Check out the avatar~that’s this Mumper’s happy mug looking right at’cha, circa 1958 Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Photographer was probably my big brother.
Dinner was pizza and a big sallitt.
Then a bit of TV - Jeopardy!, Psych, and Jack Ryan were tonight’s entertainment. Bed soon.
In case you’re keeping track (and why wouldn’t you be?), during my first three days of furlough, I have successfully re-applied for unemployment, successfully filled out and mailed the passport renewal forms for myself and Mrs W, and successfully got all the security cameras back on-line and recording. Tomorrow’s to-do list includes laundry and bathroom cleaning. Friday is whackin’ the little white ball around. So week one is a veritable whirlwind of activity. Let’s see how long I can keep up this breakneck pace.
I’m enjoying everybody’s fantasy homes. May we all live in the house of our dreams one day!
Is there another way to have a French dip sandwich? Inquiring minds want to know.
And hungry minds are now thinking of making French dip sandwiches at home.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 37 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 71 and N.O.S. for the day. No real plans for the day at all. OK, we will go to the hog trough Golden Corral around two this afternoon for late N.O,L./early Sup, just cause. Other than that, who knows! I do want a French dip sammich now, however.
MetalMouse the cheese balls that fell into my cart are Planter’s brand.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Thursday Y’all!
More weird wine dreams last night, altho I don’t remember any of them this morning. No biggie - I slept thru till after 5 and that counts as a win.
Today, the pellet stove gets serviced and (I hope) back up and running. If I’m needed to tend Roxy, it won’t be till 2. I think part of today’s adventures will involve turning the remainder of the pot roast, etc, into soup, which means I need cabbage. Good veggie soup needs cabbage.
Not sure what else will happen but I’ll figure it out. Speaking of passports, I need to figure out what we need to do to renew ours, but I wasn’t going to mess with it till January. Still, it won’t hurt to download the instructions now. For the most part, tho, today will be random and unplanned - how spontaneous is that??
Happy Thursday!
Back from erranding. I had a check (escrow from our old mortgage account) to deposit, and FCD asked me to pick up his new welder on the way back. No biggie, except I needed the truck. The truck lives outside. The truck windows were covered in frost. The scraper in the truck is marginal at best.
I started it up and cranked the defroster to high, but it was 27° out there, so it took a while to warm up. As I sat in the truck, waiting, I continued to breathe, which resulted in frost on the inside of the windshield. Scraper doesn’t work on that - I had to wait for real heat to melt it and dry it. Good times.
But I got my check deposited and I got a mostly-crisp $50 bill that’s in a card for my great-nephew. Then I picked up the welder and cart and bottle of gas, and helped FCD unload them into his shop. Thus endeth my morning adventure! < cue epic fanfare >
Hey, everyone! Also, since I tend to be late to everything…a very happy belated anniversary to FairyChatMom & FCD. I hope your wine night was a very successful one, much like your erranding adventures.
Coffee is being had right now, kids are working on school work and the husband is still asleep. The sun is shining and after heavy applications of A&D ointment to my neck and chin, my face seems to have taken a temporary break from mask-related freakout.
No windows were broken last night, which was nice, though the glass dude wasn’t able to come; although I’d requested afternoon, I got a call early letting me know they were on their way anyway, though I needed to take my mom to her radiation simulation. So that was a bit disappointing. We’ll try again tomorrow.
Homemade chicken biryani for dinner tonight. It’s only 8:30 in the morning, but I’m already looking forward to it and imagining the logistics of putting it together. If you do it “right,” it’s a 3-day affair. I don’t plan to do it right. The chicken has marinated for two days thanks to my own laziness, so as far as I’m concerned I’ve done the time while doing nothing at all.
Afternoon, mumpers! And a belated happy moooomiversary! to you both. I managed to miss that one yesterday, but to be honest I missed most of yesterday as I was up to my eyes in irk.
My boss had her op and has messaged to say that she survived, and is back at home with predictions of at least a 2-week recovery period. She had planned to log into work stuff but probably won’t because her laptop and screens are set up in her kitchen and the chair she’s got is very uncomfortable now that she’s had surgery on her leg. I’m deputising for her so I can keep her up to date on anything that’s going on but I doubt it will be much. We’re still faffing about sorting out take-home papers for our January assessments, I spent hours yesterday sending individual emails out to students who have exam paper clashes and extra time allowances, letting them know how we’re dealing with it, so I expect tomorrow I’ll have an inbox full of grumbles and complaints, or people who need the simple situation explained to them in words of less than one syllable.
So today I have a day off! Bonus! We’re allowed to carry over ten days leave to next year (it’s usually only five, and only with management’s agreement) because nobody’s been able to go anywhere this year but I still had two days to use up so I’ve booked a couple of Thursdays off. I’m booking around all the extra meetings I have to attend for the boss, and Thursday is the only meeting-free day of the week. Today I have used my time well, Da Jungle delivered stuff which has now been wrapped up, and I’ve been to the gym (which was blissfully empty-ish). Later today we are having a virtual get-together for irk so I might log into my work laptop and stick my nose in there.
