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Bullet bitten
Finally syphoned 2/3 of the murky green aquarium water and replaced with clear conditioned water. I can see my fish again!
sick transit
It's just too hard to post here, so no more journaling from me on this platform.
I'll still read my friends' pages, though they have made it a PIA to comment.
I'll still read my friends' pages, though they have made it a PIA to comment.
Friday three-fer
Watched as much of the ESPN coverage of the NFL draft as I could FF through. After weeks of hype, none of the local TV stations covered any of it. They all had claimed to have several pairs of reporters each at strategic locations, but none of them did. And ESPN showed almost nothing of the vast entertainment offered around the city as part of the draft. Toward the end, ESPN lost it, the picks came in one on top of another, and they didn't even try to keep up.
FAIL
Next on Tivo was the white house correspondents dinner on CSPAN. Coverage started at 5 Pacific, there was a caption which said speakers would start at 5:30 but that was a lie. They played several past roasters, each at least a half hour. Then they spent time honoring long dead black women journalists, and there was an in memorium of the journalists, filmmakers and local support people killed in the Ukraine war.
Biden finally spoke, IMHO his was the best, most fun, most inspiring speech.
Trevor Noah somehow got the roaster role, and he was meh. I don't like him. Mostly because IMHO a South African has no business taking over Jon Stewart's role on Comedy Central. He just does not have the feel for American politics.
But it was great to see them have one again.
Finally, after a break to read more sci-fi, I turned on the USFL game. Turned it off in disgust 7 minutes before halftime. These players are not ready for prime time.
Ran a load of laundry, baked up some apple turnovers, played with Spook.
Tomorrow:
change her litterbox
Bulk garbage to the curb
FAIL
Next on Tivo was the white house correspondents dinner on CSPAN. Coverage started at 5 Pacific, there was a caption which said speakers would start at 5:30 but that was a lie. They played several past roasters, each at least a half hour. Then they spent time honoring long dead black women journalists, and there was an in memorium of the journalists, filmmakers and local support people killed in the Ukraine war.
Biden finally spoke, IMHO his was the best, most fun, most inspiring speech.
Trevor Noah somehow got the roaster role, and he was meh. I don't like him. Mostly because IMHO a South African has no business taking over Jon Stewart's role on Comedy Central. He just does not have the feel for American politics.
But it was great to see them have one again.
Finally, after a break to read more sci-fi, I turned on the USFL game. Turned it off in disgust 7 minutes before halftime. These players are not ready for prime time.
Ran a load of laundry, baked up some apple turnovers, played with Spook.
Tomorrow:
change her litterbox
Bulk garbage to the curb
Plan A for a change
Finally got off my butt, put on my driving sandals and:
Picked up mail from the gang 'o' mailboxes
Got $ from the drive-thru ATM
Parked near Albertson's and walked to the nails place
Got my nails repaired and silvered. Paid with ATM $$
Albertson's, stocked up on a few items
Home, turned on the Tivo recording of NFL draft day 2
Relaxed and watched till I got bored
Took a short nap. Listened to fire/rescue scanner traffic
Finished watching the draft. Lots of FF because ESPN insisted on yapping and showing clips of drafted players instead of the massive entertainment out by the fountains
Turkey franks & beans for dinner. German chocolate cake mini slice dessert. Turkey franks are way too high in salt. Didn't used to be.
Spook was intermittent lap cat.
Tomorrow:
Draft at noon.
Picked up mail from the gang 'o' mailboxes
Got $ from the drive-thru ATM
Parked near Albertson's and walked to the nails place
Got my nails repaired and silvered. Paid with ATM $$
Albertson's, stocked up on a few items
Home, turned on the Tivo recording of NFL draft day 2
Relaxed and watched till I got bored
Took a short nap. Listened to fire/rescue scanner traffic
Finished watching the draft. Lots of FF because ESPN insisted on yapping and showing clips of drafted players instead of the massive entertainment out by the fountains
Turkey franks & beans for dinner. German chocolate cake mini slice dessert. Turkey franks are way too high in salt. Didn't used to be.
Spook was intermittent lap cat.
Tomorrow:
Draft at noon.
Quick late post
Spent most of 4/28 watching local channels 3, 5, 8 and 13, all of which claimed to be NFL Draft central. I was looking forward to the draftees walking the magenta carpet on the Bellagio lake, with the fountains behind, but that never happened for 2 reasons:
1. At 5 pm all the local coverage was shut down because ESPN owned the rights
2. With 45 MPH gusts, NFL abandoned the Bellagio site and all the action was at the band shell by the High Roller.
#2 turned out to be the most intelligent decision, fans packed in and the crowd estimate was half a million. IRL closer to 100k.
As usual the call to my PCP went unanswered.
