Yo, McUne! A Blog Anniversary MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Back from class - my coral reef was smoked!! :eek: Turns out the instructor failed to turn on the vent fan when she set up the kiln, so when it started going up in temperature, once it hit 451, the newspaper stuffed in some pieces (used to help shape them) caught fire, and smoked up the building. Security rushed in, turned off the kiln, opened it up, and sprayed it down with fire extinguishers. So everything that was in the kiln is black, and the kiln may not be functional. eesh.

Anyway, all the black pieces are now in the other kiln, and Alice said the black should just burn off and they should be fine. I’ll see come Tues. Such excitement.

Awwwww, RIP, JoeDawg. Forgive **swampy **for being so strict with you over the years…

And now, off to bed with me. I’s tahred. I want to take off tomorrow, but being a dedicated professional, I’ll go in. I won’t be happy, but I’ll go in.

Kisses all around! *** MWAH!!***

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Hopefully, both are fixed…

ETA: Sounds like TVCTPMO has set their sights on Taters now…

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OK…back from churchification and am trying to remember what else I was going to say.

I’ll add you in for Monday, FCM.

Hope the surgery goes really well, gotti.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: on the extra meds, MamaT. Probably at least 2 non-alert people involved in filling that one, I would guess. Especially with that type of med, you’d think they’d be extra vigilant.

People seem to be hiding lately, rosie. I imagine they’ll come out and play again eventually.

Tired.

Guess I should crawl into bed. I really wanted to get a bunch of stuff done tomorrow. My ambitions have been reduced to: get taxes done. I’ve got paperwork put together and know where last year’s tax stuff is, so it shouldn’t take terribly long.

Maybe I’ll get some seeds planted, too. But only if I actually have energy.

Nitey nite…

ETA: knew I forgot something: extra hugs for Taters.

GT

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I’m home. the arthritis is going strong. The Canes lost, but the Rangers won(Thanks, MBG!), so the Slugs____ go golfing.:smiley:

I don’t have Nelly just yet, I am waiting on the rescue lady to call.

{{{{swampy}}}} and {{{{{Joedaddy}}}}. :frowning:

BBBobbio, both are fixed. I’m a great bit grrrr at rescue lady, since she suggeted giving Nelly up to someone who works less. :mad:

MamaTigs, :eek: Glad you survived.

{{{{Taters}}}}

BooFae, walking both should be interesting. Nelly is slow, Gordie runs like a Thoroughbred on speed.

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That was supposed to be a joke. Revisit Puggy’s phrasing with a dirty mind…

I’ve been there, on the rescue side. It’s a valid point, and 99 times out of a hunnert saying so will piss off the owner immensely. Only you know if you can pull off keeping a dog or two with that long of a daily separation.

All I know is that should VWife suddenly and permanently disappear, the entire Vunder menagerie would be gone within a week. I couldn’t do it, despite how fond I am of the dogs. The cats would be good riddance.

Oh, and Loki snapped at VWife yesterday, which is waaaaaay out of character for him. I think she finally got the hint that he’s been on steroids too long. If she hasn’t, then my hiding them from her should be the icing on the cake.

Blurf, yada yada yada. Happy (Good) Firday.

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Oh, no! R.I.P. Joe Dawg. The MMPers will miss you. :frowning:

Sometimes you have to remind them that you aren’t the “cleaning fairy” taters. Give em what for.

Happy Firday to all. I am off and anticipating just goofing off somewhat today. I deserve it.

Carry on.

Tupug

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Thanks for all the hugs re JoeDawg. I know he wasn’t my dog but still, it was a sad night at da cave. JDD says he’s doin’ ok. He had already planned to take today off work which is a good thing cause he’d probably be pretty worthless on the job today.

I’m goin’ to his house in a little while to help him with some yahd work. There are these two enormous oak trees that love to drop limbs and with all the rain and storms we’ve had over the past two weeks, there are a bunch of ‘em on the ground. It’ll be a good thing to help keep his (and my) mind off things. Plus, I’m takin’ him out to lunch just cause.

To everyone who’s havin’ grrr times and visits from TVCTPMO I hope things get better soon.

BioTigs :eek: But hey, you did get a legal drug high out of it, so there’s that. :smiley:

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Swamps, any indication from JDD that he’ll get a SonOfJoeDawg sometime in the future?

I wouldn’t want you to lose your disciplinarian ways, after all.

