In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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On a completely different note: I know I made a winner of a meal when there are no leftovers!
I made Thai red coconut curry vegetables, and pork satay and tofu. Since I'm allergic to rice and hubby and I need to watch our starches, I served with shiritaki noodles. (At least they LOOK like rice noodles!) It was a labor of love: dd hates spice, hubby loves it. Dd loves tofu, hubby won't touch the stuff. DD loves potatoes, I'm allergic to them and hubby shouldn't have a lot. So I made a mild version of the curry, but stirred some sriracha into hubby's bowl, and punched up his satay with a light dusting of chipotle. DD and I had tofu in our bowls, hubby didn't. DD got the potatoes.
Also, it was a meal made of leftovers ... leftover basil and leftover spinachleaves, a box of leftover tofu, a half-bag of leftover frozen pineapple, a half-bag of leftover snow peas, a few leftover potatoes and a spoonful of leftover curry paste. It sure cleaned out the frig!!
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Pity would be no more,
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Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Quote:Well! You know quite a bit more than you let on, SIX! Hubby (who programs in C and many other languages and is also a computer hardware expert) says the same thing.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
KIKI
FWIW whenever a service tech came in to set up/ maintain/ repair an instrument I always asked them if their engineering departments ever asked the service people for suggestions ... and the answer was always no.
Why not have NO feedback for your what I'm sure you think is your perfectly perfect product!
SIX: Because this is all cheap stuff made in China that sells well enough even though it's cheap stuff from China with instructions that can hardly be called English.
The entire plant is set up, and mostly automated, to make the products specifically as you get them in the box. Altering just one little thing would cause the need to alter the production process which requires shutting down a portion of the plant, re-configuring everything, then testing it before putting it back into production mode.
Given the fact that this stuff is manufactured, packaged and shipped halfway around the world and is still as cheap as it is, they are working on razor thin margins to turn profits.
The only time they're going to look into altering anything is if something is broken so bad that all of the units are getting returned, or (much worse) it ends up causing injuries or death.
I think about computers and computer parts and their history when I think of this. In the early days of building computers with a friend of mine, everything was made in the States and was SUPER expensive. But despite the fact that the processing power, storage and memory were just mere fractions of what we have at our disposal today, those old PCs were almost perfect when it came to stability compared to what we have today if you set them up right.
You'd be hard pressed to find any electronic parts now that are made in America. They're a boatload cheaper, for sure, and everything is so much more powerful after 20+ years of R&D. From the quality of anything from motherboards, CPUs and GPUs to the software you're running whether it be an office suite or video games, the coding is also quite lazy these days, relying on the processing power of today's technology rather than expert coding and intelligent decision making to really push the limits of today's hardware.
By all rights, the machines we use in our everyday lives should be capable of quite a bit more than they currently are. But everything from the Operating System to the software package for your Graphics Card/Chip is written so sloppily that countless cycles are lost every second executing redundant code.
But nobody is ever going to fix any of that. Nobody's life is at risk. Most of the time, even though it is thought of as an inconvenience, a simple power down of the system and reboot is all that is required to "right the ship".
That's arguably a small price to pay compared to the $4000.00 it would cost to build a new computer if all of the parts were made here in the states and the fact that the days of $600 Office Suites are long gone. Hell... you can just use Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets which are almost as good as Microsoft Office and offer more to most people then they're ever going to need to use and you don't have to pay a cent for it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
But even I can see the sloppy (SLOPPY! SLOPPY!) programming. Our tablet, for example, has all the horsepower under the hood to be able to run several applications at once, and yet it can't manage to run more than one tab at a time. (eg play a video while you look at something else online.) Even my phone does better than that. Our DVR? Can't manage something as simple as "file management". What about "memory management"? Why do products need to be rebooted every once in a while? Doesn't the system do cleanup on powering down?
And that's just the stuff that I see. If
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Box for bookcase taken down to recycling and another couple of pieces of old video cabinet into the garbage.
