Very cool!
Howdy Y’all! We laid in provisions, binged some Netflix, and made and et sup. Wild ones we are! Lots of email discussion about sanitizin’ the church as well. I think for this week, at least, we’ll go with the Clorox sanitizin’ wipes wipe down betwixt services. However, I do think that in the long run the spray thing will be better even if we need to adjust start times for the second service. I may get tarred and feathered for that suggestion. Or not. That would mean CHANGE and Whiskypalians will almost drop their tea cups over the idea of CHANGE. There might even be audible gasps!
I’d like to get rid of the cushions altogether cause I think they sit weird, but I know I would lose that battle. All the Hymnals and Books of Common Prayer have been taken up and stored. There is no singin’ right now per directive from the Bishop. The only music right now is the organ. We have a wondrous organ and a fantastic organist/music director, so glad for that. As for the Baptismal Font, there is no water in it for the duration, so no dippin’ of fingers and makin’ The Sign of The Cross. BTW we say the water is Blessed rather than Holy, though some folks might refer to it as Holy. It would not be heretical to do so.
We are Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke drinkers. The one that is on sale is what we buy. Currently both are present so a choice is available. I am partial to Diet Pepsi, however.
I have read everything but retention is low right now, so yays, boos, hugs, trouts, chitlin’s, noogies, and how YOU doin’s all around as needed.
Have you ever whispered ‘change’ in the vicinity of the Vatican? Stand back if you do. (This was made in fond jest by a recovering Cat-licker)
Depending upon how far north on the IN / OH line, it might well be up around my dad.
Yanno…thinking about it, maybe Santa Claus, IN? There’s a campground nearby with cabins https://www.lakerudolph.com/ and Holiday World https://www.holidayworld.com/ nearby for entertainment. Convenient for the eastern, southern and midwestern contingents (sorry about you west coast types). I think it would be fun once the plague is gone. 
Me too! Someone remember this. I am not the one for that job.
Looks like good research missred. I tried to research Ohio state park cabins til it made my eyes bleed and my head hurt. Their website and I didn’t get along.
You’ll be shocked to learn that I’ve been to Holiday World several times. 
I’m old enough to remember, but don’t. First I heard of hot Dr Pepper was in '98, when Blast from the Past came out.
We stopped off at a McD’s on I-95 in western CT one day. Three coaches were waiting in the car park, and there were at least a dozen women queued up outside the loo. Thinking “Glad I’m not a woman!” I passed them and went into the men’s room – and the first people I saw in there were a pair of girls (college-aged) giggling and washing their hands. Did a double take, but there was the row of urinals, in use. Went in and used one myself, and by the time I finished at least three other women had come out of stalls…
boo and missred, I was looking at Hueston Woods Sate Park in Ohio. It’s near the Indiana line, about an hour north of Cincinnati.
I looked into it-looks good. I like state parks and that location keeps me a little closer to the baby boy of mine in Ann Arbor. I printed out just enough info that I will be able to remember the place when we get serious about this. Course, whether I can then find said paper month later is a far scarier question.
Boo
Now I am heading off to look up Holiday World. Should I be surprised if there is a roller coaster there?
Family tradition. Ruble took us on a tour of the women’s room at the Carson Street tiki bar back in 2010. 
red, I’m a fan of seltzer with citrus, too.
TAB was vile. A friend REALTY hated the stuff, and worked in a cinema with a hotel over it. Cans of TAB were used for target practice.
From 24 floors up 
wait I thought Georgia outlawed Pepsi…or tried to anyways i remember hearing stories about the Atlanta Olympics where some of the foreign kids were annoyed that they couldn’t find Pepsi when coke sponsored nearly everything…
I mostly don’t drink no stinkin soda since Old Tyme Jamaican Style Ginger Beer became unavailable.
Copperhead, yikes. I had one encounter as a teen and that was enough to make me never swim in a river since.
Gosling’s ginger beer for me! (I think I’ve seen Old Tyme at the commissary.)
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to sort.
hello, friends. I’m sorry to disappear on you. I was in the hospital in the neighborhood of four weeks. Which I guess means I really did need to be here. I’m still having electroconvulsive therapy three times a week for… I’m not sure how long. But it means I get to be under anesthesia three times a week, so fair warning: it makes me super spacey and I will probably do a decent amount of just reading (at least until/unless anyone is interested in an “ask the person getting electroshock therapy” thread).
I’m pretty overwhelmed by everything right now- the news, the new layouts, the housekeeping tasks, and even just adapting back to regular routines. I fell into some of my old old routines at the hospital and… might have quit eating and lost about 20 and that can be kind of hard to say no to. But the problem at the hospital was that legitimately, on like 99% of days, the only meal they had that I could was cheese pizza and more cheese pizza. And half the time, it had bitty little pepperonis. Which, to me, classified it as no longer food. And I know it’s not real healthy, but I do rather miss being in the 80-lb range.