Expected Amazon delivery was delivered.
Waffles for breakfast
Berries for lunch
Cheese-its for dinner (Spook made me share)
Read trashy scifi in bed from about 8:30 till midnight. Felt dehydrated so went back to the livingroom, watched the rest of the draft on Tivo, drank 2 glasses of chocolate milk.
Ran out of CO2 in the bubbler, changed cartridges and bubbled up some diet ginger ale and diet cranberry-raspberry plus made sure all three plain soda bottles were charged.
Back to bed, more reading then sleep.
Reading It Ain't Over..
1. At 5 pm all the local coverage was shut down because ESPN owned the rights
2. With 45 MPH gusts, NFL abandoned the Bellagio site and all the action was at the band shell by the High Roller.
#2 turned out to be the most intelligent decision, fans packed in and the crowd estimate was half a million. IRL closer to 100k.
As usual the call to my PCP went unanswered.
Expected Amazon delivery was delivered.
Waffles for breakfast
Berries for lunch
Cheese-its for dinner (Spook made me share)
Read trashy scifi in bed from about 8:30 till midnight. Felt dehydrated so went back to the livingroom, watched the rest of the draft on Tivo, drank 2 glasses of chocolate milk.
Ran out of CO2 in the bubbler, changed cartridges and bubbled up some diet ginger ale and diet cranberry-raspberry plus made sure all three plain soda bottles were charged.
Back to bed, more reading then sleep.
Reading It Ain't Over..
Plumb Loco
So the plumbers showed up at 10-ish, coming from the wrong direction. Big Mercedes van. They took a look in the toilet and agreed something was rusting somewhere, but it wasn't in the toilet itself.
Theory was something made of galvanized steel was in the pipe system. They pulled the back steps away so they could inspect the pipes, and said I had all plastic piping, but it's a mess down there and like the repair guy said they would have to rip off a lot of the siding to get under there. And it probably is something minor, or upstream (HOA's problem). They put everything back in place and didn't charge for the call.
Watched most of Madeline Albright's funeral on MSNBC then CSPAN and finally YouTube to hear Biden, both Clintons and Madeline's daughters speak. Well worth it. Got to say, though, it was disturbing to see an Episcopal ceremony when she was born a Jew. But apparently she did not know that until she was in her 50's.
TMZ, PTI
The local news channels are hyping the NFL draft, which starts tomorrow evening. Way too much hype. I'll watch on TV. There are park & rides, free, but the fan area is far from the red carpet. And there isn't much space to watch as it is.
Irony: There will be a lot of wind tomorrow. Drafty on draft day.
Fried the last 2 eggs for breakfast. Potstickers for dinner. Lunch was berries.
Ordered a water filter for the fridge.
Superman & Lois has gone off the deep end. It's ugly, they are in a backwards "Bizarro" universe where the characters are unpredictable.
Clipped my nails and made a mess of them. Maybe get that repaired tomorrow.
Theory was something made of galvanized steel was in the pipe system. They pulled the back steps away so they could inspect the pipes, and said I had all plastic piping, but it's a mess down there and like the repair guy said they would have to rip off a lot of the siding to get under there. And it probably is something minor, or upstream (HOA's problem). They put everything back in place and didn't charge for the call.
Watched most of Madeline Albright's funeral on MSNBC then CSPAN and finally YouTube to hear Biden, both Clintons and Madeline's daughters speak. Well worth it. Got to say, though, it was disturbing to see an Episcopal ceremony when she was born a Jew. But apparently she did not know that until she was in her 50's.
TMZ, PTI
The local news channels are hyping the NFL draft, which starts tomorrow evening. Way too much hype. I'll watch on TV. There are park & rides, free, but the fan area is far from the red carpet. And there isn't much space to watch as it is.
Irony: There will be a lot of wind tomorrow. Drafty on draft day.
Fried the last 2 eggs for breakfast. Potstickers for dinner. Lunch was berries.
Ordered a water filter for the fridge.
Superman & Lois has gone off the deep end. It's ugly, they are in a backwards "Bizarro" universe where the characters are unpredictable.
Clipped my nails and made a mess of them. Maybe get that repaired tomorrow.
2's Day
Called a plumber which seems to specialize in toilets**. Someone will be here tomorrow between 10 and noon.
** most of the yelp plumbers are all about HVAC.
Finished watching 90 Day The Single Life. Big Ed has lucked out. Nice woman, she sees him for the mensch he is. Chat with mom was great - in Spanish.
TMZ, PTI were good as usual.
Below Deck Sailing Ship saw the emo stew leave. I hope she gets the therapy she needs, and returns some day. Meanwhile all the women on board want to do it with Gary. The only thing he has going for him is he gets drunk and blacks out.
