msconduct

I actually have. From where I started long ago I've lost 28 pounds. Where I started with GLP1 I've lost about 9.

My clothing consists of shorts and t-shirts. I've got a couple of pairs of long pants that have small paint splatters on them, hardly noticable, that I wear when I need something long.

I NEVER dress up beyond that. But I did find a pair of nice slacks, part of a funeral suit, and paired it with a new sports coat and I'll look nice.

But I needed a couple of pairs of decent pants to wear. It is going to be cold and I think maybe a couple of days of long pants won't kill me.

Except the first four I tried are too big. I could get away with suspenders but they are really big. Two inches too big in the waist. Dangerously close to falling down like a clown suit.

I've got two pairs of pants that should work OK. Even with them I'll likely wear suspenders rather than a belt just to be sure.

But I won't be able to wear them again since I'm losing another 10 or 15 pounds.

So next stop might be Goodwill. But not today.

Fortunately I've got an always serviceable blue oxford cloth button down that is good with everything anytime, anywhere.

The hotel has a same day cleaners so we can get everything pressed tomorrow after we arrive.

I'm going to be fine in a carry on. Dana is stressing. I may be able to put her CPAP in my bag as well as mine.

We're going to take the dogs in a little bit. Maybe another hour. No fun there.

susandennis

Stupid Detroit with their stupid roof-less stadium.

Jim across the hall offered to sell me his Tesla "for next to nothing". It's a smaller one and comes not only with a charger installed next to my parking space, but also free (to me) electricity. I do not know what "next to nothing" means but I suspect it means way less than I could get for my car. But, even putting the Elon Musk ness aside, I just don't trust the company. It's probably fine and I'd be fine owning it. And it's only 3 years old so far less likely to have a problem than my car. But insurance and stuff. And how often do I need extra room? Once or twice every year or so.

So. I told him I would think about it but I have and no.

Also no to the new air fryer. I wanted a bigger one and I went too big. The touch screen needs pounding as opposed to touching. You need massive arm muscles to get the damn drawer out and back in. Plus, it does not cook that well. Stuff that should be crisp is not that crisp. And the settings are way off. The frozen pizza setting burnt the sucker black but the bottom was soft. So back it goes. Sadly, I tossed the giant box. Now I have to find a new giant box.

I spent too much at Costco. But, they had my coffee on sale.

Housekeeping called this morning to say my house cleaner was not at work today. They offered a sub but I said nope. It's fine I pulled out the dirt devil and did the heavy lifting. Now I am waiting for the rain delayed Mariner game to un rain delay.

susandennis

I'm on a timeline. Bonny and I are going to Costco. Oh, wait, we're not going til 10:30 so I've got more time than I thought. She's out of vodka... again. She never drinks before 5 but ALWAYS drinks after. I've never seen her drunk but she does go through the stuff. She buys the big bottles at Costco. Two at at time and has a special bag so no one will see her but two bottles. Then she always waits until late at night to put the empties in the trash room so no one will see her. This alcohol subterfuge cracks me up. She's 85. No one knows her at Costco. No one on this hall cares how much she drinks. But she's not convinced. So... off we go to procure her vice.

Oh the up side, she can't walk far (bad hip which she could get fixed but doesn't want to fuck with) so we get to use handicapped parking.

The Mariner game is at 1. My cleaner comes at 1:40. Happily, I can watch the game on my laptop in the elbow while she cleans.

I saw last night that my former neighbor who has been a TV reporter here for 30 years is retiring. She lived a few doors down from me in the condo for all of those 30 years. My only interaction with her, other than, 'hi!' when we passed in the hallway was during the first weeks of COVID. We passed in the hallway and she stopped me. She told me that she was going to be out and about regardless, every day, for her job and she figured I was not. "Let me give you my number. Then if there is anything you need, any day, just text me. I'll pick it up and bring it to you." That was it. So sweet and so kind. I sent her the first text last night urging her to enjoy the heck out of her retirement.

I took two giant bundles down to the clothes donation bin. One bag was that comforter. I love the look of it. I hate the sleep of it. So gone. I bought another one last spring at Goodwill, that I never tried. It's kind of weighted. I slept under it last night. Perfect. BUT butt ugly. It's gray. Just gray. So just now, I ordered a duvet cover for it.

