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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Today is a Blessed Day Off and I am determined to be productive for a change. Have a short, manageable To-Do List (as opposed to an overwhelming one) and some semblance of wherewithal.

We’ll see how I do … right after I play a few rounds of my Plants vs Zombies game LOL!

That’s fantastic!

That’s some micro-managing B.S. right there. Someone is bored & needs to justify their job. (Not you.)

I’d be tempted to ask to talk through how to put on socks & tie your shoes. Well, no, I wouldn’t - but I’d think it loudly.

What kind of monster came up with that horrific nonsense?!? :dotted_line_face:

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@doggio :notes::musical_note:Happy birthday to you, :tada::confetti_ball::partying_face:happy birthday to you, :birthday:happy birthday dear doggio, :birthday:happy birthday to you :partying_face::confetti_ball::tada::notes::musical_note:

And happy cake day to @overlyverbose too, we’re all tickled that you’re here in Mumperville!

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Lotta Mumper celebrations today!

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Morning all. Happy birthday doggio!!

Somewhat lazy start to this morning, I do need to shop and visit the Verizon store and since I’m trying to make going to the gym a regular habit, need to get over there for a bit. It’s already 55F outside, so a very comfortable February day.

talkie, glad your Mom was able to get her chemo, but sounds like a bit of a mess; hope the next time won’t be as bad.

taters, glad the employee is OK, having driven a government car for several years, I was always concerned about not damaging it–not that I was worried about the car per se, but the paperwork…

shady, that doc was lucky you didn’t punch him; I would have been sorely tempted…

nellie, see, perserverance pays off. Hope the medicine and the instructions help. Take it easy.

doggio, I am becoming somewhat fond of that new term “yeet”. Haven’t found an appropriate moment to use it, but I still like it.

OK, I really do need to get a move on. All y’all take care.

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Meant to tell you, this exchange gave me the giggles. Like MetalMouse I think “yeet” is an excellent term. Sometimes languages benefit from new words. { glares at the French }

So far, I’ve gotten dressed (hey, baby steps) and brought up the laundry, then *I put ALL the (newest) laundry away. Achieved 100% success rate on pairing socks, too.
Plus the litter box is scooped, that & a couple of other trash bags have gone out, and I’ve consolidated/put away some clutter. Oh, and brushed my hair.

Time to figure out some sort of breakfast, methinks.

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Happy Doggio Day!

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Heaved and did some clerking today(Penguin books didn’t transmit their shipping data. Plus [rant]FOR GOD’S SAKE, PUT A WORKING INK CARTRIDGE IN YOUR LABEL PRINTER[/rant] < ahem >

Yay for cake day!

It’s up there with “festoon” and “debacle” as some of my favorite words.

And thanks for the birthday wishes. it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Or is that just Alex Catt on my lap? :wink:

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Happy Thorsday!

Happy Birthday Doggio!

It was a nice 40 degrees at the park this morning. It’s supposed to be in the 50s today, and snow on Saturday.
I thought more people would show up at the park this morning, but only four people and eight dogs, but not all at the same time. Barky came late. If she had gotten there before the three-pack left, she might have burned up some energy with them and not barked as much. I stuck around and by the time we left I was ready to scream. I’m really surprised none of the people who live next to the park have called the police or the park people to complain. There is a sign as you enter the park that you cannot let your dog bark continuously.
I think I have finally got the three-pack matched with their names. They are like a mini tornado when they come in the park. I hope they get to a point where they start splitting up a little. When all three of them try to play with another dog they are a bit intimidating. If they split up, they could get a lot of one-on-one play with the other dogs. Most of the other dogs that come in pairs split up and go their separate ways. They can play with each other at home, why would they want to play together at the park?

I think somebody took in the white-tailed cat we were feeding. I’ve seen a cat that looks just like her, only the white part of the tail is missing (I’m sure it needed to be amputated) and she is wearing a collar. I hope somebody did. All the years we were feeding her and she still ran when she saw us. She even hissed at us a few times when we took food out to her. One time when she hissed at me, I said, you know, we don’t have to feed you. My neighbor is really good with stray cats and she couldn’t get near her either.

I’m afraid to get a doggie-door. Who knows what might come in? Adam is always bringing friends home, and there are a bunch of possums that hang out at my house.

Flyboy, re your wife’s car. WTH is wrong with people?

