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I accidentally dropped my egg carton. Six or half a dozen cracked so I had to cook them asap. Lunch is now scrambled eggs.
Non complaint my church just gave me a $50 food lion gift card. So I need to schedule a ride to food lion sometime soon. Food Lion doesn't have its own delivery so I can only use it in store.
This was drilled into my head at 15 when I was still on a learner's permit. These days folks seem to think it's a weapon that everyone else just needs to get out of the way of. I'm grateful Dad emphasized defensive driving. Cuss all you want -- the other driver earned it -- but physics doesn't care about the right of way, and your job is to get where you're going safely, not to risk your life to prove a point.
Sympathies to those with SSA woes. Not quite the same, but I understand somewhat... the state removes support payments from the ex's paycheck automatically, but when that paycheck is coming is anyone's guess. As someone who always got paid on the 1st and 15th, or every second week on Friday, I find it baffling. Maybe he just turns in his time cards really late some weeks? Because it's not like the amount goes up for the long ones... (eta: what he owes monthly is static, but he's paying off 50k+ of arrears from when he was voluntarily unemployed, but they legally can't take more than half his check.)
...you and me both. I feel that way about most of the "big money" teams who can pretty much "buy" a championship (Otani the "700$ million dollar man" who's ten year contract is more than the entire ten year' payroll of the Miami Marlins).
I've been a lover of the game ever since the days of the Milwaukee Braves (where I grew up). Became a Giants fan (an still am) after teh Braves moved to Atlanta in1966 as I just couldn't bring myself to root for the "Lovable Losers" (The Cubs).
At least the Brewers (with the 8th smallest annual payroll in the majors) swept LA in a 6 game back to back "home and away" series during the regular season (only to be swept 4 - 0 games by the Dodgers in the NLCS). However the caveat was the Dodgers were without their "ace" starter, Sasaki, who was on the 60 day DL list back in July, and Otani didn't take the mound in his absence).
This year was a once in a "blue moon" season for Milwaukee, who finished with the best record in the Majors (even with the "mini slump" in the closing weeks). It reminded me of the 2001 Seattle Mariners who tied the all time record for wins in a season (116, shared with the 1906 Chicago Cubs) only to fall to the Yankees in the NLCS. that year, 1 - 4.
Myself and many of my friends here in Portland were actually hoping for a Milwaukee - Seattle World Series which would have been competitive, entertaining, and have have a unique twist. The Brewers were originally the Seattle Pilots who played only one season in the "Emerald City" before they moved to Milwaukee in 1970. .Some interesting baseball history there.
Back to the big money situation, I almost feel like the MLB should go to a "two tier" setup like the Premier and EFL in leagues in English footy (another sport dominated by money). That would allow the smaller market clubs have a better chance to achieve something at season's end instead of being an "also ran"..
/sport ball
I think I am going to retire early. That is go to bed soon. I had a nice day.
Congratulations! May your countdown go swiftly and uneventfully. :)
.....I retired early as well, been so for 9 years.
I'm waiting to hear from someone about something important but I can't reach her.
complaint: I was never meant to be a hair stylist.
non-complaint: Hair grows back. And thankfully Little Dude doesn't seem to notice or care that it's not quite even. And I've learned not to keep trying to even it up because I invariably make it worse. And although a lot of spectrum kids have huge sensory issues with getting their hair cut, he's remarkably patient about it as long as I catch him on a good day/moment (which is true for anything). Preoccupied with his tablet works great, except the part where it contributes heavily to it ending up not quite even. (Previous haircut, Mom complimented me on giving him a "layered look." I thanked her but had to admit it wasn't anything to do with skill. It's just what happens when the entire method is grab-and-hack.)
non-complaint: Also, the fact that our wake/sleep times are so wildly unstable means that the switch on/off of Daylight Savings means absolutely nothing to us. Bright side!
Worried Complaint: The little grocery store in this town was bought out by new owners. They've poured a lot of money into an expansion for the "Beer Room" (they obviously gauged the locals properly), and they've been changing stock to another unfamiliar store-brand of lower quality, cheaper canned & packaged items (again obviously gauging the locals properly) to try to get more sales. However, I rarely see more than one other customer in there at a time anymore. It used to be quite busy most of the day, but not anymore. They take the items that have passed the "Sell by" date and put them on a rack in the cart room and mark them down 50%, but I've been seeing the same items there for weeks. I do take a gamble on them sometimes. But I'm afraid that the little grocery store (the last of three that used to be in this tiny town) will end up turning into a 7-11, or go away completely. Yeah, yeah, their prices are higher than the proper grocery stores in the city, but for me, getting home from the city involves at least one Uber ride ($25), greatly wiping out any cost advantage of the groceries themselves.
