Howdy Y’all! Pine straw got put out, the trip to :eek:Wally Jr.:eek: made plus a couple other errands whilst I was out and about. Laundry is under way, two loads washed, one dried and put away, the second load in the dryer, and the third and final load in the washer. I have had N.O.L. and made sallit for tonight’s sup. I await the arrival of fence guy. I have adulted my hiney off today!
Spidey just. never. gets. old. does it?
Ever had one of those days where you go to the bathroom on the far side of the office and hide in stall for a few minutes while you cry?
Yeah, it’s one of those days.
Roxy had another well-baby check today. She’s 27" long (tall?) and 15#. Honestly, the way she eats, I figured she’d weigh more. But she’s healthy and definitely happy, so yay baby!!!
I’m out of work again. I sent an email requesting anything. We shall see what comes of it. But I can leave in about 20 minutes, so I’m not sweating it too much. I have to stop on the way home and put air in my tires. Other than that, nothing exciting planned.
Set a new retirement record by staying in bed until 8:50am, so the day has been short. Went to the bank for some money (because that’s where they keep it) and then spent a good percentage of it doing my November grocery shopping. I did it mainly due to having only 5 rolls of toilet paper left, which would have given poor swampy heart palpitations, but now have 47 rolls, which should be adequate for one person.
{{{Juliet}}}, yes, I have had those days; persevere and try again tomorrow.
FCM, sure the kid is doing great–got two grandparents on-hand to spoil her rotten…
Sari, Universities are like corporations–getting it mostly right instead of right is their motto. Keep after them.
Another soccer game this evening at 6:45pm; the fun never stops.
Take care all.
I knew a professor who used to joke that any time he needed a million dollars all he had to do was add 10 pages or so to the hs and college textbooks hed written to make sure it was up to date for a new “edition”
hed taught at ucla and usc and moved up here after he retired but was doing community college volunteering cause hed gotten bored…… I actually had written permission to use copied pages………
Home at last! I stopped at 3 different convenience stores to get air in my tires. At the first one, the filler valve thingie leaked, so no dice there. The next two charged a buck in quarters - I didn’t have a buck in quarters.
So I drove home, and found our filler attachment in FCD’s shop, attached it to the air line in the garage, and now my tires are properly inflated. So yay!
Meanwhile, SIL screwed up his ankle (again) and daughter is out with Roxy visiting a friend. I’m thinking I’ll have a bowl of soup for supper.
So exciting here…
FCM, they charge for air in your neck of the woods? Up here, most of the gas stations have free air. And it’s not just crappy, falling apart machines that have free air. Most of the gas stations have pumps that’ll tell you what your tire pressure is and allow you to set the pump to stop when it reaches a certain pressure. It’s awesome. I don’t even keep a tire pressure gauge in my car anymore; I can find a few gas stations within 5 miles that have beautifully automated pumps.
Must be nice, Juliet… Sheetz and WaWa have free air, but people around here apparently don’t know about taking care of stuff. I can’t think of any gas stations here that aren’t part of convenience store chains, and the ones I stopped at were pay-for-air.
We have a compressor at home - I just had to find the filler gizzy - it was on the mantle in the basement. Anyway, tires are good. Life is good.
Howdy Y’all! We have supped and now chillage ensues. I earned chillage for bein’ adult all day. Fence guy came and measured stuff. He shall send me a quote. Insurance person comes tomorrow. I shall learn whether or not the roof is damaged. No damage to OYKW’s place btw. The big pee-khan tree in his back yahd lost a couple of branches. On the plus side, we did get up a five gallon bucket of pee-khans. Need to take 'em to the place that cracks ‘em. Don’t mind pickin’ ‘em out and cleanin’ 'em but would hate to crack that many pee-kahns. Only one convenience store offers free air that I know of anyways. One of their sto’s is only two miles from da cave so I have not looked elsewhere.
Yay for good Roxstar check up!
They charge in central Arkansas, too.
I have, and bought for Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) an air compressor that plugs into the the cigarette lighter. I loaned it to Mrs. Plant (v.1.0) while I was living in a little house on her property incognito while I divorced Mrs. Plant (v.2.0). She neglected to start the car when she used the compressor, and had to call the garage anyway.
My Great Grandfather invented this nutcracker. The prototype Grandmother had a lever about two feet long. It is great for pecans. Some guy uses one of these, and takes your money to the bank.
Pee-kahn. A shibboleth of Southerners. :dubious:
Evenin’ all.
