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Like the movie???

I don't even know what that means, but I giggled.





Restless tonight... I pulled down a few boxes of things to start sorting through, and just kind of been cleaning my house. I really can't wait for it to cool off. I think today was the worst of it, though we wont' get much relief until Saturday. They just ended the Extreme Heat Advisory at midnight, but I'm not feeling that in my house right now. It's gross even with a fan on me. It was 80 on the 2nd floor at 1PM today, it's 82 up there 12 hours later.

I'm surprised I made it out in the garage and outside as long as I did today. Been drinking a ton of water to make up for that.


Well... It's going to cool off, but careful what you wish for. I'm seeing about half the days for the next 8 with thunderstorms, and most of the rest with rain. And it's still not getting below highs in the 80's while all that is going on.



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Yes, the movie and you are the second person to ask me that.

"Independence Day" that old movie with Adam Baldwin in it as a Major.

Stay hydrated for sure SIX.

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Got everything done in the rain and that includes a lousy morning at mah jong. Couldn't break a 1,000 points. Finished with over 800. Almost had winds & dragons twice but couldn't get rid of tiles.

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Local station from Washington state is running "ID4".

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Like the movie???

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Restless tonight... I pulled down a few boxes of things to start sorting through, and just kind of been cleaning my house. I really can't wait for it to cool off. I think today was the worst of it, though we wont' get much relief until Saturday. They just ended the Extreme Heat Advisory at midnight, but I'm not feeling that in my house right now. It's gross even with a fan on me. It was 80 on the 2nd floor at 1PM today, it's 82 up there 12 hours later.

I'm surprised I made it out in the garage and outside as long as I did today. Been drinking a ton of water to make up for that.


Well... It's going to cool off, but careful what you wish for. I'm seeing about half the days for the next 8 with thunderstorms, and most of the rest with rain. And it's still not getting below highs in the 80's while all that is going on.



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Yes, the movie and you are the second person to ask me that.

"Independence Day" that old movie with Adam Baldwin in it as a Major.

Stay hydrated for sure SIX.

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I don't ever remember anybody calling the movie ID4 back when it came out, but then again, the internet wasn't a part of my life and all I got was the perspective from my small sphere of influence and whatever the media said. I know that the ID4 logo was a thing that was on branding for toys and stuff. I think one of the bad-guy aliens was the last toy I ever bought or my parents ever bought me (if you don't count video games). I REALLY liked that movie when it came out. The special effects blew my mind. It's one of the only movies that I ever saw in the full priced theaters more than once, first with a friend and I somehow talked my dad into taking my brothers and I to see it the following week without waiting for it to go to the dollar show.

I worked at a Toys R Us around that time and they always threw the promotional stuff out, but I got them to give me the huge canvas Independence Day banner they had above the action figures in the toy aisle when they finally took all that down. It was huge... something like 20 to 25 feet wide, and a full shot of the spaceship over the city as it was blasting a building.

I got rid of that in the dehoard. One of the things I wonder if it would have actually been worth any money since they were probably pretty rare 6 years ago, but Independence Day??? I'm not going to beat myself up over that one. It probably should have been put in a landfill 30 years ago.


Do you remember if they called it ID4 in Canada? I know that you have your own Independence day, and I would assume that many nations do. But save the possibility of a rare coincidence or copycat nation, they're not very likely to be on July 4th as well. So I could see it making sense to be marketed everywhere else as ID4.

I always just assumed that was the Internet doing what the Internet does and giving shorthand to pop culture history. But maybe it was that the entire rest of the world was being sold the movie "ID4", and here in America it was called "Independence Day", and once the world got a lot smaller a decade later the majority ruled on the name of the movie.



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Got everything done in the rain and that includes a lousy morning at mah jong. Couldn't break a 1,000 points. Finished with over 800. Almost had winds & dragons twice but couldn't get rid of tiles.

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Well, I got a new hair dryer and some groceries. Weather can't make up its mind. Stay a little sunny or cloudy or rain.

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Well, I got a new hair dryer and some groceries. Weather can't make up its mind. Stay a little sunny or cloudy or rain.

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At least you got that!
I hope the weather clears up for you.