Ok. Time to get dressed and get organized.

bill_schubert

Our travel is a total of four days, three nights. We have to board the dogs for a week. Not fair to us or them but we're leaving at such an early hour and coming back too late and then there's Sunday. So we have to take them tomorrow and can't pick them up until Monday.

Not at all happy about that. It will sharpen our minds about getting ready to leave but still.

Matt, number two son, is all packed up and has his stuff at the office. I think he's leaving early tomorrow morning from Des Moines to head to Providence. The bachelor party is in Providence. I am not (NOT!!!) invited. There's ax throwing and such stuff. I told him not to throw an ax at his big brother. There has to be some boundaries. He said he'd try not to.

We are hopefully on the 7AM out of Austin and will be in Hartford early afternoon. Then driving north through the back roads of Massachusetts. We have nothing on the schedule Wednesday and no one will be there yet so just downtown Northampton and us. And, yeah, it is going to be chilly.

Thursday morning we have two massages scheduled in the morning. And then late afternoon everyone arrives. The hotel is really a wedding destination kind of place so it should be good for meeting up with the others.

I've not met the bride and haven't seen my granddaughters since they were both very young. Weirdness will be the name of the day.

Rehearsal and the dinner and then next day wedding. And reception.

And the next day we leave fairly early in the morning.

I'd love to stay another day but it was going to cost in excess of $600 to do that. We're stressing a bit over the money as it is and will need to buckle down and budget for six or so months to recoup.

I just connected with the inlaws so we're going to meet them Wednesday afternoon. Train's on the track now.

somedayseattle

I bought an iPhone.

BUT...in my defense... I did not, and prolly never will, activate it.

I have relied on iPods for the last 20 years but the dickheads...oops, I meant 'geniuses' at Mapple decided to do away with them a couple years ago. I hung on but the connection port was screwing up and the battery has seen better days. I may have been able to live without either, but I need my NOTEBOOK app. I have years of notes and quotes in there. Years of notes that just cost me $528 and losing some of my cool rebel cred.

somedayseattle

I thought I was King Shit last week when I won at Friday bingo for the 3rd week in a row. I won a Tide Pod!! It was delicious.(All hail King Seattle for I got your number!) My reign lasted a day as the very next day at a local groceria,

tinytadpole found a $5 bill on the floor. Lucky gal. Only a handful hours later, whilst doing laundry downstairs finds a laundry card on the floor. Still loaded with $18 credit. Even though there was a temporary blip of me riding high the weekend ended in the rightful way, with Erica high upon her throne as Queen of the Universe.

susandennis

In yesterday's first game, the Bluejays, again, humiliated the Yankees. They Yankees finally scored a few runs in the later innings but the damage had already been done. So sweet.

The Mariner game was not so sweet. It was tough. Every single inning. They won. But it was tough. But at least they won. Against, arguably, the game's current best pitcher. So that was lovely. So now we have at least two more games in this series. The next one is tomorrow.

Today are national league games and I really don't care. I'd like the Phillies not to lose but I'm not invested.

Yesterday I culled out some clothes and have a bag for the donation box. The bag is actually too heavy to carry so I need to get the cart out. For now I stashed the bag in the storage locker.

Night before last, I was too hot. The comforter - a pretty one - I got for real cheap from the charity shop is of a fabric that just doesn't sleep well. I swapped it yesterday for another one that turned out to be too light weight. So. Today, I'm going to swap it out for yet another one. I need to get rid of those that don't work. Even if I love them.

No big plans today. The sun is out but I'm going to swim anyway. I need to learn to live with the stupid fucking sun in my eyes when I swim. (And yes, I do have dark - really dark - goggles.)

In between ballgames yesterday, I got the next puzzle going in the elbow. I got all the pieces upright and they edges separated. Today, I'll probably go out there and at least get the framing done. And then I have TV to catch up on. This baseball has interrupted our regular programming. Thank goodness for on demand streaming!

kevin_standlee

Surprise! It's a post about the house.