Anyway, though, I am still alive (against my better judgment, but hoping to eventually change my mind on that)
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 93 and maybe rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon. Or not. Looks like tomorrow and Sattidy will be stormy days. We shall see. The Back Forty Crew (we’re official, we even have tshirts!) is supposed to mow over to the church house tomorrow and Sattidy. Again, we shall see. Today’s agenda includes sloth and nappage, followed by slug, AKA, nuttin’ on the agenda. YAY! Well, one thing on the agenda. We shall either N.O.L. or sup at Sonny’s BBQ. The St. Louis style ribs are on special. YUM! MOOOOOOM will be so jealous!
{{{Dots}}} Glad you checked in. That’s a long time in the horsepistol! I hope your readjustment to outside life is movin’ along. Are you back where you were livin’ or do you have different arrangements now? Are the treatments helpin’? Just glad to see you back and there’s a lot of folks in the MMP (meanin’ everyone) who are glad you’re still alive.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Thursday Y’all!
Morning, mumpers! Happy Thorsday to the lot of ya 
Dots Good to see you back here again, and I am glad you made it through the horsepistol stay. Whatever’s going on, I hope you’re getting the help you need and you manage to readjust to being on the outside again. Swampy is right, there are a bunch of us who are happy to see you posting again.
Swampy Can you not just remove all the cushions/kneelers and tell people if they want one, they have to bring something from home and take it away again? That would just leave you the wooden pews to sanitise afterwards and folks can be sure they’re not sitting/kneeling on a virus-ridden bit of cloth.
We finally got thunderstorms last night after a day of temperatures around 90F which I most definitely Do Not Like. Coupled with the humidity, we were all wilting and it’s not a good time to be doing complicated timetabling spreadsheet stuff. Luckily the two academics who have decisions to make haven’t been able to find a mutual meeting time so although I’ve had a go at sorting it out for them,I can hand it all over after tomorrow morning’s meeting and forget about all of it as I’m on leave next week.
For the first time in months, I managed to get a delivery slot from the local supermarket. I’ve not bothered trying to get one and have been happily trotting off to the shops once a week for groceries. However, we are running out of ginger beer and the supermarket I use doesn’t stock it (and hasn’t for several weeks) so I put in an order at a rival (where I used to get my deliveries from) to stock up again. I might be creating a panic-buying situation on fizzy drinks now!
They emailed today to tell me what they couldn’t deliver, and fortunately the bottles of ginger beer are still coming…they are substituting a large tub of ground pepper for a small one, and a litre bottle of spirits for a 70cl one, neither of which are a problem. The only issue is that they have no lactose-free semi-skimmed milk (which I asked them not to substitute for anything else) so I’ll have to pick some up elsewhere on my travels. Shouldn’t be a problem, I have two cartons in the freezer so I can pull one of those out and pick up extra elsewhere.
On the subject of evaluations, I have to write them for all six of my direct reports. They are supposed to do the paperwork themselves and I add to it, but usually they just recycle last year’s stuff and I have to work really hard to make them look exceptional. It’s a thankless job, particularly after I found that only my boss and then her boss look at the actual evals, after that the only document that gets any focus is the assessment of competencies which is their overall grading. Also makes me wonder why I bother.
Ho hum…onwards into the afternoon!
YAWNNNNN
I don’t know what was bothering the toddler last night, but she had several crying jags. Two hit when I was in that just-falling-asleep phase, so I was jolted abruptly, and one was around 2AM when my bladder became insistent - not sure if there was cause-and-effect there. In any event, I’m feeling raggedy. And I’ve got wrangling duty this morning - daughter has to get her pre-school COVID test at 9. Then she’s taking her friends to see her future home around 1.
Daughter’s friend has a service dog - a sweet German shepherd named Nitro. He’s very puppy-like even tho he’s nearing doggy middle age. And Higgs hates him! They pretty much have to leave Nitro in the basement when they come up to eat, and when they take him outside for nature calls, I have to make sure Higgs is inside. Just till Moanday… Who knew Higgs was such a bitch - literally??
Yesterday’s rain never materialized in this part of the state, tho in the Baltimore-DC areas, it was pretty bad. There’s a 90% chance this morning, so I’m not sure what to do about my walk - I may wait till a little later. Maybe I’ll just shop for a treadmill?
Daughter is making her mega-mac-n-cheese for supper. I get to steam the broccoli. And that pretty much sums up the day.
Happy Thursday!!
swampy, if you’re going to be so radical as to suggest CHANGE, you might want to lay in a good supply of clutchin’ pearls and make sure the fainting couches are all sanitized as well.
Irish Dad is back home. Irish Storyteller showed me a picture of his hand–it’s really swollen. The snake only got one fang in him, so it could be worse. Funny story: Irish Dad killed the snake that bit him and brought its body to the hospital with him. “Are you sure it was a copperhead?” “Yep, got it right here!”