Morning Andi. Yep recovered and getting ready for another.
Ya want to know something even more stupid. My Mom wanted me to call them to make sure I didn’t have to have anyone drive me. I told her it would be nothing more than a little pin prick. But, I called and the lady said that for any injection you had to have a driver.
So, even if I had been on time, they wouldn’t have done it. I’ve got a relative going with me today.
But I suppose a rainy river is better than a rainy parking lot.
I saw upthread that you’ve got someone going w/ you today — I thought you had someone w/ you yesterday and just didn’t mention them. Did you confirm the time? 🙂
Time difference. They don’t open for another 25 minutes. But it will be confirmed. If I owned a cell phone it would keep being confirmed up to the time I walked up to the reception desk.
kindergarten teacher a few days back……the frequent fog on the lake in Alabama is not so appealing to me now. I feel like it could hide people running around in their bedsheets down here. Then Tony Snowjob with the whole tar baby thing. I’m kind of sort of really pissed off having heard such racist things right in my face these past few days! At least when they confine themselves to whispering them to each other in the coat room they are exactly where they belong……standing in the dark almost alone!
I had my preconceived notions before moving in and then I have the reality. I can’t grasp the foundations of the culture around me. I miss the West, my husband was from the Midwest and I took him to eat at the Cavalryman in Laramie Wyoming once. It is a sort of supper club (Wyoming still has supper clubs….isn’t that a bit cute). He said he was very uncomfortable around the people there, that they seemed stuck up or snobby…but it is only that they are self reliant probably to the extreme for a Midwest boy. Without much infrastructure for society due to scattered populations and huge rural areas this self reliance is born, particularly in the middle of a blizzard. I understand the foundations of the culture of the West and I can understand much better the difficulties it has with making certain transitions but I am lost down here. This is not the place of my birth and when someone says something to me that I find abhorrent I stay stuck in abhorrent because I don’t even understand what they base their internal dialog on to support their beliefs.
Tracy as I’ve said before, I’ve been gone from here for about 30 years. Even with me growning up in the old south, I didn’t like or agree with a lot of things. If you knew the old south as compared to the new south you would be amazed.
We still have a long long way to go, but my whole things is racism and hate are not just a southern thing. I’ve travelled and lived around the U.S. and in Europe and you find racist and hateful people no matter where you go.
I don’t care what color, what religion, what country or what area of the world you come from, it’s there. My whole thing has always been treat people as I want to be treated. I always have and will continue to do so.
BTW, I was telling SN how I missed ya’lls southern rants. Being gone for so long, I feel like a transplanted southener sometimes. Oh and also, I’m getting my camera out to take pictures of the golf carts going by my place most of the day. 🙂
I still have to take children to school but I wanted to pop in and let you all know that I hugged my Baby Killer this morning…….did all the rest of you hug your tar babies? Good God, I know Bush is the decider but who is the Staff picker? Is he the picker too? Wow what a mess these people are! Hugging the tar baby? It’s a freak show up there now!
Imagine, if you will, a genteel, polite Southern man on his way to a routine Doctor’s appointment … Little did he know, after having carefully planned his trip for the day, that chronology would play a capricious trick on him… just one seemingly insignificant wrong turn landed him squarely within the boundaries of… The Twilight Zone.
I’ve let the dogs in and out five times already (there is apparently a pack rule that no more than two can every go out at the same time) — can I count that as a tarbaby hug?
As in keeping with the way things have been going this week, I just noticed I have a dental appointment tomorrow at 11:00 am. So from about 10:00 am until about 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm I won’t be here.
I’ve got the cafe tomorrow and I’m sorry this is late notice, but could someone ‘keep an out for me’ on the cafe until I get back?
Yeah, I hate to keep doing these fly by greetings, but work is winding way up again here. Soooo… here goes… Sunny, 55 degrees, chance of showers (again!) this afternoon and evening. Pretty much the same as the past few days, except with a bit of sun for a switch. Hopefully, Andi, this will make it over your way soon and clear things out for you too.
If the sun keeps up today, we might actually get a few more plants in after work today… were going to last night, but were thwarted by intermittent showers that had to start every time we took a step toward outside. At least the newly planted stuff is getting a daily light watering, and it’s all looking perky.
