I’m assuming/hoping the load was insured; the bees are swarming and beekeepers are on the scene collecting them, and I would hope that there are 250,000,000 additional bees wherever these came from to make up the shortfall. At least the crash was in an agricultural area and there are plenty of flowers in bloom.
I heard about that. 
Anal probe went OK. The worst part is the prep. Once you’re in, the milk of amnesia makes it a breeze. I was having a good dream in recovery, but I don’t remember what it was. I woke up right away when the nurse told me to. Since I’d been awake since 0100 or 0130, I could have slept a few more minutes. The anaesthesiologist and the doctor liked my suggestion that they were Grey masks (Dr. Sleep is a South Park fan, too) but they didn’t think they could pull it off with the patients. But hey… Anal probe? Loss of time? It would be hilarious! I do have some pole-yips. (Kids In The Hall reference? I don’t remember.) I guess I’ll get a path report Monday.
I broke my fast with a breakfast burrito: Three slices of deadpig, and over-easy cackleberry with lots of black pepper, medium cheddar, and Tabasco, on a low-carb whole-wheat tortilla. I thought about chorizo-and-egg, but I like my eggs scrambled in that case and we’re out of heavy cream. (I scramble the eggs with heavy cream.)
The mobile dog groomer who lives in my neighborhood got here about 10 min ago! Yay for starting the weekend with a properly clean doggy! 
At first I thought maybe it’s because I bought the set from the US site, but even the Denmark site (in Danish) shows an English keyboard. Huh.
Thank you for mentioning that, though, because my search through other-than-English Lego sites led me to discover that there’s a third new book nook set: the Balrog from Lord of the Rings! It releases on 06/01 along with the other two (Sherlock Holmes and the Hogwarts Express), and of course I’ve ordered it. 
Thanks for the drive-by (drive-bye?)! 
Hmmm… 
Cataracts are ready! Whee!
Consult on the 13th.
We were watching The Great Escape last week. In it, James Garner wears an RAF sweater; sometimes without a tunic, and sometimes with a tunic. It struck me how trim he looks in it, even with the tunic on. I could never pull that off. (Maybe it would work under my RAF ‘Irvin’ jacket.)
Anyway, I have this sweater. I haven’t worn it in years, but I remembered it was huge. But I couldn’t find it. So I ordered a new one from the link. As I said, the one I already had was huge. Was it an XL? Maybe even a XXL? I’m sure I bought it 70 or 80 pounds ago. This time I ordered a Large (44-46) and it arrived just now. And you know what? I’ll never be James Garner, but it’s a much more reasonable size than my old one.
(I think I remember putting my old one in a chest. I haven’t looked though.)
Bee update for JtC: Over two dozen beekeepers showed up to help and brushed many bees back into the undamaged boxes. Sheriff’s Office expects that most of the remaining bees will return to their boxes tonight.
Yay for bees! ‘Oh, look! There’s our home!’
Howdy Y’all! Aside from makin’ stuff to go with the rotisserie chikin, I have been useless today. On and off rain made for good nappage. We sat out on the back porch and watched it rain while stavin’ off malaria and scurvy.
JtC and Flyboy glad both of you made it through your procedures.
Oopsie and Coppertone glad the toes are doin’ better.
SWMBO ‘suggested’ Indian take-out for dinner. Incredibly, we have an excellent new-ish, authentic, Indian restaurant in town. Normally I get the spiciest curry. I want the spiciest curry; but I thought it might be better to just have tandoori chicken with mint chutney. The Spousal Unit is having mild chicken korma and plain naan, and we’ll share the saag paneer.
And a good early evening to all. Gym has been gymmed, gave my weight trainer some gift cards for his efforts, now we’ll see if I keep doing the stuff we worked on or drop away from it. I can tell it has helped, parts of me are much stronger than before and if I still don’t look like Charles Atlas things are shaping up… Best is that I have been maintaining my weight right around 200-205 lbs for the first 5 months of the year and if I can keep that going, I think it will be all good.
