The "counting one's blessings" MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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sari, if you have a Discount Tire or Tire World in your neighborhood, they’ll air up your tires for free without you even having to get out of the truck. Most of the pay ones around here do take cards though.

Yay for not having the plague Moooooooom!

flyboy, I began housekeeping with a couple of pans like that. They were replaced some years back though.

I grew up in Indiana, where for many years, DST wasn’t observed for the most part. The counties around Chicago and Louisville tended to go with the respective city’s times and Knox County, for whatever reason, observed it, so if you had appointments there, you had to keep that in mind. They went to Eastern time and, with it, DST a few years ago.

Got the chores done, groceries bought and got a stoner supper. I had a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for their chicken wraps, but they had a sign up listing the ingredients that they were out of, including the chicken strips used to make the wraps. :frowning: I did discover their most excellent bacon wraps though. :slight_smile:

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Watching the end of the remake of The Hills Have Eyes. Mrs. L.A. says, ‘You know… These people remind me of my aunts and uncles and cousins out in Boron. Now you know why I never want to go home.’ :stuck_out_tongue: Yep. I know Boron.

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I have much better pans. I think everybody has much better pans. But they have nostalgia to them. :wink:

ETA: I used the small Revere Ware saucepan to make The Wife’s refried beans tonight.

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The Revere pots and pans I got for my wedding in 1995 are mostly doing well. We’ve had to replace one pot that suffered a broken handle (found an exact dupe in a thrift store) and the non-stick skillets really aren’t non-stick any more. I can’t handle cast iron, since my wrists object to the weight.

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Enjoying some brinner (breakfast for dinner) half a ham steak, coupla fried eggs, a slice of buttered bread, and some nibbles of cheese.

The cats got a few bits of ham, too.

Gotta remember to take my vitamins tonight once I have a nice, full stomach.

Feels like Mr. Sandman is gonna show up real soon, especially with the gentle pitter-patter of rain.

ETA: two slices of buttered bread. Just cuz I can!

Shit indeed! Can you ask for it to be canceled and replaced?

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nettie – we got an entire set of copper-bottom Revere pots for a wedding present in '92. We still have and use all of them, and they’ve held up beautifully.

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I too have Revere ware pans my mom got for me when I moved into my first apartment in 1991. 1, 1.5, 2 quarts and a stock pot. Somewhere along the line I picked up a 10 skillet. Love them. I’ve even got a tiny little 6" skillet that I mostly use for making garlic butter.

I’ve got many other pans, nice cast irons, some good tri-ply sauce pans, a couple o’ non-sticks, a carbon steel 12" er that I love. In truth my pot rack is over stuffed, but I still use the Revere ware on the regular.

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I have some copper bottom Revere Ware pots. Some I got when I married, well many years ago. Some my mother gave me, they may be older than I am.
I can’t use them on my stove. They spin. Really fast.
I love them though, and so I hold onto them.
I got rid of my cast iron though. Can’t use cast iron on my stove.
It sucks.

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What a week…

Tuesday morning I had my upper endoscopy, which was the last test before my bariatric surgery. Everything is good/clear. :slight_smile: It was my first time being in a hospital as the patient. In my 20s I volunteered at two hospitals, and I spent a lot of time in hospitals with my mom before she died…it was kind of weird to be the one on the gurney. The anesthesia was a breeze (whew!), though I did feel pretty tired for the rest of the day. No doubt a combo of the procedure and having gotten up at 6:30am. I logged on to work in the afternoon, because there were one or two things I needed to take care of, but I wound up only working for 2-2.5 hours. If I ever have a procedure like that again, I’ll plan to take the entire day off!

Despite being exhausted that night, I didn’t sleep well. And I had to get up a little early (for me) again Wednesday morning, to take the dog to daycare before heading to the office. I was practically drooling by the end of the work day. I was so tired that night that I went to bed at 9pm, which is about an hour earlier than usual. Luckily, I slept pretty well.

