Watched about an hour of Tim Conway and Harvey Korman bits from the Carol Burnett Show. It ended with the notorious “Siamese Elephant” sketch and the entire cast literally rolling on the floor. I confess I did much more than smile!
Milestone in this project. I had a big grin plastered on my face when I finally got this assembled and working. It’s not done, but it passed the “I didn’t break anything, right” test. Nothing cracked or split or separated, the LEDs are working despite taking on a lot of damage getting pulled through the helices etc. Between printing, reprinting, failed glue joints, making jigs etc, this is probably a week’s worth of work.
If anyone’s interested, here’s the printables page that I’m working with:
This morning while I was looking out my front window waiting for my new stove to be delivered there were a number of birds flying and hopping around. Note that it is below freezing out here, so while I have seen birds recently I hadn’t seen them in any numbers. What made me particularly smile this morning was seeing a few cardinals, which I have not seen in a while.
We saw a couple of wrens this morning who had apparently spent the night in our closed garage! Hopefully they didn’t build a nest in there.
When I went out this morning to get the mail and put out nuts for the squirrels (I want them to have enough food over the winter, so do this every day), there two immediately dashed for the hedge near the door to wait, and a third booted across the street when it saw me. Cute things with that bushy curved tail!
great username/post combo!
Took some time after/before work to do things:
Some clean pots’n’pans put away. (Made space to wash more dishes, the thought of which does not make me smile.)
BUT!
Now, way more importantly, there are clean sheets, clean blankets, clean ME, on my bed
… plus a day off work tomorrow … oh, and Amazon delivered my new socks, and they are wonderfully comfy, with a bit of knitted arch support.
Garish colors, but who TF cares what my damn socks look like, under my pants and in my shoes?
They’re clean (they should be, they’re brand new!) and aren’t threadbare or missing mates or too short (fuck ankle socks) so all is temporarily well in my homeland.
I got head hunted by a university that is setting up a bioinformatics group. Presumably they are wondering if I’m willing to jump ship given what Trumps being doing to NIH. I’m not interested now because I really like my job and my collaborations, but its nice to know that there are likely options should things get bad.
Band practice went especially well today.
I should note that the combined age of the four band members is two years shy of three centuries.
what?
are the Stones planning another farewell tour?
I’ve got a job interview scheduled!
I sent out several resumes less than 24 hours ago and this isn’t my dream top choice, but it does sound like quite a decent option and I’m starting to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
For those that don’t know, this is [youtuber] Physics Girl, she’s been bedridden with Long Covid for just shy of 2 years. This is, I think, the first time we’ve seen her not laying in her bed with barely enough energy to talk, let alone sit up, hold a camera and smile.
Ongoing thread on the topic:
Her channel:
Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Somewhat mild weather today for the area (upper 40s) so went for a walk in the neighborhood. While walking, on the other side of the street, was a young girl (5 or so years old?) and her cat. It seemed she was trying to play hide and seek with the cat. She would pick it up, set it behind a tree on the parking, hide behind another tree in the yard, and count to 5 and yell “ready or not, here I come” and “find” the cat, still sitting by the curb. Then carried the cat to the tree in the yard and she hid behind the tree by the street and kept peeking around to see if the cat was looking for her. It wasn’t. The cat just laid there doing the cat thing of doing nothing.
Watching her tying to teach a cat how to play hide and seek made me smile.
Had my first band practice since October on Tuesday.(long break due to vacations,
bereavements, Christmases and triple by-pass operations !); went well considering !
The combined age of us 5 is ~325. Our provisional name is The Old Gits as
we haven’t thought of a name yet !
What made me smile yesterday was finally feeling some return to normalcy after seriously pulling a lower back muscle a few weeks ago. I’ve been fine for all the day to day activities for a while but now that I’m going back to the gym, I’ve felt some real improvement from the stretching. I was able to do 10 different stretches and didn’t have to cut any of them short from pain. And my lifting regime, although still way below what it used to be, is gaining ground again.
Yay!
I work in graphic design, and every two weeks my department do a “Learn and Tell” session over MS Teams. One of our team members passes on a tip, like working with InDesign tables, using the Photoshop AI text-to-image generator, etc.
This week, a young lady named Sarah showed us a personal project she was working on, called “Open When.” She got the idea from a scrapbook her aunt had given her when she was young. She’s going to give her two grade school sons wooden boxes engraved with a symbol they chose on the lid. Inside each box is a stack of envelopes, each labeled “Open When” followed by a milestone they’ll potentially have in their lives. “Open when you have an accident,” “Open when you move off to college,” “Open when you meet your first girlfriend,” and so on.
Each envelope contains a letter written by their parents, encouraging them through potentially difficult times, reiterating that their parents love them, along with pictures and mementos of other times and events from their past. While telling us about this, Sarah started getting a little choked up, and so did we. We reminisced about something our parents gave us that made us smile. For instance, when I turned 40, my mom sent me a birthday card with my baby picture and wrote “Lordy Lordy, look who’s 40” inside.
With all the unrest and strife going on right now, it felt great to have a reprieve.
We went to look at a retirement community yesterday because we’re getting old enough to think moving into one in the next few years is probably going to be a good idea.
The agent was showing us around the property and we passed by a pond. I asked her how they keep geese away (my MIL lives in a condo community that has a pond and they had to hire someone to deal with a goose invasion a few years ago).
She said, “Oh, we have a group of residents that handles that. They call themselves the Old Geesers.” I couldn’t not smile at that!