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Ya know what's awesome? When your buddy finally decides today is the day he wants help with something and today is also a blizzard after a week without any snow. 
It took me a half hour to get there. Took me 90 minutes to get back home in the car we all know eventually isn't going to make it to Point B.
I think my problem is that I spend my life going from ZERO stress to 200% stress and back far too often. I knew today wasn't going to be a good driving day, but I did it anyways. Even more than helping a friend out (which will be reciprocated in the spring), but I just needed to get out of the fucking house and do something with my life since I let one thing after another destroy my momentum I had going once the dentures came.
He needs more help tomorrow, but I don't know if I'm going to sign up for that. Driving in the morning is supposed to be terrible. 30 to 32 degrees with snow/sleet.
I'm already wondering if the area I was working around has those auto-ticket street lights or not, since I blew one because the speed limit around there is high and I was afraid of skidding out when the yellow came at just the wrong time. That would be extra fun to get a $150 ticket when I'm already out gas and tolls and worked all day for free.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So I mentioned I was going to call an exterminator ... but for larger critters, not an exterminator exactly, but somebody who does trap and relocate. So far the first thing that got caught was the HUGEST possum I've ever seen! Poor thing. It looked so scared. It looked like it was trying to shrink down to nothing. I hope it's in a literal better place now.
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Quote:SIX, the reason why you did white knuckle driving is because you will need your friend's help later.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ya know what's awesome? When your buddy finally decides today is the day he wants help with something and today is also a blizzard after a week without any snow.
It took me a half hour to get there. Took me 90 minutes to get back home in the car we all know eventually isn't going to make it to Point B.
I think my problem is that I spend my life going from ZERO stress to 200% stress and back far too often. I knew today wasn't going to be a good driving day, but I did it anyways. Even more than helping a friend out (which will be reciprocated in the spring), but I just needed to get out of the fucking house and do something with my life since I let one thing after another destroy my momentum I had going once the dentures came.
He needs more help tomorrow, but I don't know if I'm going to sign up for that. Driving in the morning is supposed to be terrible. 30 to 32 degrees with snow/sleet.
I'm already wondering if the area I was working around has those auto-ticket street lights or not, since I blew one because the speed limit around there is high and I was afraid of skidding out when the yellow came at just the wrong time. That would be extra fun to get a $150 ticket when I'm already out gas and tolls and worked all day for free.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
You need more "cushion". More savings, a better car, and a reliable/ accessible health care. You seem to want to pare down your expenses to the bone, but having formal assets in your corner doesn't make you more dependent, it makes you more INdependent.
Take care of business. I know it will put you in contact with processes over which you have less control and may cause your stress, but in the end you'll be better off.
Best of luck.
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Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Yeah.... I'm just a little annoyed at life ATM. I'll figure it out. It should start getting nice out in a few weeks, and I'm sure that's going to brighten up my mood a bit when I can get some sun and start working out in the garage again.
Good news is my taxes are good. Got the state back already and the fed was approved. I'll just have to decide in the next three years if I want to file an 1040x and try to get back the mileage which would have reduced my taxes by quite a bit since I shouldn't have had to pay any self employment tax. I figure that's the safe way to do it after the fact rather than doing it up front. They can always just tell me no on the 1040x.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Got some recycling done this evening. Then hauled down my knitting bag. I have another scarf that I am working on. Think I am about half way finished it by the looks of what I have done.
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Cool. My mom used to knit. She tried to teach me, but I knit so tight I bent the needles! I thought it was a lost art.
As for myself, I was working on lots of paperwork. But the dental insurance company REALLY screwed up my policy. I spent hours on the phone over 3 days trying to figure out why I couldn't log into my account. It turned out they entered a completely bogus birth date ... nothing matched up at all, not day nor month nor year. Supposedly they fixed it after having supposedly fixed it a few times already and supposedly after updating their computer overnight it's supposed to be OK now. But they said that a few times already. I got a bit gun shy about trying to get into their website after getting bonked off and redirected probably 50 times. So I bailed off of paperwork to get on with house work, which is what I've been doing yesterday and today. Just regular stuff, shopping, cooking, dishes, laundry, and a bit of (re)organizing. I have 2 laundry loads left, it should all be done tomorrow. And then I'll return refreshed for my paperwork effort. (Which I hope goes better than it's been going!)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Cool.