In the summer months, we rarely use the clothes dryer because it's so warm and dry here that we can just hang stuff on a drying rack upstairs and it will dry out pretty quickly. But it's starting to cool off, and on a rare rainy (and thus more humid) day, I had cause to want to dry something more quickly. I went to put it in the dryer, pushed the start button. Nothing. Everything seemed to be connected. I hung up the jacket to dry and decided that I'd deal with it later.

This morning, when Kayla came back from breakfast, she had an idea. While we had already checked the circuit breakers on the main box and on the sub box located in the laundry room, we remembered that there is yet a third box located in the garage. Going out there, we discovered that two breakers were off. Not in the tripped position, but actually off. I turned them back on and went back into the house and upstairs where the dryer is. Sure enough, the dryer worked. I'd forgotten that for reasons that doubtless made sense to the owner of the house at the time, the electrical wiring for the garage (which is a separate building from the main house) and the upstairs floor of the main house go through a conduit that branches from the main house, goes to the garage, and then back to the main house and upstairs.

This screwball wiring works, but it's something we keep forgetting. Fixing it would be part of a much larger electrical rebuild that would probably cost many thousands of dollars, because step one would probably mean upgrading our too-small electrical service, which means a new drop from the pole and lots and lots of rewiring. We could afford it, but I'm not sure we'll ever do it, just due to the massive hassle it would involve.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Location: Fernley, Nevada

susandennis

The dryer is going to BING any minute and I'll be interrupted. So I'll need to go fold. But, I'll come back.

The good news. The Bluejays totally embarrassed the Yankees yesterday. It was so sweet. 10 to 1. I am a 100% Bluejay fan until they face the Mariners and then, of course, I'm a 0%. But... when they humiliate the Yankees, I'm 110%.

The bad news. The Mariners got beat in extra innings. They played fine and Detroit played fine. It was a good game but Detroit played just a smidge finer.

We all know how picky I am about baseball broadcasters. These post season ones range from OMG NO! to eh, ok. At least they don't spend 3 innings discussing footwear or mustaches. They actually follow the game. They do seem to favor the opposition, tho. The Bluejay game had all Yankee announcers. The Mariner game leaned toward Detroit but not so much that I hit mute. And there are only about 5 commercials that they repeated until your brain just screams. Do not take any drugs you are allergic to. There was one - I think it's a cancer drug - that listed so many horrible side effects, that I am sure their only customers are people with only 2 days to live who don't care how miserable those 2 days are.

Maybe that's what led to my dream, last night, that fire was coming up the lawn and would engulf the structure I was in. My big problem was that I had already lost internet so I couldn't Google the best way to die in a fire. I never did find out.

Today's first baseball game is at 1 and then the Mariners at 5 and that's all for today. Tomorrow are the National League games.

I ordered brunch for pickup and then went to swim first. The swim was good and the pick up was smooth. French toast again. Delicious. I came home and fried and egg and ate half the French toast and one of the two sausages. So now I can repeat for lunch or dinner. Yum.

First I need to fold and hang the laundry and put the clean sheets on the bed. Then I can take the rest of the day off.

I did bale (again) from aqua stretch. I told the director that I wasn't going any more. I'll swim on Monday mornings now instead of having to wait until 2. I was so dreading Mondays but no more! There were only two of us who showed up more than once a month. My friend, Martha, is the other one and we both decided we were done.

susandennis

The picking up of the sofa cushion was every bit the nightmare I though it would be. Driving around in a web of undermall parking surrounded by downtown one way streets and traffic looking for a really horribly identified place with no signage. Well, there was a sign, actually, once you got there. Not helpful. I was so pissed off. But, I got the cushion and got the fuck out of there. I do not ever have to go back. Well, maybe next time Scott and Julie come from New Zealand but that won't be for two years. I'll be recovered by then.

I did go to Uwajimaya after. It's a decent sized store. I couldn't find the sandos but I got my noodle salad and a few other goodies plus a few dinners worth of Mongolian beef. And a banana milk cake. The beef made the car quite aromatic. It was fun to see all the stuff again. They are, supposedly opening here a store here next year. Their poke is my favorite but I did not get any this time. Should have. The noodle salad was not nearly as good as I remember it. And the Mongolian beef was a fail. BUT I'm still glad I went.

