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Happy Birthday. Hope you have a really great day.
Thank you everyone! So far a nice day.
I went to Apple Store and got some AirPods. I was there for them to look at my iPad and they will replace it for $119.
I went to that mall's food court and got free food with birthday coupons.
I also went to Food Lion to get milk. I got this canned chicken. After I brought it home, I saw it was chicken and salmon. That is something that a cat would like.
Happy birthday, @Sfariah !!!
Complaints: 1) Husband has had a horrible cough & other sinus issues for a week. Yesterday he woke up feeling worse & with a terrible headache. He called his VA clinic to see if he could get in. They sent him to a "nearby" urgent care they had arrangements with. It may have been nearby as the crow flies but not as these rural roads go. Took us about 45 minutes to get there - and the doctor wasn't. So we headed back to our county & the local ER, which the VA will pay for. Spent an hour or 2 there & got him an antibiotic prescription. Headed to the Wal-Mart pharmacy since Husband was in the system. After making us wait the full half hour they said it would take to fill it, he was told they were out. So we went to my pharmacy (independent). They didn't have it either & explained it was a very common antibiotic but an unusual strength. They were kind enough to call the last of the 3 pharmacies in the town, which luckily had it. At least it wasn't pricey. A 6 hour "adventure."
He is better today thankfully. But we spent around $60 - filling up car plus buying lunch & the over the counter decongestant/mucus relief the doctor recommended.
2) Our Our border collie tricked me & the lab/shepherd into getting off the loveseat so he could take it over. This collie usually appears totally lacking in brains or sense. I am now suspicious it is an act.
That was Spicy. She loved walks and will grab anytime to make it walk time.
Fortunately for us, since we have no sheep, much of Gilligan's collie energy is taken up by his 2 hobbies: treating his rope toys the way Rikki-Tikki-Tavi treats cobras and engaging in vicious-sounding* play fights with our senior Lab/Belgian, Bear. Said play fights are often (as right now) conducted with the pair lying next to each other on their couch. Other times it is more active. And, no, being a tripod (missing a foreleg) hasn't slowed Gilly at all.
*I believe they want to be cast as Wargs in the next Tolkien movie
I came across the warg-like play growling with our collie too. She sounded like a barely restrained killer when pulling on her red rubber ring or an old sock with us at the other end. Her shaking and growls were so violent that if someone else pulled on the ring, they always dropped it as if it was a hot brick. Our collie terrified them.. And then this happy, smiling collie bashed them on the leg with the red ring to play again, she seemed to be giving lethally mixed signals.
Collies are so active and so happy that being a Tripod wouldn't affect them at all. Just keep a careful eye out for joint pain. They can wear out the mono-leg end joints and get arthritis quite easily.
Must admit, if I ever got a dog, I'd get a collie, maybe a collie/lab cross (calmer, but just as intelligent). However I'm not sure my cats could cope with the extra energy and enthusiasm released in their vicinity. Not their thing at all.
Regards,
Richard
A ponderable:
Hey Diddle Diddle
To be is a riddle.
When mind is in tune, life's troubles are spewn.
But the people all laugh
and give you a snort.
'Cause to explain it, you sound like a loon.
-- LG --
Non-complaint: SS deposit is here! Mini-adventure tomorrow. Wheee..., an 8:00AM bus trip to the center of the city to my Urologist(just an annual checkup),
but the bus drops me off an hour early, so I walk across the street to a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant for breakfast before the doctor. Afterwards, a bus to the WalMart on the far side of the city to pick up my new eyeglasses. Yay!
Will also do some more grocery shopping while at WalMart. By then it will be lunch time but I don't think I'll eat at Applebee's or Olive Garden this time(skipping the walk, the expense and the salt)
. But perhaps a toddle into a Wendy's or BurgerKing.
Then a bus back to the near side of the city, and a short Uber home. I think I'm getting the hang of the public transportation setup in this city.
My birthday went well. I got some AirPods for myself. They work well with my SE 2020 phone.
..hmm, born on "tax day".
A belated (as it is now April 16th even where I am), congratulations on your latest trip around our central G-type main sequence stellar primary. Add another 584,000,000 miles travelled in your life's logbook. .Multiply that by your current age to get the total distance travelled around the sun since you were born. .
Don't forget the 220-230km per second that the sun is travelling around the centre of the Milky Way.
I've given a range of speeds because the sources I've seen don't absolutely agree. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory quotes 225km/s, One NASA document quotes 792,000 kmh (220km/s), another 828,00 kmh (230 km/s).
Regards,
Richard
...yeah that could be figured in (and also the movement of our galaxy through the cosmos) but sometimes that is more than the 7 plus decade old synapses can handle at nearly 01:00 local time. Particularly so after having gone on only about 4.75 hours of sleep the night before.
Late night is the about only time I am able to actually get any character and scene work done as I am not interrupted by emails, phone calls, texts, false fire alarms, and lately, nice warm sunny weather.
Yeah, but it's all relative.
And now there's a new idea floating around that the Universe itself is spinning.
In relation to what?
(*Sigh*) Too many theories, we need more facts. Like, what was Atlas standing on when he held the Earth on his back?
Complaint: Couldn't sleep either. Arthritis in my knee. Fell asleep in my recliner yesterday afternoon with my leg in a twisted postion, jammed the knee tissues the wrong way. Ow, ow, ow.
Did manage to get about 5 hours of fitful sleep but got up an hour early today, eager for my mini-adventure, although I may have to take my cane today.
Non-complaint: Mini-adventure.