As for myself, I was working on lots of paperwork. But the dental insurance company REALLY screwed up my policy. I spent hours on the phone over 3 days trying to figure out why I couldn't log into my account. It turned out they entered a completely bogus birth date ... nothing matched up at all, not day nor month nor year. Supposedly they fixed it after having supposedly fixed it a few times already and supposedly after updating their computer overnight it's supposed to be OK now. But they said that a few times already. I got a bit gun shy about trying to get into their website after getting bonked off and redirected probably 50 times. So I bailed off of paperwork to get on with house work, which is what I've been doing yesterday and today. Just regular stuff, shopping, cooking, dishes, laundry, and a bit of (re)organizing. I have 2 laundry loads left, it should all be done tomorrow. And then I'll return refreshed for my paperwork effort. (Which I hope goes better than it's been going!)
That's how I learned as well. My mum taught me when I was in high school or just before I started. I don't do anything fancy just scarves and I might have knitted some mittens once for my mum. She used to knit socks for my dad.
So, it's not a totally lost art.Sorry for the Canadian in my sentences there. My fingers just went that way.
Sorry you were having such a hard time and that everything got messed up.I hate paperwork. Gotta make an appointment to get my taxes done, now that I've got all the paperwork I need for that.
Laundry day for me tomorrow. So I got to hit the hay.
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Paperwork and bureaucracies ... especially health care/insurance bureaucracies ... ugh. We had a bad contact number recorded in our file at the doctor's office, and I can't tell you the number of times we tried to correct it at chec-in (you know, whne they hand you a piece of paper and ask you if all of the info is correct, and you keep pointing out the error.)
Then we went to the scheduling desk and had THEM try to correct it, but for some reason their main database would never update and kept burping up the wrong #. That caused us to miss several important phone calls from the doctor's office. Eventually they fixed it, I don't know how, but it must have been bad software.
My Medicare bill comes so late in the mail, it's impossible for me to make payment on time, so I'm always in arrears. I just put it on autopay.
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Plodding thru at this end. My yearly paperwork filing has been interrrupted by all sorts of things, but we DID manage to go to the lumberyard and pick up supplies for garage shelving, which hubby desperately needs to make his workshop functional, and supplies for a bed platform, as well as "shorts" ... samples of wood (cedar, cherry, red oak, hard maple, sugar pine) for hubby to work on- see how they cut, plane, and chisel.
Also saw our lawyer to make progress on the legal/financial aspects of setting up our dear daugher's future.
As I mentioned in the coronavirus thread, we have suspended our weekly restaurant outing and dear daughter's gym exercise program, which she JUST started. That was to help dd practice her social skills and increase her comfort level with being out of the house, not with mom and dad. But when we explained our concerns to her case worker, she was VERY understanding. Unusually so, as if she herself has the same concerns. I think in a month we'll know whether this was a useless decision, or a very smart one.
So, onward thru the fog. Absent any crap-seeping toilets or other emergencies I'm going to focus on sorting out my filing in-between other stuff, and interviewing potential fiduciaries/trustees/conservators.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I remembered today why I hate going to the largest mall on the Lower Mainland. Too many people and the place confuses me. Got mixed up trying to find a store looking for one item. Then got tired and decided not to go looking for the other item I wanted.
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This Saturday could be the last time BC changes its clocks. We here are getting tired of waiting on Washington, Oregon and California to get their collective sh&t together and deal with congress.
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Starting Tuesday we have the possibility of a change of weather... the chance of rain for the foreseeable future.