Other than that, I am just enjoying not doing any work. It’s also not my night to cook dinner so I have nothing much to do for the rest of today. My hairdresser messaged earlier asking if I wanted to book any salon treatments when I go for my next appointment on the 19th so I’ve done that.
I pre-ordered a book from Da Jungle, and in their wisdom they sent it to me twice. Nice of them, but I really only need one copy so I’ll see if any local friends want the spare one. I could send it back but need a UPS drop-off shop (no working printer at home so can’t do a return label), the nearest one is not far away but it will cost me half the amount I paid for the book which would be deducted off a refund…thus not worth the effort as far as I’m concerned.
So…time for another cuppa and a bit of reading until it’s time to zoom to the irk thingie!
Morning all. Got up to the neighbors roof being torn off (by design, they are getting it replaced). About 47F outside heading for the mid-60’s, and I will get out for a bit today, if only to drop off my dry cleaning.
swampy, the internet is a interesting thing…I mentioned Utz cheese balls yesterday here, and last evening my Facebook pages started showing ads for…wait for it…Utz snacks…sometimes I don’t know if i want those folks to know that much about me…
Boo fae, enjoy the day off and sounds like things are going well.
FCM, the very best thing about living in my own house is the garage…I’ve almost forgot about all those years of ice and frost on the windshield.
Wheelie, looks like you have a plan for the week. As for week 2…
nellie, I had the same immediate thought when I read red’s post: I wanted to know which Post Office had a restaurant attached, because that sounded pretty neat.
OK, I think I’m ready for a Big Bowl O’Sallit and then out to face the day. All y’all take care.
The leftover pot roast and the stock from the crock pot are in a big soup pot with a metric buttload of veggies, simmering away - SOUP!!! I’ll get a small head of cabbage when I come home from tending Roxy and the veggie-beef soup will be complete. I may even toss in a few noodles.
Meanwhile still waiting on the pellet stove service guy(s) and starting to think about making lunch. Breakfast before 6 means starvation by 1. But I did manage to load the dishwasher and tidy the kitchen, so some productivity. Still not crazy about adulting, but what’cha gonna do??
So once again Dispatch took their sweet time putting the small trailer in the door, the SLAW was broken, there were no carts to move the bags, and the irreg belt was slamm full. Of TVs(no suprsie) and live trees. 
Tired: using that old artifical tree
Wired: Having UPS deliver a live Xmas tree in a box to your door
Metal: Putting up a tree corpse in your living room, and desecrating said corpse with ornaments and tinsel. \m/–\m/
Breakfasted and working on caffeinisation. Not sure what (if anything) is planned for supper, but all this talk about hunks o’ beef, stew, and soup has me thinking about breaking out the new crockpot…
Despite having visited 17 other countries (18 if England and Scotland are counted separately), I’ve never used a passport. I did have one once, but saw no reason to renew it after it expired.
I haven’t yet converted my driver’s license to the new “Real ID” thingy. If I don’t do so by October I’ll need a passport to fly domestically. And I’m certainly not planning on a trip to the DMV anytime soon.
Herald, how have you done so much international travel without a passport? What do you show at Customs?
Pellet stove was just extremely dirty, and, unfortunately, we had to pay premium rates because of the time of year. Dammit. But it’s working and that’s what matters.
I locked Taz in the bedroom while the guys were here, and he peed on FCD’s side of the bed. Comforter and electric blanket have to be washed now, dammit. So the blanket is in the washer now.
Supper will be some of the soup I just made, sans cabbage because I just don’t feel like going out to get any. It’s got plenty of veggies anyway. And the rest will be frozen for future meals. So goes the afternoon.
Happy Anniversary, Mom!
I told you my Fitbit disassembled itself while I was running a jigsaw in that hand, yes?
I think I told you that Wifey bought me an Apple watch (series 6) to replace it.
(I was concerned that Fitbit was apparently going to a subscription type arrangement and I was waffling on getting another Fitbit).
I may or may not have told you that my new watch refused to pair to my old iPhone 6. 
Well yesterday I went to the local Verizon store and bought the onlyest model iPhone the had in the store, an iPhone 11. 
I’m still playing with it but I like it so far. The screen resolution is amazing. The only thing is, it tried to download every email that I deleted without reading (marked unread) in the last 2 years. I have a little over 2,000 left to delete. 
Wifey had bought a package of green beans with sliced mushrooms and sliced red onion at the Safeway store the other day and we sauteed them last night. We had it as a side to a spaghetti like substance but made with penne rigatti, 'cause that’s what we had in the cupboard. 'Twas good!
Dinner tonight will be leftover spaghetti like substance. We ate all the green bean stuff.
Now back to reading about Apple stuff.
I haven’t made rot post in a while. I’d say it’s about time, only other things will take priority (prime rib for Xmas, ham hocks & black-eyed peas for New Year’s).
Huzzah! FedEx just delivered my new lamp for the front room and the kitchen shelving I so desperately need. Projects, I have!
So, spaghetti, green beans and apples? Got it.
Please tell me it’s a Major Award.
Alas, just a Tiffany-style table lamp to go with the floor lamp and chandelier. Those “Major Award” repros are EXPENSIVE!!