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...Happy Canada Day
Complaint: The South Dakota Highway Department is resurfacing a huge stretch of US Highway 85, but has only gotten to the 'lay down gravel' stage, and without any enforced lower speed limits for the stretch (in fact only one speed limit sign of any kind in each direction, posting it as 40 MPH instead of 70). Cue the huge 18-wheelers zooming down the road at 65 and kicking up huge clouds of very large gravel chunks that immediately coated everyone coming in the opposite direction. Two cracks, two pinhole chips, one shallow chip, and I feel lucky for getting away with only that.
Non-complaint: North Dakota is pretty this time of year. That makes 49 out of 50 states visited.
...a Milwaukee Fish Fry?
No this kind. Not at all edible.
I was told by the auto dealership that if my windshield ever has to be replaced, it will cost $1500. Their excuse for that is something about having to recalibrate the camera behind the windshield.
I also happen to know from another source that recalibrating one of those cameras requires high technology equipment that looks like a Nerf football with a string attached to it.
I thought Canada was always happy.
Non-complaint: An unexpected mini-adventure with perks!
A friend called up this morning and invited me to go grocery shopping uptown with her. It's just a 10 mile trip into Jamestown from the east, but then we turned it into a lunch event for her, myself, and her adult son, and drove up the west side to the north end of Chautauqua Lake, near Mayville. Nice trip along the lake, and stopped at a great little country type restaurant. Wonderful burgers! AND on the way back down the east side of the narrow, 22 mile long lake we stopped at the little cheese shop near Dewittville, where I was finally able to get some proper Blue Cheese.
I picked up a half-pound of Danish Blue, and a quarter pound of English Blueberry White Stilton. for a total of just $12.
I'd been trying to get some real imported Blue for the last several years but because of COVID shipping issues the little old lady who runs the one person shop, couldn't get it or if she did get it, it was gone by time I made it to the shop. Regardless, I now have enough yummy blue cheese to placate my hankerin' at least for this year. I've divided the big cheese chunks into small plastic containers, and licked my fingers and the knife afterwards.
I'll take some crackers and cheese to a 4th of July gathering on Thursday. Wheee..., cheesy fingers.
...well there were those two times when the Vancouver Canucks lost match #7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. First in 1994 (to the New York Rangers) and again in 2011 (to the Boston Bruins)
Complaint: Mind wandering; I have a few rules for daily survival in old age. 1) don't rush, 2) pay attention 3) pick up your feet, ... and a few others. Today I broke #2. While fixing my breakfast this morning, I put my cup of water into the microwave and heated it while I was pouring my Wheaties cereal into a bowl. Water's still heating so I got out my spoon, grabbed the Folgers instant coffee and the jar of powdered creamer, and made ready for the hot water. "Ding", water's done. So, I grab the cup and move it to the counter, then while watching the neighbor mow his lawn, I spooned out a nicely rounded spoonful of coffee granules and dumped it into my dry cereal.
Five minutes later after picking out and shaking the dry cereal flakes one-by-one until only the coffee granules were left in the bottom of the bowl, I poured the coffee grains into the now tepid water and reheated it.(*sigh*) Yeah, yeah, I could have tossed the cereal and coffee away but I hate wasting food, and neither are cheap anymore. I could also have just poured in my milk and tried a new experience of iced-coffee flavored Wheaties but I didn't feel experimental or adventurous today.
Moreover, the tedium was appropriate punishment, I think I learned my lesson.
If only I could get my mom to follow those rules...
second hard drive stopped working before I had a chance to copy my new/recent Daz Studio scene files. I still have the old scene files though.
edit: I think the USB hub is corrupting the hard drive sectors somehow. The drive seems to work when I use another port on the USB hub.
Saw dad today. We went to see Inside Out 2! It was good.
So, you're sayin' that you went from outside in, to see inside out?
Yep! LOL!
I just put some TetraMin flakes into my aquarium as I just grabbed it. I wanted to take this picture in the attachment. However, the platies saw I grabbed it and started to beg. I put the flakes into their water and they started to gobble it up. It is like they think the flakes are food?
complaint; I can't read the label without wearing my glasses.
non-compliant; my platies are doing well and made babies.
complaint; if they keep the baby making business up I need a bigger tank.
non-compliant; someone is giving me a bigger tank this Sunday.
..well that sounds like it ended well.
Speaking of "ends" (as in weekend), looks like out "heat shield" is about to melt away as it is forecast to be near 100° on Friday then above that Saturday, into Monday and possibly even Tuesday (they keep revising it). After that it will "cool down" into the upper 80s.