BRENDA, how fares BC with the coronavirus? You might have ANOTHER reason not to go to malls!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
This Saturday could be the last time BC changes its clocks. We here are getting tired of waiting on Washington, Oregon and California to get their collective sh&t together and deal with congress.
Good for you guys.
I'm envious of those in Indianapolis who don't change the clock. So stupid that half our state does and the other half doesn't.
I'm going out to help my friend again today. It's supposed to hit 60 degrees for the first time this year, so that ought to be nice.
Unfortunately it looks like it will be at least another 2-3 weeks before it gets this warm again, but at least spring is coming.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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lol...
I just now put two and two together and realized that it was daylight savings time here too.
Good thing my buddy is a late riser on the weekends. I've still got plenty of time to get ready and get out there when I said I'd be.
Hopefully he remembered and I'm not going over there and waking him and his fiancee up. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I think the coronavirus marches on, as predicted
case
case
case
cluster
cluster
BOOM!
For me, the next signal for personal concern would be a case detected in my city, or the city next door (since I live near the border). That would be a step up, and probably prompt me to switch to an N95. We are actually sanitizing packages and mail as they arrive with 70pct IPA (hubby is profoundly concerned) so I have a spray bottle and sanitizer at both doors, and masks at one. Have elimianted restaruant and gym, not churchgoers, and reduced the number of shopping trips and go when less crowded, wearing procedure masks and sanitizing our hands and phones on the way in. Beyond that, as far as I can tell there's nothing else we CAN do, aside from getting good sleep and generally trying to stay healthy, which I always try to do anyway.
So we have put the pedal to the metal on getting a special needs trust, and all related legal and financial issues, completed. That won't end our efforts to get dear daughter situated after our death, tho. We still need to make practical arrangements ... where will she live? Who will take care of her? Who will be checking in on her from time to time, making sure she is healthy and happy?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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In the meantime, I finally got about 75% of my yearly filing done. The way I handle the mail as it comes in is "recycling- bill to pay- other action- to be filed". The "to be filed" goes into a large wicker basket that I bought just for that purpose, but at the end of the year it's a ginormous pile. SOME of those records (like utilities) I keep for a year, others (like tax-related) I keep for ten, and others - product manuals I keep for the lifetime of the product. I keep "evidence of insurance" statements for the lifetime of the insurance too. The most complicated is the health insurance, since we are on different insurances and receive different statements. Those "explanation of benefits" I keep for about four years; I have had an inordinate amount of trouble getting the right insurance billed whenever we change insurances, which has happened more than once on the past three years. I figure if they haven't resolved their billing in that time, it's not going to happen. Boy, if anyone can figure out how to responsibly simplify, please let me know!
I've also consolidated and closed several small accounts to make things simpler for us and anybody who comes after us. I recall the mess that my parents left when they died ... a roomful (literally) of papers which I sorted thru, resolving into boxes and boxes of "this is not a bill" insurance benefits and many many account statements from closed accounts when dad was chasing the highest interest rates, along with a few important assets and some love letters from just after WWII when they first heard of each other. Don't want to leave that mess for anyone else.
My next step is to go thru the tax-related papers and make sure they're complete so that we can get our taxes done. But today, we are interviewing a potential conservator/trustee.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I've eliminated my am restaurant coffee. I do have some at home, and I'm drinking half-rations for 5 days to eventually go without and not trigger a massive caffeine withdrawal headache. The first day - 3 days ago - I was SOOooo sleepy I went to bed at 4PM 'for a little nap' and didn't wake up till 7PM! I guess I was running on caffeine more than I realized.
Other than that I'm focusing on stuff inside the house.
Amazon packages are probably OK if they shipped from China. China's outbreak has gone down dramatically, and the time to your house would probably inactivate whatever virus might be there. The last step - which I think is out from Ontario, California, could be the most problematic, but not at this moment.
Anyway, if that info doesn't change your procedures, at least you have more of safety buffer than you realized.