Found out last night that our neighbor (who recently moved out) had died on Sunday… not totally unexpected, (since he had dementia due to AIDS complications), but was still a sad thing to learn. We may attend the wake tonight, as the memorial service is in a small town early tomorrow morning and we’ll not be able to make the trip and deal with work… a pity, because we really liked him. I think we may have to dedicate a small section of the garden to him, with some flowers he liked… I may just do that with some of the new delphiniums, because he loved those when they bloomed… Ok, sorry to dwell on that, but that’s the news from our little corner of the world.
Hoping everyone (esp FM!!) has a great day today, no matter what’s on the agenda! All my best to the crowd, Andi, FM, choc-Olivia, CG, MT, Ask, Oui, and anyone I may have omitted due to lack of coffee… 🙂
Hi IVG … sorry to hear about your neighbour. A remembrance patch in the garden is a wonderful idea, a living tribute. Every year when the new flowers bloom it’s as if our dear friends and loved ones have returned to say hello.
I’ll be thinking of you today, chained up in your cube … but I know you’ll be okay w/ that chocolate stash in your drawer. 🙂
Thx Olivia, as always, for the kind sentiments. If you’ll remember a few weeks back I was upset because the neighbors next door were moving out, the ones we really liked? Well that was them… Gordon had already gone to hospice care and Marla couldn’t keep the place on her own … so it’s a double sadness for us because they were the best neighbors we’ve had in that place in 8 years.
Anyway, that’s a good term you used… remembrance patch. That would be meaningful to Marla as well, and maybe we could mark it with some sort of marker… something to think about.
Oh yeah, I’m in good shape on the chocolate front… bought a huge bag at Target last weekend. Hehe. Ok, I’d better get serious about work here. Catch you folks later!
Damn! If only I was an early-riser, I could wish you guys good morning with some level of confidence. I was just contemplating whether the next cafe could be a coffee shop or if we’ll have to go straight to the drinking.
Olivia, I am shocked! Shocked I say! that you would be advocating such behaviour at such an early hour, hehe. I think us neo-geezers have corrupted you in the late night lounges!
Just a lunchtime check in here … still partly sunny, with chances of showers at any instant, apparently. I’ll take the rays of sunshine when I can get them though… as long as it doesn’t rain again this weekend!
Heya Izzy! How’s things out your way in the great upper Left Coast? You got me wanting another cup of coffee and I’ve already had my limit for the day (1).
Hey, nicer there than here! Last I looked we were up to a whopping 66 here, partly cloudy, light breeze. I bet Bu is excited when she sees the frisbee comes out… when Pepa sees a tennis ball, she fuh-reaks, and will chase and catch it as long as I will throw it.
Well, better get back to the salt mine here and pretend to earn my paycheck, hehe.
Hi Olivia! It’s just as well that we go with the drinking — I’d narrowed lunch down to either Bob’s Big Boy or House of Cheese. The drinking is probably better for our health.
Izzy, please don’t lunch at a place with a giant statue of a creepy chubby kid holding a hamburger! (If that’s correct as to what I am envisioning there…) And house of cheese? Mmmm, cheese… that could be tasty… maybe you should just have a martini or two instead and call the olives lunch? Hehe.
That’s it! <shudders> The clothes and haircut alone frighten me. Ok, well the real reason is… when I was in grad school, I had a part time job cleaning 2 of those places at night, and the stories I could tell you about them… especially the kitchens. I’ll leave it to your imagination… and well, the food is just, just … not palatable to me. Tell ya what though, after cleaning bathrooms at 2:00 a.m. when people have been eating strawberry pancakes with whipped cream … not a pretty sight.
<getting ready to duck flying coffee cups and brickbats>>
Thanks, but of course, Izzy, I just had your overall well-being in mind trying to ward off the evils of chubby boy double decker burgers. I’m curious about House of Cheese though… when I lived in WI, that was a cheese store with a giant mouse on the roof nibbling a piece of swiss cheese… not exactly a lunch place. More where you went to buy blocks of tasty WI dairy goodness …
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A good morning to all … it’s just past noon in The Hague.
A BooMan visitor from Russia was linked via google to image in comment by shirlstars about … Santa Claus!
Putin and Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
I know that Xmas shopping keeps starting earlier every year but I think this is really pushing it.
Morning, er, afternoon Oui.
Good morning all.
Today is Norway’s Constitution Day.
Celebrating with friends tonight.
Is there a traditional way to celebrate this holiday?
Oh yes,
Rain or shine, there will be a parade in all towns and communities. All the school kids cheering and waving flags.