The Equalizer gave the spotlight to Aunt Vi. played by Lorraine Toussaint. She did well, it was a long jury trial.
MSNBC is ragging about Kevin McCarthy's lies. And the lack of DOJ action. CNN has some of that but mostly is Ukraine news.
Tomorrow:
Plumber
Nails?
** most of the yelp plumbers are all about HVAC.
Finished watching 90 Day The Single Life. Big Ed has lucked out. Nice woman, she sees him for the mensch he is. Chat with mom was great - in Spanish.
TMZ, PTI were good as usual.
Below Deck Sailing Ship saw the emo stew leave. I hope she gets the therapy she needs, and returns some day. Meanwhile all the women on board want to do it with Gary. The only thing he has going for him is he gets drunk and blacks out.
The Equalizer gave the spotlight to Aunt Vi. played by Lorraine Toussaint. She did well, it was a long jury trial.
MSNBC is ragging about Kevin McCarthy's lies. And the lack of DOJ action. CNN has some of that but mostly is Ukraine news.
Tomorrow:
Plumber
Nails?
Keeping pace
Switched my Tivo preferences from favorites to all shows. Discovered a lot of channels with shows worth watching. McGuyver was quite the cliffhanger. The local sports fishing show was kewl except it was shot in Mexico.
MSNBC has become the all-Trump channel, leaving Ukraine to CNN. MSNBC is anti-Trump, you would think the less they have his bozo face on the screen, the better. But nooooooooooooooooooo.
3 pm pacemaker check at the cardiology place. It's all good, 9 years left on the battery. They re-stablished connections to my home monitor. So next appt. is in a year.
Delivered by USPS to my back door: a HUGE box of boxes of stuff. 4 boxes with 2 each identical bulky packages.
BASFA meeting was okay, too many participants with inadequate audio.
Dinner was lean cuisine spaghetti & meatballs, which sent me running to the can. Needed to do a #2 all day, now I know the catalyst.
Twitter said okay to Musk's buyout. The selling price per share will net me about $600.
Disney stock is not doing so well. They need to pull out of FL. I bet Atlanta would love to have them.
Wonderful to see cabinet level people visit Ukraine.
Tomorrow: Call a plumber to de-rust the toilet.
MSNBC has become the all-Trump channel, leaving Ukraine to CNN. MSNBC is anti-Trump, you would think the less they have his bozo face on the screen, the better. But nooooooooooooooooooo.
3 pm pacemaker check at the cardiology place. It's all good, 9 years left on the battery. They re-stablished connections to my home monitor. So next appt. is in a year.
Delivered by USPS to my back door: a HUGE box of boxes of stuff. 4 boxes with 2 each identical bulky packages.
BASFA meeting was okay, too many participants with inadequate audio.
Dinner was lean cuisine spaghetti & meatballs, which sent me running to the can. Needed to do a #2 all day, now I know the catalyst.
Twitter said okay to Musk's buyout. The selling price per share will net me about $600.
Disney stock is not doing so well. They need to pull out of FL. I bet Atlanta would love to have them.
Wonderful to see cabinet level people visit Ukraine.
Tomorrow: Call a plumber to de-rust the toilet.
Swallow Invasion
The desert is not kind to flying swarming insects, so it was surprising to see a flock of swallows cavorting in front of the house for a couple of hours this afternoon. In my 2 years here, have only seen this twice.
1.75 avocados consumed for breakfast, sprayed with half a lime's juice.
Shrimp for lunch, berries for dessert. Mixed up some pomegranate-cranberry soda. Drank some chocolate milk with and without soda water.
Watched some of the GOP airhead's "I can't recall" testimony. I expect the judge will keep her on the ballot and let her idiot voters decide.
Not watching any more American Idol. I've seen each contestant too many times already. None of them deserve the title, except maybe that short fat Italian dish washer from Long Island. IMHO country music is not the Idol demographic.
Watched most of the USFL game, NOLA vs. Tampa Bay. NOLA has a couple of NFL-able players. TB does not. They play in what looks like a high school stadium in the Deep South. The same venue for every game. Very amateur. Once in a while a coach comes up with a creative play, but the QB rarely executes well.
Took a short nap about 4. Spook was splayed across the closet floor, then found a T-shirt to curl up on. She also spent a lot of time almost on my lap back in the livingroom.
The two storm chasers were on their way home, one to Colorado the other to Nebraska, where he can't get into his home because an apartment in his complex burned.
Ran a load of laundry and the dishwasher.
Tomorrow:
Call a plumber about the rusty toilet
Pacemaker check in the afternoon
1.75 avocados consumed for breakfast, sprayed with half a lime's juice.
Shrimp for lunch, berries for dessert. Mixed up some pomegranate-cranberry soda. Drank some chocolate milk with and without soda water.
