Another day, more meetings.
The tooth is still hurting; they say I need a root canal. My cold sensitivity before the crown was a sign that the root was dying; the crown prep just sped the process along. They’re saying I would have needed a root canal all along. But no one at my dentist’s office does root canals, so I have to get a referral to an endodontist at a different location. I’m trying to find one that my insurance will take that’s not a 2 hour drive away.
Juliet, good luck on finding a nearby dentist (and one that will treat you better than the current crowd).
Sari, hit spidey with one of these and he’ll know he was hit…https://www.pinterest.com/wsimsiii/rotary-phones/?lp=true
Nava my dear, a Data Team organizes data not to be useful but to be organized (and they should all be beaten with telephones (see above).
Batboy, doesn’t sound good; anything you can take to calm things down?
Baker, I hope the paycheck will look nice enough to make up for the horrid work level. Hopefully vacation time is piling up.
Scribe, Tuesdays are my normal Mac-n-Cheese days. Just like Moandays are JJ’s #7 sandwich and Fridays are BLT’s. I am a creature of habit.
Up early to do my internettin’ this morning, going to get near 80F again today, so mowage of the yard is on the ‘do’ list. Might even see the soccer fields today. Doctor lab results came in, all normal except for slightly high alkaline phosphatase and triglycerides levels, which means that I’m fat and don’t exercise enough (tell me something I don’t know). Somewhat surprisingly, my cholesterol level is within norms. So we’ll see if the doc precribes anything.
All y’all take care now.
I found another camera: a Zenit 122s ‘Fotosnaiper’.
I’ve had it for close to 15 years, and I’ve never used it. Last night I remembered I had it, and decided to check it out. It’s a manual camera, and only needs batteries to work the light meter. The light meter has two red LEDs and a green one. The bottom red LED indicates underexposure, the top red LED indicates overexposure, and the middle green LED indicates correct exposure. I only got the bottom red LED, even when pointing the camera directly at a light or going outside and pointing it at a fairly bright sky and clouds. Well, most of the time. There were a couple of times inside the house where I was able to get the top red LED, and then the green one. But it’s not really working. I posted elsewhere and received this reply:
Um, yeah… I don’t trust myself to taking apart a camera (and then putting it back together). I have a dim recollection of not using the camera when I got it because I was not getting a good meter reading. It’s a shame. While the camera back is cheap plastic, the rest of the camera isn’t bad. The lens is very nice. I’ve shot with a Russian lens on a Krasnogorsk 3 movie camera, and they’re good lenses.
I also looked at my Sekonic L-398 light meter. Somehow, the screws holding on the front plate (that holds the lumisphere) went missing. Amasingly, one screw was stuck in the back, where the slide-in filter lives, by its head. :eek: I tried to screw it in to hold the face plate on. I overtightened and broke off the threaded brass receptacle inside. :smack: It appears the brass screw receptacle posts are superglued on. I’ll try to fix it. I’ll ask the camera guy if he has another screw, when I go to pick up my Olympuses.
Forgot to remove the blow and dead hookers again??? Dude, you should have learned by now!
a) So what you are saying is your mystery is a mystery?
b) I have my first two totally planned; it’s the 147 after that that I can’t quite decide on. Oh ------- we’re talking “theoretical” or “literature” and not “spree” ------- never mind. 
Irk was irking; the boss-o-day reassigned three people from critical roles and forgot to make replacements. Thus several critical things were totally undone until yours truly noticed and had the poor judgement to ask. I ended up covering two of the three alone when critical had moved into total panic. I will NOT make that mistake again.
BLURFAGE Busy being responsible and all adult. Blurf
Today is my official leave the house day. We always drive an hour into town on Wednesdays to go food shopping. We’re gone for hours and I hate it, but it’s usually the one day a week I leave my house and if I quit doing that I could easily end up agoraphobic. So must force myself to make the trip.
Walking across the parking lot twice a week prolly doesn’t count. The quick trip down the road to our local village was a surprise bonus and we’ll prolly go again tomorrow. My, my, so much room-leaving this week. You’d think I was a world traveler!
Oh and Hugs Buttercup Smith Adulting is a terrible life choice which we must all fight against most vehmently!
The black rotary bakelite ones, yes? after looking at the pics Yep, I’m sure those would be satisfying.
This project also uses a Documentation Management system which was clearly designed to be a CYA. Oh, you can put documents there all right. Good luck finding anything later, though, other than going line. By. Line. On the gigantic organizational tree. If you know The Big Blue Database you know which one I mean. If you don’t, consider yourself lucky.