And transforming into scroll mode…
rocky, interested to know how your cataract is doing. My eye Doc says he noticed them this time but that they are best controlled right now by my glasses, but one of these days…and reading further, don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone so happy to have their eyes worked on to remove cataracts…
FCM, I know what you mean on lab results these days, I had my results on-line within 24 hours of having the fluids taken. Of course, now I have to go read them…
JtC, thanks for the good news. Looking forward to the day both eyes are functioning together again. And Hubs may be a bit of a martinet, but do what he says!
Cookie, Friday’s crossword is always the hardest, I’ve got about 15% of it and will gnaw away at it later tonight. Did get the 6x6 Ken-Ken, which also toughens up as the week goes on.
Very carefully? Just glad no one was apparently hurt.
Since I graduated High School in 1971, I doubt very many of those who educated me are still around, and I’ve forgotten about 90% of their names.
doggio, happy to hear you weren’t crushed at work.
Coppertone, great news on the toe and the scrips.
Oopsie, glad you and Bailey did get some rest after her…oopsie…hope the groomer could make it *and I see she did–Yay!). Glad your toe is behaving itself along with Coppertone’s.
Unless they were assigned to Ft. Ben Harrison, probably not…
Dicey, all my papers are nicely sorted and in their drawers…probably more than I really need to keep, but at least if I have the hoarding instinct, I try to keep it neat…
lily, that’s poses a good question; would you rather have a traffic accident with a truck full of ammo or a truck full of bees (seems to me the author Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story similar to that…found it, called “Critical Mass” starts at page 23–https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Arthur%20C%20Clarke%20-%20Tales%20From%20The%20White%20Hart.pdf )
flyboy, glad the old poop chute checkup went fine. Hoping the pole-yips are benign little buggers…
And time to get the Big Bowl O’Sallit ready for consumption. Catch y’all later in the evening.
Happy eventide there folks.
A good day at Casa LSL. Once laundry was done went to the beach and hiked for 2 hours in the wet sand / shallows: one hour outbound and one hour back. Waded into the deeper water to cool off now and again. Felt good; I’d not done a long walk on a long time.
Then carwash, two grocery stores, and home. A nice early afternoon nappage, then off for dinner.
Which started as late afternoon happy hour at a snooty wine place with a Gewürztraminer & a mini charcuterie. I thought about full dinner there, but their outside section was closed and the inside was too cold; I like outdoors in Florida; that’s why I moved here. Quit trying to make interiors feel like Christmas in NYC dammit!!1!.
So I decided to do something definitely outdoor and much more yang to that rather yin first course. Down the street is a Hooters whereat I had a $5 glass of bad cabernet and the 6 wings + curly fries for $10 happy hour special. Curly fries (there or anywhere else) are much improved if you smother them in Old Bay. Unbreaded (“naked”) wings are carb free. Overall it was not a bad meal dietarily.
Now home & txtting w GF who’s home having a quiet night too.
Last night was too late to bed and too early to get up, so too short overall. Hoping to avoid both mistakes here soon.
Happy (although unsurprised) to hear that modern medicine has not failed our Dynamic Duo of JtC & Flyboy.
The cataracts were first noticed quite a bit ago. Over 5 years for sure. I noticed that I was having glare difficulties recently so I knew they were “ripening “. I’ve also been having an odd bit of double vision, more of a light double than a true double or shadow.
I’m rather myopic, not a good candidate for lasik, and haven’t been able to wear contacts for years due to allergies. Correction other than glasses would only be possible with cataract surgery.
The doc.s say a lot of myopics look forward to cataract surgery. Especially ones who can’t have lasiks.
Today was my usual annual visit. Good discussion with the doctor. He took me right over to the cataract office. I go to wills eye, top eye doc.s there.
The tandoori chicken was good, although a bit salty. Not enough mint chutney. I still prefer a head-exploding curry.
I’m glad to hear that the surgical thingys went well.
