So the smalls portion of the day went well. then…
bent piece of metal : < exists >
3 53 footers of stuff: < bounce off metal, head towards dogbutler >
dogbutler’s imprinter: < dies >
Then I had to help clean up the chaos of Irregs. I could use a beer.
My mom planted a zucchini plant once when I was in high school. 3 months later I was thoroughly sick of zucchini.
I named our daughter Anna. She’s named after my great-grandmother Anna.
Holy cow, doggio! I’m glad you’re ok!
I have also had the experience of a zucchini plant. We had so much zucchini. We couldn’t give it away. I got entirely sick of the stuff for years. My mom has planted several this year. Maybe she can take extras to the food pantry.
I’m not sure what today will bring, It feels ominous at the moment, so I’m waiting for a large boot to land on my head. I don’t know why I feel that way, but I do.
Happy Wednesday (that feels like Friday) everyone!
Almost afternoon all (11:40am hereabout). Had to move my entire King size Mattress and one of the boxes and go to the third step on the ladder, but by god I changed the light bulb in the overhead fan. So I have accomplished work today.
With everyone commenting on how prolific Zucchini is, thought you’d like to know a comic writer has the same opinion… https://www.comicskingdom.com/crankshaft/2021-07-25
doggio, after all that I’d say two beers are in order.
Sari, haven’t baked cookies in a long time…with the temps in the high 90’s, baking is probably going to wait for October.
OK, back to soccer stuff. Everyone take care.
OMG! The bread is really, really good!
You can use all brown sugar or all white sugar instead of brown/substitute. The original recipe also called for a pint of blueberries instead of the craisins, and it had 1/2 cup of coconut, but I don’t like coconut, so there!
It’s a very dense loaf and really yummmm!!
I talked with the insurance company. Since they don’t cover contact lens fittings, they were perplexed as to why the eye clinic is insisting the optometrists get certified with them before I can get an appointment. Yeah, me, too, especially since my two main ophthalmologists practice there and are already certified, so if there’s anything medicat that needs addressing, the optometrists won’t be doing it. In fact, I have a retinal specialist appointment on Monday. 
My insurance says it takes up to 30 days to get certification. Is it reasonable to assume the eye clinic applied for certification to all insurance companies at around the same time? If so, certification could be any day now. If not, who knows? Meanwhile, appointment slots are filling up, pushing any possible appointment further out.
If it seems I’m a little intense about this, it’s because I have to decide within a few weeks if I’m going to sign a 12-month lease here or a shorter, pricier one. If it looks like I’ll be able to see better and thus drive, it’d be cheaper for me to live outside of town. And then, of course, there’s my fervent desire to be able to see better than legal blindness…
Doggio, that was way too close a call. I think this calls for hard likker.
Moooom, the bread sounds yummy. And based on past experience, I believe the ration is 1 zucchini plant: 1200 people.
Yeah… A real shop. Serendipitously, someone posted on Nextdoor looking for a local body shop. Several people recommended one in Lynden. Good work, reasonable prices. So I called them this morning. They said they have to supply the parts, and only OEM parts, because they guarantee their work and they can’t do that if a customer brings in his own part. So I called the place I went to when someone crashed into my jeep a dozen or so years ago as it was parked out in front of the house. (You can imagine how I felt coming up the hill after getting back from Seattle, and seeing my Jeep offset three feet to the right.) Same story. They only use OEM parts. So I left a message at the place they suggested. No reply.
So I called Maaco. I told them I have an aftermarket bumper cover, and before I could go on they woman asked if it arrived folded. That was a clear indication that they’re familiar with them. I told her yes, but I had unfolded it and put it in the sun. She said that was great.
She said I could bring the bumper cover down any time and they’d paint it. Then they’ll call me and it should only take an hour or so to put it on. That way I wouldn’t be without my car. She said they generally charge about $350 to paint a bumper. I’ll see about taking the new piece into town after work.
Howdy Y’all! We procured comestibles, I got my tag and put it on twuck, I handled the church janitor Junior Warden stuff, and mowage has been completed! We have been productive and way less retired drains on society than usual. Also, that most important post mowage beerverage and showers have been accomplished. Next up is sup, which will be easy. Go Us!
We call ‘zucchini’ courgettes over this side of the pond- you have two options when you plant one; you will either get one measly courgette where the slugs have nibbled, or you can supply a reasonable sized settlement. There is nowhere in the middle. It doesn’t matter if you plant 1 or 5, the same odds seem to apply.
I finally bit the bullet on ordering a new laptop by the way- it arrived earlier today, I’m still setting it up, and this is my very firstest post on it. Feels a bit weird typing still, as the keyboard is fractionally smaller than my old one, but I think I will like it more once I’m used to it.
Some years ago Baker gave me a recipe for chocolate zucchini bread that was really good. Wish I could find it again.
Does anybody here give their dog CBD oil, or CBD anything? We think we may need to try that for Vinnie and I’m interested in hearing about it from anyone not trying to sell me anything.
Thanks.
I need to get moving. The GirlChild and Hubby are going to the ‘little house’ and we’re going to throw a coupla things in the back of their truck that won’t fit in our car. I need to get those things cleaned up and ready to travel.
Laters.
Hey, remember me? It’s been a weird couple of months. Sorry for the long writing… TLDR version: Lost my job, painted my house, PWAISDN irritated, lost my dog.