Man, this AM I got RUDELY awakened (during a crazy dream) by what sounded like somewhat pounding on my front door. But it was just the neighbors doing some work inside the house. Not *their* house. b/c its a rental. There are very few owners left on my street. I wonder how that transition from owners to renters happened. Did house prices jack themselves up out of the reach of buyers? Or was this an undervalued neighborhood slumlords decided to mine? Or what? Something to ponder, maybe, at some point.
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Just when I thought that I had all the animals out of my house...
Say, did any of you know that a squirrel can and will gnaw a 4" diameter hole right through the top of your roof, shingles, plywood and all?
I didn't either.
That's what I was hearing upstairs in my attic a few weeks back, scurrying around up there. I banged on the walls, made a lot of barking noises, scared the piss out of it and heard it scurry away and never heard it since.
Finally went up there now that I had a free day that was decent weather to find a massive hole in my roof and the debris they left behind.
Did some makeshift patchwork up there that looks like shit and isn't going to hold very long just to have something done before it rains tonight and in hopes of deterring it from coming back in the mean time. My pitch is scary high and I have no business being up there. That's about the most terrifying thing I've done in about 10 years... and I had to do it twice... the second time with a bunch of shit in my hands.
Going to have to watch some YouTube vids about how to fix this.
Seriously, WTF animals. I'm about one step away from dumping toxic waste all over my lawn.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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After 'coons, squirrels are the worst.
I saw some home-repair(remodel) show - I don't remember which one - the only thing I remember about the whole show is what the squirrels were doing. The house had a brick fireplace chimney with a really really large, really really thick sheet of lead as flashing - and the squirrels were eating it! Well, not eating it per se, but gnawing on it to keep their teeth trimmed. And a whole lot of the lead flashing was gone. Didn't they get lead poisoning or something?
I've read that once they start on a spot they tend to go back to it even after it's been repaired (material replaced). I don't know if that's true. But I've read that one must do extra to keep them from re-doing what they did in the first place. I believe the answer is hardware cloth, but I'd be curious what you find.
Anyway, I'm glad you made your temporary repair and got back on the ground safely! But what a chore just to to that! Do you think when you're doing repairs you might set up something to secure yourself on the roof then hoist your materials up separately?
I was visiting back home a few years ago, and it struck me how much people do there to make the place not what it wants to be, just like people here do a lot to make the place not what it wants to be. Here people struggle against the fact that this is dry land (and getting drier by the year). There people struggle against the succession that wants to happen to any open area - grasses to forbs to shrubs to pioneer trees to forest.
It doesn't look like it Jack but I think you live in a forest with all the critters that want to live in one.
The temporary end to MY critter story is that the guy trapped and relocated 2 possums, but that's all he was going to do for $266. One was YUGE - it nearly filled the trap top to bottom, side to side, I shit you not. That was the one that looked really scared, and like it was trying to shrink down to nothing, poor thing. The other was the sweetest-looking nearly all white one about half that size.
So I may call him back for another round of trapping.
I still do have the gophers in my yard, but I'll get to them later. And there are definitely squirrels everywhere!
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Well... I have 3 maple trees on my very large lawn. That's it. I'm considering having them removed, but I will really miss the shade.
There didn't appear to be any damage outside of the hole itself, at least from what I could tell.
The night they were in here, there was no mistaking it. I could hear them in the attic all the way from the 1st floor they were so loud. After I scared them off, I haven't heard them since. I think that they wrote off all the "work" of destroying my roof and figured they didn't want to tango with whatever "beast" was inside their new place.
After I patch it, I'll monitor the situation. If they come back, I'm getting the trees torn down.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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You don't have to remove the trees, SIX, just trim back the branches so that the roof isn't just a convenient jump away!
Oh I also tended to my "windowsill garden" which is just about what I can manage nowadays with all the other stuff going on. I had a couple of long dead plants and five struggling ones, so I tossed the dead ones and separated/ repotted the others. I get to see which ones survive. I left them far too long and their roots were tangled, so pulling them apart was kinda rough.
