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Got back after 5pm today. No luck what so ever. Just couldn't get the tiles.

Oh well. Tomorrow morning is my regular game then errands after.

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We have a similar problem with our sink, which was installed incorrectly, with a similar fix. One of these days we'll get it fixed for real.

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Got back after 5pm today. No luck what so ever. Just couldn't get the tiles.

Oh well. Tomorrow morning is my regular game then errands after.

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That's a bummer Brenda...

I wasn't able to see the last one because of clouds, but it was a bright sunny day around here. I was out helping a buddy replace a window on his house and I remembered to bring the glasses that my friend's mother in law gave me all the way back when we got together for Thanksgiving.

That was really cool. The only other time we had an eclipse worth watching was when I was around 7 or 8 years old and my old man made some cardboard box things that we put our heads in to see it... he remembered how to make them from when he was a kid in grade school.

He actually traveled down south for a week with my step-mom to see the full eclipse. But I heard that it might have been cloudy where they were going so I hope the weather got better for them after they spent the time and money on that trip.



I'm exhausted. Couldn't sleep last night and I was up at 6AM this morning. Just finished my first lawn mowing of the year too.

Shower time.

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It was. My province all of western Canada were out of the range of totality. Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland were the lucky ones. I saw it on the news. There will be another partial one I think they said in 20years.

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Sis says it was its usual cloudy self in western NY, so no view there either. And too bad bc they had a total eclipse.
But she said it was eerie, having a night sky in the daytime.

I seem to remember an eclipse from when I was a kid, and all the warnings about DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN! Dad made a pinhole viewer that would throw the image onto a piece of paper, IIRC. I remember being underwhelmed, so I don't feel like I missed anything today.

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Yeah... That's the thing my old man made. I think I was probably more excited about how excited he was about it. He was always into Astronomy and he'd get books about it from the library with all the pictures and I remember before going to bed when I was really little looking at them with him.

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But shooting stars .... That's another matter! And I love clear night skies. We don't get them much in LA, too much moisture and too many lights. But there's nothing like looking up into the vastness to put things in perspective. All my problems, no matter how distressing, wind up feeling insignificant.

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Probably the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life was a meteor shower with my brothers and my dad. We were already in Indiana where the nighttime skies are a lot more clear than around Chicago, but he drove us out even further into cornfields and we just watched the orange fiery streaks rain from the sky. I don't know how long it actually lasted, but in my memory it was a very long time. If it wasn't for all of them remembering that night too, I'd have thought maybe it was just a dream all these years later.

I'm really glad my dad got to see that eclipse today, since it was probably the last one he'll get to see in his life. He's not normally the "giddy" type, but I could tell just from the tone of his voice how much he enjoyed today.

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So far, the new schedule... where I do all my kitchen work all together in the AM including dinner prep... hasn't been very successful at chipping time out for projects. Plus, hubby has been a bit irritated that nobody is helping him in the garage.( Well, excuse me! I don't get any yardwork help from him either!) But we sat down with the calendar and weather forecast, and today was my day to do yardwork, which I was glad to get to. I spent a couple of hours weeding, regrading, and papering over a portion of the yard right under the eaves. Now that it's been weeded and leveled, I can see how badly the grading sucked. I still need to correct it bc part of it STILL slopes to the house.
But that will have to wait until Thursday/Friday bc we'll be re-upholstering kitchen chairs and doing regular housework.

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A homeowner's work is never done, my grams always used to say.

That's cool you know how to apolhster. I'm going to have to figure that skill out so I can fix her dining room chairs for my kitchen. I also took parts of her dining room table that I'm going to use to make a new 2-seater table for my kitchen with those chairs one day. I'll be too busy this summer, but maybe next year.



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It was. My province all of western Canada were out of the range of totality. Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland were the lucky ones. I saw it on the news. There will be another partial one I think they said in 20years.

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Yeah... We didn't get totality. My old man called me yesterday to say that it was somewhere around 98% though. I don't think it was actually that high where I was, but it was pretty close. It looked really cool with those glasses on.