Then I also stopped at Daiso on the way home to get a couple of things that I cannot get anywhere else. Then, uneventfully, home. I was going to stop and fill the tank but it's not yet below the halfway point so I didn't.

This morning's volleyball was cut short. Linda and Bob are in Canada, Cecil was missing (he's the asshole so it's hard to count this as anything but a win), Wally had to leave early and Tina always does so we had a great time and then called it at 8. This gave me enough time to run take my Amazon returns to UPS. Turns out there was also enough time to pop into Safeway but I didn't think of that last bit until I got home. I may go later.

The first baseball game is at 11 just after elbow coffee but it is the one, out of the four today, that I really don't care about. Maybe I'll pop out then and also pick up some lunch. Then the games at 1 and 3, I do care about and, of course, the Mariner game at 5. Full day.

And now I have a fully cushioned sofa to enjoy it on.

bill_schubert

I finished my final 1 October task today so now I'm ready.

Every six months I was off the fins on my AC compressor. I suspect only a very few people do it but the job isn't difficult and the fins exchange heat for the coolant in the compressor. Cleaner fins = more efficient exchange. So I take off the top spray them down with soap spray that is made to clean them and then wash it off. A little daunting first time out but I've got it down now and the only difficulty is that as an outside chore it has to be done in the morning. But it is done now and I feel accomplished.

While I was doing it I found two unusual fittings at the base of the AC. We've been living here going on seven years now and finding parts falling off the house is a little disconcerting.

Fortunately there is Google Lens. These appear to be fittings used in mig welding. I've got a friend who is a welder who will no doubt verify them but what the hell are fittings for a mig welder sitting at the base of my AC compressor 7 years after installation. And no one is likely to have been using a mig welder anywhere near this house even when it was being built.

I suspect Dana. She's sleeping but my guess is she found them and then lost track of them while washing them off or some such nonsense. Investigation in progress.

My super sleuth companion, Beaux, is on the case:

Other than that I've got nothing today until tonight's Austin FC soccer game. No PB today.

Probably a good day to do a packing exercise. See what I really want to take with me on Wednesday and see if I can still get away with carryon.

I've got a massage therapist I found in Northampton that has a couple of morning availabilities on Thursday morning. I'm debating but think I'll schedule us for post plane/pre wedding massages.

There was an article I saw this morning about a roadway in Vermont jammed with people wanting to see the trees.

This is a thing now days that every time I think about travelling really turns me off. My guess is we've just got too many people in the world now. Nearly every place worth going has report of being jammed with people going to see it. The first time I went to Hong Kong I, of course, took the tram up to Victoria Peak at night to see one of the breathtaking sights in the world. When Dana I went there must have been 10 years later we did the same. Only difference was that there were so many people crowding the rails that the overlook was far away from us and the wistful overview was kind of spoiled.

I once went to see a Monet exhibit and spent the entire time viewing the backs of peoples' heads.

I'm hoping that our trip from Hartford through the back roads of Western Massachusetts in the middle of a weekday will be reasonably traffic free. Once we get to the hotel I think we're done with the driving around. I considered staying an extra day but it will cost us almost as much to stay one day as it would to stay the other three.

I need to fall in love with the desert or somewhere that no one else wants to go but I think that place may not longer exist.

Signed: Old AND Cranky

bill_schubert

We leave for MA on Wednesday. I've not yet cut the tags off my new sport coat. Denial.

We're going to try to travel with carryon only. Not easy but I'm hoping. Three nights and a dress up day. Easier for me, of course.

With TSA not being paid this whole thing could be a huge mess. One thing I've always done when I can is leave on one of the first planes out in the morning. People are grumpy but the first flights nearly always on time. Our flight is at 7AM which means we need to leave our house at about 5 AM. We have Precheck boarding passes.

We arrive in Hartford on Wednesday around 1PM and have a 45 minute drive up to North Hampton where the wedding will be held on Friday. I realized today that we'll be the only people in North Hampton at the hotel on Wednesday. We're getting there a day early. Which suits me fine. If things work out we'll have time to detour way around Springfield and drive through Monson, MA, where I went to school. It is a lovely drive through the small towns in the area and I rented an Audi for the trip so touring should be nice.