The interview was interesting and positive. But we have two more to go
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I agree about trimming back the branches instead of removing the trees. Wherever I see squirrels going to or from structures they're going via handy tree branches. The only exception I ever saw, and then only once, was a squirrel that went up a wooden fence and up a short ~4' section of stucco garage wall (which must have been sufficiently rough for traction), then onto the roof.
I just want to say that my area APPEARS to be reverting to oak-woodland. I've had multiple coast live oak plant themselves in my yard - one is a good 35' tree, one is just a bit smaller, two are 15' trees, and there are multiple smaller ones all around. Plus I have 2 trees I've provisionally IDd as beech that planted themselves. The reason why I say APPEARS to be reverting to oak-woodland is because of course there's fire-suppression here. I don't know what would be happening if there was a normal fire-regime.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Starting Tuesday we have the possibility of a change of weather... the chance of rain for the foreseeable future.
BRENDA, how fares BC with the coronavirus? You might have ANOTHER reason not to go to malls!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
Sad to say that BC has had its first death from COVID-19. An elderly man in a care home in Vancouver.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
This Saturday could be the last time BC changes its clocks. We here are getting tired of waiting on Washington, Oregon and California to get their collective sh&t together and deal with congress.
Good for you guys.
I'm envious of those in Indianapolis who don't change the clock. So stupid that half our state does and the other half doesn't.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I'm hoping that it will be. Will have to see what happens in October.
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Quote:I don't think the guy was on a cruise ship or returned from a trip to Wuhan or Italy recently! Did they have a presumptive source for his infection that you know? Or did they assign it to 'community transmission'?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Sad to say that BC has had its first death from COVID-19. An elderly man in a care home in Vancouver.
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Here's the answer - after reading a number of online reports, it appears that two care workers and two residents of the long-term care home, including the man who died - tested positive. They think one of the care workers brought it in to the facility.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-news/death-in-bc-care-home
-believed-to-be-first-covid-19-fatality-in-canada-2147908
Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia's provincial health officer, and Health Minister Adrian Dix announced news of the death at the Lynn Valley Care Centre on Sunday night. The man's symptoms were detected some time between Thursday and early Friday.
"He was a man in his 80s and he had a number of underlying health conditions, unfortunately, so (he was) in that risk group for people who are more likely to have severe disease with this," Henry told a news conference in Victoria.
Another resident in her 70s who tested positive at the same facility also had pre-existing conditions but is in stable condition, Henry said, adding the "outbreak" is especially concerning because it involves transmission in the community, not through travel.
A second health-care worker from the same facility has also been tested positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation at home. The initial worker is believed to have worked at two other care homes.
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The funny thing is, after years of letting those branches grow long I finally got around to cutting A LOT of them back last summer. I had one branch that would scrape the roof if it got windy enough. And there were zero squirrel problems in that situation.
The problem is, everything that is left is really too tall for me to get to. I don't know how far down they're jumping to get up there, but it's got to be a leap of at least 2 1/2 feet horizontally, and twice that vertically.
I can't figure it. There's nothing in here that it would want as far as food. How would it even know to burrow into a roof? There wasn't any shingle problems, as the roof was only a few years old when I bought the house and nothing has ever leaked.
Everybody I've talked to, including people who do trade work, have said they never heard of a squirrel burrowing down into a roof before. But unless my roof was hit by a meteor that burnt up between hitting the roof and the drywall inside the attic, that's exactly what happened here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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A squirrel can easily do a 2.5' horizontal jump, and a 5' vertical jump down, but not up. They(it) could be jumping down to the roof, and scampering off another way besides the trees.
I'm curious - did you see (an) actual squirrel(s)? and how big is the hole, approximately?
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Quote:I don't think the guy was on a cruise ship or returned from a trip to Wuhan or Italy recently! Did they have a presumptive source for his infection that you know? Or did they assign it to 'community transmission'?