It was weird seeing it get as dark as it was without a cloud in the sky, but it wasn't close to a blackout. It was just pure blue sky in the middle of the day and about as dark as it would get with a thunderstorm raging.

At least my old man had some good news. The forecast completely cleared up for them this morning and they got to see it all.

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Sis says it was its usual cloudy self in western NY, so no view there either. And too bad bc they had a total eclipse.
But she said it was eerie, having a night sky in the daytime.

I seem to remember an eclipse from when I was a kid, and all the warnings about DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN! Dad made a pinhole viewer that would throw the image onto a piece of paper, IIRC. I remember being underwhelmed, so I don't feel like I missed anything today.

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Yeah... That's the thing my old man made. I think I was probably more excited about how excited he was about it. He was always into Astronomy and he'd get books about it from the library with all the pictures and I remember before going to bed when I was really little looking at them with him.

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But shooting stars .... That's another matter! And I love clear night skies. We don't get them much in LA, too much moisture and too many lights. But there's nothing like looking up into the vastness to put things in perspective. All my problems, no matter how distressing, wind up feeling insignificant.

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Probably the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life was a meteor shower with my brothers and my dad. We were already in Indiana where the nighttime skies are a lot more clear than around Chicago, but he drove us out even further into cornfields and we just watched the orange fiery streaks rain from the sky. I don't know how long it actually lasted, but in my memory it was a very long time. If it wasn't for all of them remembering that night too, I'd have thought maybe it was just a dream all these years later.

I'm really glad my dad got to see that eclipse today, since it was probably the last one he'll get to see in his life. He's not normally the "giddy" type, but I could tell just from the tone of his voice how much he enjoyed today.

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So far, the new schedule... where I do all my kitchen work all together in the AM including dinner prep... hasn't been very successful at chipping time out for projects. Plus, hubby has been a bit irritated that nobody is helping him in the garage.( Well, excuse me! I don't get any yardwork help from him either!) But we sat down with the calendar and weather forecast, and today was my day to do yardwork, which I was glad to get to. I spent a couple of hours weeding, regrading, and papering over a portion of the yard right under the eaves. Now that it's been weeded and leveled, I can see how badly the grading sucked. I still need to correct it bc part of it STILL slopes to the house.
But that will have to wait until Thursday/Friday bc we'll be re-upholstering kitchen chairs and doing regular housework.

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A homeowner's work is never done, my grams always used to say.

That's cool you know how to apolhster. I'm going to have to figure that skill out so I can fix her dining room chairs for my kitchen. I also took parts of her dining room table that I'm going to use to make a new 2-seater table for my kitchen with those chairs one day. I'll be too busy this summer, but maybe next year.



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Back and done for today. One more dry day, tomorrow then back to rain.

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Back and done for today. One more dry day, tomorrow then back to rain.

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Well at least you had a couple of nice days?

But I see western Canada is in serious drought. I hope you get some serious rain in the interior. But not where you live!



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Upholstery, at least as far as chairs are concerned, is a lot easier (and safer!) than wiring or plumbing!

All you need is foam, durable fabric (we went with duck cloth from Amazon), scissors, strapping tape (to bind the fabric edges, or you can sew them. In which case you'll need a sewing machine with a heavy duty needle), scissors (to cut fabric), a very sharp knife (to cut foam), tape measure, and staple gun.

It's so easy nobody should be inimidated by it.

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Sounds like your old car is on its last legs. Good thing you have a replacement!

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Yeah. I could probably fix quite a bit of the leaking problems on my own if I felt it was worth it, but that car has zero chance of passing emissions a month from now and I can't even get a mechanic to tell me that paying for a new catalytic converter would guaranty it does. I got really lucky with that other car from my dad and brother. The timing for him deciding he wanted to buy a brand new car was basically perfect.

She did a good job today for her last big haul though. The max amount of bags I ever moved at one time with her was 19, after I made my way up from only 13 bags the first trip 2 years ago. But since I had a nice even 100 bags this time I didn't want to have to make a 6th trip if I didn't have to so she hauled 20 bags each time for me without any complaints.

