(Old) White Out! The Official Start Of Summer MMP

[JaneDoe42]

@Jack_Batty

TL;DR - I’m finally realizing that all the experiences that I’ve had over the years has actually added up to a knowledge base

I can still remember the day that I looked around and realized that I was the only “real” adult in the room. T’was an odd feeling to be sure.

I don’t know how I skipped everyone when I posted last, I do try to reply as I go and then I posted and 16 more posts had sneaked in. Dang.

@Taters

JtC, I’m so glad everything is looking good with the vision.

It’s kinda odd. I knew that I would be happy, everyone told me so and I believed them. I had no idea how much difference it would make.

So, everyone, don’t be me. Don’t miss your regular eye exams. The difference shouldn’t be this dramatic, I just put things off because I’m the Queen of Procrastination.

Hubs is out riding around on his mower which brings all of the grub eating birds. Jolene is having some misplaced aggression and keeps pouncing on GG and biting him. He hasn’t noticed yet, but when he does they will tear the house down!!!

[peedin]

Ariel laid in something stinky in the pasture so she got her first bath of 2025. Now she is clean and doesn’t smell. My birthday is today but I’m celebrating tomorrow.

@misnomer, I watched the second episode of Dept Q. I like the character development, but not the story line of the missing person. I fast forward through those parts.

[AskNott]

We went out to Simonton today, to wander around a big nursery (the garden kind) and have lunch at the Flippin’ Cow. That is, my nephew’s wife and I wandered around, while my wife and my nephew were picking out tiny plants to buy.

In truth, I didn’t feel like going anywhere, but I know it’s good for my physical and mental health to get out and do things among people.

I’ve been checking my email, JanetheCane, but I haven’t gotten a reply from Fred Child yet. Sometimes, I’m careless about deleting email, but if I’m expecting something, I go more slowly.

Good wishes and such to those about to undergo medical stuff and travel stuff.

I had a rather morbid thought yesterday, wondering how many of the cast of “Young Frankenstein” are still alive.

Happy Birthday, peedin!!

[FairyChatMom]

We refilled our pill caddies today and did a count - do we have another month’s worth? I’ll need an extra week of my seizure meds - the pharmacist said to remind her about a week before mine are to be refilled so they can get the insurance right. So that’ll be late this week. FCD needs one of his bumped up, too, especially since we’ll be doing a fair bit of walking. I’ll talk to our doc about that when I see her on Thurs.

I also checked our shot records at CVS and printed them out - just in case. We got our latest COVID boosters in March. I added those pages to my folder. I hope to be prepared for anything.

I even added another item to the pile of stuff on the guest bed. It’s nice that I can start gathering the miscellaneous stuff that I’m apt to forget in a packing rush. I’ve been thinking about how many of each clothing category we should take - that needs to go on a list, since we won’t pack till a day or two before. It’s starting to feel real all of a sudden. And I’m counting on days of leisure and easy bus trips to help FCD not hurt too much.

I’m thinking mowage will occur tomorrow, after I pick up the branches that last night’s storm dropped. For now, tho, max chillage.

[swampbear]

Howdy Y’all! We had quality cee-mint pond time. The water is a tad coolish after all the rain this week, but felt good. It was also not quite as hot and humid as usual. I achieved a little nappage whilst I floated. We had sammiches and beerverages in the gazebo as it was so nice out.

doggio I just may MST3K the whole service now that you have inspired me.

[dogbutler]

I napped, or tried to as Spot repeatedly trampled me for reasons. One of the answeres on this week’s Jeopardy: Masters tournament was “Interobang”. Which should be a cat name, because it sums up owning a cat perfectly: “!?”
But in any case, it’a a Vieux Carré and Asian BBQ stir fry for dinner(with green beans, 'shrooms, peppers, and Mung beans). Watching F1.

@Misnomer

Thanks to doggio, I just finished watching Real Genius for the zillionth time.

I need to watch that and Willow again.

@JaneDoe42

I just like seeing them at the feeder.

I need to buy another feeder, the squirrels wrecked the cheap one(I’m fine with them eating the seed, since spot likes watching ground and air vermin).