Late May, I had a meeting with my manager, and could tell right off something was amiss. Sure enough, I was one of several whose jobs were eliminated. Not the kind of news you want at 8 AM, or any other time, really. Only good thing is I’m actually still employed by the company and being paid to do nothing through next April due to my twenty years with them. It’s severance, rather than furlough. If I can find a new position with them, my years of service, health insurance, 401(k) and pension, etc. carry on as if nothing happened.
I’ve been using the free time to do some projects I’ve had no time to do. I finally got sick of the pukey almost sorta crappy khaki that my house was, and at the cost of an unexpected amount of back pain and $500 for the paint, it’s now a color that I like. I now live in the very BLUE! house on the street.
Making some leather stuff was on the list - remember the red leather coat Kurt Russell wore as Santa in the Christmas Chronicles? I’m making two of them. In a “You get what you pay for” sort of thing, you can buy similar coats online for about $200. Be very afraid! I buy leather from the warehouse at wholesale cost, and it was a touch over $500 for two coats’ worth, and that’s without the lining, trim, or labor. I’ve made the pattern and a “muslin” so far to see how it fits before I slice into the real stuff.
PWAISDN is trying to move to a new salon space. It’s in a new “suites” building where there’s about thirty private spaces of various sizes for stylists, barbers, nail techs, etc. to rent. The completion date for the building keeps getting pushed out - he was expecting to be up and running on June 1. Maybe it will be August 15? Who knows? He really wants to get out of the current salon before it collapses and the ground swallows it up.
Last Friday, I get out of bed. Normally, my dog follows me so I can let him outside. He didn’t follow me, which wasn’t entirely abnormal for him, so I opened the patio door anyway. I turn around and see him on a dog bed in the living room. He doesn’t move, and I soon discover he died in his sleep. Best guess is heart failure/cardiac arrest as he was OK the night before, and ten years is fairly young as chihuahuas go. 
{{{doggio}}} It sounds like you had a sucky day at irk.
Good luck on the eye specialist front nellie.
oopsie, cooking healthy meals with some variety for one is a PITA. Myself, I cook one big meal a week, something that freezes and reheats well. Then I portion it out in individual serving sizes and do a freezer rotation. It works for me, but YMMV. Weekends, I do cook yummy breakfasts and sometimes will do up a stir fry of something in season. My BG is well controlled, unlike when I was hitting the drive thru most evenings.
Moooooom, I used to do what my mother did with big zucchini: slice them into ~1" rounds, batter dip, coat with parmesan breading and fry them up (you would likely use the air fryer) to serve with pasta and marinara as zucchini parm.
I was issued a stationary lighted magnifier today that helped with the tiny print. Everything went well until after lunch when the USB debugger went down in my irk station. That meant that I had to hand them to my trainer to get the data wiped.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Gotti! Welcome back! So good to see you here; so bad to learn of all you’ve been through. I’m so sorry about your pup.
red, debugger issues aside, are you feeling like you’ll be reasonably happy at this job?
I walked to the grocery store. Now I’m about to walk to the gym. Then I have to go through my shoes, the last step in Operation Closet Purge.
gotti good to see you! I’m sorry about the job, but it sounds like things are working out. My deepest condolences on your dog. It’s so hard to lose them.
gotti so sorry about the pup, and, well, everything else.
Have achieved mowage on what looks to be the best day for it in quite a few. Was only 72 'merican and not raining. Now off to launder and think about something to eat.
Must remember to bring Cin’s #1 & 2 to the vet for his checkup tomorrow (they’re in a cooler now). Wish him luck, he’s been having some trouble hopping into the truck lately.
Welcome back gotti! I’m sorry to hear about your dog. It’s difficult to see them go. Join the position eliminated club. I’m irking at a lesser position right now myself.
Thanks nellie. I’m going to stick with this gig for a little while, but am continuing to look internally and externally. Chewy.com is putting a new warehouse in nine miles from me and I’m sure that they’ll need some people in inventory management. Besides, how fun would that be! I would hope that there would be an employee discount involved. 
Evening all. Spent most of the afternoon napping, think I owe my body some overtime for the stuff I did on vacation. My main Direct TV controller is still malfunctioning, so I’ll probably order a new one (printed out the instructions). Still have one more light bulb to change, but since the other one in the overhead fan is working, it is not a major thing.
gotti !! Good to see you about these parts again. Sorry to hear about the pooch, at least he apparently went peacefully. Hope PWAISDN gets into the new space and you find a new gig soon.
Flyboy, hope the Macco fix is a good one.
{{nellie}}, tough choices. Hope the clinic and the insurance get their acts together for you.
VanGo, glad you had a good day for mowage. We won’t see 72F here until October, I suspect. In the 90’s all week here.
red, good luck with the Chewy application…think you would be a automatic, but bureaucrazies…
OK, need to do some more checking around and get on that Direct TV controller. All y’all take care.
With over 300,000 miles on the car (the odometer recently stopped counting at 299,999), I just hope it’s adequate. Crappy time to look for a ‘new’ car.
gotti - dang, man, you’ve had a time of it, haven’t you? Glad to see you back, tho. So sorry about the pupper. 
Back from the pottery class - it was fun! We made a pinch pot that was supposed to be for a votive - I made mine rectangular - it’s just a little dish thing. Then we made a vase from a slab after rolling flowers and leaves and stuff into the wet clay to make designs. We decorated with underglaze and left the pieces there to dry. The instructor will take them to her studio and fire them, then glaze and refire them. We should get them back in about a month - she’s doing a couple of craft shows the next two weekends.
I learned and relearned some stuff. I may end up on their website - I’ll link if so.
But now I’m home and ready to crash. I may sleep with Mel again.