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Evening all. Happy Birthday Doggio!
Still going in the decluttering department i’m currently up to fifteen boxes of books that need a new home. Luckily the thrift store accepts them, so they’ll be going there tomorrow. Already delivered an entire trunk of junk this afternoon. It’s always fascinating how much junk you tend to collect over the years, especially when you don’t move house for a while. I’m looking forward to actually having room to store stuff I actually like, instead of piling up clutter. Oh well, one step at the time .
Went to the vet yesterday and one of our two lovely feline sisters is developing a weight problem, so we’ll need to measure food. Turns out we’ve overfed them both quite a bit :grimacing:, however the other cat has actually lost some weight in the past year while already being skinny. I wonder how this will turn out.
Flyboy some people are just evil.
Shady yeah surgeons have a large percentage of assholes. They’re not known for their subtlety unfortunately .
Wordy hopefully things will be better next time.
Nellie glad you were finally able to get some useful advice.
Everyone else: Happy Thorsday!

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Can I ask my fellow Mumpers if there is a safe way to stop certain messages from coming into my junk mail file? I’m not tech savvy and don’t want to even click on these things, certainly not open any links.

They all purport to be from organizations supporting a certain orange colored former POTUS. What I can tell from the titles, before I delete them, is that they want me to sign up for different groups, to donate money, and so on. One was supposed to be from the Orange One Himself, inviting me to lunch in Florida.

I’m getting tired of deleting all these messages, sometimes five or six a day. Is there anything I can do to stop them coming, without any consequences?

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A rumpled good morning. The painters couldn’t finish the bedroom yesterday, so I spent the night in the RV and the Ms took the couch. I had three blankets on me and a heater running and it was still pretty chilly out there. In the middle of the night I discovered that some idiot (me) had left the roof vent open to dissipate moisture. The should wrap things up today, hopefully.

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Noisy around here today.
The house across the street is getting a new roof.
The house next door is being cleared out.

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Happy Birthday, Doggio! &skritches&

My cardiologist wants me to have a stress test. "So, “Fine” I let them schedule me for next Thorsday. Only I have to have a covid test before. And you (I) have to make an appointment for the test. And they only do them on Monday and Friday. So cardiologist’s nurse said she’d have them call me. Well, they never called, and I don’t have their number. So now I have to call the hospital and go through telephone Hell to try to get to someone who can give me the number. I didn’t want to do a stress test anyway.

Hoppy Thorsday everybody!

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My wife did one of those a couple of months ago. She said it wasn’t a big deal, and she’s far from fit.

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For most email providers, the low-tech way is to send ALL of those to your Spam/Junk folder. (You can do this as a big batch, instead of one-at-a-time’ing it.) This “trains” your email program that you Do Not Want This Crap and it should start filtering accordingly.

(“Should” is a powerful word. Furthermore, I am not your I.T. provider; you are not my client. All offers subject to terms & conditions. This advice is worth exactly what you paid for it; it’s also part of this complete balanced breakfast.)

ETA: nv/m just saw that I missed where you said these were already going to your Junk folder. In which case { shrug } who cares?
That’s what a Junk folder is for.

You can’t stop them from being sent in the first place. (Sorry! Spammers gonna spam.) Just quit poking around in there. It’s like swimming in a cesspool and then complaining about the stink.

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Happy Birthday Doggio!! How does it feel to finally be 30? :wink:

:partying_face: :piñata: :tada: :confetti_ball: :birthday: :lollipop: :gift:

shady I’m sorry that happened. He sounds like an a real jerk. Hopefully he was a good surgeon.

Moomm It always seemed to me that sexual harassment training was just ticking a box for the company. The people who needed it weren’t going to be affected by it, and the rest of us got stuck with it.

BooFae sounds like there are too many fingers in that pie. CC everyone! Let the chips fall where they may. Says I with absolutely no knowledge of the situation and the safety of an ocean and a continent between us. :stuck_out_tongue:

Taters I’m glad your employee is ok. What with all the weather up there, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.

Talky How is your mom doing today? I’ve heard the day after can be hard. Would you or your mom like some cookies? My daughter is in a baking phase and we’d love to send you some. I’m baking bread, if that would suit you better. Hugs to you both.

shoe Days Off do not have to be full to the brim with activities you know. Resting and relaxing is important too. So there. I applaud your breakfast achievement though. Food is good. Hmmm. If I lived near a restaurant, they could just bring me my meals… :thinking:

What is your email provider? There is usually a way to do this without opening them. If you don’t want to bother deleting them, usually there’s a way to set your junk folder to automagically delete junk email after a certain time has elapsed.