When I was a kid in this little town of 500 in the '50s it used to have four major brand gas stations (Esso, Sinclair, Sonoco, Mobil), three grocery stores, a funeral parlor, a butcher shop, two proper restaurants and a breakfast cafe, a liquor bar, a hardware store, a bait & tackle shop, and a barber shop. Before my time there used to be a pickle factory, a blacksmith, a chipping mill (grinds trees into train cars full of wood chips for whatever purpose), and an active freight & passenger railway station. Now only one bar, one grocery/gasoline store, and one auto repair shop. But at least the old buildings are not decrepit, they've either been renovated, or removed completely and turned into small parking lots never more than 10% occupied. The town started dying when the Interstate (I-86) bypassed 1 mile south of town in the late '60s.
Having recently seen many towns in much worse shape, I count my lucky stars I ended up here. The well water is safe and free from the ground, the Internet is fibre, heat is natural gas, the weather is tolerable except for the early lake-effect snowfalls, the ground doesn't quake, tornados are infrequent and small, the trees are wet and don't burn easily, the roads are maintained, I have access to some affordable public transportation ($2 bus) at least one-way during the day, and the landscape in this area of NY State is gorgeous. And I have a choice of venue for access to symphonies.
Things could be worse.
It's an epidemic here, and I have suspicions as to why that behaviour is an epidemic here, but I'll leave that to the people whose job that is to handle it. Until about 2014 in my small town of 11K we'd have 5 vehicle accidents on average every 10 years but since 2014 the number have been going up, with the number exploding in 2021, we now are having an average week with 2 to 5 vehicle wrecks tended to per week by the local fire department, with no telling how many go unreported by the instigator. I have been habitually hesitating at lights turning green for a decade now, accelerating slowly through checking for traffic about to blow through. It's saved me from a wreck at least 7 times. To say nothing about the optical illusion of me seeming to be driving in reverse because everybody else is blowing through the speed limit by at least 20 MPH over, lol.
Cars are too safe. Start making accidents unsurvivable & people will go out of their way to avoid them. If, on the other hand, they're in a safe, strong, steel box and it barely matters that they ram a house because the strong box is stronger than the house, then why do they care?
In Kent in the UK I have not seen any Police enforcing any traffic regulations on the main roads this century and I've not seen any enforcing regulations on the minor roads in the last 10 years. I wonder why standards of driving have dropped? Is there any correlation? This morning I was behind a woman texting while she was waiting for traffic lights at roadworks. Not convinced she finished before driving off. Anyway, it's not due to reduction in Police numbers. In 2019 there were 3600, while now there are 4225 (highest number in Kent ever).
Regards,
Richard
Non-complaints: 1. Very glad @SilverGirl and the youngsters are okay.
2. Husband & I had a good time playing Jedi knights at our town's Scare on the Square. I was part of the library group & he was with Disable American Veterans.
3. Might have a part-time job at the library starting next year.
4. Husband & I both have money coming to us from Florida's Unclaimed Funds. If companies owe you money & can't find you, after a certain amount of time, the state gets it, keeps a record & you can check a state website to see if you have money owed.
Complaint: 1. Both Husband & I are still sore from Scare on the Square. 2. Tomorrow we must do a lot of laundry, because we've been putting it off for at least 2 weeks. It adds up even for just 2 people.
@miladyderyni_172d399f47 - how fun! The Jedi knights and the library job, not the laundry. Although having a full stock of clean underwear is nice when it's done.
re: poor driving epidemics - one of the odd things about living in the same area (almost) my entire life (parents moved into the neighborhood when I was 2-ish, when I moved out it was just to the other side of town) is watching the traffic patterns change.
This area used to be pretty much cornfields in the early 80s, and even up until the early-mid 90's it was still the case. Granted I wasn't driving back then (well, not until 94, anyway) but my parents confirm my memories that people were generally courteous.
