LaceyLou

Xfinity email. Need I say more? 

On 6/7/2023 at 10:33 PM, smr-nj said:

This was Yankee Stadium at 3pm- no filter.

Air quality numbers in NJ, where I work, at 5pm was 347.  That’s no joke. Eyes tearing, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t see past 10 feet ahead of you.

 Fires 450 miles away.

It looks like a lot of the midwest/mid Atlantic has poor air quality right now. Sigh...

On 6/7/2023 at 11:00 AM, oblong said:

I love my neighbors so this isn't a criticism but more in the spirit of a peeve..... they're always outside doing something in the yard!  They're snowbirds so the first weekend back they clear everything out, clean up all the winter stuff, etc.  Then each day it's some kind of project involving noise.  No, I don't want them to stop. It's great to be active.  But a part of me does hate the over reliance on watering/fertilizing/etc.  Your lawn and yard doesn't need to look like a golf course or the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.  Let nature do it's thing.  Dandelions are good.  Weeds are good.  Critters are good.  Not every stick/twig or other errant thing needs to be picked up.

 

The less than perfect lawn is actually a healthier lawn... and one way to prevent grass from turning brown in the event of a drought is to let it grow longer. Don't even get me started on overuse of pesticides and herbicides.

It seems as if no matter when I go food shopping, there are always a bunch of people unpacking new inventory, and blocking half of the aisles, as well as many of the spots where the stuff I need to buy happens to be. 

Gotta love first world problems. 

As popular as I know them to be.... 

Why oh why do so many channels have Christmas in July movies? I suppose if they were actually good I wouldn't mind....as much.

How can I miss the season, if it won't go away?

I can hear my father saying that just because somebody else is even worse, doesn't make our wrongdoings any better.

On 4/27/2023 at 7:48 PM, Motown Bombers said:

 

I.... can't even come up with words, at least not ones fit to print.

21 minutes ago, oblong said:

When I read Halberstam's book The Fifties it opened my eyes a lot to what went down in the South in the first half of the 20th century. Because of the job opportunities up north in the factories and slaughterhouses,  black families had to sneak away.  The whites weren't happy they were leaving because they needed them to work in their fields and farms.  They would patrol train stations and make threats like "If you go up there and get a job your family might not be here when you come back to get them".  It was a 20th century version of the underground railroad.  Legally the blacks were free but sheriffs and good old boys in the rural towns had their own legal system.   They were still fighting the civil war.  The North was taking all their blacks and giving them better jobs and now they were screwed.

These TN legislators had grandfathers who did that so it was just passed down.

I've also heard of the saying, in regards to blacks, "In the north we don't care how high they get just don't get too close.  In the south we don't care how close they get, just don't get too high".  

 

 

The books The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste (both by Isabel Wilkerson) also do an excellent job of describing this. I wish I could say my city was better... unfortunately I cannot.

9 hours ago, mtutiger said:

I dont generally open up about personal things, but within a two day span we had to say goodbye to both of our Basset Hounds. Almost 13 and 12 respectively.

Nothing really prepares you for losing both that quickly, though they were both close in age and close generally. :(

Very sorry to hear that. No matter how long you have them, it never feels like enough time....

Just waiting to see who will attack first... on the plus side, Logan is learning that there are at least a few people who aren't so bad. He will now accept pets and is my latest example of a Purr Monster. 

9 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Our AARP plan is tied to CVS, usually no problem. With last weeks COVID diagnosis the branch I usually use called and said their Pavlovian was out of date. They found a local branch that had stock (about 20 minutes or so away). The problem was they left the onus on me to contact them rather than just transferring the prescription. Nearly an hour on the phone and no one answered. Their automated system was absolutely useless. 
 

I ended up calling my doctor back to have them move the prescription. My wife had it a bit easier since her video call was later in the afternoon. It all worked out in the end but it's not exactly great for the blood pressure when you're in a semi panic mode to begin with.