Which was fortuitous, because I had to get up early again yesterday and go to the customer site for a little while first thing. Three consecutive days of leaving my house! :wink: Then, last night I had a call with the chair of my NAACP committee (Legal Redress), the chair of the Communications committee, and the President of the branch: some changes to the branch website are in order, and my committee needs a new intake form. I volunteered to become very familiar with Google Forms over the weekend. :smiley:

Something pretty good happened yesterday, too: I finally got confirmation—in writing—that I will have a show at a particular upcoming jazz festival! The guy who runs the festival offered me a spot a couple of months ago, when I went to one of his gigs and asked him about it, but he didn’t respond to any of my messages/put it in writing until now. Woo hoo!! The festival will be three months after my surgery; hopefully, I’ll have some noticeable weight loss by then. It will be my first post-op show, my first festival show, and my first show in 2+ years. :notes:

On top of everything else, work is busy. Not, like, crazy busy, but constant. The days go by quickly, which actually isn’t a good thing right now because I’m not quite staying caught up….but I’m also not willing to put in more than 8.5-9 hours a day. I left 50+ hour work weeks behind when I ditched proposal work almost two years ago. Things are a little tough right now because I’m spending a lot of time training my new hire, but I know eventually he’ll be self-sufficient and I’ll get some relief.

A few years ago, I got tired of gas stations either not having air pumps or not having working air pumps or charging for air: I started keeping a very small air compressor in my trunk, and I’ve never looked back. :slight_smile:

Sometimes I will wake up with a shallow scratch under one of my eyes (and a tiny bit of blood on the pillow) because I wound up sleeping on my hand and I scratched my face when I moved the hand in my sleep.

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Today I got the Moderna booster. Yay! But first I did a lot of errands, went to the gym, etc., so I got to the grocery store pharmacy @ 4 p.m… Only one person ahead of me for shots, so whoop! Except FIVE people went in before they called my name. And in the middle of all that, with maybe 10 people in line for Rx’s and another 8 in line for vaccines, one pharmacist and the tech left, as in GONE, I assume for an early dinner. When it was my turn, I said sympathetically to the pharm/shot giver, “Wow, you’re really slammed!” and heard a long story about how crappy it is to work there and how the new variants make the boosters seem fruitless because there are always new variants. He’s the pharmacy manager. Yikes.

When I walked to the store, the sun had come out, and it was warmish. When I left, two hours later, the sun was down, and I was freezing. Kept me walking fast, it did.

So I am boosted. I feel fine, but then, I said that after I got shot #2. The half-dose surely means I’ll keep feeling this way, though, right?

Moooom, whoop-whoop on the negative test! It’s so positive to have a negative!

Oopsie, good news on the endoscopy AND the jazz festival show!

Count me in the Year-Round Standard Time crowd. I’d grudgingly agree to year-round DST if that were the only option, but I wouldn’t approve. DST began as a temporary measure during a world war. We’re not at war, and there’s no good reason for darker-a.m. for lighter evenings. When I was teaching, the week after DST began was Hell Week. Kids were exhausted and cranky. So were teachers.

Cookie, sorry about the check. Your wife must feel even worse than you do. Are you sure the issuing entity won’t replace it for 90 days? I’ve had checks reissued and the initial checks stopped.

flyboy, for decades I had Mom’s old aluminum mixing bowl. I had many good memories of that bowl. But I eventually wore holes in it–literally. Put tape on the outside and used it another couple years. More holes, and I finally gave it up. I imagine nostalgia makes better eggs. :slight_smile:

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Evening all. Soccer was practiced and lineup prepared for tomorrow’s games. It is supposed to get to the mid-40’s tonight, so my 8am and 9am games are probably going to be a bit chilly. But it’s warming to the mid-70’s in the afternoon, which is just fine by me.

Oopsie yeah! on the endoscopy and double Yeah!! on the show. Hope it all goes according to play.

Cookie, you’d think they would cancel the check immediately upon your report of it being lost. Don’t understand the delay.

nellie, glad you got boosted. Mine is Wednesday, if Kroger hasn’t run out of vaccine again.

VanGo, sounds like a long and mildly frustrating day, but at least it’s out of your shop and in their hands.

OK, will be getting up at about 6:30am, so heading off to bed. All y’all take care.

I really don’t care if we keep or give up DST, I guess after 50-60 years of adjusting to it I don’t have strong feelings either way.

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HEEEELLLLLPPPP, those with green thumbs. I lopped off the top 3 inches of the avocado plant, as instructed. I think I killed it. :cry: Not only has it quit growing, but the two teeny little sprouts that were trying to (I think) grow into branches haven’t grown an iota in 5 days.

I’m afraid it was a sensitive plant, and my trimming took away its will to live. It was growing almost an inch a day, durn it!

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I didn’t lay a deathfinger on it, I swear!

Hope your little green friend recovers.