You have to eat at least 10 ice creams, independent of ambient temperature.
Wikipedia has a decent article on Norwegian Constitution Day and how it is celebrated.
Just shows how much more advanced Norway is than other countries. Ice cream at any temperature shows far superior thinking in my book.
Congrats. Ask.
I like that it’s centered around kids doing the celebrating.
but why didn’t the article mention 10 ice creams?
Maybe there was more focus on the hot dogs?
True, it is first and foremost a day for the kids – no military parades.
The Fargo(ND)-Moorhead(MN) community might have some event, but otherwise the small communities in the ND boonies don’t do much to celebrate anymore.
But we do still wish each other a “Happy Syttende Mai,” every May 17th.
Maybe I’ll shoot off a firework or two later tonight to celebrate.
some people have a Constitution. We used to you know!
And celebrating w/ at least 10 ice creams … sounds wonderful! Hope you have fun tonight. 🙂
Good Morning All.
Recovered from yesterday’s journey to nowhere and back?
Morning Andi. Yep recovered and getting ready for another.
Ya want to know something even more stupid. My Mom wanted me to call them to make sure I didn’t have to have anyone drive me. I told her it would be nothing more than a little pin prick. But, I called and the lady said that for any injection you had to have a driver.
So, even if I had been on time, they wouldn’t have done it. I’ve got a relative going with me today.
Good luck. I hope it works perfectly.
It will and I’m not worried about it. It’s just another adventure.
If what I remember is right, you should be getting sun soon. Yee Hah.
That’s the rumor. We’re foggily dense at the moment but it appears that enlightenment just might be arriving.
However, it’s not conducive to Andi picture taking. 🙂
How are you two doing today?
I thought you might elbow manny aside and open your first cafe last night. 🙂
Well, it’s only for emergency purposes right? 🙂 I gotta ease myself in slowly.
you just have to get past those first night jitters and then there’s nothing to it. 😉
Oh I doing fine. Are you ready today for that spectacular view from your office. Opps, sorry I just mentioned office, phewy, phewy. 🙂
But I suppose a rainy river is better than a rainy parking lot.
I saw upthread that you’ve got someone going w/ you today — I thought you had someone w/ you yesterday and just didn’t mention them. Did you confirm the time? 🙂
Time difference. They don’t open for another 25 minutes. But it will be confirmed. If I owned a cell phone it would keep being confirmed up to the time I walked up to the reception desk.
I will and you have a good day too.
kindergarten teacher a few days back……the frequent fog on the lake in Alabama is not so appealing to me now. I feel like it could hide people running around in their bedsheets down here. Then Tony Snowjob with the whole tar baby thing. I’m kind of sort of really pissed off having heard such racist things right in my face these past few days! At least when they confine themselves to whispering them to each other in the coat room they are exactly where they belong……standing in the dark almost alone!
I’m sorry it has been so bad for Tracy.
I had my preconceived notions before moving in and then I have the reality. I can’t grasp the foundations of the culture around me. I miss the West, my husband was from the Midwest and I took him to eat at the Cavalryman in Laramie Wyoming once. It is a sort of supper club (Wyoming still has supper clubs….isn’t that a bit cute). He said he was very uncomfortable around the people there, that they seemed stuck up or snobby…but it is only that they are self reliant probably to the extreme for a Midwest boy. Without much infrastructure for society due to scattered populations and huge rural areas this self reliance is born, particularly in the middle of a blizzard. I understand the foundations of the culture of the West and I can understand much better the difficulties it has with making certain transitions but I am lost down here. This is not the place of my birth and when someone says something to me that I find abhorrent I stay stuck in abhorrent because I don’t even understand what they base their internal dialog on to support their beliefs.
Tracy as I’ve said before, I’ve been gone from here for about 30 years. Even with me growning up in the old south, I didn’t like or agree with a lot of things. If you knew the old south as compared to the new south you would be amazed.
We still have a long long way to go, but my whole things is racism and hate are not just a southern thing. I’ve travelled and lived around the U.S. and in Europe and you find racist and hateful people no matter where you go.
I don’t care what color, what religion, what country or what area of the world you come from, it’s there. My whole thing has always been treat people as I want to be treated. I always have and will continue to do so.