Once I found out when I was already struggling with a sinusitis attack that I had no Sudafed left, so I dragged myself to the closest CVS who informed me they didn't have the 24 hour one and that I should go to another one. I asked if they could call one of them to see if they had it in stock (so I wouldn't waste my time-keep in mind I was in a lot of pain) but they refused. Luckily the supermarket had it in stock, and for quite a bit cheaper. Needless to say I'm glad the hospital where I now work has a pharmacy that sells a lot of the basics.

Honestly I'm okay with the change, although I preferred the April start. I'd rather not have it stay dark until 9 am in the winter, and I'd also rather not have it get light at 4 am in the summer. 

I do struggle a bit after DST starts, but on the whole I think it's the best option.

I'll admit I thought of getting the high deductible plan paired with an HSA (contributions can be carried over), but am more than a bit worried that ridiculous amounts of paperwork will lead to not being able to use my own money for any health care costs. 

12 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I like March.    March bring Spring.   March brings Daylight Savings Time.   March brings baseball.   March is alright.  

I rank March 8th on my list of months

 

1 - September   (not too hot not too cold

2 - June (Summer is a beautiful word)

3 - May  (May brings us closer to Summer)

4 - July  (it was better when we had thunderstorms)

5 - April   (Opening Day, Baby)

6 - August - (I like the hot summer)

7 - October (only ranking it this low because of what comes after)

8 - March  (the reasons I listed ablove)

9 - December  (the holiday season is a'ight

10 - November   (only thing saving it is Thanksgiving)

11 - January   (sucks)

12 - February  (so many bad words about February that decorum prohibits me from listing them here)

 

So in my rankings we are going from 12 to 8 to 5 to 3 to 2............

 

 

Come to think of it, opening day here is at the end of March... okay, I hate the local team but still. 🙂 

It's good you live in the western part of the time zone... I like dark evenings so being on the eastern part suits me well. The only saving grace of winter for me? The grey late afternoons. I guess I'm part vampire. 

(and I agree about thunderstorms)

March is my least favorite month, on average. No holidays off, weather can't make up its mind between snow, rain, and mud, and the start of DST tends to throw me off, for some reason. 

6 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

One of our cats loves laying all stretched out wherever she happens to be. She also likes being cradled like a baby and is content to just be carried around like that so she can see everything we’re doing. 
 

First pic is from when she was about six weeks old. She’s now 4 or 5. 

She is gorgeous! 

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

snow.

I guess I just spent too many years in Houghton County. if Portland gets so much as a dusting, I get tense. today we're on track for a solid inch. hate hate hate

I get tense because people here are bad drivers to begin with and can barely drive in rain, let alone snow.

For the past few days, I've had the theme song from Leave it to Beaver stuck in my head. At least I find the show entertaining...

Hmmm... did this movie have a Gary Cooper who wanted to sing show tunes? 

I haven't looked too closely, but with the, er, challenges on Twitter lately some people are talking about a social media site called Mastodon. It looks like you start groups of people with similar interests. I don't know if it would meet your needs, but might be worth a look if you want something to try out.

Not sure how I missed seeing this building before, I must have walked by it hundreds of times. My city does have some beautiful architecture. 

On that note, why is there often a marathon of a show called Naked and Afraid on Animal Planet? And I miss when Discovery and The History Channel had documentaries about science and history. I do sometimes find shoes about WWII that are interesting on one channel (forget the name of it), but that's about it.

Lacey has a new brother.....

And, I have a small but very adequate walk in closet space and I want a few simple shelves. Why is that so hard to find? Do people really have the need for closets that look like they're bigger than my entire condo? Yikes!

Ah, FB. I finally gave up trying to get back into my old account (which I can't get into because I forgot to change my phone number on my profile). Still get alerts via email. Meanwhile, on twitter, FB has an account filled with people locked out of their accounts for various reasons-and they get multiple answers from bots offering to get their accounts back (I'm assuming their hackers). It's impossible to reach anybody there because they have no customer service. Yup, not a good platform. I'm thinking of going to Mastodon or Tribel.

Trying to find a Valentine's Day basket of goodies without chocolate makes me feel like the woman in a Monty Python skit, trying to find a dish without spam.