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No, I probably forgot I hadn’t posted about it. I’m tahred. It’s just grampy because of the outcome from his PSA test. See, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer when he was 66 and he turns 91 on Friday. Prostate cancer is so slow growing that most men die of something else before that gets them. Grampy just has outlasted the odds. Yes, the hospice people are lovely and we got a lot accomplished with the social worker today. Things are still a mess (and I mean that in a very literal way that is just way too TMI even for this group) but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

For some reason I can deal with dog and cat puke much easier than people puke. I think it’s the smell. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Why would I be scolding you? Have I missed a good opportunity to give someone an old-fashioned upbraiding?

DH had a similar encounter with his own version of Alzheimer’s Lady yesterday. She remains convinced that she lives elsewhere and often toddles off to “go home” but thankfully, rarely goes much farther than the nearest park bench. Yesterday, she decided to go farther and he found her at the grocery store. I believe he’s placed a call to social services so that maybe they can convince her family that it’s time for her to leave his building, which is an independent living apartment building, and transition her to assisted living, or at least something where she could be more closely-watched that she doesn’t wander off into the street.

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Ya know, that might be why it was going to be a couple weeks before she checked in again: she was planning to WALK to Switzerland. ::Pictures Nava on a Sound-of-Music-like trek across mountains::

Hi Tel! Nice to see you stop by. How are things (other than the Tummy Bug and Former Friend issues)?

We want pics of Duracell, which, I agree, is a perfectly good name for a cat.

Silly not-closed work, Taters. Sometimes I really wonder what employers are thinking. How hard is it to decide that they’d rather have their employees safe and sound?

Glad things are going better, MBG.

Sorry for the unshareable TMI, Puggy and for all the stress of having sick parents. You know we’re here to listen, right? Hugs.

Sorry to hear about the diseasedness. Hope you feel better, Scarey.

OK…all this weather prediction is freaky…and cool. Can someone make sure there’s no rain here tomorrow?

Ick - puke - ick ick ick ick ick. I alternate between being very brave and being a sympathy puker. How does that make sense?

Well, I was going to forgive you and be all consoling, and stuff Al, but…you posted in Cafe Society before coming here? I’m crushed. ::sobs::

Lot of sickies everywhere. We’ve had several at work. I’ve avoided it so far. Has anyone disinfected in here lately?

Sean, you’ll post pictures of the new roof and siding, right?

Re: the critically important Underwear Situation: She knows we’ll want to see pictures as part of her defense, right? (Just the skivvies; this is a family show, after all.) Cuz we’re big on evidence-based arguments.

Sorry about the crappy neighbor, LiLi. Maybe you could record her rants for the next court visit?

Not sure why you had doubts, FCM. It’s clear you’re a competent and reasonable person, so the only possible reason for you not being the project lead was idiotstupidhead. OTOH, it sounds like it’s a blessing that you’re not the project lead, because then you’d have to deal with obvious stupidity from idiotstupidhead.

Getting to write your objectives is a very good thing. I got to write my own job description before one of my previous jobs was posted. Our boss had left and I’d been doing the job; it was a really really specialized job and I was the only one who could write the position description. Also, my boss at the time - the one who stayed behind - was lazy. Didn’t even bother to interview me; he had someone else do it for him. She didn’t know that I’d written the description. I think I might have written the interview questions too. Would have been easier if I’d interviewed myself. Fortunately I was the only one who was qualified to do the job anyway, so I didn’t feel too bad. And, in the meantime I’ve made sure there are updated descriptions and interview questions for every position in my department (except maybe my own - I guess I should see about that sometime) so whoever comes after me will have something to start with.

I’ve successfully completed a bunch of gardening tasks, showered, eaten dinner, thrown a load of clothes in the wash, and am now wandering through the Dope and watching a Canadian/Indian movie (Masala. Some of it is very funny, some of it is very strange, and some is just meh…

Back later.

GT

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Just a tip here - when you’re cold, you might want to rethink the whole drinking ice water thing. BRRRRRRRRRRR

My kid called again - today was her first day working at the museum, and she was working in The Body exhibit. She said it was mostly quiet and boring, so she named a bunch of the bodies. She’s weird. She gets that from her dad. But she’s happy, so that’s good.

