ball when I walk in escorted by a leather wearing biker.

Last year was the first year we missed the Marine Corp Ball since we met. It won’t happen again this year, we’re finding our way around.

If it is, I am positive that you will have a pleasant experience and a big improvement as well!

You have my sympathy.

I only remember a few of my pre-college teachers and sent a thank you letter to my old algebra teacher last year. He used to team the boys against the girls in math test scores and fully expected the girls to beat the boys every time. He did not put up with any of that “Maths is too hard for girls” bullshit.

I got a very nice letter back, btw. Teachers always appreciate it when ex-students reach out to them. It makes them feel like they really did make a difference.

And I laughed :slight_smile:

Poor girl. That must have been painful as well as humiliating. You are a very good doggy mom for being so understanding.

Hurray about your toe healing so quickly.

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Dress blues are for any time, dress whites are summer only, and only for officers, unless things have changed since I got out in '84.

I’d be surprised if many of my teachers are still alive. I know my favorite French teacher died a couple of years ago. I’m sorry I never contacted him - he lived not too far from my mom. My choir/chorus teacher is still alive - I think he just turned 90. But I doubt he’d remember me - I was just another soprano out of many, and never a soloist. Several other teachers were older than dirt 50+ years ago.

ETA: This prompted me to look up one teacher who had an unusual enough name - he just died this past March. He was 78 - I had no idea he was so close to us in age.

Laundry is done. Sketty sauce is bagged (6 meals plus a little extra) and the big pot is scrubbed and drying. No chickie salad yet - I just don’t feel like it. We’ll see how it goes as the afternoon progresses.

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Nah, you’ll probably kill it. I was just having brain farts all over the place, missing easy words that should have jumped out at me. I also went back and finished the NYT crossword, so there’s that.

More chaos outside our window! I-94 is in close proximity to where we live, and dives into a tunnel that goes under the other streets and buildings that were in the way when they built the road. I just got an alert that a “truck with ammo” overturned in the tunnel. :grimacing: All the traffic is being diverted off the freeway and through our neighborhood. No idea how they will clean up an overturned truck in a tunnel, let alone deal with “ammo”.

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Looking at some photos, it looks like the truck hit the dividing wall right at the entrance to the tunnel, so perhaps cleanup will be a bit easier. The news says it will likely be four hours or so before they can reopen the road. Lots of trucks and equipment are showing up. Wheeee!

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Very much so. And after reading the description, I’m wondering if my dad is making the right choice to just get a pedicure (cosmetic) when he could have his feet taken care of properly (medical). I have to remember to ask him if he’s ever discussed his foot care with his doctor. But he’s not diabetic and is in relatively good health, so maybe cosmetic is okay for now.

Still jealous of in-house foot care nurse.

Sounds like she’s getting used to being there. :slight_smile:

:astonished_face: You did say this is when you were part of the pet rescue, so I presume it wasn’t just your dime. Wow.

Yay2

I highly recommend that you sign him up for it. My parents (early 80s) did the wheelchair escort thing the last few times they’ve been in airports. So much easier for them, plus they got fast-tracked through TSA (but they also have GlobalEntry). Both of them were a bit hesitant, but now they realize that they need to use their energy wisely.

It’s adorable. I’m very tempted to order something from Brinklink, but I promised myself that I need to finish the Lego kits we already have, plus do some paper sorting.

Interesting that the typewriter has English and not a Danish keyboard. Probably didn’t want to include the extra keys.

That’s great news!

Yesterday was National Confused Tourist Day, aka Ascension Day. Which is one of the few federal holidays in Switzerland. It appears many people do not check to see if there’s a holiday at their vacation destination. As Luzern is a favorite tourist spot, there were hordes of confused tourists yesterday.

This morning we went to the garden store and bought bamboo posts for the raspberry plants and metal edging for the grass. It quickly got too hot to work in the garden, as the place is in full sun in the afternoon and it got to 28 C / 81 F.

So I switched to paper sorting. We have 20+ years of bank statements, etc. in the basement, and we don’t need to keep all of it. Already freed up a binder and made a nice stack for the shredder.

Time to settle down for the evening. Tomorrow we need to get the garden work done before it gets too hot.

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In Mr. L_A’s neck of the woods:

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Hi! Bye!

Gotta get going. Do not wanna. But hafta.

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Oh, that is horrible. The bee owner/s have lost their livelihoods, all of the bees will die and the crops they were contracted to pollinate won’t have help, so those farmers might go belly up as well.

Glad you had a minute, hope things are going as well as they can for you.

While I did of course pay full price to take our personal cats there, most of the money came from the rescue. Of course, a lot of that money came from volunteers as well.

He probably won’t remember you, but he certainly would treasure a letter from you.

I just learned that a bad thing happened while I was getting my new eye…the nurse gave and explained my discharge instructions to Hubs. He’s already scolded me for picking Jolene up (no bending, she’s light enough for me to hold), and has weighed my pocket stuff and decided I can’t carry my stainless steel cup of ice-water-with-lemon because the total is more than ten pounds.

The whole of next week is gonna suck!