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Light, water and heat is what works for me, but I’ve never even gotten one to sprout enough to consider trimming, so you probably shouldn’t listen to me.

I’m up now because Mom butt dialed me so I called back and we had a pretty good talk. It was strange for her to be so lucid this late at night, I’m glad she is going out a little more. She didn’t know that she could get her booster, so will be getting it tomorrow. She’s in Idaho, there won’t be any lines.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

nellie it wasn’t my fault, even though I have an (Agent) Orange thumb with plants.

sari I second finding a small compressor. My Rio came with one.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 52 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 83 and N.O.S. for the day. We discussed last night and will see if’n we can get Moderna boosters today. I shall look on teh intartoobz for local availability in a bit. Also, this afternoon there is a drive by bday celebration for a lady at the church who turns ninety today. We must go and wish Lou a happy big 9-0! After that we shall go grab burgers for a late N.O.L. Thus mowage is not likely to occur. Not too worried about that as the yahd does not look that bad and ain’t the worst in the ‘hood yet. Sup shall be via grazin’ if’n desired.

sari I third the idea of a small air compressor. We have one and it has come in handy.

cookie hope some kind soul finds the check and gets it back to ya,

Oopsie cool about the gig! I know you’ll do great.

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

Happy Sattidy Y’all!

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Name-dropper!!! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Cavorting with chairmen and Presidents, no less!! And now you’re going to be on stage?? Soon you won’t want to associate with us peasants!

Regarding cook pots, I’ve had quite the variety over the years. At one point, I was a big fan of cast aluminum, but of late, I have a set of heavy-bottom stainless and some ceramic-coated frying pans that all seem to serve me well. I’ve never had copper, and my brief foray with cast iron didin’t win me over - then again, it’s been eons since I had a gas stove, and cast iron seems a bad choice for a glass-top electric range. I got a couple of silicone loaf pans and I don’t like them - they don’t hold a proper loaf shape and the bread came out weird.

It’s gonna be a busy day today. The convenience center opens at 8, so first chore will be taking trash and recycling. I’ve also got to clear off the breakfast bar - I promised FCD I’d do it 2 days ago - oops! And I think I’ll spray a purple streak in my hair, because around 11, I’ll be heading to my mom’s for an early Halloween for the little 'uns. Wonder if I have something around here to make into a costume? Probably too late to be thinking about that, huh?

Once we’re done there, SIL will bring Roxy and me back, and she’ll spend the night with us. All in all, a long day ahead. Hope the line at the convenience center isn’t too long. And I hope I remember to pull some butter out of the fridge tonight so it’ll be soft enough to make oatmeal cookies tomorrow.

Man, I’m exhausted just thinking about all of that!

Happy Saturday!!

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Easy fallback: use eyeliner to draw whiskers on your cheeks & blacken the tip of your nose. Voila! Cat “costume.”

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shoe - not so easy - I don’t own eyeliner, or any makeup for that matter. But I’ll be driving past a dollar store - I’m thinking maybe I can get a mask there. Plus I own a cape…

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Good morning, everyone.

It’s wet outside and I know it is because Polar is wet. Silly dog likes to lay in the rain. His latest thing is lie on the pavers underneath the bird feeding station while the birds flit to and fro and feed. They don’t seem to mind him being there.

I can’t get the booster yet because it hasn’t been quite six months. Also, it seems those 65 and above and those with comorbidities are first in line. No biggie.

I made an appointment to get my Jeep its 60,000-mile service. It’s actually at around 56,000, but what’re a few miles? I’m also going to get new shoes put on her. The appointment isn’t until the 5th of November, but I feel glad to have gotten the appointment set. I’ve been saying for months that I was going to do it and yesterday I finally did it. They seem pretty adamant that many of us will be returning to the office in January, and some in December, so I want to make sure I’ve got good traction when that commute starts. Winter is wet around here and there are certain parts of the freeway where water just stands and then grabs the tires if they’re not in good shape. I’m not looking forward to the commute, but I really hope they come out with the new telework policy before then too. I am hoping to up my telecommute days. One thing about COVID is that it has saved A LOT of wear and tear on the Jeep. I’ve only put about three thousand miles on it since December of 2019.

I wish they would just stay on standard time. I’m not a fan of moving clocks, but I don’t think DST is the way to go.

Well, time for another cup of coffee. Number three today. Didn’t sleep well again, damn it.