@FairyChatMom

And it would only cost just a hair over $2100.

To be fair, shipping 2 50lbs. 25x25x25 boxes to London would cost $2916 if you used Brown(but if you use Home Despot boxes, everyone involved would hate you )

@swampbear

doggio I just may MST3K the whole service now that you have inspired me.

[Johnny_L.A]

I thought we were going to have Nathan’s dogs for dinner, but I’d bought that deli turkey and Mrs. L.A. made a sandwich with a thick slice of a large tomato one of her patients gave her. So I had five Trader Joe’s hot wings and a chicken breast tenderloin with blue cheese dressing. And a negroni, and some wine.

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@Chefguy

Connections was very easy today.

Boo hikes up her pajama bottoms and wanders off to attempt a Connections. It’s been months and her brain may not be up to it<

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@Jack_Batty

I’m finally realizing that all the experiences that I’ve had over the years has actually added up to a knowledge base and I can handle pretty much anything they throw at me and I can lead the young’uns along the way. And I’m having a great time doing it.

Unless they all talk shit about me behind my back - in which case, fuck those little bastards.

I agree with all of this and I’m glad you’re giving yourself credit. I bet behind your back they are glad to have a font of knowledge handy and especially one who doesn’t look down on them and isn’t their parent. They no doubt think you’re pretty fly for an old guy.

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@peedin

My birthday is today but I’m celebrating tomorrow.

Well good then, I’m not late then:

our wet one

[Paintcharge]

My modem just up and died at 10pm. It took longer to get the thing activated than it did to do the 20 mile round trip to wally-world and buy a new one.

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@swampbear

MST3K

Here it is:

Connections
Puzzle #720

The mini crossword however took me 7:19~pathetic.

[purplehorseshoe]

@Chefguy

Well, blow me down! Alleve isn’t a word!

Alieve

alieve - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

[Die_Capacitrix]

@Jack_Batty

I’m finally realizing that all the experiences that I’ve had over the years has actually added up to a knowledge base and I can handle pretty much anything they throw at me and I can lead the young’uns along the way.

Reminds me of the Oscar Wilde quote, "With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” You’ve got wisdom. Your coworkers are lucky to have you. So are we.

@JaneDoe42

What I will say is if you do not have to keep your records do not keep them unless they are of emotional importance.

I am looking at the papers from when we moved to Switzerland. I can’t believe that we did that, even though we’ve been here for more than 2 decades.

Switzerland requires 10 years, so we still have way too much paper. And I’ll probably dispose of ½ - ⅔ of the papers. We are (as far as I know) completely compliant with tax filing (plus FATCA and FBAR), for both countries. Maybe in a few years I’ll be ready to get rid of more of the paper.

@peedin

My birthday is today but I’m celebrating tomorrow.

Happy Birthday!

@Paintcharge

It took longer to get the thing activated than it did to do the 20 mile round trip to wally-world and buy a new one.

Guess that fulfils the definition of reality since you had to go further than 10 miles (user title currently reads, “In 10 miles surrounded by reality”). If our modem died at 10pm on a Saturday, we’d have to wait until Monday to get anything fixed. Glad you didn’t have to wait.

Speaking of getting old, we were both up and out of bed before 7am. Third day in a row, as we slept in a bit on Thursday, which was the first day of a 4 day weekend. Darn sunlight (despite the blackout curtains).

Need to get dressed and then we’re going for a walk. Chicken fajitas for lunch and then paper sorting. Poor shredder’s getting a workout.

[dogbutler]

Up, caffeinated and sheveled. Off today. Morning cleaning, and afternoon sloth. In 10 hours I’ll find out if I get called to jury duty. Maybe I’ll feign madness to get out of it.
[Narrator]He was in fact not feigning.[/Narrator]

[swampbear]

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 62 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 83 and mostly N.O.S. I shall participate in virtual deheathenization today, perhaps even out by the cee-mint pond. I will sorta kinda make up for it M-W cause I’ll be assistin’ with the feedin’ of little house monkeys at VBS. I have a small poke roast in the slow cooker as I post. It will be shredded and turned into crock pot BBQ, which is not real BBQ, but ‘twill be good. That, coleslaw, and chips will be sup. There will be, as is our wont, RDOS inactivities.