BTW, I was telling SN how I missed ya’lls southern rants. Being gone for so long, I feel like a transplanted southener sometimes. Oh and also, I’m getting my camera out to take pictures of the golf carts going by my place most of the day. 🙂
I still have to take children to school but I wanted to pop in and let you all know that I hugged my Baby Killer this morning…….did all the rest of you hug your tar babies? Good God, I know Bush is the decider but who is the Staff picker? Is he the picker too? Wow what a mess these people are! Hugging the tar baby? It’s a freak show up there now!
Good Morning Tracy.
Good morning! I see you’re just raing to go today… 🙂
And good morning to AndiF, FM, ask, olivia, and everyone else.
CG — did you have a good night?
Why, yes I did. And there was even cheesecake involved…
I hope it wasn’t involved during.
you are bad…
Morning CG.
Hi FM. Busy day today?
Yea, sort of like the Twlight Zone thought. Just re-doing what I did yesterday.
You got big plans today?
Sounds more like Groundhog Day to me…did you wake up to hearing Sonny and Cher today? If so, you’re in big trouble buddy!
Groundhog Day was funny. With me it has to be the Twlight Zone.
Imagine, if you will, a genteel, polite Southern man on his way to a routine Doctor’s appointment … Little did he know, after having carefully planned his trip for the day, that chronology would play a capricious trick on him… just one seemingly insignificant wrong turn landed him squarely within the boundaries of… The Twilight Zone.
(Pause for commercial and more coffee!)
Capricious … nice! 🙂
Now I’m getting scared and want to crawl back under the covers. 🙂
Nah! That was a tribute to your adventure yesterday!
Today will be just fine, I’m sure of it!
All tuckered out from a great day of birthday celebrating (I hope)?
I may need a nap later this morning…
It’s finally sunny here. Did your rain go away yet?
Nap? Ahhhhhhhh.
Rain’s gone. Sun just showed up about 10 minutes ago. But I’m tiptoeing around and being very quiet so I don’t scare it away.
Did I miss yesterday that you and Mythmother have the same birthday?
We do, and you did.
Morning Tracy.
I’ve let the dogs in and out five times already (there is apparently a pack rule that no more than two can every go out at the same time) — can I count that as a tarbaby hug?
Maybe even a smooch too.
As in keeping with the way things have been going this week, I just noticed I have a dental appointment tomorrow at 11:00 am. So from about 10:00 am until about 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm I won’t be here.
I’ve got the cafe tomorrow and I’m sorry this is late notice, but could someone ‘keep an out for me’ on the cafe until I get back?
Thanks. I’ve really got to find some of those things for posting along with comments. 🙂
That is the coolest “F”in thing since the stickfigure at the keyboard GIF that I got from Cabingirl a long while back. It’s just Ceeewwwwwl!
Yeah, I hate to keep doing these fly by greetings, but work is winding way up again here. Soooo… here goes… Sunny, 55 degrees, chance of showers (again!) this afternoon and evening. Pretty much the same as the past few days, except with a bit of sun for a switch. Hopefully, Andi, this will make it over your way soon and clear things out for you too.
If the sun keeps up today, we might actually get a few more plants in after work today… were going to last night, but were thwarted by intermittent showers that had to start every time we took a step toward outside. At least the newly planted stuff is getting a daily light watering, and it’s all looking perky.
Found out last night that our neighbor (who recently moved out) had died on Sunday… not totally unexpected, (since he had dementia due to AIDS complications), but was still a sad thing to learn. We may attend the wake tonight, as the memorial service is in a small town early tomorrow morning and we’ll not be able to make the trip and deal with work… a pity, because we really liked him. I think we may have to dedicate a small section of the garden to him, with some flowers he liked… I may just do that with some of the new delphiniums, because he loved those when they bloomed… Ok, sorry to dwell on that, but that’s the news from our little corner of the world.
Hoping everyone (esp FM!!) has a great day today, no matter what’s on the agenda! All my best to the crowd, Andi, FM, choc-Olivia, CG, MT, Ask, Oui, and anyone I may have omitted due to lack of coffee… 🙂
Good Morning hit and run IVG. Hope things slow down for you and you can slack some.
Hi IVG … sorry to hear about your neighbour. A remembrance patch in the garden is a wonderful idea, a living tribute. Every year when the new flowers bloom it’s as if our dear friends and loved ones have returned to say hello.
I’ll be thinking of you today, chained up in your cube … but I know you’ll be okay w/ that chocolate stash in your drawer. 🙂
Thx Olivia, as always, for the kind sentiments. If you’ll remember a few weeks back I was upset because the neighbors next door were moving out, the ones we really liked? Well that was them… Gordon had already gone to hospice care and Marla couldn’t keep the place on her own … so it’s a double sadness for us because they were the best neighbors we’ve had in that place in 8 years.
