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I was doing some training in Mississippi for the National Guard, and I could have sworn that two mosquitoes were talking about eating me there or taking me home to eat.
Alaska's Mosquitos take helicopters home to eat... Or so I was told by the residents when I went in 1987.
Regards,
Richard
When I lived in Alaska '81-'83 I will say the mosquitoes were huge but really slow compared to South Floridas mosquitoes ,much easier to squish ......
A close friend of mine who worked summers in Alaska said much the same... Alaska's are bigger, but Minnesota's are more vicious.
One summer during the '60s I visited my uncle's family in Melbourne, Florida. I was in my early teens as were four of my cousins there. The fun of the day was running behind the mosquito fogger as it drove through the riverside neighborhood in the early evening, spewing white clouds of oily poison. But we had no problems with mosquitos for a few hours. And most of us survived to a ripe old age.
The Florida beasts that I remember actually having to deal with were alligators, coral snakes, cottonmouth snakes, rattlesnakes, stingrays, sharks, spiders the size of dinner plates, and roaches the size of small birds.
Complaint: Tooth pain: My dentist had been hinting at upcoming problems for the last two times I've visited him. Seems he knew what he was talking about. I've been debating about scheduling a bus trip into the city to get groceries tomorrow (Thursday 3/5/26), but now the debate is over. I've scheduled the 8:00AM bus pickup(I hope they remember me this time
). Weather is cooperating, clear, temps in the 50sF. Will first get dropped off at the BurgerKing for breakfast, then begrudgingly toddle about 4 blocks East to the dentist for the emergency appointment at 10:00, then somehow get myself 6 blocks West back to the grocery and drugstore, and finally an Uber home. A lot of walking.
But it's a mini-adventure. Wheee...
Non-complaint: I just received a couple of packages from Amazon. Food, food, glorious food. A box of forty Frito-Lay snack bags (Cheetos, Doritos, Cheddar popcorn & more). The other box had three one-pound bags of nuts (Almonds, pecans, and mixed nuts). Mmmm... nuts.
TV munchables.
Non-complaint: Yay, just received a notice that my highschool reunion comittee has decided on the next reunion. September, and they've also said that this will be the LAST official reunion. We graduated in 1966, We've had a reunion every 5 or 10 years, it will be our 60th anniversary. And FINALLY, they've decided on a proper restaurant. No more picnic in the park, no more buffets at the rodeo grounds, no more cheap hotel restaurant, no more limited choice menu at tourist trap restaurant. A proper restaurant in the city, not on "franchise row", with expensive food & atmosphere, cushioned leather chairs, fancy foreign names for food in the menu, and a proper parking lot exclusively for the venue. Ooh, fancy! About as high class as this area gets. (I really hated the rodeo grounds reunions.
) Finally, a reunion worthy of a life's experiences. Expensive, yeah. But it's only money and by gum, I'm worth it.
Not many more chances to pamper/debauch myself like that. We started out with about 150 in our class, now it's down about half, but usually only about half of that come to the reunions. (Lots of drama around the committee that kept choosing the rodeo grounds, till they finally quit. 
) Come September, Mmmm, filet, bleu cheese, fancy seafood, decadent desserts, overpriced alcohol, leather chairs. And a room full of 60 year surviving memories. 
Now I hope the world remains sane and safe enough until September.
Oh the weather. I say Arkansas weather's alignment is Chaotic Evil with Evil tendencies...or maybe it's Chaotic Evil with Chaotic tendencies.
All the terrifying mosquitoes stories above. My dad said he'd heard stories of people in some state (maybe Florida swamps, maybe Alaska, or maybe a third state) who had gone on a camping trip and died in their sleep of blood loss from mosquito bites. I hope it was the wilderness version of an urban legend.
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Complaint: I keep getting this same thing for my birthday. I've told everyone, repeatedly, that I don't like it, I hate it TBH, and it still shows up every year. I'm sure it will be here again, just in time for my birthday next week. US Daylight Savings Time. Why won't it go away?
We had those also. Might want to look up what St. Louis was up to with those foggers during the 1950s and 1960s. I also ran around in the smoke behind the foggers.
On a Lighter note
I just stopped by to check and see if everybody is still more or less aliveish... it seems like it... probably...
I didn't notice any posts mentioning anyone wanting to eat delicious brains or anything like that... but then again I only read a few pages back...
Not that it really matters if you've become a zombie... I still like you all no matter what...
Unless you try to eat my brains... that's just very antisocial behavior and you really shouldn't be eating fellow forum members brains...
Am I still a forum member or a former forum member?...
I hardly ever post anymore...
Basically I just stop by occasionally to see if any other forum members have become zombies and stuff like that.
It seems like everyone is more or less ok...
Wait, sorry...