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

Happy Sunday Y’all!

[FairyChatMom]

All this talk of paper has gotten me thinking - I’ve gone paperless for just about everything. All my regular bills are paid automatically on line, so I don’t get any of them in the mail. The company that has our annuities had finally given us the paperless option for the quarterly massive mailings of stuff that we never read and couldn’t understand anyway (they always went from mailbox to recycle can.) BC/BS has quit sending us paper. We do get some bills and actually have to mail checks to a few places that haven’t got e-payments set up. I think it’s time to go thru the files and get rid of all the paper I stuck in folder for reasons. The old cable bills from before our provider changed hands again have no value.

So, good morning! We’re promised sun and low 70s. I’m going to ride John Deere around the yard, then prune and feed my azaleas. And I think the planters on the front porch need a drink. They’re under cover, so they didn’t get any of the rain the last few days. I think supper will be pulled poke - there should still be a couple of bags in the freezer.

Not sure if there’s anything else on the agenda, or if there’s even an agenda. Not that it matters.

Happy First of June!!!

[scareyfaerie]

Afternoon, mumpers! It’s currently 17c/62f with a predicted high of 18c/65f, and mostly cloudy. Weather app says “Stratus clouds are definitely the fucking shitbags of the meterology world. Trust me. I fucking know my shit.” Fair enough, it’s definitely cloudy out there today.

Happy birthday, WetOne

@FairyChatMom

Is there any Indian food that’s mega-mild and not really spicy?

Some Indian snack food is very mild (idli, dosa and varda come to mind). For curries, butter chicken and butter paneer have a lot of cream and yoghurt in them, also chicken korma (probably the mildest “proper” curry), tikka and tandoori dishes can be pretty mild too. Aloo gobi and saag paneer are both veggie dishes, you can usually get a side order of raita (yoghurt and cucumber) which also helps reduce the heat. Pakora and samosas can be pretty mild too, depends on the chef!

VanGo great pic!

Pilot I hate to waste food too, which is why I really like buffets. That way, I can try lots of little bits of things and see what I like (or don’t) without wasting much if it turns out something’s not to my taste.

oopsie glad to hear that Bailey is all fluffed up and lovely again, hope she feels better for it too.

@JaneDoe42

I often wonder if they know how lucky they are to have us as slaves.

I know, and she’s not even “our” cat! Yet here we are, planning our Saturday around her because I need to go somewhere specific for her food, and at the same time I’m wondering what else might tempt her…

J-Bats you’ve earned the respect of the young 'uns, nothing beats real life experience. Makes me laugh sometimes at work, I’ve been there longer than at least one of my minions has been alive so there’s pretty much nothing I haven’t seen already.

We had a busy day yesterday as expected, 'im indoors made Chinese chicken curry and egg-fried rice for dinner last night. Then we watched a couple of films and chilled out. No big plans for today, he’s booking train tickets for us to go to Belgium next month, and we’re also working out what we want to do when we go to Germany at the end of July. We are flying in and out of Frankfurt, and think we’ll use the remaining journeys on our interrail pass to spend a few days in Berlin too.

I’m cooking tonight so I’m planning on chicken and chorizo as that will use up some stuff in the fridge, and it’s almost time for lunch so I need to decide what I want to eat. Probably a sandwich and some salad, that will work for me.

[LSLGuy]

Happy birthday as celebrated there wet one!!1!

[LSLGuy]

Hi folks - High light gray clouds make a warm still morning here. Now a bit after 9am. Awoke at 0430 again, but successfully rolled over until the much more reasonable 0630. Been up balconatin’ and caffinatin’ and blatheratin’ ever since. An upside to cloudy days is I don’t get chased indoors promptly after sunrise.

Had a pleasant solo HH and live music adventure last night, then home and bed. Meeting GF for dinner & overnight tonight. Yaay!

Today’s plans are breakfast and RDOS.