Watched some of the GOP airhead's "I can't recall" testimony. I expect the judge will keep her on the ballot and let her idiot voters decide.
Not watching any more American Idol. I've seen each contestant too many times already. None of them deserve the title, except maybe that short fat Italian dish washer from Long Island. IMHO country music is not the Idol demographic.
Watched most of the USFL game, NOLA vs. Tampa Bay. NOLA has a couple of NFL-able players. TB does not. They play in what looks like a high school stadium in the Deep South. The same venue for every game. Very amateur. Once in a while a coach comes up with a creative play, but the QB rarely executes well.
Took a short nap about 4. Spook was splayed across the closet floor, then found a T-shirt to curl up on. She also spent a lot of time almost on my lap back in the livingroom.
The two storm chasers were on their way home, one to Colorado the other to Nebraska, where he can't get into his home because an apartment in his complex burned.
Ran a load of laundry and the dishwasher.
Tomorrow:
Call a plumber about the rusty toilet
Pacemaker check in the afternoon
Damn Near Killed Me
7 am felt severely low Hgl, stumbled to the kitchen, meter said 71, which is way low for me. Grabbed two Klondike bars, turned on Tivo and watched PTI, I think. Or maybe it was TMZ.
8-ish back to bed. very impressed because Acucheck meter successfully updated the phone app from clear across the house. One Touch meter is not very good at that.
Went grocery shopping at WalMart. It's a much larger store than Albertson's, longer walk from the parking lot too. I went because they have some different selections of the same foods. Different fruit cups, different frozen meals but the same brands I usually buy. More generics at lower prices. And now I'm set with months of pre-bed chocolates. Bought 2 gallons of chocolate milk.
In the mailbox was a prescription for antibiotics and a letter from Humana explaining why they were not filling it. The usual "we could not contact your doctor".
Lots of people at the pool, turns out there was a potluck inside the clubhouse. Packed as usual.
I was so pooped from touring WalMart that I parked the three bags of groc on the washer, made an egg cream with the last of the chocolate milk, turned on the TV and watched NASCAR, PGA and storm chasers. Switched to Gatorade Zero, there were three bottles on the bottom shelf of the fridge, which needed to go to make room for the 2 gallon jugs. Also pulled out 4 small bottles of champagne, which I may or may not mix with diet orange soda.
Finally put stuff away but snacked my way through meals. WalMart had the raisins and cinnamon version of rice pudding. Yum.
My favorite storm chaser was on Twitch, so I watched. She found a major thunder storm and gave us a light show.
Many deaths. Orrin Hatch, Guy Lafleur, Robert Morse, Daryle Lamonica.
Plans for tomorrow:
Get back to making real meals
Run the dishwasher
Take out the garbage
8-ish back to bed. very impressed because Acucheck meter successfully updated the phone app from clear across the house. One Touch meter is not very good at that.
Went grocery shopping at WalMart. It's a much larger store than Albertson's, longer walk from the parking lot too. I went because they have some different selections of the same foods. Different fruit cups, different frozen meals but the same brands I usually buy. More generics at lower prices. And now I'm set with months of pre-bed chocolates. Bought 2 gallons of chocolate milk.
In the mailbox was a prescription for antibiotics and a letter from Humana explaining why they were not filling it. The usual "we could not contact your doctor".
Lots of people at the pool, turns out there was a potluck inside the clubhouse. Packed as usual.
I was so pooped from touring WalMart that I parked the three bags of groc on the washer, made an egg cream with the last of the chocolate milk, turned on the TV and watched NASCAR, PGA and storm chasers. Switched to Gatorade Zero, there were three bottles on the bottom shelf of the fridge, which needed to go to make room for the 2 gallon jugs. Also pulled out 4 small bottles of champagne, which I may or may not mix with diet orange soda.
Finally put stuff away but snacked my way through meals. WalMart had the raisins and cinnamon version of rice pudding. Yum.
My favorite storm chaser was on Twitch, so I watched. She found a major thunder storm and gave us a light show.
Many deaths. Orrin Hatch, Guy Lafleur, Robert Morse, Daryle Lamonica.
Plans for tomorrow:
Get back to making real meals
Run the dishwasher
Take out the garbage
Saved $1700 in a few minutes
Missed Richard's call this morning (somehow slept till 9:30). Called them back and he explained that from the photos and description by his estimator, there is nothing which needs to be fixed under the house. The carpet is bunched up from walking the same path for 2+ years. If I want I can have a carpet installer stretch it and trim the ends, but maybe professional cleaning will suffice. My house is low to the ground and massive pieces of siding would need to be removed to get under it, which would cost about $1700 and six guys' time all day. Not worth it when the problem is not under the house.