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Another 1.5" of rain and thunderstorms today.

Getting really sick of this summer.

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Another 1.5" of rain and thunderstorms today.

Getting really sick of this summer.

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I feel for you! When I lived in WNY the one season I absolutely hated was summer. Hot, sticky, and no AC. Usually thunderstorms meant a cooler front coming thru, but sometimes it would rain and then the sun would come out and the sidewalks would just steam.

Plus, our bedrooms were on the 2nd floor, right under the roof with no attic crawlspace and no windows on the west side of the house, where the breeze usually came from. No wonder I had a hard time getting to sleep in the summer!

It's only gotten worse since then, and with you not being next to a big moderating body of water like a lake, it's probably a lot worse where you are.

Sounds like you need some relief!

IDK what your AC situation is like, but maybe you could sleep in the basement if it's significantly cooler there? Also, cool showers, maybe?

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Meanwhile, here, our weather has turned seasonable and we're heading into my keast favorite season here, which is also summer!
Too bad the good weather in June was all wasted on Dr appts and emergencies!

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Nice day and things to do. Out in a bit. Well, one of the new things I bought works. Hair dryer. Gave it a try yesterday.

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Nice day and things to do. Out in a bit. Well, one of the new things I bought works. Hair dryer. Gave it a try yesterday.

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Wow. Good for you on the air fryer, Brenda.

Is it a decent size. I know they can come pretty small. Mine wasn't the biggest, but it was a free hand-me-down so I can't complain.

You'll have to tell me some good easy recipes once you know your way around it. I've used the thing twice since I got it and I know I'm missing out on a lot by not using it.

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Wow. Good for you on the air fryer, Brenda.

Is it a decent size. I know they can come pretty small. Mine wasn't the biggest, but it was a free hand-me-down so I can't complain.

You'll have to tell me some good easy recipes once you know your way around it. I've used the thing twice since I got it and I know I'm missing out on a lot by not using it.

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I've been looking at then for a while since I found out you can actually bake in them. Things like cupcakes and such. Very versatile.

This one is smaller and fits perfectly in the spot I picked out for it. I could carry it home in its box. So for me that's not too bad.

I will let you know. Like I said my first test will be chicken legs for tomorrow. It's suppose to be really good for meats and I can make things like stews and such in it too.

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

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Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!




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Wow. Good for you on the air fryer, Brenda.

Is it a decent size. I know they can come pretty small. Mine wasn't the biggest, but it was a free hand-me-down so I can't complain.

You'll have to tell me some good easy recipes once you know your way around it. I've used the thing twice since I got it and I know I'm missing out on a lot by not using it.

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I've been looking at then for a while since I found out you can actually bake in them. Things like cupcakes and such. Very versatile.

This one is smaller and fits perfectly in the spot I picked out for it. I could carry it home in its box. So for me that's not too bad.

I will let you know. Like I said my first test will be chicken legs for tomorrow. It's suppose to be really good for meats and I can make things like stews and such in it too.

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Oh, cool. Mine probably isn't too much bigger than yours is then. I've seen smaller than mine before, but not too many. My buddy and his wife gave me their old one when they got a Ninja branded one that was twice the size. Those lucky bastards somehow got picked by Amazon to be in their "freebie club" where they get tons of free stuff from Amazon every year, and all she has to do is write product reviews and take pictures and videos of the products in use.

Everything they get though is counted as income, and at full price of the product and not any of the sale prices either. I'm guessing some form of 1099. I'll bet they pay on way more income every year just from free Amazon stuff than I have in any year since 2009 when I last had a good job.

The new Ninja was free, and the smaller one they gave me was free before that.


I know it does a hell of a job reheating GOOD pizza. A few years ago my Aunt came over for Easter. We knew everything was going to be closed, so she got a pizza from our favorite place by my Grandma's the night before and we just heated it up in the air fryer and you could hardly tell it hadn't come straight out of the oven. No microwave is going to do that. It's possible to do with an oven, but it's a lot more difficult to get it just right with preheating the big thing compared to that little one.

I'm not surprised you can bake in it. Aside from the limitations of the size of your thing, I bet you could do anything with that which could be done with an oven.