Scribe, I agree that leaving the house is a Good Thing.
Leaving the house is horrid. 
Too much sun.
Today has been one of those days when one just wants a do-over.
My mom went to the hospital at 6 am with heart problems (which she had been silently enduring for several hours because she didn’t want to bother anyone). They’ve sent her home now, with instructions to discuss things with her cardiologist immediately. Not a heart attack, but she needs further treatment. Possibly a pacemaker?
I threw out my back. It feels like the time I ruptured a disk several years ago. I need to get it looked at, but I don’t think it’s happening today.
Dinner should be roast chicken, but we may opt for left-overs.
Phew. New (for a given value of new) car present, correct, legally owned by me and driven home. Hopefully that’s the last time doing that for a good few years. I don’t understand the people who want a new car every year…
I feel a lot happier about the driving I’ll be doing in the next week or so now. I’m going up to my old stomping grounds this weekend- not the best laid plan- I was intending to go to a flower show with my former housemate and her boyfriend on the Sunday, then it’s another friend’s birthday and we’re meeting up on the Thursday. The original plan for the intervening days was, uhh… shopping for a new car…
And Sari, $350? Blimey. I got the feeble sum of £50 for mine. Mind you, it probably barely counted as a car by US standards- you could probably fit it in the trunk of one of your cars like a life[del]boat[/del]car. It was a little car even in the UK. And dented, grubby, and starting to make worrying noises.
MetalMouse I think any of those phones would make a very satisfying thunk, and not just on Spidey.
Taxes are done, well not really done until I go over them a dozen more times. It only took about 2 hours of cussing to get them done. I owe a lot, and I’m sure there must be a mistake somewhere. I don’t make enough to owe what I owe, IMHO.
Glad it’s over though, except for the paying part.
Now I’m ready to go to the park, only there’s no dog here to take 
Nuts, the salvage yards will pay that, if you can get it there yourself you can get $400.
The official start of spring is here, as I have mowed the yard for the first time this calendar year. Mostly dead grass and stuff, it takes a couple of mows before the lawn starts looking like a lawn again, but at least it’s done. Bath followed immediately afterword, so all is right with the world in Casa rat.
Now for newspaper-reading, sudoku solving, and Champions League soccer-watching before going to coach the 6 year olds.
Sunny, hope mom-unit gets the medical help she needs; old people (I is one) sometimes will put it off, so keep on her about it.
Scribe, I don’t leave the house much either, but when I go I go far (6 continents so far, and this year will be 3 weeks exploring New England and Colorado/S. Dakota). Quite a planet we’ve got here, you should look around while you have the chance. (IMHO. YMMV).
ruble, just hope boss-unit doesn’t remember that you solved the FUBAR, or he (she) will keep coming back to you to solve further FUBARS.
Home - YAY! 
Supper tonight will be clean leftovers out of the fridge. I’ll cook up some fresh veggies, but the rest will be whatever.
You can make leftover parfait.
In an episode of Malcolm In The Middle, Malcolm mentions ‘leftover parfait’. The idea is that leftovers are saved and at the end of the week they are arranged in layers and heated up.
Um, yeah, leftover parfait… :eek:
Metal Mouse I’m thinking about taking a cruise that starts on one side of South America, runs out to Antartica, and then back up the other side of South America. It’s 3 weeks long and I would really love to go. Have you done that trip (or another variety of visiting Antartica?
What’d I do? 
I was just reporting on what that dastardly villain flytrap said.
Home, 13 hrs after I left this moaning (!), got Ring of Fire pix but kinda too fried to look at them for the best one right now.
We’ve looked into a cruise like that - **FCD **really wants to see Antarctica. I’d love to do the cruise, but I hate the thought of flying. Hard to saw whether we’ll eventually be able to do it or not.
Don’t let flying stop you! I am terrified of it myself, but a little Xanax makes it possible for me.
Howdy Y’all! Home from Lenten program and soup 'n sammich. 'Twas good. Also hauled two biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig trash cans all the way down to where they go for pick up tomorrow. Also, provisions were laid in for the week.
Thanks for the thought but I get one paid week a year. No sick time, no insurance. If I work the whole calendar year the boss puts some extra in our IRA.
So far, in the last three days I have worked 33.25 hours. By Friday I expect that to go to the mid fifties at least. I do however get overtime after forty hours.
Sorry for my blurffy attitude. I am so looking forward to the first full weekend in May, and the Godzilla and Friends film festival. Two days of sitting in the dark watching classic kaiju films.