Good luck with the hysterectomy carrie58... I'm assuming that hasn't happened yet, but good luck when it does.
I think I read something about LeatherGryphon's nose leaking and some unconventional plugging suggestions...
but I didn't want to pry by going back too far to find out what that was about, because LG seemed to be okay for the most part...
I think he did loose a glove or gloves too...
I'm not sure if that had anything to do with the nose stuff...
Also there was something about kyoto kid's kitchen being located in a 737 and giant mosquitos eating helicopters...
Well... I guess you all know the rest because you've been here, so no need to rehash any of it.
Did anyone mention the electric pangolins?...
I didn't make that up... Probably someone else did... but it does sound like something I'd make up though... apparently some "researchers" are claiming they found a bioelectric pangolin in the Mohave Desert... according to their claims, "the scales exhibit a faint blue luminescence under low-light conditions, particularly when the animal is agitated or hunting."...
Which is cool if it's true, but I'm just hoping they are actually baby pangolin kaiju who will eventually be able to shoot condensed electrical beams like a proper adult kaiju... the world really needs a couple of Pangzillas running amok to liven things up.
Ah... that's all... I'm not sure why I even posted...
Stay well everyone.
@McGyver, I'm still here. I rarely post, but visit ever day. Always enjoy your posts, which I've missed lately.
Non-complaint: Always satisfying to hear from McGyver.
'Nother Non-complaint: Yay, finally made it to the grocery. First stopped at BurgerKing for breakfast, then a toddle 4 blocks east to the dentist (oh, my aching joints), afterwards it was raining(remember the weather report saying "clear"?), and because my joints had already passed their daily walking limit, I gave up attempting to walk 6 blocks west to the grocery, so I took a short Uber to the drugstore($), picked up yet another pricy prescription($$), prescribed from my doctor visit last week (It damn well better do what it's hyped to do.)
. Then toddled across the street to the grocery, filled three bags, and got an Uber home ($$).
Complaint: Dentist visit was because of an intermittently screaming tooth. Nope, not a cavity. A cracked molar.
Will need a root canal, and eventually a crown($$$$). Of course I have no insurance for that.
I've put him on hold for a few months to try to arrange for the funds. (*Sigh*)
Chatty People: I'm a quiet person, I'm a watcher, not a talker. On my visits to the Burger King for breakfast it's always around 8:20AM and I always see the same group of 7 or 8 retired people sitting in a communally arranged table. Each time, there is always a lady at that table who is perpetually scanning through her iPad and showing photos to people at the table who are long past caring. Today I come in and she's not at the table, but is off to the side blasting songs from the '60s on her portable bluetooth speaker. I sit down in my regular seat (creature of habit) which happens to be near the chatty kathy. Apparently not wanting to sit at the communal table for some reason this morning, she gloms onto me as someone who might care to look at her photos. My coffee got cold, before I had a sip. I saw photos of innumerable relatives, and which ones she liked and which ones she detested, and I heard lots of terrible comments about her older sister whom she believes hates her. Eventually she revealed enough about her family that I recognized who she was(*click*)
, and realized that I live next door to her 95 year old mother, and I know the sister, she's complaining about, because she was one of my best friends in high school, and I will quite likely be seeing her again at our 60th high school reunion in September.
Small town gossip & backstabbing. Y'gotta love it.
This is why I'm a quiet person. Watching is sometimes safer and more entertaining than talking.
Something seems to be wrong with Amazon's website. I am trying to buy some trash bags but I can't get the cart to check out.
@McGyver Thank you very much ,nope hasn't happened yet ,on the plus side my youngest daughter is gonna come up and take care of me when it happens ,so that good !!
Something seems to be wrong with Amazon's website. I am trying to buy some trash bags but I can't get the cart to check out.
Apparently a country has launched some web attacks against parts of the Amazon international websites. I heard it on the news this morning.
Edited to make it more acceptable for the forum.
I can't log into Amazon on my iPad. Guess I have to wait to do anything on their for now.
...I first moved to Seattle from Stevens Point WI in 1980. Took the train as I always wanted to do a long western train trip (also experienced the eruption of Mt. St. Helens) A couple years later moved south to Olympia where I went back to college to update my computer skills, and worked at a public radio station. Finally in 1989 decided to get a "real life" and moved to Portland.
Been here ever since and have little inclination to move elsewhere. .
Yeah it's changed a lot since then, rents got way more expensive, so did dining out. Several old haunts of mine are gone (a number, victims of the pandemic shutdown), and the city centre is something of a ghost town with empty storefronts and offices.
For a city of its size it is fairly quiet compared to Seattle to the north and the Bay Area to the south which is what originally attracted me here in the first place. Large enough to find things to do, yet not so big it's overwhelming.
