Blurf I had my serpentine belt changed recently at 70000 miles. I don’t know when it’s normally done but I was told it needed changing. Unlike Mooommmmm my mechanic is the dealership and I don’t have a personal relationship with them so I just have to grin and bear it on this kind of stuff.
Air show craziness abounds. I think everyone is over it already. My presence is not expected until Firday afternoon for a walk through of my areas with actual showtime at 730am on Sat. All freaking day for two days. In the hot sun on the tarmac where one gets cooked from the bottom up and the top down. I will be dead come Moanday and tis the 1st. It is a cruel joke.
did I tell y’all that my terlet is hooting at me? Every time I (or anybody) flushes the thing it makes a HOOOOOOOOOO sound.
The only thing I can think of is it prolly has to do with the fill valve. But I don’t really want to replace it 'cause the one we have now refills the tank really fast without making a lot of noise. That’s important in an old house with crappy plumbing that requires lots of ‘mercy flushes’. :rolleyes:
Howdy Y’all! The insulation folks are still here. So much for in and out in a couple of hours. :dubious: Oh well, as long as they do the job right I’m happy. It costs the same no matter how long they are here. They should be gone within the hour. Thus I have not laid in provisions which is not awful since we ain’t like outta critical stuff. I did get sammiches made for tonight. I also vacuumed the hallway and the livin’ room foyer as they are out of that part of the attic. The pulldown is in the hallway. The access they are usin’ now is in the garage. Fun day at da cave!
Bumba has a ghost in the toilet! When I was little, I thought the boogeyman would come out of the toilet if I didn’t get back into bed before the toilet stopped running. Maybe my boogeyman is in your toilet.
I have an unexpected day off tomorrow, due to class rescheduling. Amazingly, the weather’s predicted to be lovely, so I might have a Nice Day Out. I’ve not done that in ages. Can’t decide where though… Hmm.
Have spent what was supposed to be an ‘easy’ day working soccer issues, after three weeks of pleading for coaches now they start coming out of the woodwork and I need to get them practice slots and re-make up teams and get them their equipment…it’s actually going to feel good to go out tonight and coach 6-7 6-year old girls instead of figuring all this stuff out. So add me to the list of ‘grumpy Wednesday people.’
Only good news is that the temperature exceeded expectations and it’s about 68F outside and N.O.S.
Hope your well-insulated now, swampy.
Hang in there, butters; I mean, how bad can it be? ducks thrown crockery
Irked over again today, likely will tomorrow too. Friday, since I’m there until the bitter end, Nelson will have a dog walker. Jake’s getting a few gigs lately. He may bring Copper, our beagle houseguest from last summer along to play. I’s tahred.
Howdy Y’all! Home from soup 'n sammich and Lenten program over to the church house. The person who was supposed to lead Evening Prayer showed up but was visibly sick, poor thing. She showed up because she had volunteered but clearly did not need or want to be there. So, I told her I would step in for her. Short version, I led Evening Prayer.
Soccer practice with the little ones went real well, that age is so easy to coach (although they do occasionally wander away from you…). Had a couple BLT’s without the LT and will be ready for an early turn-in time tonight.
Nice pinch-hitting, swampy; she’ll do the same for you one of these days, I bet.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 43 Amurrkin out and clear (well, dark) with a predicted high of 73 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. I shall lay in provisions this mornin’. After that I shall go to Sam’s to get some stuff for the church house, and go to a co-parishoner’s house to load up a brass bed (headboard, footboard, and frame) and take that over to the church house for the yahd sale this Sattidy. That will be my one and only assist with that. Have I mentioned before that I detest yahd sales? After I do those things, who knows what else may or may not happen today. I have no idea what sup will be. Perhaps Rachels as there is leftover turkey boob and Juliet sorta kinda has made me want that since she mentioned 'em.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and alack, I must purtify and don appropriate goin’ about the public attire. Life can be so hard!
This is spring, right? Then why has it been below freezing the last 3 mornings??? Riddle me that!!! :mad:
My car is still in the shop - supposedly it’ll be ready this morning, but I needed to come to work, so I have FCD’s car, and if he needs to go anywhere, he’s got the truck. Company meeting this afternoon which will make me late picking up Roxy and later still getting home. Glad I slept with Mel last night - I feel mostly rested.