My health is better today. Wednesday night I had half a dozen chicken wings and a beer. It was the same day as I injected the GLP-1 drugs and I felt like my digestion just stopped. Like after a big Thanksgiving dinner kind of bloat. That continued through the day on Thursday. Pickleball was not much fun and all I wanted to do was nap. It felt like a low level food poisoning but Dana had the other half of my plate with no effects. So I'm blaming it on the drug.

No matter. I survived and felt great this morning. No leftover effects. Pickleball was great today and I still feel fine. I do feel a nap coming on here in a couple of minutes.

susandennis

So, apparently, my sofa cushion has been ready for pickup for a week but no one bothered to let me know. I was beginning to worry that my constant emails asking for updates were annoying. Now I don't care who I annoy at that stupid Crate and Barrel.

They are in the heart of downtown Bellevue in a gynormous old timey multi floor walkyoufuckingfeet off mall. But, they do have a spot where you can pull in and call them and they will bring your goods to your car. Supposedly. We'll find out today. I'm going in. I'm not looking forward to it.

But, it's not far, and a kind of straight shot from there to Uwajimaya and a stop there might be worth the pain.

The Yankees did not lose last night which is such a shame on many levels. The baseball schedule is now flushed out with times (the days have been set for a while). There is baseball all day long every day for as far as the calendar can see. It's exhausting to consider. It starts tomorrow. The Mariner game is the last of four games tomorrow.

More fun in tech support... Yesterday Noelle rang my doorbell and came in full of frantic. "This is David's (her husband) phone and it's not an iPhone and I don't know how to work it and USAA says we we have to have a 6 digit code and it's supposed to be in here and we can't find it and we have to have it for my car that goes way back years ago and is so complicated..." This was one long run-on sentence. But, she's the best to support because if you can get through her trauma, she knows what she wants and she's ready. So I told her to take a deep breath. "All you want is a code they just sent?" "Yes, please." I clicked on the text app he had on his home screen and found it immediately. I looked up and she has pen ready to write on paper. I gave her the code and handed her the phone and she raced off in a puff of gratitude. She makes it so easy.

I'm enjoying the re-read of Project Hail Mary. It's still an amazing story but this time I'm struck by how poorly written it is. Ach. Sometimes I feel like I'm reading an 8th grade short story. But the story is so good.

Yesterday, Julio and Biggie were cuddled on the couch. So here's a free cat pic.

Time to go get dressed and hit the road.

susandennis

I've seen every one of the 23 scillion Great British Bake Off episodes but last week's (which I just watched) was the first time I was truly lost multiple times. It was Back to School week and clearly I did not go to school in England.

First was school cake. Everyone seemed to know what this was except the woman from Ukraine... and me. Turns out it's a vanilla cake (or sponge if you want to sound posh) with vanilla royal icing and sprinkles BUT - here's a massive twist. They make some kind of vanilla custard that is not set. It pours and they pour this over the cake AND icing. I'm all over vanilla cake and I like royal icing. and I love custard but all three is a bit of overkill, in my book. And I never ever went to a school that served any kind of regular cake.

Then there were flapjacks. Now, in my world, flap jacks are just another name for pancakes. Not so in Britainville. They all made some kind of dense, almost power bar dense, oat thing. No relation to pancakes at all.

Then they made Summer Fete stuff - cakes and cookies and stuff reminiscent of Summer Fete. Never heard of Summer Fete in my life. I couldn't even make out what they were saying until they said it a bunch of times.

But, apparently plastic ducks with rings on their backs are a big piece of summer Fete as they get 'fished' in something called Hook a Duck. There is also something called Quoits which involves maybe rings and sticks? Again. never heard of it but no on they show gave it even a question mark.

So weird that after all those episodes, I get all these questions marks in just the one.

susandennis

Amazon has taught me that I can order stuff and not wait weeks for it. Now waiting those weeks is a lot harder than it was. Thanks, Amazon. I ordered a cat puzzle/toy that I should not have (they don't need and too expensive) and it's taking forever to get here. I ordered the new cushion for my couch eons ago. Last Friday, the sales guy said it just arrived and I will get an email when it is ready for pick up... waiting... waiting...