I bought her for $2,000 going on 16 years ago. As many complaints as I may have had about her over the years, that was probably one of the best purchases I ever made. Finally putting her to rest is bittersweet.

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If you go thru the trouble of re-upholstering, I would recommend going with a foam better than you can get on Amazon, which is a mid-grade foam, at best. If I had been purchasing the foam, I would have tried getting a one-inch sheet of this

https://www.foambymail.com/product/lux-high-quality-foam.html

which is a high density (i.e. durable) stiff foam suitable for chair seats.

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Good tip. Thanks.

I won't know exactly what I'm working with until I open it up. These chairs are quite large and ornate. I'm thinking that there's probably more than 1" thickness on that padding that's currently under there.

Whenever I start thinking I'm going to get around to this, I'll be sure to take some before pictures and ask you for your advice then. I know for sure it won't be worked on in 2024 though, as right now it's buried in the back corner of my garage behind about 3 other projects that are more pressing.



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Well out for a walk in the dry. Suppose to get rain tomorrow.

No pick up game of mah jong for me today. Got a call last night from the head lady. They have enough players for 2 tables.

Need a some lunch for tomorrow and some veg.

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Well out for a walk in the dry. Suppose to get rain tomorrow.

No pick up game of mah jong for me today. Got a call last night from the head lady. They have enough players for 2 tables.

Need a some lunch for tomorrow and some veg.

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So what did you decide to get for lunch? Just curious.

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I just got a ham and cheese sandwich for my lunch on Thursday. Was going to order the lunch from the menu at the senior's centre but it was all sold out.

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Regular mah jong game tomorrow morning for me then after lunch I have to hurry back as I have a phone meeting with the poet.

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I just got a ham and cheese sandwich for my lunch on Thursday. Was going to order the lunch from the menu at the senior's centre but it was all sold out.

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Ham and cheese, yum! I especially like it with fresh tomato slices on toasted sourdough.

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Regular mah jong game tomorrow morning for me then after lunch I have to hurry back as I have a phone meeting with the poet.

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I'm back on steroids... again. For three weeks.

I'll prolly be sleepless and high on energy and posting a lot more.

So I did some research on my current dx, and it turns out the incidence is 2-12 in a million.

That ... can't be right. I wonder if they have the correct dx and aren't missing something much more common.

Anyway, they're going to treat me with a monoclonal antibody infusion, Rituxamab. Not sure when they'll start, but for sure not for three weeks.

Next week, I get my nasal passages roto-rootered again. I hope they got the right dx bc successful treatment would make my life so much more productive.


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It's probably the adhesive. Dear daughter has sensitive skin, and also had a skin-picking problem, but some bandaids expanded the original scratch to something like 5-6 times their original size. And then, thanks to her skin being raw, she would develop a skin infection under the bandaid. We had to see a dermatologist for a good cream. We tried a lot of bandaids and medical tapes before we found a brand and type that didn't cause her skin to blister.

I suspect that someone either changed the manufacturer, or the manufacturing facility. Maybe from China to India (with even worse QC!). You'd think all products from one manufacturer would be the same, independent site but ... no.

Explain the problem .. take pictures! ... in a low key way, and ask for a different brand or vendor. Some people are more sensitive than others and they won't know there's a problem unless someone tells them. If they can accomodate you, they will. If they can't, they can't.

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Yanno... it occurs to me that I've made this clear to the medical staff and we've taken our own steps to try and mitigate it to a varying degree of success, but I never actually have made this issue known to the manufacturer themselves. I've never been advised to. I've only ever focused on reporting the rare failure issues to them when they occasionally pop up, just because the immediate effect of not doing so would end up with days without a CGM.

I do have pictures. Unfortunately, the logistics behind switching brands at this point would be... difficult, although in no way insurmountable if absolutely necessary or if some day it just makes more sense to switch. The tech is always changing and getting better and there are other players on the market. The real hiccup in the chain right now is getting a CGM device that is compatible with a Pod device which are both also compatible with a specific smart phone. It appears to me that the CGM devices have a real head start here and they're compatible with a much larger amount of smart phones while the Pod companies are lagging quite a bit behind and are only compatible with the most popular and more expensive newer devices.

