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I got the dishes washed while waiting for the new cafe to post…ugh. Oh Andy, please migrate to the new server…please.
We have a beautiful day here today. My friend went in about 4 am to the birth center, and I’m hoping to hear that Finny’s new buddy is here soon! Seems my friends are all having boys this year.
In the meantime, it’s cleaning and getting the car inspected for us today; I think Finny and I will go for a walk while we wait for the car. I had a nice afternoon with my mom and my niece yesterday – love this summer Friday thing, it’s making me feel like my old self again. 😉 That, plus the fact that I am now fully on my new team at work, and not trying to do the work of 2 people anymore.
What’s everyone else up to today?
Looks like a lovely day here, so will probably spend as much time outdoors as possible. Should probably mow the grass, but its still cool out, so shouldn’t be exhausting. We’re going out to a home-grown variety show tonight to benefit the local playhouse.
I was wondering if the server migration had happened yet. Things were really slow last night.
Hey, how was the variety show?
Server migration is dependent on the time schedule of the IT person, unfortunately….
The bluegrass band was great. The rest – not so much:(
A friend who was there and works in the music biz is trying to bring in musicians like John Prine and Leo Kottke. Hope she is successful.
It’s a testament to your goodness and determination that we get new cafe diaries before they reach a couple hundred comments. I almost gave up trying to post the last Flog diary and I only have to do that every other month.
It was a gorgeous day here too.
Now that I’ve gotten used to the idea that I should start posting it and go do something else while I wait, it’s a little less frustrating, but needs fixing.
What did you do with your gorgeous day? We spent a large pat of ours yesterday having the car inspected and new brake parts put on. I need to get more outdoor time in today.
Our weekend was — to pick a totally wrong word — interesting. We were working on the house putting up some replacement siding to prepare for getting the house painted. Everything was just fine till about 5 p.m. Saturday when Jim took a step on the deck where there was no deck and fell.
He ended up with a partially collapsed lung and some cracked ribs. He’s in the hospital getting his
ego deflatedlung re-inflated. He might get to come home today but we won’t know till later.Know anybody that would like a small job putting a couple of sheets of siding? 😉
I was wondering why you weren’t around – then I saw Jim’s pneumothorax comment on FB late last night. 🙁
Ugh, what an awful start to the summer! I’m glad he’s going to be okay. Will they really send him home that quickly?
All m siding hangers are a bit far for the commute. 🙂
As it turns — no, they aren’t. He’s in for another day at least. This probably means more to you than to me but the lung still isn’t “sticking” to the chest wall and if there’s no change by noon, they’re going to do a procedure where they inject something that will make it stick.
It’s a kind of weird injury in that except for the soreness and pain, he seems fine. He’s dressed normally, sitting up, not on monitors or oxygen so that you’d think he was just fine if it weren’t for the chest tube running to the bubbling thingy.
I bet Jim didn’t think this is what retirement was going to be like.
Hey there.
You know that’s really the only saving factor in all of this. If he were going to be going back to school in the fall, he’d be much more unhappy since he’d be losing all his time off.
Very sorry to hear – those phantom decks are treacherous. Tell Jim my own version of stupid construction tricks – pulling hard on a grapevine to remove from tree without checking for dead branches first. I woke up on the ground sometime later. Did he get to go to the hospital in style with the medics?
I drove him. After we got started, I though maybe it was a bad idea and called 911 and they told me to park at the church on 46 near the turnoff for Mt. Liberty and wait for them but couldn’t tell me how long I’d have to wait so we decided we might as well just drive.
Well I’m glad the trip turned out ok. That seems like a strange response from 911 on the time.
Wow. So glad Jim’s doing ok! I know you’ll keep us posted.
Hi CG & Indianadem,
Just stopping in to wish you & the other commenters, (soon to come), a nice weekend.
Hello KNUCKLEHEAD, hope all is well with you and your family.
Well howdy. Sure is nice to see you here. Hope all is well with you and all the family and friends and blennies (and all their companions in the tanks).
Hi knucklehead! I’m glad you stopped in, I was thinking earlier this week that it had been a while since I’d “seen” you. I hope all is well with you and yours! 🙂
We’re having a quiet Sunday morning today. I’m knitting, (not-so) patiently waiting to hear if my friend had her baby yet, watching Finny put his cars all over Daddy, who is resting on the couch…thinking about what needs to get done today. CBtY is over at this dad’s, so it’s only the 3 of us.