Years ago I worked for the Spanish branch of an international company one of whose clients was a Dutch bank. The bank had initially contacted our Dutch branch and been a bit miffed when they were offered to have their remote IT done, not from Holland, but from Spain. A three-month trial period was agreed.
After the trial was over the bank said that they were happy but had realized their initial request had two big oopsies: one, their “office opening hours” are shorter than their “hours we need to be able to call IT” so they needed two shifts, and two, holidays in Holland and Spain tend to match but don’t always.
So they proposed that the people covering Dutch working days on Spanish holidays and those on second shift work from home.
I don’t think I’ll ever move to Holland, but if I ever do and open a local account, I know which bank I’ll use.
I’ve picked up my laptops from the IT dude. He’s been able to revive The Dead One, so my friend who wants it “for my Red Cross kids” will be getting a functioning laptop I just hope it will kindly refrain from further strokes for a decent length of time. He was pretty sure he’d be able to do it so long as the HDD wasn’t completely fried but it’s still nice to go from “pretty sure” to “here, it works!”. He said not even needing to retrieve old data helped, as it gave him permission to just do a clean install. And the new one is indeed purdy.
It’s a N.O.S. 36 degrees outside, suppose to get up to 63.
Spring is coming FCM, just taking her sweet ol’ time getting here.
Up here it’s supposed to dip down to 32 up here, I hope that is the end of it. I want to get my seeds planted.
We didn’t get as much done outside as I hoped yesterday. I told my son we should rent a tiller and he said no, he would use the shovel. HA!
It’s not that big of an area that needs to be tilled, but it looks a lot bigger when one is using a shovel.
I almost overslept this morning, I kept hitting the snooze button, something I almost never do.
Ripple is whipped still. The daycare finally let him out in the yard with a large group of dogs and he played hard all day. They had been putting him in a smaller area with one or two other shy dogs, he would come home tired but nothing like this. He’s been sleeping for over 12 hours, didn’t even check for the mail last night.
Morning all. 54F now heading to 70F and N.O.S. skies. For the last time in the next seven weeks I don’t have a soccer practice/game from Monday-Saturday on this day. Which doesn’t mean things are slowing down; I’ve sent 9 e-mails out this morning before 8am and still have a couple hours work to do…heck, I ought to go back to work, it was easier…
Nava, glad the Red Cross guy gets a working computer. And since it was mentioned that you don’t have a ‘proper’ MMP name, I ran Nava through a translator and it says Nava is: “a level piece of ground, usually between mountains.” So maybe Valley Girl for a MMP name? :eek:
Sari, mayhaps a tired Ripple is a less-bratty Ripple?
FCM, bet you’ll be complaining how hot it is by May…
Does it have a tongue? If not it can’t form the WLLL to properly HOOOOOOOOOOWWWLLLL at your moon.
Got up extra early to drive about an hour for a Bridgehenge sunrise. Kinda like Manhattanhenge but with a bridge. It only lines up 4 days a year. Today, tomorrow & two in Sept. Today was totally clear, not a cloud in the sky at all, which makes for a blah sunrise; tomorrow was originally partly cloudy but has been pushed up to cloudy, which means I need to wait another six months to try to get this shot. Last fall when I went it was so foggy that I could only see about ¼ of the way across the bridge. There was no visible sun for at least an hour - 1½ hours after sunrise the fog finally burned off, by which time the sun had risen enough that the photo op was looong gone. When I was there in the fall it was also a Saturday, less traffic on the bridge. Between fog & clouds & only four chances a year, it might take me years to get the shot that I want.
I did get some good stuff (other than Bridgehenge), just not great stuff of what I was going for.
I just hope it will kindly refrain from further strokes for a decent length of time. He was pretty sure he’d be able to do it so long as the HDD wasn’t completely fried but it’s still nice to go from “pretty sure” to “here, it works!”. He said not even needing to retrieve old data helped, as it gave him permission to just do a clean install. And the new one is indeed purdy.