Today's culinary experiment was to take the bag of frozen KFC wings, put them in a pot on the stove and slowly bring them to a boil. Drain, refill, repeat. Add some cream of celery soup mix to cut the taste.
FAIL
The wings were totally infused with cayenne pepper. Too spicy for me even after processing. KFC is not Popeye's, they are supposed to be 11 herbs and spices, not one large dose of pepper. Tried to east some for lunch, ended up bagging them and putting them in the garbage.
With that as a catalyst, I also emptied the time capsule known as the freezer, discovered two edible slices of pizza, an unopened bag of shrimp won tons, and a half eaten bag of avocado chunks. Threw out a lot of old corned beef slices, KFC wings from a year ago, unrecognizable bread pudding and banana nut bread. Kept the slices of angel food cake.
Not much of TV. Twitch had two storm chasers who took forever to find a storm. It's two vehicles, the lead truck says RAM on the tailgate, so far the following truck has not followed that command.
Stumbled on the Marjorie Taylor Green hearing on CSPAN. It was all historian talk, which the defense was not happy with and the judge allowed because he can always strike it later.
Rice pudding with cinnamon for dinner, and berry cup with whipped cream.
Delivered:
Cube tissue boxes, consigned awkwardly to the bathroom closet
Smaller slippers which were in an Amazon box 6x too big
Soda Stream diet ginger ale, caffeine free diet cola and diet raspberry-cranberry syrups.
I mixed some regular diet cola with diet orange for the fridge.
It's been very windy, lots of rain clouds, but the rain evaporated before it got to the ground. Virga.
Happy Earth Day!
Today's culinary experiment was to take the bag of frozen KFC wings, put them in a pot on the stove and slowly bring them to a boil. Drain, refill, repeat. Add some cream of celery soup mix to cut the taste.
FAIL
The wings were totally infused with cayenne pepper. Too spicy for me even after processing. KFC is not Popeye's, they are supposed to be 11 herbs and spices, not one large dose of pepper. Tried to east some for lunch, ended up bagging them and putting them in the garbage.
With that as a catalyst, I also emptied the time capsule known as the freezer, discovered two edible slices of pizza, an unopened bag of shrimp won tons, and a half eaten bag of avocado chunks. Threw out a lot of old corned beef slices, KFC wings from a year ago, unrecognizable bread pudding and banana nut bread. Kept the slices of angel food cake.
Not much of TV. Twitch had two storm chasers who took forever to find a storm. It's two vehicles, the lead truck says RAM on the tailgate, so far the following truck has not followed that command.
Stumbled on the Marjorie Taylor Green hearing on CSPAN. It was all historian talk, which the defense was not happy with and the judge allowed because he can always strike it later.
Rice pudding with cinnamon for dinner, and berry cup with whipped cream.
Delivered:
Cube tissue boxes, consigned awkwardly to the bathroom closet
Smaller slippers which were in an Amazon box 6x too big
Soda Stream diet ginger ale, caffeine free diet cola and diet raspberry-cranberry syrups.
I mixed some regular diet cola with diet orange for the fridge.
It's been very windy, lots of rain clouds, but the rain evaporated before it got to the ground. Virga.
Happy Earth Day!
Mobile Home repair stuff
Richard's rep & truck arrived at 9:30. Not impressed that he came to the back door. Turns out the house needs some support posts underneath, not releveling. They will need to create an access to below the house. I asked about a smaller back steps but he pointed out that my carport is too narrow for that to help. Across the street they have widened the carport, very expensive.
Expecting an estimate soon. Probably $1400. A little less than I put in savings expecting an IRS bill which never happened (hey still owe me $1300).
There were a couple of new items om Tivo in addition to the usual.
MSNBC is doing more Jan 6 and less Ukraine. CNN not as much.
QE2 turned 96 today. Wow.
Married at First Sight continues to FAIL. None of the couples will last long enough to make babies. Three of the 4 will probably split up next week. The expert matchmakers are not at all expert, and their mentoring sessions have not brought the couples together.
Chatted with youngest sister for 2 hours.
Baked some cherry turnovers.
Tomorrow:
Maybe a grocery run for frozen meals. Maybe.
Expecting an estimate soon. Probably $1400. A little less than I put in savings expecting an IRS bill which never happened (hey still owe me $1300).
There were a couple of new items om Tivo in addition to the usual.
MSNBC is doing more Jan 6 and less Ukraine. CNN not as much.
QE2 turned 96 today. Wow.
Married at First Sight continues to FAIL. None of the couples will last long enough to make babies. Three of the 4 will probably split up next week. The expert matchmakers are not at all expert, and their mentoring sessions have not brought the couples together.
Chatted with youngest sister for 2 hours.
Baked some cherry turnovers.
Tomorrow:
Maybe a grocery run for frozen meals. Maybe.
