Good morning. Chloé and I walked this morning. and had a very nice sunrise:
Say what you want about Tennessee, the sunrises and sunsets are beautiful here.
I’ve got dinner in the sous vide[1]. I’d pulled out some barbecue from last fall’s church sale. We’ll usually buy a butt, gorge ourselves on as much as we can eat, then seal the rest in eight ounce packs and put them in the Deep Freeze.
Eyesight continues to improve. I still have a bit of “lens flare.” I’ll have to ask about that when I have my follow up on Tuesday.
On the dysphoria front, the last couple days have been pretty good. The urge to present is growing, I just have too much going on to do so right now.
Tomorrow is Get Dirty Day. I need to put in two more Burberry shrubs in the front and then spread mulch. It’s been a couple of years since I’d last spread mulch, and it show.
Swampy - I’d say Mrs Magill says the same regarding my pimento cheese, except her mother never made pimento cheese. She does say mine is better than my mother’s.
It was about 35F when I got up. We’re supposed to hit the 70s this weekend, with rain coming with it.
We were both up early this morning. I made a ham and cheese omelet with a nice herbal cheese. I’m really not a fan of ham, but I’m trying to use up the leftover chunk from Easter.
I managed to drag my achy ass to exercise, so yay for me. I think the highlight of the day will likely be the delivery of cat litter bags. I did receive my new On Cloud slip-on shoes from Fleet Feet yesterday. They seem to work as advertised.
I’ve unstuck the aft cabin windows again. I think we need some kind of lubricant. Maybe silicone? Must research.
I also removed the canvas rail covers and folded them till fall. FCD is installing the plumbing system, but not water lines yet. A chore for another day. We lunched at Salsa’s local restaurant and I’m hoping we can head home soon. I’s tahred!!
Sadly, both of my sibs are dead, along with everyone else in my immediate core family. I am now the patriarch, and have been since my brother died in 2015. I try to impart patriarchal wisdom at every opportunity, but mostly I just get eyerolls.
I tend to be a bit of a catastrophizer myself (the way my life goes at times, seems like being realistic), but I’m honestly wondering if she’s getting any actual work done around the drama and how you’re managing to get anywhere with all the disruptive distraction.
Well, I made it. Did try to lose my phone and charger by leaving them behind at JFK but kind strangers helped out and returned them to me. Flight was only 6 hours long so after eating and watching Zootopia2 (it was Ok but a bit overdone, IMHO). Only got about 3 hours sleep. Was just enough to get my bags after immigration and get an Uber to my hotel. So then of course I decided to walk to the places I will meet my tours at and of course got lost (Google maps saved me again). Then got about 3 more hours sleep and am dining on that Portuguese specialty…a Burger King Whopper.
Will read more but responses may be limited so everyone behave themselves.
It must have been Final Destination Day at work. First I go to fill my water jug at one the ice/water machines, and a milky white liquid comes out. Then when I was over at the 300, the whole 5 foot tall front panel of that ice machine falls of and just misses me. And the building was shorted handed today, including the Senior Clerk. So they pulled the one clerk out of the Mez, sent her to do the Twilight leftovers up front, and replaced her with the clerk from irregs, who isn’t as familiar with it. Then they pulled the slow clerk out of SmartPost, and sent her over to the 300(the busiest slide) to replace me. And they sent me to..the 200 Sort Table. So half the slides had the wrong people on them, there was nobody on the 100 and 200, and they guy who could do everything, and fast was putting boxes into bins. I did get to to the 100 and 200 Slides just before 6. Somehow disaster was averted. I got out at 11:45, after the usual “How much longer?” questions from the people who made sure the process was dragged out as long as possible. Laundry is done spinning, so I can heave it into the newly repaired dryer.
Basically you sent him looking for chemlight batteries.
Yesterday afternoon I woke in the middle of a dream, before I could answer the refrigerator.
That’s the sort of thing I always looked for when I was first traveling in Europe. I did much better once I gained some confidence. And before there was GPS, I’d often be completely lost upon coming up out of the local subway systems. I still have nightmares about being lost in a big city.
I’ve heard that food has gotten better in Portugal than when we lived there. I can’t handle bacalhao, which is the national dish, but non-Portuguese cuisine restaurants were hard to find in the 90s. We even took a food vacation to Italy at one point. The natas de Belem are also a point of national pride as a sweet. You can go right to the source on the tram line in Lisbon. It’s basically a baked custard. You might be able to get a port wine tasting at the Port Wine Institute.