Today we went to Walnut Creek Cheese and procured a few things. They comprised parts of our dinner. However, they’ll play a larger part in tomorrow’s meals.
Believe it or not, MusicMan has to work tomorrow. Seems like retribution but whatever. My mom and I are going to start working on a new pillow that will be for a friend of mine.
Soon I’ll be heading off to bed.
I napped. Spot cleaned my head, then used it as a pillow. Having a Fitzgerald, with salmon and peas and mushrooms with rice.
I have yet to see the first envelope of LIVE BEES at work.
Cool! And hope Bailey is feeling better after her slip.
< waves as shoe zooms by >
Was it a dream where you were where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Typing / data entry jobs have pretty much gone by the wayside in the day of online, autofill, everybody-knows-keyboarding. Once upon a time, minutes, documents, etc had to be typed multiple times (triplicate was about the most you could do at a time) but now can be taken care of by pushing send or print. I took one semester of typing in high school (that was all that AP students had room for and was designed to make sure that we could type term papers for college) and our first year typing teacher joked that we would never use the skill again once we typed our last term paper. Predicting the PC revolution was not her forte.
Y’all still have those? All of ours changed to Mrs. Winner’s before they closed a few years back.
Has he considered having a pair of regular glasses tinted?
When I worked in my old department, all it took was a call to the boss when you got delayed by traffic and they took care of things. When I went into production, a nuclear explosion could have happened on I24 and you would have still been considered tardy.
Woodpeckers have a built in helmet.
The duckmobiles sound like fun, VanGo! I’m looking forward to pics.
You aren’t kidding! Around here, they get out in late May and are back the first or second week in August.
Yay!
Poor Bailey! I hope that she gets bathed soonest, oopsie
One of my elementary teachers is still living that I know of. I visited her last at the old nun’s home at St. Mary of the Woods. She was a novice when she taught me in the fifth grade, so she’s only in her mid-seventies. My high school American history teacher is one of my FB friends and a couple of other high school teachers are still living.
Got the spinal injection scheduled for next Friday today. I also switched the printer that the feed gears went tits up to the back up one. I downloaded the drivers and went to print the labels for the family cookbooks so’s I could get them in the mail, but it would only print very faintly. I YouTubed troubleshooting, but no solutions helped (I had already changed out ink cartridges and Canon only has about 8000 different printers, so getting help with my specific one was futile). I finally tried to print the text in color and Voila! I could print and even in a true color, meaning that the black ink was actually working to get stuff mixed, it just wasn’t doing anything when I tried to print in black. Until I get moved and resettled, I’ll be printing in very dark blue or brown. 
We got the two end built ins sorted today. Tomorrow, we’re hitting the post office to mail the cookbooks, then doing a drop to Goodwill. Madame Tussaud’s no longer is a drop point for Books for Soldiers, so they will go to Goodwill too.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Coincidentally, I was wearing my International Order for Gorillas T-shirt yesterday. Actually, my dream may have involved a P-51 Mustang.
It always concerned me to send my friends’ cats to them by plane because the crates were affixed with manifests that said LIVE ANIMAL with a tickbox for the destination to say whether the content was the same on arrival.
Time for the late-night final. Salad has been eaten and plans for the bedtime snackage have been planned, so will be off to bed soon. Refereeing soccer games at 9:00am and 1:30pm tomorrow, so that should provide sufficient exercise. No rain and it should be between 70-80F for my refereeing tomorrow, so that will be nice. Otherwise have been a good RDOS for the evening.
Pilot, haven’t been to a Hooters in a long time, the one near me closed and the nearest one is 100+ miles away.
rocky, thanks for the details, I’m also very nearsighted and never have worn contacts either, albeit from preference rather than allergies. Best wishes.
Red, glad you found a way to make the printer cooperate.
And that’s all for today. Off to read and get a couple of chocolate pudding cups out (I really owe shoe and others for recommending those, I get them sugar free and only 70 calories/cup, so I can eat a couple with (almost) no guilt.
Catch y’all tomorrow.