420
On FB I posted a long list of prescription drugs advertised on TV the past week, and my sometimes vegan sister commented about plant-based meds. Ironically today is 4/20, the ultimate pant-based medication.
No cat overnight. I slept late, still no cat.
2 avocados for breakfast. The two bags of 5 are ripening. Need to cut them up & freeze the pieces tomorrow.
To-done:
Talked with Allstate's not very articulate admin, who called in response to my email saying I was not renewing my auto insurance. She said she could not accept the email, but it turned out that all I needed to do was re-send it with my policy number and the date to cancel.
Another call from the local State Farm agent, who got me more coverage for less, she will call a week before the Allstate ends, and finalize it.
Ad a call from Richard, or Richard's Mobile Home Repair, he will come by tomorrow between 9 and 10 am and look at my raised carpet ridge. The Web says leveling will probably set me back $1k. More if they have to replace boards. I will also ask about smaller carport steps and renovating the back of the porch, maybe also new carpet there.
As soon as I sat down to the PC I saw a roadrunner on the street, but he bolted before I could grab a camera.
Streamed the hummer feeder. There were finches and other small birds as well as hummers.
One storm chaser on Twitch, he was following radar in OK, but by the time he got to the three locations the storms had dissipated. Watched a former Vegas guy who streams from his long haul truck, but nobody was on chat.
Not much on Tivo - will watch MAFS later.
Lots of wind, but not as much as yesterday.
Food was junk and rice pudding. Found my stash of ground cinnamon.
Tomorrow:
wake up with the alarm
Make the bed
Get dressed by 9.
Richard's
No cat overnight. I slept late, still no cat.
2 avocados for breakfast. The two bags of 5 are ripening. Need to cut them up & freeze the pieces tomorrow.
To-done:
Talked with Allstate's not very articulate admin, who called in response to my email saying I was not renewing my auto insurance. She said she could not accept the email, but it turned out that all I needed to do was re-send it with my policy number and the date to cancel.
Another call from the local State Farm agent, who got me more coverage for less, she will call a week before the Allstate ends, and finalize it.
Ad a call from Richard, or Richard's Mobile Home Repair, he will come by tomorrow between 9 and 10 am and look at my raised carpet ridge. The Web says leveling will probably set me back $1k. More if they have to replace boards. I will also ask about smaller carport steps and renovating the back of the porch, maybe also new carpet there.
As soon as I sat down to the PC I saw a roadrunner on the street, but he bolted before I could grab a camera.
Streamed the hummer feeder. There were finches and other small birds as well as hummers.
One storm chaser on Twitch, he was following radar in OK, but by the time he got to the three locations the storms had dissipated. Watched a former Vegas guy who streams from his long haul truck, but nobody was on chat.
Not much on Tivo - will watch MAFS later.
Lots of wind, but not as much as yesterday.
Food was junk and rice pudding. Found my stash of ground cinnamon.
Tomorrow:
wake up with the alarm
Make the bed
Get dressed by 9.
Richard's
Nothing to see here
Washed a lot of towels & T-shirts.
Made the bed. Spook "helped".
She would not let go.
Took a nap late - 5-6 or so, fell asleep and when I woke up Spook was curled up against me. Stealth cat - a couple of times when I checked she was not there.
American Idol mostly sent home losers but they "saved" one guy who seems to have a major meth habit. He has calmed down a little, maybe his stash is depleted. Another hyper guy was sent home, thank goodness. Somehow they promoted way too many country singers, so competition in that lane was fierce.
Hot Bench had another outright liar, but also a heartbreaking case where a friend loaned money for a medical procedure, it is past due, but the patient is not recovered enough to get a job. Ironclad contract, they made him pay.
Rachel Maddow is back in her time slot, but it airs twice on the west coast, so boo hiss.
Stayed indoors, winds are 30 MPH gusts to 70. Ran the filter for the first time in ages because the dust is in the air.
Avocado & lime, & banana breakfast, cole slaw & eclair for lunch, Swedeballs for dinner. Drank a snifter's worth of Irish Cream.
Left a message for home repair, no answer yet.
Made the bed. Spook "helped".
She would not let go.
Took a nap late - 5-6 or so, fell asleep and when I woke up Spook was curled up against me. Stealth cat - a couple of times when I checked she was not there.
American Idol mostly sent home losers but they "saved" one guy who seems to have a major meth habit. He has calmed down a little, maybe his stash is depleted. Another hyper guy was sent home, thank goodness. Somehow they promoted way too many country singers, so competition in that lane was fierce.
Hot Bench had another outright liar, but also a heartbreaking case where a friend loaned money for a medical procedure, it is past due, but the patient is not recovered enough to get a job. Ironclad contract, they made him pay.