Back when I worked in the McNugget factory, this is the stuff we used on the box line conveyers. It worked great and safe around food, kids and critters.
Finished up the baby shower layout and modified the title page of the baby book this morning. Now, it’s getting Nelson out to do his business before the rain starts back up.
Home from the boat. First load in the washer, two more on deck. Dishwasher has been emptied. 3 bins of train stuff has been hauled to the basement. Otis has gotten his lunch… late!!! He’s outside chawing on a deer antler (which we provided - he didn’t kill for it.)
FCD is going to clean the train tracks - they’re a bit corroded. I’m going to attack the next blanket and get the pattern set before turning on TV. Daughter and her crew, including Trevor, are coming over tomorrow and they invited themselves to supper. I’ll be ordering Chinese because I ain’t cooking!
The grocery bags are laundered and the insulated one air drying. I picked out the papers for the next baby book layout and et supper (Ethiopian lentil stew from the freezer). Now for chillage.
Its been a long day and I’m whupped. It was also a pretty productive day that included buying posies and having paint mixed. Plants will get planted in the next couple of days. I’ve got some Lantana for the bed in front of the house, I really don’t know what I am going to do with that, but it needs some color.
I looked hummingbirds up and learned that they are being reported in Kentucky, so I’ve got some syrup cooling. I haven’t seen any but we are pretty close to Kentucky and they can cover a lot of distance when they want to.
Jealous! I will miss Mom when she’s gone, but I’ll also be happy to be able to finally block my free-loading trumpy sisters.
I always loved it when my supervisors would stop me in the middle of trying to complete a complicated task to ask how long it would be before I was finished. It was such an exercise in self control.
Our thrill yesterday was getting a new motherboard for the litter robot. It was insisting that the tray was full after a couple of poops, so we were going through two bags a day.
That sounds lovely, she must have been such a special person.
Howdy Y’all! Had my pre-colonoscopy appointment and my actual roto rooter is scheduled for April 23rd at 11:30 a.m. I get the nasty prep stuff on Tuesday when I go to pickup med refills at the pharmacy. The date sounds far away, but it’s less than two weeks. Took care of candle and funeral setup duty at the church house as well. We did more work on the cee-mint pond also. Nappage and day drinkin’ were also accomplished and sup got delivered and et. We watched the first Downton Abbey movie for entertainment.
Taters glad your friend had a good sendoff. That was a long service. I’ve been to a few of those myself.
MetalMouse glad you made it safe and sound. Have a great time!
red I have seen how the McNuggets are made and still I will eat ‘em. Same goes for snausage and ground beast.
Only 3 loads of laundry today, then I fixed the blanket error. I watched random offerings on Tubi while completing about a foot of crocheting. So mostly an afternoon and evening of chillage.
I know Ziva is deaf and I’m pretty sure she’s nearly, if not entirely, blind. But she seems to function just fine for a geriatric kitteh. I need to remember to close my bedroom door tomorrow to keep Trevor from coming in and eating all the kibbles.
Actually, McNuggets are made from better quality chicken than you buy at grocery stores. There are also several recipes for different countries (Singapore gets the tastiest ones, with skins in small portions ground in with the breast meat for flavor). Not so much the nuggets and patties from places like Rally and Krystal. A certain amount of product had to be cooked per hour in a test kitchen similar to the ones in fast food joints. Whenever the line was down or you were on break, you could swing by for ones that had been cooked up for quality purposes. Anything wrong with them is on the store.
Yeah, USDA (they had their own office in the plant) would have shut us down for total sanitation the first time that touched the equipment.
Then when I was over at the 300, the whole 5 foot tall front panel of that ice machine falls of and just misses me. And the building was shorted handed today, including the Senior Clerk. So they pulled the one clerk out of the Mez, sent her to do the Twilight leftovers up front, and replaced her with the clerk from irregs, who isn’t as familiar with it. Then they pulled the slow clerk out of SmartPost, and sent her over to the 300(the busiest slide) to replace me. And they sent me to..the 200 Sort Table. So half the slides had the wrong people on them, there was nobody on the 100 and 200, and they guy who could do everything, and fast was putting boxes into bins. 
I did get to to the 100 and 200 Slides just before 6. Somehow disaster was averted. I got out at 11:45, after the usual “How much longer?” questions from the people who made sure the process was dragged out as long as possible. Laundry is done spinning, so I can heave it into the newly repaired dryer.