I'm sure one day that there will be buyouts and we'll have all-in-one systems that are cheaper and easier to use and maintain, but those things take time. It's kind of how since somewhere in Windows 10's lifetime Microsoft actually got the ability to mount virtual drives using CD/DVD image files as a native part of their Windows Explorer. We'd already had the ability to rip a CD/DVD down to an image file and load it in a virtual drive with 3rd party programs for decades before Microsoft was finally able to incorporate this into their OS.

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In the meantime, make sure your skin is really clean before you put a new pod on. Wipe off your skin with alcohol. Im reluctant to suggest chlorhexidine wipes bc I don't know how your skin would react to that, plus they're hard to get. (IIRC the sanitizing countertop wipes are also chlorhexidine, but no matter if you use medical grade or household grade, I would thoroughly wipe it off with a clean paper towel and alcohol before and letting it dry before putting your pod on. And be prepared for a reacion to THAT.)

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I use alcohol wipes with everything. That hasn't changed since I first started doing any of this. Everything is properly clean during the process. I'll have to pass on trying anything with chlorine or bleach though. I've already had a bad reaction to bleach in the past and chlorine and I might have got along well when we were kids but it's not a relationship that we carried over into adulthood.

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AFA healing old wounds, covered wounds heal much faster. The least irritating cream so far is mupirocin.

I think I told you about the lady who got burned on half her face bc something from the microwave exploded? LA County Medical gave her a crapton of mupirocin and told her to keep her face slathered until the scabs fell off on their own. For a while half her face had a stiff brown scab all over it, so tempting to pick at! But she would carefully wipe off the old, put on the new, and she healed awesomely! No scar, just somewhat reddened skin which will fade in time.

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I'm not saying you didn't tell me about it before, but I'm saying that I'd be surprised to have heard about it and forgot it is all. That sounds like pretty amazing stuff. I'll have to look into it.

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Triple antibiotic cream works even better, but some people develop an allergic reaction to THAT, too (purple-ish skin discoloration and swelling) so if you use that BOLO for an allergic reaction.

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I've actually used this before within the last 2 years. My aunt uses the stuff and after doing some work one day at my grandmas something happened where my knuckles reddened up pretty bad and my skin was cracked a bit in places. Just minor and gone in a day or two, but I must have come into contact with something that I shouldn't have. My guess is probably using a cleaner that I wasn't familiar with and not reading the instructions that you should be wearing gloves when using it than anything having to do with the cleanliness aspect. My grandma had some old stuff. I know I didn't use anything from the 60s and 70s or something stupid like that, but I may have used something from the 90s or 2000s or so that had harsher chemicals than most stuff on the market today.

My aunt would put lotion on and then some triple antibiotic under neoprene gloves for a few hours if she has a bad day with her hands. She swears by it. I did it that night with her stuff and it really worked well. Maybe I'll try this too.

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And then there's the issue of finding bandaids that are big enough and don't cause reactions of their own. We use Curad small nonstick pads (2" X 3") for bigger wounds and store brand paper tape, probably any drugstore paper tape would work. It's worked well for really sensitive skin.

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I know I don't have anything that size on hand. AFAIK, I've never run into any bandage adhesive that gives me an allergic reaction. But I've probably never had a bandage on my abdomen before, so maybe that will be a problem for later Jack.

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Let me know how it goes, okay? I really want to go.

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Out in a bit. Couple of things to get done before my phone meeting this afternoon.

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Out in a bit. Couple of things to get done before my phone meeting this afternoon.

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Out in a bit. Couple of things to get done before my phone meeting this afternoon.

SIGNY: PHone meeting?

BRENDA: The phone meeting was with the published poet that is helping me try to get my book published. Don't think she's took keen on me working on the Sabbath and she used that word but it works for me. Sunday is my one day to get heavy book work done as I don't need to think about anything else.

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