You really have a nice day and view.
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A self-proclaimed polo-shirt troll. Don’t be fooled …
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I guess I should have deleted the comment, but sometimes it’s fun to change their sig lines while banning them… 🙂
very funny!
Good morning Errol! Lovely day here & the blush is on the tomato. Be eating them soon:)
Feel free to respond to any troll comments with your recommendations for a new sig line 🙂
A rainless sunny day here! Woohoo!
Enjoy! The rain has seen fit to visit us here today. Yesterday was pretty darn nice.
Quick fly-by hi to everyone at the cafe’. Looks like we’ll have even more sunshine this week, b2! Much work to do here & the rain’s been making me lazy.
Hope to see you all soon!
(I am not a polo-shirt wearing troll, but a wench in an ancient Izod sweater.)
Hi ww! Sounds as if the sunshine has given you an energy burst;-)
A bit. Hopefully the sun will stay out awhile! Such a tease ..
We’ve got a beautiful day today!
Yeah, man! NOAA says it’ll be a lovely week, mostly. Hope they don’t change the forecast at the last minute as usual. We could really use a drying out. We’ve got fungi!
My niece flew in to LI today ~ I have no idea what for, but I’m sending directions to Sweet Revenge in case she gets into the city. Told her to say that a friend of Aunt Andi sent her.
That was sweet of you. I hope she gets a chance to drop by.
Tell your niece that if she wants to go into the city, she should take the train (LIRR to Penn Station). Driving is absolute hell.
Yeah, good advice. I remember my last adventure driving in from Jersey across the Verrazano Bridge & through Manhattan to LI when my grandparents were still alive & living out at Stony Brook. Its got to be a lot worse on the LI Expressway now. MY grandpa commuted to downtown from Nassau County on the LIRR most of his working life and that was the way we also went in on family outings to shop. I remember Fulton Fish Market very well. My grandma used to get swordfish steaks there back when they were safe to eat. They used to live in Brooklyn, where my mom was born, but moved out to LI sometime in the 30s, I think.
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Love that!
There was a leak in the suction machine that was supposed to be clearing his lungs of air which caused a ‘relapse’ but when they finally decided to believe Jim when he told them he kept hearing hissing air and fixed it the leak, his x-ray yesterday showed big improvements. That’s all I’ll know till the doctor looks at the morning x-ray.
Thanks for everybody’s concern.
Hope Jim has a speedy recovery. That stunt sound terribly painful.
Unusually warm here – low 90s, fortunately without the NY-humidity so it is not totally unbearable.
good thing Jim has insurance because that extra day in the hospital due to faulty equipment was probably $5K.
Sorry to hear about his accident, but happy to hear he’s better. My best to both of you!
Very glad to hear Jim’s recovery is progressing. I figure anyone who spent as much time as he did with small children can do pretty much anything with aplomb;-)
BTW, I found this definition of aplomb strangely appropriate to the occasion:
Glad to hear he’s doing better. I hate how health care providers are often so dismissive of patients that they won’t listen to them…I’d love to hear what the insurance company thinks of the extra charges due to operator intransigence… 🙂
Thanks everybody (ugh, Laura don’t make me think about what our share of this is going to end up costing and how awful it is for the guy with bleeding ulcer in the next bed who has no insurance).
Things are much improved today — xrays shows that chest cavity is clear and the lung is re-inflated. If things stay good, the chest tube will come out either today or tomorrow and then it’s just a wait to see that everything stays okay before he can be discharged.
Goodness! I’m glad that Jim is okay. What happened?
Explanation here.
Hi all,
Thanks for your good wishes & thoughts.
The air leak was one of those intermittent problems like when you take the car to the mechanic for that strange noise that you can’t recreate. Every once in a while, I would hear a tiny hiss or slight burble. Of course the suction machine was making quite a bit of noise. When I told the nurses they listened with me and it wouldn’t hiss. When I told the doctor about it after the X-ray showed the lung had not stayed reinflated, he checked the connections and found the leak. The problem with intermittent problems in they happen intermittently.
I’m hoping that I get my tube pulled out today. Although my brother warned me that it will be extremely painful.