Ah well the mild summer was nice while it lasted. At least I got my fans working again.
By now, the entire sky is on the ground. I had to turn off the notifications from the weather app because there were so many flood warnings it was preventing people from sleeping, and scaring people when they were awake. AccuWeather has a terrifying warning sound. Things were fine for a few days but then the app managed to sneak a few more notifications through because we only turned off regular warnings but not these super warnings. So they managed to do notifications for "flash flood warnings" because that's more super bad than just a "flood warning" and therefore a different notification category.
There are mushrooms growing in the yard now. I don't think they're portabellos.
At this point we should probably just rip out the remaining pieces of sky and build a whole new one on top of sub sky. I heard our neighbor say something about doing that with a floor so I assume skies work the same way. Actually he said he would have to remove the subfloor too. How many layers does a floor have?
I'm going to explore our new mushroom kingdom and see if there are any turtles or little goombas out there.
...well Happy Fourth for those in The States.
Stay safe and for those in wildfire prone areas of the west and southwest, let the professionals handle the pyrotechnic displays.
...just returned from the pyrotechnic display downtown was a bigger show than past years, pretty impressive and well choreographed ending in a rousing loud finale. Yeah nothing like the Macy's display in New York but almost as long.. Everything was launched from a barge in the middle of the Willamette river so no risk of starting any fires.
A few of the suburbs opted for drone shows instead which I find sort of boring. Yeah I'm old school. Like my character Leela, give me "big bada-booms" and lots of pretty colours
The city banned personal fireworks this year but it seems to have pretty much ibeen gnored and un-enforced (still hearing them going off and its just past midnight here). There was a report tonight of an errant firework landed in a fir tree and started a fire 20' up which required fire department intervention.
Feel sad for all the animals and as usual, I expect to see a fair number of missing dog and cat notices on tomorrow's Portland Reddit stream.
I wanted to watch the fireworks on tv but I couldn't find my remote.
This morning I found my remote in my satchel. Why it was in there? I don't know. I don't remember putting it in there.
Gremlins!
No holiday cheer for me. Well, not quite true. The morning quickly got hot and muggy, but the afternoon was pleasant company for the most part. I was invited to an outdoor lunch at a friends home. Hot dogs, macaroni salad, baked beans, chips, etc... I even brought some of my precious blue cheese and a display of artichoke hearts stabbed with a colorful toothpick for Hors d'oeuvres (leave it to the French to put three vowels in a row), Apparently nobody but me liked the blue cheese and artichoke hearts. Yay, I was able to bring some of it home with me.
But just as the party of five was getting comfortable, a sixth person arrived and immediately went into political grumbling. There were a few grumbles back and we all decided that we were pretty much on the same side, but to different degrees and the conversation thankfully changed to ragging on far away relatives with 60 year old stories of how they had behaved as children. That was actually quite revealing and entertaining.
But when I got home the evening continued to be hot and muggy. A/C still not working up to snuff but with enough fans, and being nearly naked, helped until it was time for bed,
Only a few firecrackers heard in my little town all day or night. And I didn't even watch fireworks from Disney or Universal Studios. Somewhere between the age of 21 and 75, fireworks became un-exciting. I watch them on TV to see if there's anything new. Nope, same old stuff "flash, whizz, boom, ooh...pretty", repeat until jaded.
Complaint: Having someone over for dinner, I planned the meal; she then changed the meal and brought her food. She has no food problems or allergies and was the first person in my life ever to do this.
Where I come from, this is the rudest move you can make. I want to feed them, not them feed me.
So I now lie in the dog house cause I mentioned to my wife how I felt about someone rude and bringing their food to my dinner; I invited them to.
I would say, if you invite someone to your home for dinner and they bring their own dinner, that is an insult. Unless they're allergic to corn. Then they can't eat anything in the United States. But this person isn't allergic to corn. It's just an insult.
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It's worse than I ever imagined.
We've given laughing gas and machineguns to the Internet Superhighway robbers,
Nope, nothing but something giving her gas. Maybe.
Since watching Reign Over me (thought it would be funny with Adam Sandler), followed by, excuse me (gagging) Poor Little Things -- how did this movie win four awards?! I have been scouring the channels for something funny. Who knew I'd find it here. If Poor Little Things got four oscars this guy earned 8. Well must go, making spagetti with gasoline sauce topped with rocks.