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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Cracked open a can of soup to accompany dinner, so of course then I HAD to crack open a can of gooshy food for the cats - otherwise I’d never hear the damn end of it.

Dumped some clean litter over their box - I’m off irk tomorrow, I’ll scoop the damn thing out then. We’ll make that Tomorrow Shoe’s problem.

Just started some laundry, motivated primarily by a growing shortage of clean socks. Being on my feet all day, socks are important!
Having had a rather big dinner (ribs, a leftover croissant, instant mashed potatoes - don’t judge! - plus the corn/poblano soup) the challenge now is to stay awake long enough to move the wet laundry into the dryer.

Even remembered my multivitamin & a few other supplements, since I have a nice, full tummy, so I am being all healthy and shit. :laughing:

Hope everyone has a good evening!

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Evening all. Swimmin’ (400 yards) has been completed, and just in time, they are closing the pool from 10-12 February to resurface the area around it, which really does need it (as in pieces of concrete are chipped away). Also sauna’ed for 15-16 minutes, can’t understand how some people sit there for a hour or so. Anyway, came home and watched soccer and solved puzzles and had my BLT’s for dinner, so in a bit I’ll try calling brother on the new phone.

And speaking of which, my thanks to all who suggested stopping by the store again regarding my phone; I didn’t want to be a pest, but apparently other’s have done so. And BBBoo, that’s a good idea, but I only see the kids on Saturday and they range in age from 6 to 11, so while they are all probably much smarter than me phone-wise, getting them to explain things might be a bit tough…so over to Verizon tomorrow.

Flyboy, take care of yourself–falling at any age isn’t fun and me nearing 70 it’s even more problematic. Hope both your problem and Wife’s are easily solved. And ain’t it grand to be able to tell a rude customer to ‘go fly a kite’ (or words to that effect)? Good on your wife.

Sari, glad nothing much was taken, I’ve managed to escape that thievery when I had to park outside my apartment(s), best thing about my house now is the 2-car garage so I’m always parked inside.

nellie, flyboy, FCM, used to get annual POSH (Prevention Of Sexual Harrassment) at work, it wasn’t all that bad, they did change things up from year to year so it wasn’t the same thing over and over. The really boring training for me was regarding security and not letting the Dirty Commies/Chinese/Russians/Terrorists steal our most precious secrets. Same thing every year, could almost have taught the class myself after the first 8-10 repetitions (for the record, I worked–civilian–for the DoD). And outside of my last branch chief taking us out for breakfast once a quarter (he wasn’t all that great a boss, but breakfast covers a multitude of sins…), we were rather low on ‘team-building’ stuff.

OK, time to try phoning again…on the phone. Then exploring the other wonders it contains.
All y’all take care.

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Howdy Y’all! Provisions were procured and I made ham 'n N.O.T. soup and cornbread. Thus was today’s productivity. How do I keep up the pace! MOOOOOOM the soup, like all truly good soups, has no real recipe. Ham, N.O.T., half 'n half, salt, pepper, maybe some celery or onion (or not), maybe some powdered or fresh garlic (or not), and whatever other whimsy that comes to mind. Oh, sometimes I throw in some whole kernel corn just for fun. Possibly a little corn starch to thicken if’n I think it’s needed. It always turns out goooood!

Sari sucks about the break in. Glad nuttin’ valuable was taken.

Flyboy glad you are not all broken from the slip. Hope wife’s car woes are not too bad to get fixed. Felgercarb is a new word for me. I must needs use it soon and forthwith.

shoe yay on scorin’ ribs. Ribs are always a good thing.

MetalMouse you’ll get the hang of the phone. Good suggestion to go to the phone sto’ for some learnin’. Also, if one attempt phonin’, it is best done on a phone.

Wordy hope things went will with the mom unit today.

Nellie hope you get answers from the doc soonest.

We have not had a good poop discussion in a while, so I guess we were due for one.

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Up from naptime.
Gordie: " I WANT TO GO OUT."
Me: < opens front door >
Gordie: “I do not wish to go out.”
Me: < closes door >
Gordie: “Why did you close door, I want to go out.”
Me: < reopens door >
Gordie: “I do not wish to go out.”
Me: < yeets dog into darkness >

  • lobotomy
  • Crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of their women
  • a whisky cooler next to the water cooler

I’ve had it happen twice.
once, it was my Jimi Hendricks CD(props for having good taste, dude)
Once it was an old pair of prescription sunglasses.(I have different prescriptions for each eye, so LOL at the thief wearing it.)

Sunny, sorry about the long COVID. :frowning:

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Be prepared to have the theme song stuck in your head.

ETA: Speaking of songs getting stuck in heads… I refuelled yesterday morning and there was a new commercial on the pump. ♫ Chicken wings! Chicken wings! Tacos and bologna! ♫ And it’s going to further cement itself in the morning.