Trick-or-Treating is A Thing round here, though it’s relatively recent. I never went as a kid, but for the last decade or so it’s been increasingly common. I won’t get any here, being a flat, but I saw 'em all going past for the bigger houses last year. Rules haven’t really stabilised, it’s certainly not organised by the town or anything, and there’s no real convention on opting in or out, which is a bit annoying.
Just got back from Bristol. I was supposed to be back about 7 hours ago… I had a very nice few days seeing friends, was just heading out to the motorway and had a ‘That’s funny, I’ve not noticed that light on the dash before’ moment. :eek:
T’was the battery light, turned out the alternator was no more. Cue panicked drive round town trying to find a garage with the part in stock and the time to fix it right there and then, before the electrics stopped working. Luckily my old local place pointed me in the direction of someone close who could do it. It was conveniently near my old house as well, so I just showed up there and asked if I could hang round for a few hours, as the temperature suddenly dropped to freezing a few days ago, so mooching round the park wasn’t much of a plan.
I was thinking it was a pretty bad end to the trip, but, thinking about it, if it was gonna break, I couldn’t have picked a much more convenient time/place for that to happen. If it had been 30 minutes later I would probably have been stuck on the motorway or at the services and had to get the car towed, then charged through the nose. Even if it had happened here I wouldn’t have been able to get a second hand spare, so would have had to pay a lot more (the guy I got sent to had one of the same model he was breaking for spares and charged me about 1/3 of the ‘typical cost’ according to google), I probably would have been car-less for a few days while the local place ordered a part in as well.
As it was, I had to hang around for a bit at my old place, had a cup of tea, visited my favourite Indian deli for lunch and had it sorted for £100.
I thought you guys did Guy Fawkes Day?
While their farts aren’t pleasant, I think I’ll keep my little farting dog. 
{{{Juliet}}} I have a long, black velvet gown that I pair with the hat and, if it’s cold, a nice grey wool shawl. I think that I’ll wear the sapphire blue twin to the black gown tomorrow with a tiara, fairy wings and a wand.
I spent about four hours today finding the mistakes that our cycle counters made. I touched base with my boss to get the coaching on the way and to void the counts so that the departments involved wouldn’t take a hit on their accuracy metrics.
Tomorrow, we’re doing a taco bar in my department. I signed up for pico de gallo, so I stopped at the Pubic Sto’ for the ingredients, then at Panderia Azteca for pan del dio de los muertos and some empanadas. Once I get off the intertoobz, I’ll make the pico.
My daughter’s costume is done. My son’s costume is started. He is despondent, because it is not done and I have a bad migraine. I told him grandma would help (my mother) and that we have most of the day tomorrow to work on it, but he’s upset. I feel for him. 
missred, that long black gown sounds so decadent! I love velvet, even though I don’t have anything to wear made out of it.
Made it through the BRP. This is a monthly thing. Shoot me now. How can a fellow that is new to a job that he has never done take up so much of his and our time on this BS? My boss thinks once the new wears off he will cut it back to at least quarterly but the regular meetings will still be weekly. One manager didn’t show up at all. Methinks she is in trouble.
Cubed steak with onion gravy, mashed taters and black eyed peas was supper. And Whop bizkits. Twas good and there are enough leftovers for tomorrow’s meal.
No free air round here.
Why am I so tahred?
I made the chili today that I was supposed to make yesterday.
I have lots left over.
Yesterday I made meatballs, frozen from a package, with alfredo sauce. I still have a bunch of that leftover too.
And there are some deviled eggs left.
Lots of stuff to eat around here, I won’t have to cook for a few days.
I’m probably going to freeze some of the chili.
My son inspected the Halloween candy, nothing in there that I like.
It was warm enough for me to sit outside with the dog today. Once when I opened the door there was a big fat squirrel sitting on the deck. Ripple is hopeless though, if he was ever out in the wilderness he would starve to death.
Good enough day it was!
I got a panicky phone call from my Company in Colorado Springs early in the afternoon. The regional manager in our local office had locked his wallet, proximity card, and office key inside when he took his lunchtime walk. Apparently he and I are the only people in existence (or maybe within 1600 miles) who possess the means to get into the office. My caller asked if I could drive to the office park and let him in. Of course I could let him in! It’s about 25km to the office, but that’s not too bad. Made it there in less than 45 minutes. It’s always good to do your Company a favor, not to mention to get paid for it.
On another front, at 1251 CDT today my divorce became exactly one year old. Hooray!
my throats sore as hell and coughing up gunk all day ……useless cousins even more useless bf has been sick and made her sick
hes not allowed in the house anymore ,but when the “allergies” became worse we figured it out nephew is almost over it tho
hopefully more hot tea will help…