My sweetie is in bed - he hurt his back and his knee and he refuses to take anything for it or go to the doctor. He won’t even let me give him a hot pack. He’s got to be the world’s worst patient. But I think I’ll go join him anyway. Plus the bed is warm, so that’ll take care of the whole ice water thing.

Is it Friday yet??

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LiLi, I think gt had a wonderful idea - record the crazy neighbor! Audio only if that’s all you’ve got, but if she’s doing a really slam up and down the hall" show - get it on video! Maybe she’ll be so embarassed she’ll quit. Do stay close to your door in case she decides to go psycho - and try to get it all on tape. It could turn things in your favor, especially if you get video of her running after you…

Stoopid newletter is finished, thank goodness. I’m glad that is done for a week or so anyway. I need to start the next one sooner, which means I need some player interviews.

I’m hungry and I’m tired of leftovers. I will want some more stuffing and gravy tomorrow, but not tonight. I guess I’ll go see what’s available.

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The thing is, the neighbour under her who’s being particularly harrassed had recordings of her threatening phone messages. Unfortunately our landlady hadn’t properly filled out the forms, so the evidence couldn’t be presented. Our landlady was too frightened by the lawyer and inarticulate to understand the questions the judge was asking. We were all twitching with frustration and helpful enthusiasm, but we didn’t get to speak.

If she does another “My Momma’s dead and you’re all &^&&(^**)^%$$s!” I am out there with the camera for sure.

The worst thing is that we had a good case, we just couldn’t get through the communications problem.
There’s cake, lime curd, and chocolate pudding in my fridge. I should finish our RCIA readings, but I already know all this stuff, so I’m not feeling enthusiastic.

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all this talk of puke is not good, because my spicy dinner is not sitting well. :frowning:

in other news - remember the board game party I went to Friday evening? My friend’s brother was there - I’d met him once before, very briefly. I honestly don’t recall exchanging more than 3 words with him at the time. Anyway at the end of the night I (privately) asked my friend if her brother was seeing anyone and asked her to find out if there was any interest there. Tonight she tells me he asked for my number, before she had a chance to say anything. so yay! I don’t know what will come of it, I’m not looking to get married. I just want someone to go to the movies with and havae a nice conversation with. I’ll lete you know what happens when and if he calls. :slight_smile:

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I’m lots better, **gt, ** thanks. I had another friend offer to hurt Former Friend for me, but I bit him pretty good, so I declined. I’m kind of embarrassed about the whole thing, really.

I have a job interview tomorrow. It’s a temp position, but as we keep saying here, it’s better than nothing.

Cool, rosie!

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Tellie - what time tomorrow, er, today? I’ll send positive vibes your way
yes I’m still awake, why do you ask? I’ll probably stay up another half hour or so then crawl into bed to watch the replay of TDS/TCR. For some reason, altho quite tired, I’ve no desire to go to sleep yet. Oy.

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One p.m., rosie. Thanks!

I was trying to see if I could get into the tax school run by one of the income tax places around here. They called today and said there was space for me, but the hours are such that I have no idea how I’d get there. Oh, well. A paying job would be immediately better, but that would have been good too.

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Howdy! Another fun day, everybody late, random Hun children, the usual. The cat puked in front of the dog, who promptly ate it. Even the cat looked horrified.
I have had to clean up people puke too. Nothing like walking into work, and the first thing your employee tells you is “A kid just puked on register 3”

Puggy, I’m sorry about your grandpa. I’ve been there and done that.

Good luck Tel!

gt, I wouldn’t mind seeing QD in her BVDs. YMMV.

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…And you don’t dot your i’s. (Old FedEx commercial promoting the then brand-new and ultra-futuristic ability to dial into FedEx and see the receiver’s signature.) Yes kids, there was a time before you could just throw a tracking number at Google and find out where your box is. A time when you’d have to call UPS or FedEx and wait for a human to answer and ask for a “trace” and hope they’d be able to have an answer within a day.

For the benefit of whoever it was that asked about my tire-chewing Jeep, it was a 2004 Liberty.

My Martha Washington cakes are done baking. MW cake is a historic alternate name for fruitcake, but since most people equate fruitcake with radioactive red and garish green pickled fruit-like gummy stuff, I call mine MW cake as it’s full of real fruit - this year’s cakes are made with golden raisins, cranberries, apricots, mango and ginger. Might or might not also be some cherries in there. I diced up the fruit and set it to macerate in rum a week ago and have forgotten exactly what I used. In case it sounds yummy, you can make your own - just head to foodtv.com and find Alton Brown’s “free-range” fruitcake recipe.