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7 or 8 years ago when I inherited a used iPhone from son #2 I found Verizon near me had 2 or 3 little ‘classes’ they held in a corner of their store several times a week on iPhone basics, iPhone set-up. Limited to about 10 people taught by a customer service rep. Lasted 30-45 minutes. I signed up on line for them which is funny in retrospect since a person would have to have a certain level of skills to navigate the process to register on line for classes to learn how to use the phone that you had just used to register……for classes on how to use your phone. I remember how thrilled I was when I sent my first text and set up my contacts.

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doggio That’s why I have always liked the doggie door. Go out in the snow if’n you want to, but I’m not holding the door for you. But, on the downside, Cin would go out in the rain just to be able to get all soggy and need to get toweled. Getting toweled off was one of his favorite things. I’ll take the tradeoff.

I had the same thing with prescription sunglasses. Someone stole mine. Good luck, dude. I’ve got one eye that’s “ok-ish”, and one that runs to legally blind. I, for vanity reasons, being the new kid in class, teasing, etc, went without glasses for all of high school. My better eye got me through. Then, in college I finally got glasses…I felt like I was drunk for about 2 days.

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I apologize for getting cranky about the sexual harassment training.

I heard back from a PA on the surgical team! She said the doc definitely does not want me walking more than 50 feet once per hour. She also said it sounds like I’m having an issue with inflammation. D’oh! Why did this not occur to me? I usually have a problem with inflammation post-op (also pre-op and no-op) thanks to the auto-immune crud. So I’m now on NSAIDs, too. I’m just going to have to suck up this slug-a-bed stuff for quite awhile.

I still have some but-but-but’s, but I’m stifling them for the sake of world peace. Also maybe I don’t always know what’s best for me. :thinking:

flyboy, sounds like Mrs. LA has been having a rough week. You, too! I hope you don’t feel post-fall soreness tomorrow. I hope the rest of the week is nothing but net. And kudos to Mrs. LA for walking out on the pissy patient.

doggio, gordie is a hoot. If he had to be stuffed into a snowsuit, I’d say you were describing my kids as toddlers.

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well huzzas and congrats on most of yalls health and job woes getting figured out

make sure you play with something he can “catch” because some cats get upset/anxious mentally because they never “catch” the dot … toss a toy mouse and shine the dot on it …

years ago our adopted almost not a kitten midnight learned that when she got wet food decided 10 pm wasn’t to her liking So shed start showing anywhere between 8 and when I set the bowl down for her

Well when she ran outside late one night unnoticed and well curiosity did kill the poor kitty her slightly older sister “blacky” decided to take up the mantle of meowing for dinner and kept it up almost everyday (although there were stretches as she got older she forgot to ) for 18 years and it drove me and everyone else up the walls through the roof and down the other side of the house …

shes been gone for almost 4 years and believe me I wouldn’t mind the meowing today

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Well, I have an apartment, so that is a no go.

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I fear I once again have skunks in my crawlspace. I’m hoping for someone less obnoxious. I’m hearing rattling around the heating ducts, so I’m pretty sure there’s someone down there. It’s just a stacked stone crawlspace, so sealing the whole thing off is somewhat…difficult. My house smells to me kinda like coffee. I’ve had skunks before, and that smelled worse than this. Huzzah!

nightshadea I miss your cat along with you.

nellie Walk safely, but not too much.

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Nellie there’s the reason people become surgeons instead of clinic/family doctors is they don’t have social/people skills. and ERs have learned to put layers between them and the public …

LIke after the life-saving gallbladder operation that I’ve discussed here and elsewhere on the board the operation happened at like 2 am Well I’ve been on morphine since about 8:30 am so I was pretty out of it … but around 4:am someone lifted my shirt up and began poking around the operation spot which still hurt like hell and woke me up. he says oh its looking good .but he like a better look

So without any type of warning he rips off the surgical tape and it hurt t… and then continues poking and prodding and then asks what I do and I explain I’m disabled he starts an argument about I’m working the system and such finally I pass back out and when I woke up later I told the nurse what happened and he was an asshole she said " yeah that’s why a lot of people are surgeons " and let someone know since I have never seen him again and my actual doctor (who was highly ranked there )came by every day after that

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

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Up for my middle-of-the-night bio break. Managed to barely stay awake long enough to move the laundry (gotta remember to retrieve it in the morning!) but was dead asleep before 9 p.m. so who knows what’s gonna happen to my sleep cycle.

Oh, rant away. You must be bored, anyway.

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There are times I wish we had one, but Taz is big enough and smart enough to use one, and he’s not allowed out. On the other hand, Higgs doesn’t go out all that much, especially if it’s cold or rainy, and letting her out forces me out of my recliner periodically, so I guess that’s good.