Metal Mouse you have been an inspiration with the gym visits. I hope the Verizon store can help you out. If they’re unable, you might try YouTube videos. Sometimes they’re surprisingly helpful for things like this.

I think we’re done with winter here, which means we’re entering Fire & Ash season. Definitely my least favorite.

I’ve got a tri-tip to cook tonight, so that’s the plan. I might actually go for a walk and I think I’ll get a Crumbl cookie because they are yummy and I’ve been very good.

Take care and Happy Thursday!

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Well… that does sound like a stress, though I’m not sure where the testing bit comes in.

Happy Doggio day!

I made today’s deadline with a few hours to spare- practically last second by my standards. I’m normally aiming for the day before. Oh well, 'tis done… and now I get to start on the presentation due Moanday :unamused:

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Only thing I could suggest (if they are coming from the same address), is to open one and see if at the bottom (usually in very small type) there is a place you can go to unsubscribe and I’ve found those work just fine. Being the type of messages they are, it may not have an unsubscribe option, but it’s the only thing I can think of. Otherwise just clena out your spam file on a regular basis.

Plant doc, If I had any space I’d take those 15 boxes of books, but my shelves are already too full.

When I worked in the UAE the guy on the UAE side of the building was an Egyptian ex-Brigadier General (he was a Major in the UAE forces). Whenever he got a letter from the US Army that he disagreed with, he’d call me in and give it back to me and say “Rubbish”. I still use that term today for more than a little of my mail…rubbish.

Have exercised (got the bike up to 6 miles over 30 minutes) and done some shopping, so takng a break; may hold off on Verison trip until tomorrow, that’s my designated day off from the gym.

shoe, remember that the French did give us terms like “Petit Filet Mingon” so restaurants could sound snooty. If you mean the French resistance to adding to their language, well, I agree…but they’re French, after all… :wink: :smile:

Oh, and I have a T-shirt with this famous quote on it: “We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

OK, onward into the afternoon.

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Sheets are in the wash, which means I have to make the bed up with fresh sheets.

Or sleep rolled up in a blanket, but hopefully I won’t be that lazy.

Knock it off, bad influence! That ^^ is my usual M.O. which is why I’m so terribly behind on basic “life” stuff.

But I did, in your honor, chill with the cats outside for a bit, until we all decided simultaneously that it was too cold.

Then Monkey threw a drama-llama tantrum because I was { gasp } in the kitchen but NOT preparing gooshy food. The nerve of me!
So I compromised, and they split a tube of Squeezy Crack as a treat.

Now Nikki is back in her spot in front of the heating vent (she’s staring at it, waiting for it to click back on) and Monks has the zoomies & is running around like the dumbass teenage boy he is.

Yep, this. I was poking fun at the fact that we borrow/steal shamelessly from the French, but noooooo, they’re too goooooood for our words.

I’ve always laughed at that one.

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Huh. I woke up in more pain this morning than I was in last night. I must have slept not-so-funny. I caved and took a pain pill, and now I’m seasick…and the pain level is only marginally better. I doubt I’d get addicted to something I take so seldom because it makes me sick and doesn’t help, so there’s that.

Today’s plans, in addition to lying around and thus turning into a walrus include laundry (almost out of clean undies) and taking out the trash. The compactor is well over 50 feet away, but unless the surgeon wants to come over and do it for me, I’ve gotta go,

Speaking of surgeons, I’ve had some incredibly kind surgeons and some who don’t play well with others. The one common quality is supreme self-confidence, which I guess is a good thing. You don’t want a surgeon who has to give himself a pep talk before taking out your tonsils. I still think the real issue is corporate medicine, which holds that efficiency means cutters cut and that’s all. But shady, what you experienced was plain cruelty. I have a feeling that guy’s been sued a few times since then. (And a nurse should never blow off that kind of treatment the way that one did.)

Happy Birthday, dear doggio! :crown::birthday::champagne::gift: I hope Gordie and Alex baked you a cake. Gordie said he’d give you a one-legged salute, but I told him to aim for a fire hydrant instead.

wordy, that doesn’t sound like a very pleasant chemo session. Did your mom hold up OK? And Happy Cake Day!

I bet she even said this with a straight face.

What a shockeroo. I think I’ve had a call back maybe 10% of the time, and then it’s been weeks later. (Once it was 3 months.)

Take a map and leave a trail of breadcrumbs. Seriously, I hope this doesn’t prove too frustrating or time-consuming.