Mid-90s some developing started happening halfway between where my parents live and I now do -- we got our own large grocery store and a 10-screen cinema (so posh!) and library!!! I was super excited about the library. And the bookstore. It's all stuff that we had to drive two suburbs over to get before. But then the high-price housing developments started going up, and all the retailers decided to court them. Strip malls everywhere, each with some ritzy-sounding name. And an "outdoor mall" -- because that's smart in the state that invented the indoor mall in the first place, and for a reason. (Right up there with replacing our indoor sports staidum with two outdoor ones, but I digress.) If there's a chain restaurant, we have it. If there's an upscale botique shopping thing, we have it. And once the quarry got tapped out in that area, it backfilled and became filled with the sort of housing developments that seem to ask the question "how many buildings can we squeeze into this space?" -- oh, and we got a "Main Street" that's not main to anything, but is supposed to look like what a Historic Main Street (tm) would have looked like if only the yuppies had been asked for input.
Which all could just be me hating on "progress" -- except that the roads were really, REALLY never intended for this many people to be on them, and there's no way to fix the issue now because they're all landlocked. And people get annoyed and impatient, and not to stereotype, but I notice it's the high-end cars that are ususally the ones with drivers acting like the rules don't apply to them.
When I was a kid, I'd tell people what city I lived in, and they'd say "...where?" Now I tell them, and they go "ohhhh...." in that "you must be rich" tone, and I have to clarify that I don't live in that part of town. I live in the peasant housing.
TBH, I miss the corn fields.
@LeatherGryphon ...almost sounds like a peice of heaven.
Peace and quiet sure sounds nice compared to living in the centre of the city.. There is the normal noise of traffic, drunks and individuals strung out on some sort of illicit pharmaceuticals screaming at the top of their lungs SUVs with subwoofers that rattle my windows and the speed racer set in their kiddie race cars revving their engines at the stoplight to make them backfire ...
Added to that is the the pending construction project at the site of the former postal distribution centre across the intersection from my apartment. They are currently at the preliminary stage, preparing the area of the block for the actual construction phase . The one thing I dread is that it will involve pile driving for several multi floor apartment and condo buildings as the ground in this area the city is fairly soft.
Pile driving is not only very loud, it also creates minor earth tremors that repeat about every 15 - 20 seconds or so. I've experienced its effects before when many years ago, a new building project was under construction across the street from where my old workplace was located before the company moved way out to the west side the metro area.
@SilverGirl We've been doing Star Wars (& other cosplays) since the 1990s. I also do X-wing pilot. Our kids grew up with the hobby and still do cosplaying, lots of anime and Legend of Zelda.
Ah, yes, those stacks of clean underwear are all I enjoy about Laundry Day. Also my clean favorite tees. Both of which are in short supply, so can't put this chore off any longer.
Very cool on the cosplay! A vast majority of my & my brother's costumes as kids were cosplay. His were usually video games; mine were shows and movies. I'd wear mine to school in junior high, and if I hadn't already been at the bottom of the social hierarchy, that probably would've put me there. (But the great thing about already being at the bottom is you have nothing left to lose!) I'm a little envious of this generation that it's considered cool. Teen Kiddo has taken up the vibe. Lots of anime. This year it was Kokichi Oma from Danganronpa. They totally pulled it off.
Wish I could share the joy with Little Dude, but it would just annoy him. He thinks his sibling's outfits are awesome, though, so we've got that!
You just woke a memory for me. Before 'cosplay' my backyard had a 50-gallon drum, rusty and on its side. (I have no idea why it was there!) But after reading some Heinlein books in the school library, it turned into my rocket to the stars and I had marshalled my little brother and sister, along with some neighbors to join me on the trip. I was space mad.
So cool! I didn't discover cool grown-up SF books until I was in junior high. I thought it was something you were supposed to outgrow, so I was just obsessively rereading the Prydain Chronicles (and Narnia, but I didn't like those as well).
...and you just reawakened an old memory of a kids illustrated Sci-Fi story I loved titled Rusty's Space Ship by Evelyn Sibley Lampman. It told of an imaginary journey that the main character and a fried took through the solar system with a mysterious alien guide in a backyard ship cobbled together of old boards and such named the "Terra Terro 1".(no spoilers).
40 years ago, a friend of mine (and fellow Sci-Fi aficionado in Seattle (where I was living at the time) found a copy at a library book sale and lent it to me It brought back fond memories making me feel like I was ten years old again.
I even thought about building a similar "backyard space ship" while other kids were building go carts and "soapbox" racers.
Back then I was a total astronomy and science "geek. I even has my own 50 power refractor telescope which my mum bought as a birthday/Christmas present Just about every night it was clear I'd be out in the back yard scanning the cosmos.
I also would check astronomy books out from the local library's adult section which I took home poured over, learning a lot about what was known back then.
Years later in college where I took an astronomy minor, I ended up in what was a "dream job"I had as a youngster, working as an assistant at the school's observatory (which had a 16" Celestron "light bucket" under a dome on top of the science building .