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I love fruitcake. Any kind of fruitcake. Red and green gummy fruit substitute; fine with me. Rum or bourbon; fine with me. I love fruitcake. There is no truth to the rumor that there is only one fruitcake that has been shipped around the U.S. for 200 years. I already ate that one.

I’m glad to hear it wasn’t a Wrangler, gotti. Be careful in that macho new truck!

It is 3:23 here and the insomnia bug has bitten me again. I did attempt to go to sleep, but Mr. SCL has to get up in about an hour and a half and I didn’t want to toss and turn him out of bed. Speaking of Mr. SCL and work, it looks like he’ll be working on my birthday. No Crocs and no dinner. Waaaah. Oh well, I guess birthdays aren’t that important when you’ve already had 45 of them. Sometimes it’s hard to believe I’m almost 46 years old. I may look it, and on cold mornings I definitely feel it, but I don’t always act it.

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You stole my summer, you cad! Actually London has it’s own weather system by now, largely because it believes that the whole world revolves around the inside of the M25. As for Portsmouth, well, everybody loves a sailor, don’t they?

So last night I started on the dreaded anti-biotics. Lovely things, they’re like horsepills. Take them every six hours with a meal, it says. But I don’t eat every six hours! Bah.

I even got round to uploading my pics of Duracell but only half of them seem to have appeared - the others says that they’re having a bit of trouble. Well, that’s what you expect from kittens…

Hope everyone’s having a happy Wednesday!

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Good luck with the interview, Tel!

Very cute kitty, Scarey.

Gotta go to work. :frowning:

GT

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Well of course I was in a snit! I mean do you have any idea whatsoever how hard it is to find a pale pink that doesn’t look like somebody puked up Pepto*Bismol[sup]TM[/sup]? On top of that they told me it was a one of a kind! HARRUMPH! Good thing I still had all the price tags I could reattach to the suit and return it. That was the part of the dream you can’t remember FCM. :stuck_out_tongue:

Why is it that I’m showin’ up in so many dreams lately?

Puggy rant, rave, moan, groan, bitch, whatever it takes. We’ll listen. Heck, more than a few of us have been or are going through stuff with aging parents. Been there, done that with my father. Hospice folks are really some of the greatest people in the world.

doggio did the kid actually puke on the register? Cause, well, while that’d be gross, it’d also be kinda funny. Ok, maybe not but it amuses me. :smiley:

Snakes I forgot to say thanks for the compliment yesterday. Maybe I’ll be able to sneak up for a game and dinner (we could start out at Chef Lee’s and finish up at Country’s!) after the horrordays are over.

Rosie cool on the guy asking for your number! Even if nuttin’ works out, it still feels kinda good don’t it?

ACBG and I sorta kinda started out that way. Well, we already knew each other but it was at a party we started talking and learned each other was ummm… available. We exchanged phone numbers, went out to dinner a couple times and all that. Then I invited him over for dinner and a soak in the hot tub. The fact that I served thick tbone steaks, iced down a bottle of champagne and had some chocolate covered strawberries had absolutely nothing to do with what ensued that evening and ever since. Really. Anybody buyin’ this?

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OH! Good luck with the job interview Tele. Good thoughts headed out from south Jawja and all appropriate appendages are crossed.

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Seems to be a rash of missing persons right now. Last Friday night, an Alzheimer’s patient in Ahoskie wandered off, and that ended happily.

Saturday, there was another search in the state park with the allygators for a guy that didn’t end happily; alcohol and a canoe were involved.

While getting breakfast today, I heard on the boobtube about a current search for another Alzheimer’s patient in Virginia Beach. No word yet…

:frowning:

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So you’re saying you’ve pissed off the right person? :confused:
Speaking as another engineer who’s had to deal with huge egos and 0 IQ wrapped in a uniform…

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Good news/bad news. The good news is that my 35 gallons of peecans in the shell went through the power cracker last night, and I now have 55 gallons of busted nuts. Best $14 I’ve spent in a long time…

The bad news is that now I have to sort, by hand, all of those gallons to separate the meats from the shells. It’s gonna be a long weekend…

A 5 gallon bucket of busted nuts yields about 4 pounds of meats, and at $15 a pound for cleaned peecans, I think I know how I’m going to fund Christmas this year…