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!




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That's fantastic news on both fronts SIG.

Decluttering that kind of work is never done.

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

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And good for you too.

Let me borrow some of that motivation. I seem to have misplaced mine somewhere around here during that storm.



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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!




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That's fantastic news on both fronts SIG.

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Tell me about it!

Hubby keeps things bc they may be useful "someday". So we have angle iron, and wood pieces, and computer parts and cabling galore.

Dear daughter. Sigh. She just hangs onto the most useless stuff. Even trash, which she is sometimes too lazy to, er, trash. I have to constantly patrol after her, even with her money-making recycling. She's disorganized as hell, too. After the e-waste roundup we have to tackle her room. Not intending to get rid of anything bc she would resist fiercely. Just organize. (At first. )

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Is there anything small and completely unrelated to anything you've been doing that you can accomplish in one or two hours? Find a couple of recipes for an air fryer, maybe?

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I did spot a very large PC battery backup thing I took from my grandma's house for some stupid reason. I don't know why I still have it. I can't imagine that battery is really good at all anymore since that had to have been a purchase my uncle who died over a decade ago made. Part of me had always thought that it still has to be a good surge protector because of what it was designed to do, but then another part wonders if plugging computers into something that has a known failed battery might actually potentially damage the sensitive electronics, so I never use it.

And even if it does work, it weighs 20lbs. Just buy another surge protector if you ever need one. And by the way, you don't currently need one.

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I don't know. That's hard to say. You do have 3 people living there vs. my 1, and I did not come close to bringing as much back in as when I dehoarded in 2019. Some stuff between my grandma's and my friend's dad that I've been complaining about... more than I should have taken for sure, but nowhere near the semi truck worth of stuff that went out 7 years ago.

Half of the attic space is already empty, and what is up there is probably about 30 boxes worth of things that need to be sorted through again. LIke I mentioned a while back, a lot of that is old tech stuff and stuff related to the project.

The hard stuff to get rid of is going to be Christmas stuff I got from my other Grandma. I don't really do Christmas, and it's not really my thing. But I know these things were not cheap garbage. Motorized Santas and stuff that I'm sure were bought in some town like Downers Grove back when her older sisters were alive and they always got together and shopped at the rich people's stores.

Along with not being a vulture, it was another reason why I didn't go to their condo after she passed like all my cousins and my brother did. I had one thing from each of them that I wanted, and I got those. That's all I needed. I don't even remember how those things came into my possession. My grandma had the whole damn light up glass chrismas village with the train and everything, and I know all of that got split up (in retrospect, if I had remembered I would have requested just one piece from that collection). So even though these were the refuse I guess, they still look super pricey and I just don't want to give them away. Maybe I need to consider finally looking into selling some stuff on ebay.

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I don't want to make too big a deal out of that though. If the things I've been showing recently were the only things I had saved with the future in mind, that'd be one thing, but these are just a few pieces. I had 2 used kitchen faucets and 6 used bathroom faucets out there in the garage, and aside from the really nice kitchen faucet, I wouldn't install a single one of them in my house after the work I do. But they've been out there forever. And when I finally needed a new kitchen faucet, I completely forgot I had a great one outside and I spent $70 for a decent one that I don't think is going to last more than 5 years.

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You've got a realistic mindset about it. You probably don't want to talk about this though. I think about things like this a lot more than I'd like to these days myself.

When my grandma was passing and I was clearing the place out, a guy I knew said I was "dosing". I had no clue what he was talking about, but he said it was Sweedish or something, and it was the process of throwing things out before you're gone so everybody else doesn't have to do it for you and isn't picking through all your stuff.

I looked it up and the real term is döstädning.

It looks as though it's not just one grand operation, but a lifestyle choice.

Sounds like what I've got planned for the next few weeks.

I think everything at least needs to come down into the small room so I can do an inventory and really make decisions. I don't think I'll be able to do it until I can see everything.

The attic and tech stuff in the small bedroom. All the clothes in the big bedroom.

The only tricky part will be the garage and the basement. There's a lot of overlap and interactivity between them, and it also happens to be the room furthest away from the garage as far as walking between them goes.

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