One of the Elephants on the back of the Turtle. But not the elephant that has to lift its leg out of the way to allow the sun to go past, obviously.
Regards,
Richard
Thank you!
I don't know how to dress today. It is cold this morning but warm this afternoon. I don't want to carry a jacket around because it's cold outside right now but won't be later.
Complaint: Headache. Again.
Complaint: Today's mini-adventure boogered by seasonal vacation.
Whole schedule thrown off. Caught bus at 8:00AM, arrived at Urologist's at 8:35AM for a 10:15 appointment. Walked across street(and up the hill one block, huff-puff) to discover that the normally open breakfast restaurant was closed all week.
Returned to Urologists because there's nothing else in the area except more doctors, various industrial buildings and the hospital. Prepared to wait an hour and a half for my appointment but put on my desperate-ancient-person mask and pleaded to be moved up in line. Got a quick "no" and went back to waiting. Then just as I was about to order an UberEats delivery, to at least use some of my waiting time eating a quickie breakfast from the Tim Horton's 4 blocks away, the nurse came and called my name. Surprise! OK, got in to see Urologist early. Yay! No problems reported, no problems detected, AOK. Happy, happy. Joy, joy!
But it's still only 9:20AM. So, I trudged my lame body down the hill 4 blocks to the Tim Horton's and had breakfast, and picked up two plain donuts and a blueberry muffin to take home. Wasted 45 minutes there and called the bus dispatcher for advice on how to catch a bus from the Tim Horton's to WalMart on the far side of the city. Unfortunately, she said it would take about two hours and a transfer to get there.(it's only three miles)
However, if I had caught the bus from the Urologists, as I had originally planned, it would have been faster and easier, but I wasn't about to walk back up the hill 4 blocks.
So I took an Uber($$) which took me and my two plain donuts and the blueberry muffin to WalMart. Arrived there about 10:00AM. Got many of the things on my grocery list. Picked up my new eyeglasses. Stopped into the in-store Subway and picked up a footlong turkey sub sandwich to take home.
So now it's about 11:00AM and Applebee's and OliveGarden are now open but they're on the other side of the huge WalMart parking lot, and there's no fast-food restaurant within 3 or 4 blocks, and my lame body was already complaining about the earlier four block hike down the hill, and I was in no mood for another hike, even just across the WalMart parking lot. So, I called another Uber that took me and my two plain donuts & blueberry muffin, and my groceries and sub sandwich to my favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the decrepit strip-mall on the near side of the city, where I had a cheap but wonderful lunch (hot turkey sandwich & mashed potatoes with a heavy slathering of savory, thick, dark brown gravy. Mmmm... gravy)
But like all other restaurants in this city, too much salt for ancient-people (I'll hold 5 pounds of water for three days). Don't tell my Cardiologist. 
After lunch I walked to the other end of the decrepit strip-mall to the Chinese take-out to get two orders of Szechuan Chicken combo w/fried rice & eggroll to take home for my holiday celebration, and ordered an Uber to take me, and my two plain donuts & blueberry muffin, and my groceries, and my sub-sandwich, and my two Szechuan chickens home where I unpacked my treasures then collapsed into my chair and fell asleep for an hour. I hadn't counted on my selected breakfast restaurant being on vacation, screwed up the timing of my whole morning.
Non-Complaint: Mini-adventure over, expensive, exhausting, but successful. Mischief managed.
....rather uneventful day so far.(save for Chrome freezing up again).
Made a big brekkie of bacon, seasoned hash browns covered with cheese, toast, and coffee. . I Cook the bacon in the oven on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper which makes draining the grease off and clean up "easy peasy".
Another day in the low 70s so thinking of going out for a bit to sit in the sun. and have a pint or two at the neighbourhood pub.
Tomorrow may do a "mini adventure" of my own to my old neighbourhood of 8 years ago as it is supposed to be even nicer.
Oh yeah about that Chrome matter. , As I've mentioned I'm on Win7 and even though Google stopped supporting it a couple years I never had an issue. That was until about mid January this year when the freeze ups started. I tried everything from clearing the cache to browser data and cookies but only a total reboot (which on my old hardware takes a bit of time) is what cures it until the next random occurrence. Something must have become buggered in the browser code, but that's out of my hands.
I could move back to Firefox but that would entail setting up a whole new email account, contacts and favourites list, as well as other extras like auto form fill, plugins, and extensions.. Not a task I care to undertake at this time.
I just came home from watching a new movie called Sinners with my boyfriend.
Right now I'm not thirsty but hungry.
All is quiet on the western front.
Really does depend as it is referencing a War in Europe and there is one going on at the moment so not particularly quiet.
....been pretty quiet here on the Left Coast though.
The calm before the storm.
Well the double sided tape has been doing a fairly good job of holding the sky in place.
I poured myself a nice cup of fruit punch/spite drink. Then somehow spilled it all on the carpet.
That feels like the appropriate thing to do with spite drink.
I painted some Easter eggs with a Pollock inspiration. They are hallowed eggs not hard boiled so no fear of acrylic paint poisoning the eggs.
The gift bag is actually an Apple bag painted to be my stepdad's Easter gift bag.
If I have some mollies and tetras and they are swimming. If I put fish food in their water, why do the mollies and tetras go into a feeding frenzy?
Complaint: Arghhhh..., my microwave oven is making growling noises when it starts up. Sounds I've not heard it make in the 10 years it's been my friend.
Death agony?
Non-complaint: Today is 4/20. Time to celebrate (where it's legal).