So that and baseball is my day. Most wildcard playoffs (best out of 3) take 2 games to decide. MLB has four wild card series. Only one was decided in 2 games this year. So today I do not have 4 games to watch. Only 3. Geesh. The Yankees have not been totally humiliated but they have been bruised a little and, with any luck, they will be gone after today.

I was texting with my nephew about the game and my phone's keyboard suggestions for words to follow 'stupid' included 'Yankees'. This cracks me up. I'm glad my phone is on my side.

I think I want an air fryer with more 'fryer' real estate. But still a proper single use air fryer. (not a toaster oven) There are way too many options and, honestly, I cannot decide if I actually do want it or not. My little one works great and I love it, I just want a bigger boat. I think. But Amazon is getting ready to have a sale next week so I'll likely hold off at least til then if not forever.

I will likely finish off the Elbow puzzle today. We can start a new one on Saturday (after elbow coffee is over). Bonny's kids gave us a good one to do next.

It's laundry day. So baseball, laundry, puzzle - three things? OMG I'm outta control here.

bill_schubert

Yeah, it's 91 degrees here and not topped out yet, I think.

I was going to wash the AC condenser, a chore I do twice a year to help ensure the efficiency of my AC. Not that we use it much.

Now it is too hot to go out and do it. So I'm putting it off to Saturday morning.

The mornings, at least, are cool here. Sitting on the porch drinking coffee in the 60ish degree weather is such a luxury. It stays cool enough for the first couple of hours that we can leave our door open. Zoe used to love going in and out to her heart's content. Beaux will too once he gets the dog door figured out.

Three pre-trip checked boxes today so far.

I sent off the wedding present. UPS advertises that it they pack anything with their material and you ship with them they guarantee arrival or will pay for whatever you shipped. The caveat, not included anywhere in their web site, is that you have to buy exceptionally expensive insurance. They wanted $350 of insurance to guarantee my shipment and claimed that 'corporate' owned the web site if it was confusing. I left.

Found an independent pack and ship place and their insurance was about $29 for the same thing. And their packing and shipping was far less.

Called the hotel and told them that we won't be staying that last night that costs $269.

And filled out the paperwork to drop off the dogs at the puppy hotel. We drop them off a day early and can't pick them up until the Monday after we return. No pickup on Sunday. That will be kind of sad to be dogless.

Verified, yet again, flights and car reservations.

I used to revel in all the detail of planning such a trip. Now it is just a pain. I'm still pretty good at it (runs in the family, we are ALL good trip planners) but I don't love it much.

The new Pickleball place that I bought into last June opens this weekend. No idea how it will work but it is close by so I can just run up and see what's going on without it being a big trip.

It is an indoor facility which it nice when the weather isn't cooperating. And I can still go to the outdoor place if it is a nice day. I like playing outdoors but wind and rain and heat and cold make it hard sometimes.

I've only played indoors once and that was on a basketball court. This is a pickleball only facility so it should be interesting. I'm looking forward to having it so available.

somedayseattle

I’ve only had two or three occasions to chat with her but one of my favorite people here so far is Glenda. She’s a 90 year old from Long Island. She is semi hunched over, walks with a cane and is full of what MeDad used to call "piss and vinegar" . She’s a spunky little lady will put you in your place in the drop of a hat but also one of the cutest and sweetest you’ll ever see. She wears variously designed Doc Martin combat boots of various colors and has a really strong bracelet game. She wears more bracelets than I do (quite a feat) but not more than Johnny Depp (the standard bearer for we, the bracelet wearing public)

We came to find out during bingo yesterday Glenda's ring tone was Marvin Gaye's Let’s Get It On. There was a moment of silence between numbers being called when out of the back of the room came the chorus of
"Let’s get it on, ow baby
Let's get it on, let's love, baby
Let’s get it on, sugar
Let's get it on, woo"
In the flash of a second all the old women were standing up, swinging their hips and testifying ‘mmmm’. ‘Lawdy Jesus” “oooh yeah Marvin getitonwithMEEE’

Can’t find this kinda entertainment at a 9-to-5 job, peeps.

bill_schubert

Next Tuesday we take the dogs to the hotel where they will stay for a week (no pickup on Sunday and we get back too late on Saturday). Beaux will be fine. Toby will be OK but not happy. They are staying in the same 'room' so they will be fine if not happy.