Cranky? I would get downright bitchy every.single.time! Like MetalMouse, I was a slave of DOD for many years. At least in the last few years, that and other mandatory training was pretty much all online, so I could run it in the background at my desk while getting actual work done. :smiley:

Just now remembered, they started the classes in the early 80s, when I was a brand new baby ensign in the Pentagon. The rest of the officers were way senior, so I was sent to the class alone. Back at the office, I heard various versions of “Sexual harassment training? OK, harass me!!!” Yeah, haha. But it was still a new thing back then.

Another wakey-sleepy night, so not very rested. On the plus side, it’s my last Toby day this week. And I get to do laundry! WOO and HOO!!! My attempts at eating better are slowly becoming habit - last night when I had a snacky hankerin’, I had a handful of grapes, and they were quite good. I still would kill for a gooey slab of chocolate cake, but it would be a gentle killing rather than a savage attack. :scream:

:rofl:

Just waiting for my daughter to summon me. Breakfast has been ingested and I’m working on caffeination. Yep, it’s another day in paradise. Happy Thursday!

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Afternoon, mumpers…it’s just slipped past midday here, there are some grounds maintenance guys across the street cutting down bits of a tree - they work for a housing association that owns the house (divided into two flats) so it’s up to them to look after the trees and the grass. Noisy and annoying, but they’ll be done soon.

Busy irk morning for me although I’m pleased that it’s a day without any meetings for a change, means I might actually get something done. We have impending industrial action next week which means we have to email large numbers of students about stuff. I have the text of an email from our Head of School, I have a list of all students who need to be contacted. I have asked a question about who it needs to be cc’d to and am waiting for an answer. In the meantime, my stand-in boss (actual boss has been off sick for a while and is on a phased return) has been in touch to ask if I need to talk through sending said email with her. WTF?

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 33 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 73 and N.O.S. for the day. We are movin’ into false/pre-Spring weatherwise. No biggie plans for the day. Roto Rooter is comin’ at some point this mornin’ (allegedly we will get a call when they are on the way) to clean out the septic tank. That’s the big excitatement of the day. Sup shall be soup and cornbread leftover from yestiddy.

And now, this…

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

Happy Thursday Y’all!

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Happy Doggio Day!!!

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Guten Morgen!

Happy Birthday, Doggio!

I couldn’t check in yesterday because I had to drive to Olympia and work in the office. I hit the ground running and didn’t stop until quit o’clock. I came home pretty tired having only gotten two hours of sleep during the night and passed out on the couch at 7:00 pm. Woke up when I received a text from one of the management team. It seems one of our employees was in an accident with a GOV (government vehicle). Thankfully, he is fine. However’s freaked out, and terrified. The employee’s supervisor is heading up north today to assess the damage and calm down the employee. It’s a hunk of metal and plastic; what’s important is the safety of the employee. It’ll be a pain dealing with reporting the accident to GSA and our national fleet, as well as getting it repaired (assuming it’s repairable), but the MPA will be able to handle it.

My first meeting starts at 6:00 am and it’ll be another day with way too much to do, and not enough time. BUT, it’s my Friday. I’ll do laundry and whatnot tomorrow since I leave on Sunday for Yakima.

I was also going to suggest you go back the Verizon store, Metal Mouse but everyone beat me to it.

Ugh POSH training; endless videos showing bad characters both male and female. Hated them and sat through that and INFOSEC training every single year while at DOD (over 36 years). We have a much more simplified type of POSH for RD and I test out on the yearly INFOSEC training every year.

Nellie, I hope today is a much better day and that your pain decreases!

Sending hugs, yays and boos as appropriate. I hope you all have a good day!

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This was almost word for word my boss’s reaction when he had to take sensitivity training at my previous company. Of course, he was the only one who needed “training.” When I was pregnant with my daughter, he kept offering to help me give birth and asked if I was going to nurse. Then he wouldn’t stop rubbing my shoulders and jokingly proposed to me to “make sure I’d come back to the office.” Yuck. If he was doing that to the resident pregnant lady I can’t imagine what he was saying to younger, hotter girls who weren’t pregnant (unless, of course, he had a pregnant fetish, which I don’t want to think about).

The most ridiculous meeting I had was where we had to make gowns out of trash bags and pretend to walk down a catwalk while wearing them. 'Twas awful.

Chemo went well yesterday, though I’m really glad I was able to take a “surprise” full day off. It was insanely inefficient. We got there at 9 for the blood draw. The doctor was called away and they couldn’t figure out who would see his patients until about 12. Then it was time for chemo and we didn’t finish that until 2. Given that we had about a half hour commute time both ways and I wanted to make sure mom ate before I left, we wound up eating lunch at 3 and I finally took off about 4:30. Oh, well - next time we’ll go to the doc downtown and hit up the satellite office for the actual chemo administration. They’re way more efficient and far less busy. Yesterday was weird, like being at a restaurant. It was so packed they handed us a buzzer while we waited for our turn at infusion. I felt bad for the people who were taking more intense doses. It was hard enough for us to sit for hours on end waiting. But I guess you do what you have to, and the nurses were doing their best.