Rachel Maddow is back in her time slot, but it airs twice on the west coast, so boo hiss.
Stayed indoors, winds are 30 MPH gusts to 70. Ran the filter for the first time in ages because the dust is in the air.
Avocado & lime, & banana breakfast, cole slaw & eclair for lunch, Swedeballs for dinner. Drank a snifter's worth of Irish Cream.
Left a message for home repair, no answer yet.
Busy morning
Up with the alarm, collected all the garbage bags and took them out to the bin, dumped the recycles into the bin. Pulled the car out of the carport and parked on the street so I could sweep the rocks away which the wind storms blew under the car.
This also made it easier to roll the bins out to the curb, over the carport instead of the gravel.
On to the mailbox, threw out a lot of junk, kept the Humana prescription.
Post office, put the CO2 cartridges in the big bulk rolling receptacle. SodaSense makes a lovely sturdy mailer for a pair of cartridges, prepaid postage. As soon as the PO scans it, they start the return order.
Albertson's, a gallon of chocolate milk, some berry grab boxes, sourdough English muffins, and a very large bottle of Carolan's Irish Cream. And dark chocolate sugar free pudding, plus two tubs of rice pudding.
Home, streamed the hummer feeder.
Watched American Idol. They kept the two worst men and sent home my favorite woman. Why do they love falsetto men's voices so much? And the field is too heavily Country.
Took a nap at 3, Spook joined me. When I got up and dressed she led me back to the livingroom. I put out new cat grass for her.
Thought I had 4 eggs left, but there were 6. I should have fried up 3, but did 4 and put each one on a half of an English muffin. I finished the eggs but left over a muffin.
All the Jesus messages on Facebook annoy the hell out of me -- How can people be so stupid?
Ukraine needs more help than NATO is willing to give. :-(
BASFA zoom meeting was interesting as usual.
Meatish Swedeballs for dinner.
Finished the last of the old Carolan's bottle.
Tomorrow:
Call about the house - releveling?
This also made it easier to roll the bins out to the curb, over the carport instead of the gravel.
On to the mailbox, threw out a lot of junk, kept the Humana prescription.
Post office, put the CO2 cartridges in the big bulk rolling receptacle. SodaSense makes a lovely sturdy mailer for a pair of cartridges, prepaid postage. As soon as the PO scans it, they start the return order.
Albertson's, a gallon of chocolate milk, some berry grab boxes, sourdough English muffins, and a very large bottle of Carolan's Irish Cream. And dark chocolate sugar free pudding, plus two tubs of rice pudding.
Home, streamed the hummer feeder.
Watched American Idol. They kept the two worst men and sent home my favorite woman. Why do they love falsetto men's voices so much? And the field is too heavily Country.
Took a nap at 3, Spook joined me. When I got up and dressed she led me back to the livingroom. I put out new cat grass for her.
Thought I had 4 eggs left, but there were 6. I should have fried up 3, but did 4 and put each one on a half of an English muffin. I finished the eggs but left over a muffin.
All the Jesus messages on Facebook annoy the hell out of me -- How can people be so stupid?
Ukraine needs more help than NATO is willing to give. :-(
BASFA zoom meeting was interesting as usual.
Meatish Swedeballs for dinner.
Finished the last of the old Carolan's bottle.
Tomorrow:
Call about the house - releveling?
Bit the head off the chocolate bunny
Too bad it was 2 years old. Should have bought a new one. Oh well.
Shopping dilemma - the only thing I need is a gallon of chocolate milk. And maybe English muffins. Not worth delivery charges or a trip to the store.
Avocado from 2 days ago was ripe enough for breakfast, and added a banana.
Lunch was some chocolate bunny, chocolate milk with soda water = egg cream. Diet cola messed up my tummy, but ginger ale & egg cream settled it.
Streamed the hummer cam on Twitch all day. My handle is H0weird
Laundered separately two bathroom mats and dried them over the carport steps railing. The one for in front of the shower came out longer and wider than it went in.
To-done: put all the Because diapers from the closet in a big black garbage bag and hauled it to the curb for bulk collection. They leak something awful, and I had way too many on a first time buyers deal. Also hauled to the curb was the moth-eaten front door runner and the cat gate from Jade's old room. And a bunch of boxes which have been broken down.
Tomorrow morning I need to roll the garbage bins to the curb. Probably by 10.
Lots of channel surfing. Travel channel Bigfoot search was in my sister's neighborhood on the Olympic Peninsula, and was hilarious. They lit up the area at night with powerful flashlights and wondered why all they saw was a deer or two. Every sound or motion was a possible bigfoot to them.
Wicked Tuna had its moments, especially when they caught a huge thresher shark. Louisiana Law is mostly unwatchable, those game wardens are pretty stupid.