I hope you have a quick recovery.
Thanks, the recovery moved along today. The doctor pulled my chest tube (about like ripping off a large bandage with hair all at once). An X-ray in the morning, and if my lung has stayed inflated, I’ll be out of the hospital after that.
That description reminds me of the old Cheech & Chong routine about the “Big Brave Motorcycle Rider”.
So sorry for your bad luck. Hope the removal is quick and less painful than anticipated.
My brother prepared me well. I imagined it being much worse than it actually was.
Glad it wasn’t too terrible:)
catching up on reading about your travails, best wishes for a speedy recovery & lots of pampering!
Andi always pampers me.
She’s such a good mother hen. 🙂
I think he’s brown-nosing me in preparation for his new career as an invalid. 😉
Bebo knows exactly what hump (what still no Jim!?!) she wants to get over. I hope she gets over it today.
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Hump day already? Oy. Tomorrow is Friday for me, and we have a parking lot picnic at work, so I’m going in for at last half the day.
I’m looking forward to the long weekend. I want to get some kayak/canoeing in on a local tame creek with the men. Which reminds me, I need a tiny life jacket….
I hope Jim is coming home today – sounds like his new retirement hobby will be having you dote on him and meet his every need. 🙂
I can probably manage a week before I’m back to my normal cranky and crabby self.
Hopefully Bebo will be jumping humps with Jim soon!
She had a very wonderful noon time — not only did Jim come home (YAY!) but I remembered that I’d never given her and Sniff any food this morning.
Great news! Give my best to Jim!
Glad to hear everyone is home and fed! 🙂
Welcome home Jim!
<pssst – get all the pampering you can outa this>
It’s Friday for me! I’m off tomorrow. Woohoo!
I’m betting Boo is on the new server. Couldn’t access BT at all earlier this morning and now the page loads are really speedy! Congrats Booman!
Yep.
Switched over last night after I fell asleep in my chair waiting. Then we had a few hiccups in the middle of the night.
But we have a new server and it sure is zippy.
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SUPER! The server change has really kicked in now.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."congrats! i just smited a bunch of spam diaries & everything opened up right away.
thanks, Manny. Maybe people will write some real diaries now that it doesn’t take an eon to open the page.
But it was certainly a great way to find out who had perseverance and stubbornness.
Good morning, all. Glad to hear of Jim’s recovery!
Good morning Errol! Isn’t it nice to see the pages here load so quickly? Looks to be a hot one here, but after all, it is July now. Have a good holiday!
Sigh. Something came up and I’m here at work. *&%#$<@!!!
Sorry to hear that your expected day off got ruined.
That SUX! I’m home, and blissfully cleaning up before my friend with the trplets comes over later. 🙂
That sounds like a really great way to make whatever trouble Finny gets into look like no big deal. 😉
I feel your pain, b2. Will you at least have Mon. off?
Yep, I’ll be off then!
DSK got a change of venue?
Very funny.
oh so nice !!!…. where?
When I see a troll, I imagine it like one of those little plastic creatures from the early 80’s with round bellies, stubby appendages, & fluorescent hair. This one is dressed like a pimp of that era.
Dripping gold bling as well.
Troll gold bling. I like it.
Oh, CabinGirl outdid that one completely with the troll’s new sig!
She did. Pretty funny stuff.
Jim, we were playing with troll dolls in the 1960s. Indeed, the lineage is long & distinguished.
Good to see you! Hope you’re fit as a fiddle.
Exactly. And those ratfink figures as well.
b2, are you into lowbrow culture? Ratfink is a god.
Rain, rain, rain here. Hopefully this won’t carry over until tomorrow. Not that we don’t need it.
Happy Fourth to all who celebrate it. Happy belated Canada Day too.
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Good morning all and Happy Fourth! with CabinGirl giving the trolls funny sig lines it’s a tough call whether to troll rate.
Do they do fireworks on the river? When we lived in a town on the Ohio river, they would take a barge out on the river and do fireworks from there. It was really nice.
yes, fireworks on the river! lots of fun!
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beautiful picture! good morning, all!
Good morning Errol and I echo your sentiments on the photo. Its good to see all that green.
FFF is tomorrow and this month’s theme is Summertime and the living is easy.