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MvGyver good to hear from you again. Miss your presence. wit, and "interesting" tales.
I prefer heating up oven to cook burgers also patty to Grubhub and order a burger that may or may not get to me hot.
Apparently the heater was on and that is why the house was hot. I just changed it to cool. Hopefully the house will cool down soon.
Complaint: Pulled a bowl out of the freezer, looked at it, and thought I saw a bean and yay chili for tonight, one pan. So I started warming it up and thinking a little cheese, some Frito Scoups. Yummy. Started warming, and the smell says, " Hey ya dummy, I'm spaghetti sauce." So it was pasta again.
Saw in on the internet.
I did that once... except I thought it was vegetable soup. Turns out it was salsa, which I didn't tumble to until halfway though the bowl when it finally dawned on me why my soup was attempting to murder me. After that I stopped trusting I'd remember what things were and started labeling them.
Misidentified Food: At a Thanksgiving dinner, where most of the food was contributed by the numerous attendees, I once covered my mashed potatoes with a nice looking brown gravy that turned out to be applesauce.
Little Dude's birthday today... he seems to be having a good one, apart from that the sky did an awful rain/freeze/snow thing that hasn't melted enough to make it safe to go walking (physics would not favor me on those hills). I always feel bad that we don't do much, but he doesn't understand birthdays, and too much off-routine is upsetting. I'm hopeful once the sun comes out it might heat up just enough to get a walk in before bed, but we'll see. He woke around midnight, so it'll be cutting it close.
Happy birthday to Little Dude.
Non-complaint: Angry clouds east of me. Temperature is 60(F). Most all the snow is gone. Lots of mud everywhere. Lightning and rolling thunder is sparking up the day. It's Saturday and up until a few minutes ago, there were highschool boys playing basketball on the half-court in the little town park that I can see from my kitchen window. Looks like spring. Wheee... Winter is on the way out.
Complaint: In addition to my dentist advising, two days ago, that I need a root canal and crown on one of my molars($$$$). No insurance.
I had previously gone to my Primary Care Doctor last week and he's now arranged for some body scans at the hospital this coming Wednesday. There's something lumpy & painful in the middle of a muscle. We need to find out what it is. Whether it be a cyst, foreign object, or other. Regardless, it will probably have to be excised.
Fortunately I do have insurance for some of that cost, but still..., my plan of not getting sick to save on insurance deductables this year is already in peril.
Think positive waves LG, think positive waves.
Non-complaint: The rain has arrived. A heavy Spring-like rain, beating down on the roof, running down the now ice-free driveway ruts.
Complaint: My security camera on my porch has not been catching all that it should. I tested it last night and it appears that the cold winter temperatures have broken it's tilt/rotate mechanism. It only tilts now. (*Sigh*) Well, it was a cheap device, so I shouldn't expect professional level service from it, but 6 months seems like a bit too fragile.
A Few Moments Later: Well, that rain took care of whatever snow was left. First time the ground has been bare and green since Thanksgiving.
Complaint: Well, the sun got the trails clear (at least for what I can tell from my window), but the base temp is still below freezing (so they might not be as safe as they look) and the air temp with windchill is 18F. Little Dude is having some big feelings about that.
Sigh. At least tomorrow it should be warm enough to go if he's bundled.
Ten minutes before time to clock out, it was discovered that there was no more prepared onions. I cut up 7 pans of onions and had 2 to 4 minutes to spare before time to clock out. Then a catering order of 20 or 40 kids meals pop up. I stayed until they were all made. Then clocked out.
Now my sandwich has no ranch on it. I don't feel like going up for ranch.
Just back on the Forums. My best wishes for Little Dude's birthday! Even if it turned out to be a wash for the walk, I hope later this week will be a wonderful one for your family. Give him a hug from me and Simon and Charlie.
I was trying to get my sheets washed before my tax appointment (and cleaning off the van of 4 inches of snow!) when Simon started a sneezing attack. Let's just say, I was happy I had planned to wash the throws as well as the sheets. Slimey stuff everywhere. Bed is back together and they are curled up asleep.
...Happy Birthday Little Dude
Checked the forecast for the Twin Cities area on Sunday and it should be partly sunny with a high around 59° (F), Sounds like decent weather for a Sunday stroll. Monday should be similar (mid 50s) before things go downhill again.
62° here in Portland rirht now so heading out in a bit myself. particularly as starting tomorrow the met ten days will be wet and breezy (particularly Wednesday) with below normal temperatures (40s).
I have a lovely wool brimmed hat that keeps my head dry and warm but which the wind likes to treat as a Frisbee at times. I don't use a brolly anymore as I've had several destroyed by the wind and they are a bother deal with in general. The hat has served me well for many many years.