Anyway, that’s a good term you used… remembrance patch. That would be meaningful to Marla as well, and maybe we could mark it with some sort of marker… something to think about.
Oh yeah, I’m in good shape on the chocolate front… bought a huge bag at Target last weekend. Hehe. Ok, I’d better get serious about work here. Catch you folks later!
LOL, SN! I’m not awake enough to handle that image!! At first I didn’t realize it was morphing and thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.
OK I’ve got to get ready for my Twlight Zone/Ground Hogs Day/Outer Limits and who knows what else day.
See ya’ll later and slack when possible.
Good morning everyone!
Good morning (PST) /afternoon (EST), Izzy.
Damn! If only I was an early-riser, I could wish you guys good morning with some level of confidence. I was just contemplating whether the next cafe could be a coffee shop or if we’ll have to go straight to the drinking.
🙂
Hi Izzy
Olivia, I am shocked! Shocked I say! that you would be advocating such behaviour at such an early hour, hehe. I think us neo-geezers have corrupted you in the late night lounges!
Just a lunchtime check in here … still partly sunny, with chances of showers at any instant, apparently. I’ll take the rays of sunshine when I can get them though… as long as it doesn’t rain again this weekend!
Heya Izzy! How’s things out your way in the great upper Left Coast? You got me wanting another cup of coffee and I’ve already had my limit for the day (1).
you neo-geezers are a bad influence on someone so young as me … ha! 😛
Mornin’ all, afternoon, happy hour…whatever. Gonna take the afternoon off and work on my slackering.
Can you slack some for us too? 🙂
How’s the weather there for you and Bu — rain or sun?
I second that emotion, emoticon, or whatever it is. I agree w/Choc-Olivia!
Have a fun day with Bu, dada… maybe see you tonight.
Going to go to the park w/ the frisbee after lunch…her favorite game.
Weather looks like THIS
Current conds:
74.2 °F /23.4 °C
Partly Cloudy
Humidity:
35%
Wind:
3.0 mph /4.8 km/h from the SE
Heat Index:
77 °F /25 °C
Wish you were here…:{)
Hey, nicer there than here! Last I looked we were up to a whopping 66 here, partly cloudy, light breeze. I bet Bu is excited when she sees the frisbee comes out… when Pepa sees a tennis ball, she fuh-reaks, and will chase and catch it as long as I will throw it.
Well, better get back to the salt mine here and pretend to earn my paycheck, hehe.
See you all later at some point!
Sounds wonderful. Throw Bu one for me. 🙂
Hi Olivia! It’s just as well that we go with the drinking — I’d narrowed lunch down to either Bob’s Big Boy or House of Cheese. The drinking is probably better for our health.
Izzy, please don’t lunch at a place with a giant statue of a creepy chubby kid holding a hamburger! (If that’s correct as to what I am envisioning there…) And house of cheese? Mmmm, cheese… that could be tasty… maybe you should just have a martini or two instead and call the olives lunch? Hehe.
So wait, are you saying this image does not conjure tasty lunchables in your mind?
That’s it! <shudders> The clothes and haircut alone frighten me. Ok, well the real reason is… when I was in grad school, I had a part time job cleaning 2 of those places at night, and the stories I could tell you about them… especially the kitchens. I’ll leave it to your imagination… and well, the food is just, just … not palatable to me. Tell ya what though, after cleaning bathrooms at 2:00 a.m. when people have been eating strawberry pancakes with whipped cream … not a pretty sight.
<getting ready to duck flying coffee cups and brickbats>>
It’s okay, IVG. No need to duck. You shall never again have to fear the Big Boy in one of my threads. I’m all about compassionate cafe-ism.
Thanks, but of course, Izzy, I just had your overall well-being in mind trying to ward off the evils of chubby boy double decker burgers. I’m curious about House of Cheese though… when I lived in WI, that was a cheese store with a giant mouse on the roof nibbling a piece of swiss cheese… not exactly a lunch place. More where you went to buy blocks of tasty WI dairy goodness …
or a coffee with shop with a two-way license (since it’ a bit early for DJ’s pastel-colored drinks).
orange diary.
I had to get away from those bananas and soggy cereal — the Froggy Bottom Bowling Alley is now open!