Next Wednesday in the dark we drive down to south Austin to the airport to board a 7AM flight to Nashville where we change to another plane because it is Southwest where we promise no direct flights will happen. Then on to Hartford, CT and rent a car and drive south an hour or so to the beautiful western Massechusetts. And then do the family and wedding thing. Meet the fiance and family and whatnot. I've not received an invite to the bachelor's party, nor an invoice. So I'm happy. I think our Wednesday evening will be spent with the inlaws, which is fine. They are both retired New Jersey judges so it should be interesting.

This morning I'm packing up some of Dana's decorative and fairly vintage china handed down in her family and a bunch (maybe a third or so) of my father's Waterford crystal glass collection. I'd send the whole thing but it is so damn heavy. I'll send a bit for Christmas and such until it is all gone. We hardly ever use it and I hate it just sitting. And it is just a matter of time before it all has to go somewhere.

The plane has been paid for but that's all. Dogs and hotel and car and mailing heavy expensive stuff... all not paid for yet. And whatever else we're going to need to buy while we're there. We are flying out Saturday morning so we don't have to have the room for another night. That Saturday night the rate about doubles. Leaf peeper time in W. MA. We're getting out of town before ALL the prices double.

Sigh.

And Dana needs a very expensive tooth extraction. NOW.

In other news. Nothing much. Tonight is a big soccer thing. Austin TX is in the finals for a prestigious tourney going on and the game is in Austin so the city is having a party. We won't be at the stadium. Too hard, too far, too expensive. But we are going to go to a local bistro that features the game so we can be around a bunch of fans. I suspect Austin will lose but if they win the place will be rocking.

Fortunately it is close by, just down the road, so easy to get there easy to leave.

susandennis

I watched 3.2 baseball games yesterday. They were all good except the last one. The poor Cincinnati Reds got matched against the We'll Beat You Up Dodgers and they did. Boston beat the Yankees which was satisfying. The rest was yawnerville. I'd kinda rather we played the Guardians and they got beat yesterday by the Tigers. And I don't care one bit whether the Cubs beat the Pirates or vice versa.

Today is another round of same. Same games, same game times. I think I'll skip the noon game and the 6 pm game and just watch the 10 am and then 3 pm games. This set is 2 out of 3 so, likely, at least one of these teams will win their 2nd game today and tomorrow's schedule will be lighter. As long as the Yankees lose. With a Dodger kicker (which ain't gonna happen).

Otherwise, that's it for me for news. John's still dying - Hazel was wheeling him around yesterday. His mind is starting to leave. Dick is getting better but not fast enough for Jan. Yesterday, he had her running back and forth getting stuff. Happily, the nursing wing is on this floor so at least she didn't have to wait for elevators.

It's a rainy overcast day so I'm off to swim some laps.

susandennis

I got my first DVR in 1980 (a beta max, since you asked). It has a wired remote. Yes, a wire strung across the room from the TV to the couch but this was 1980 and DVR was magic so I did not care who I tripped.

I learned to fast forward through commercials. My thumb hit >> without my even being aware of it for more than 40 years.

When I moved here in 2023, I gave up all recording services.

Today I splurged on Hulu+Live for the playoffs and now I have recording again. I tuned into the first baseball game recording 30 minutes after it started but it was a good 30 minutes before I remembered I could fast forward through the commercials! My thumb has forgotten its main purpose in life.

These announcers are not remotely interesting but they are not spending whole innings discussing the players' mustaches. They are following the game. Shocking. They also have twice now used 'fewer' instead of 'less' correctly so I'm a happy camper. Also the game is a good one so far.

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So apparently I've lost some weight

Rain out plus next to nothing

Rush job

Saying goodbye to the dogs

the night shift

unavoidable chaos

Post Season baseball is hard

Simpler Than Expected

I'm about to be interrupted...

Yesterday and today

Ok, now we can start October

Four days and a wakeup

Road Trip

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Sure am glad it is the nice cool fall weather now

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2 of 2+?

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