I remain extremely fascinated in astronomy in m y senior years, and the images from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes along with the Mars rovers and probes that flew by Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto still captivates me.
complaint: Root canal at 7 AM today. Which of course means Little Dude woke at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. I suspect as soon as I get him to my folks' house, he's going to curl up on the couch and fall asleep. Meanwhile I'll be getting a root canal. And then taking Teen Kiddo to get their covid & flu shots at 10. And then we need to hit the fabric store for some supplies for them. It gonna be a loooong day.
non-complaint: Coffee.
I need to go back to Tmobile soon to have them finish setting up my phone. I had to leave before it was finished as my ride has arrived for me.
Weather complaint: Expecting 2 inches of snow here on Monday.
Weather non-complaint: Today is non-rainy and in the 40s (F), I'm taking an uptown breakfast & grocery day this morning, last good day for a while. Wheee... a bus ride in 15 minutes from now, then gravy & biscuit, pick up a Subway sandwich, get a couple of TimHorton donuts, and finally groceries and an Uber home. Excitement!
Weather Complaint: Not expecting 2" of Snow on Monday. Ozzie Cat (Maine Coon) would love it. Kitten (also Maine Coon) probably wouldn't - he hates rain that leaves Ozzie unbothered.
Weather non-complaint: I'm on a 50cc moped today. It's nice that it's not raining.
Regards,
Richard
non-complaint: Apparently I do not, in fact, need a root canal. The specialist says my teeth are perfect and is sending me to a different specialist. I'm not sure I'll bother going. I've been making a concerted effort not to clench my jaw so much when I'm stressed (thinking it would make the tooth worse), and the pain has been less since I started that... so if there's not actually a structural issue as far as my teeth go, I'm not sure it's worth dealing with
complaint: I might've gotten out of the appointment far earlier than expected, but Teen Kiddo's shots are still at 10, so no early relief for me
non-complaint: Gives me a chance to swap Little Dude's wardrobe to the next size up without any well-intentioned "assistance." So at least it's useful time, even if I'd really rather be going to bed.
This is my new phone.
Someone has stolen the lead to the wall socket.
Our living room phone is like in the attached image. Same model. Texting & downloading apps is 'miss not hit'.
Regards,
Richard
Ah, reminders of what "hanging up" actually means.
No worries about the youngsters abusing it, they wouldn't get past the dial even if they did figure out how to pick the receiver off the hook.
Test their apptitude for it by asking them what time it is from a round clock with hands, via a note written in longhand.
Speaking of longhand: Back when I was a teen in the mid-'60s, my father acquired a copied set of deeds (on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper) from the County Courthouse, and he hired myself and two friends to sort all 5000 boxes (of 500 pages each) of them into the nearly 40 townships in the county, to be distributed to the separate township offices. The deeds covered the period from 1805 to 1964. An easy task from the typwritten ones from the 1960s back to the 1920s. But in the '20s many of them were still written in longhand. And by time we got back to the late 1800s, they were all in longhand. Beautiful longhand. We even came across an excerpt from a copy of the will of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow relating to some property in the county.
Longhand was a common and expected skill. I still practice it, but can get sloppy. I still have trouble with the capital G, I and J.
But have mastered the flourish of the capital D, F, Q, S and T
The dial on our one (as also in the image) is actually press buttons, not the real rotary dial found on older ones.
When my wife was pregnant and before the widespread introduction of mobiles, we had a midwife visit who needed to call back to base. This competent and self-assured midwife completely went to pieces when confronted with a separate ear and mouthpiece. I ended up having to use the phone and relaying the messages to and from her. It was great with my MIL for many years too, her voice was very piercing, and for my own comfort I put the earpiece down on the sideboard while talking to her, and could hear her perfectly.
Regards,
Richard
This is part of a note I sent to my doctor. I thought it was funny in an odd way.
It is a shame the adults in this world often aren't teaching kids many skills that would be good for them to have. If kids are struggling or have gaps, that's on us, and we need to step up making sure they get what they need.
I do have to commend the resiliance of the most recent generations in the face of being failed by thise responsible for them, though. Lots of seeking out knowledge online; for all they get criticized for their screentime, they're often better connected and informed than we ever were.
And given how fast they pick up new, more complicated gadgets, I'm sure they'd figure out older atuff much faster than a lot of us figure out the new stuff. (That joke when I was a kid about kids teaching the adults to program the VCR has leveled up considerably.)