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BioTigs, I hope you weren’t on the happy pills long enough to get clinically addicted.

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Morning, Mumpers! I am caffeinated, and cleaning up before work. Gordie is following me around and farting. I may do a dog exchange.:wink:

BBBobbio, Gordie does hump his fixed girlfriend at the DOGPARK!, so you never know.

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{{swampy}}

And lots of encouragement to **Taters **re: quitting smoking. Sounds like life’s throwing a lot of shit at you right now and making it as hard as possible to stick to your guns, so lots of Mumper support for quitting. And hope that everything else gets better too.

Yikes on the drugs, MamaTigs! Glad they got it straightened out right away!

Suddenly somewhat busy at work. Gotta run!

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Morning, all. I’m here, kinda sorta. I gave up and crawled in bed early last night, and woke up feeling considerably less spacey, thank heaven. But I can tell the higher dose of the meds hasn’t completely worn off, even though it’s been more than 24 hours since I took my last pill. Oy! That was a definite legal high. :smiley: Papa Tigs said I sounded drunk. I didn’t hear the difference in my voice, but I guess I was sounding pretty happy. As I told him, that’s not drunk, that’s just me not hurting for a welcome change!

No problem, Bobbio – I only took 3 doses. And trust me, both my doc and I watch very, very carefully for signs of addiction; a little physical dependence (as opposed to psychological) is to be expected, but even that is almost nonexistent. I’ve taken the milder meds for several years, and if I’m not hurting I don’t take them – and even then at most have an hour or two of being slightly uncomfortable before even that mild effect wears off. There’s a big difference between addiction and dependence, thank heaven, and since I’ve been on the same meds for nearly five years with nary a problem, neither my doc nor I are worried. Thank heaven. I have a pile of rules I have to follow to the letter, natch, but as long as I do that, everyone’s happy. Especially me!

canineservant, I’d be more worried about the dogs having such widely different activity levels. Although that, too, depends on the dog – if Nelly is content to watch Gordy be overactive, then there’s no problem. That’s why we haven’t even considered getting another dog as a companion for Isaac, though – he would feel obligated to try to keep up, being a lab and not understanding that he outgrew puppyhood years ago, and he might do himself real damage since he’s all arthritic and everything now. But working for a living? Suggesting that’s a reason NOT to have a dog is, IMO, a total crock! The vast majority of pet owners work outside the home, so to suggest there’s something wrong with them for having a pet is ridiculous!

Anyway, I should go do something constructive. Like work. Since I’ve got a small mountain of it sitting here. I got basically nothing done yesterday, I was so out of it, so I need to make up for it today. Even though I still just want to go to sleep – that part of the meds hasn’t worn off! :frowning:

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Egads, we’re losing a dog a week here. :sad:

At least they’ve had good lives. I saw on the news this morning about some sicko who cut off a puppy’s ears then dumped the dog at a shelter.

We seem to be recovered from the cable sabotage. If anyone was wondering where the Bay Area Dopers were yesterday, several large fiber cables were intentionally cut yesterday morning. Don’t know who did it yet, but it was someone who had the relevant tools to get into the underground cable vaults, plus something strong enough to cut the cables - you can’t cut a 1-inch diameter underground 360-fiber cable with wire cutters.

All told, roughly 500 individual fibers were cut at three or four different locations, knocking out 911 communications, telephone (both land lines and cellular) and data service throughout four counties. We had to shut down over a dozen locations yesterday as it was impossible to do anything.

Update on the surgery - I got the price, and it’s large but manageable.

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gotti glad the price is manageable. I know it feels better just knowin’ now.

Taters I forgot to say, yay on the quittin’. It’s tough but you can do it. I did it durin’ Lent last year and am hangin’ in there just over a year now. You can do it!
Hint. Hard sugarless candy can be your friend right now. I found some that were in all kinds of different flavors in a big bag. They tasted good and I figured sugar free was the way to go. Just hang in there!

JDD’s yard is all cleaned up, mown and lookin’ good! We went to the hog trough known as Ryan’s for their lunch buffet. I’s stuffded!

I am also all sinusy. I just took a couple of Benadryl [sup]TM[/sup]. It is now nappy poo time. Happy poo time happened earlier today. :smiley:

Later Y’all!