CNN had a long interview with Zelensky. Nothing new, except he points out that the world needs to enforce the concept of "never again".
Spook was side table cat, she wouldn't stay on my lap.
Tomorrow:
Bins to the curb
Call about leveling the house
PO to drop of empty CO2 cartridges
Albertson's for chocolate milk & sourdough muffins
Shopping dilemma - the only thing I need is a gallon of chocolate milk. And maybe English muffins. Not worth delivery charges or a trip to the store.
Avocado from 2 days ago was ripe enough for breakfast, and added a banana.
Lunch was some chocolate bunny, chocolate milk with soda water = egg cream. Diet cola messed up my tummy, but ginger ale & egg cream settled it.
Streamed the hummer cam on Twitch all day. My handle is H0weird
Laundered separately two bathroom mats and dried them over the carport steps railing. The one for in front of the shower came out longer and wider than it went in.
To-done: put all the Because diapers from the closet in a big black garbage bag and hauled it to the curb for bulk collection. They leak something awful, and I had way too many on a first time buyers deal. Also hauled to the curb was the moth-eaten front door runner and the cat gate from Jade's old room. And a bunch of boxes which have been broken down.
Tomorrow morning I need to roll the garbage bins to the curb. Probably by 10.
Lots of channel surfing. Travel channel Bigfoot search was in my sister's neighborhood on the Olympic Peninsula, and was hilarious. They lit up the area at night with powerful flashlights and wondered why all they saw was a deer or two. Every sound or motion was a possible bigfoot to them.
Wicked Tuna had its moments, especially when they caught a huge thresher shark. Louisiana Law is mostly unwatchable, those game wardens are pretty stupid.
CNN had a long interview with Zelensky. Nothing new, except he points out that the world needs to enforce the concept of "never again".
Spook was side table cat, she wouldn't stay on my lap.
Tomorrow:
Bins to the curb
Call about leveling the house
PO to drop of empty CO2 cartridges
Albertson's for chocolate milk & sourdough muffins
In other news
Woke up at 6, knew my hgl was low, was planning on a Klondike and PTI but the One Touch meter said I was way high - 300+. Tried another test strip and it was 100. I've been getting the strips from Amazon, and they are well within the use-by date but have been erratic for s while.
I puled out the Humana-provided Acucheck meter and strips, and they are more accurate and easier to use. Canceled my Amazon subscription for One Touch.
I puled out the Humana-provided Acucheck meter and strips, and they are more accurate and easier to use. Canceled my Amazon subscription for One Touch.
Anticipation Day
Spook spent a lot of the day on the floor next to the sexy purple velvet bed covering. She spent some of the night on the bed curled up near me, too. I freaked her out a bit in the afternoon breaking down the pile of shipping boxes in the front room. Some of them were glued together and had to be pulled apart. They had symbols on them saying don't use box cutters.
Nothing on Twitch, though I fired up the hummer cam and streamed it all day. One viewer. No chat.
MSNBC was mostly reruns of their Ukraine coverage. CNN wasted the day on their Bourdain documentary. I didn't like his shows, because he would eat anything. He went to interesting places and added nothing to food knowledge.
Animal Planet had some reruns of San Diego Zoo.
6 pm I was exhausted so I took a 90 minute nap, then had dinner watching Hot Bench (3 cases).
On Vanguard, ordered 100 shares of Twitter yesterday, but the order is on hold. Maybe Monday.
Looking forward to tomorrow's bite the head off the hollow chocolate bunny ceremony.
Nothing on Twitch, though I fired up the hummer cam and streamed it all day. One viewer. No chat.
MSNBC was mostly reruns of their Ukraine coverage. CNN wasted the day on their Bourdain documentary. I didn't like his shows, because he would eat anything. He went to interesting places and added nothing to food knowledge.
Animal Planet had some reruns of San Diego Zoo.
6 pm I was exhausted so I took a 90 minute nap, then had dinner watching Hot Bench (3 cases).
On Vanguard, ordered 100 shares of Twitter yesterday, but the order is on hold. Maybe Monday.
Looking forward to tomorrow's bite the head off the hollow chocolate bunny ceremony.
Down the tubes
After spending too much $$ on Ocean Spray and coconut water, I switched to SodaSense CO2 cartridges in my SodaStream bubbler and SodaStream syrups. I have diet ginger ale, diet orange and diet cola. One each of those has been open and on the counter since January, so those were poured down the drain and fresh ginger ale opened.
One of the bottles had some ginger melted and rotting in the bottom, so that bottle is history.
But I have plenty of bottles, and 2 full CO2 cartridges.
The ginger ale tastes great.
One of the bottles had some ginger melted and rotting in the bottom, so that bottle is history.
But I have plenty of bottles, and 2 full CO2 cartridges.
The ginger ale tastes great.