ETA: BBBobbio he has no plans for gettin’ another dog right now. Like he said, no matter what others say, it’s best to give yourself some time to mourn. The little critter was special and right now it’s hard for him to imagine another dog in the house.

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Well, yeah, that’s why I left the matter as indefinite. My point is, and will always be that the JoeDawg stories are hands-down some of the best material any Mumper has produced.

Until JDD is ready, you might have to rent a Chahoowahoowa for a weekend or three just so we don’t miss out.

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Good morning my lovely people.

I’m in a better frame of mind today. Thanks for the hugs and encouragement. Frankly, by the time my son got home last night, I just didn’t want to deal with the issue.

However, tonight at dinner is another story.:wink:

Today, I have to drive my daughter down to UW so she can meet her partner for her presentation project. I also need to drop my shoes at a cobbler, and I need to go to various other places too. Just once…just ONCE, I’d like a day where I didn’t have errands to run and things I was obligated to do.

The weather is crap, but it’s the weekend, so it’s no surprise.

I should get going. Smooches and hugs to all.

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It’s been snowing all morning. In mid-April. And I know who to blame; one of the guys from up front said yesterday he wanted a big dump of snow so he could go snowboarding. I told him this is all his fault, but he looked smug. It’ll probably be gone later today but I’m still mad for him wishing for more damn snow.

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Aw… poor JoeDawg. {{{Swampy and JD’s Daddy}}}

I’m glad you’re ok, MamaTigs! That could have been very bad.

Please stay quit, Taters! It gets so much easier the longer you go without.

My vacation is almost over. Boo! It’s been very relaxing. I didn’t focus much on cleaning, like I usually do when I’m at home on vacation.

Mr Rebo is installing one of the last three new windows left to do. That boy has too much energy! :slight_smile: I try not to let it make me feel guilty for sitting on my butt posting to the Dope.

See ya!

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Hang in there, Taters! Quitting isn’t the easiest thing you’ll ever do, but it’ll be one of the most rewarding. In just about every way you can think of – health-wise, money-wise, you name it, you’ll benefit from it!

I just got a call from the pharmacist. Turns out he really did just have a brain fart and read the quantity as the strength. :rolleyes: Anyway, he’s oh so generously refunding my copay. :rolleyes: What bothered me was he didn’t sound particularly concerned by his mistake – but if it had been, for example, my mother, she probably wouldn’t have called, would have taken the meds and taken the short-term stuff on top of it, and then heaven knows what could have happened. I mean, if it made me wobbly enough to nearly lose my balance on numerous occasions, what could it do to an already-wobbly 88-year-old? So I’m not planning to use that pharmacy again, if I can help it; if I do, you can be sure I’ll watch 'em like a hawk!

I just got a lovely gift of yummy yarn. I’d visited one of my favorite online knitting shops in person when I was in Seattle, Little Knits, and I wrote a nice review of the place to my sock knitting mailing list. Turns out the shop owner is on that list, so she told me next time I ordered to remind her who I am and she’d include a gift. Which I did, and which she did, a lovely ball of sock yarn in pretty blues that includes sparkly silver bits in it! Very pretty. It’ll make nice sparkly socks, that’s for sure!

Back to work. If I can stay awake. Today it’s not the meds making me sleepy, it’s the weather. It’s one of those grey days when staying in bed with the colors pulled up seems like the best idea. :rolleyes:

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Speaking of Seattle, :wink: it looks like I’ll be headed out that way in June. I had requested a Port Operations training class, with little hope of getting it, but today I got an email that it was approved! HUZZAH! It’s 2 weeks, one in Seattle, one in Tacoma, learning all about what’s involved in getting ships in and out of ports, loading and unloading cargo, and stuff that I’m not even aware I should know about! If I recall the dates correctly, I fly in on Sunday, Jun 14, then come home on Friday the 26th or Sat the 27th. I’ll be going with a coworker, so we’ll have to share the rental car. But I’ll have an entire weekend. I smell a DopeFest!!!

Other than that, I took off early today. **FCD **and I met for Messican for lunch, then I came home and vacuumed my car. He and daughter are running to the marina this afternoon to move the boat. I’m thinking I’ll do some laundry and make a grocery list for tomorrow. And knit. And try to get to bed early tonight, because I’s tahred!!!

I should probably work on my class report, too. It’s due on the 28th and I have yet to research anything. Raku - I think the hard part will be keeping it to 3 pages.

TGIF!! That’s all for now…