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Sad to say that BC has had its first death from COVID-19. An elderly man in a care home in Vancouver.
The news said at least one care worker was sick.
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Oh that's too bad, Brenda. I agree with Signy, it's another good reason to not go to malls at this point.
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Quote:The one story that I read about squirrels returning to the scene to repeat the damage had to do with an exterior attic windowsill. Why a windowsill? And why go back to it after it was repaired?
I can't figure it. There's nothing in here that it would want as far as food. How would it even know to burrow into a roof? There wasn't any shingle problems, as the roof was only a few years old when I bought the house and nothing has ever leaked.
Everybody I've talked to, including people who do trade work, have said they never heard of a squirrel burrowing down into a roof before. But unless my roof was hit by a meteor that burnt up between hitting the roof and the drywall inside the attic, that's exactly what happened here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Here's a specific re tree bracnhes: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/stop-squirrels-getting-roof-28355.html
Prune back any tree branches that come within 10 feet of your house.
and other tips
If you find evidence of squirrel presence, such as gnaw marks, urine or feces, and insulation ripped apart, make noise and light the attic brightly to encourage the squirrels to leave. When you are unsure whether or not squirrels are still present, consult a pest control specialist. Commence repairs once you are sure the squirrels are gone.
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Oh that's too bad, Brenda. I agree with Signy, it's another good reason to not go to malls at this point.
That place is big and I don't really like it anyways. I only go out there when I think I have enough time or that is the only place I think I can find what I am looking for.
True enough.
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Well, we ran our errands today, using procedure masks. The pharmacy tech wistfully asked me ... "Where did you get your masks?" I explained that I got some of them to work with suspect lead paint (true) and procedure masks from my sister for allergy control when gardening (Not true. Sis bought a bunch for us about a month ago bc she saw this coming down the pike, but I didn't want the pharma tech to feel bad.)
I told her that the procedure mask does two things: (1) It keeps HER from getting sick (she brightened at the thought) and (2) it keeps me from touching my face.
I want to give a mask to everyone I see.
Did all of our errands efficiently, in and done, pharmacy, groceries, mail, filling up the van, bank... so glad when we were finished! Then I had a lot of kitchen-work to do, specially this green salsa that I had bought the peppers, cilantro and limes for, but didn't get a chance to make before because I got busy interviewing fiduciaries.
So, tomorrow we help put up shelving in the garage, and I guess Friday we finish up. Saturday I intend to do nothing all day ... but I know it won't work out that way!
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Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Got some errands run today and tomorrow just the usual. That being work.
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Quote:The one story that I read about squirrels returning to the scene to repeat the damage had to do with an exterior attic windowsill. Why a windowsill? And why go back to it after it was repaired?
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
I can't figure it. There's nothing in here that it would want as far as food. How would it even know to burrow into a roof? There wasn't any shingle problems, as the roof was only a few years old when I bought the house and nothing has ever leaked.
Everybody I've talked to, including people who do trade work, have said they never heard of a squirrel burrowing down into a roof before. But unless my roof was hit by a meteor that burnt up between hitting the roof and the drywall inside the attic, that's exactly what happened here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I don't know. I think they're a lot smarter than we think they are... or at least they're a lot smarter than I would have ever given them credit for.
I'm 99% sure it wasn't looking for any food. Even if I had some lying in the kitchen that it would have liked, that isn't a great access point to get down to it. I think it was probably trying to find a good place to stock up any food it found.
But I really think that when I scared it off that first night, it completely abandoned the spot. It had probably been around 10 days between when I heard it and when I did a makeshift patch and I hadn't heard anything in between. It wasn't in there when I did the temporary patch either. I did think to set the patch up with the materials I had in a way that it would be obvious if it tried coming back. I put a block on the top of it without screwing it to anything, which was heavy enough to not be blown down by the wind, but would likely be moved and/or fall off of the roof it it came back and tried to get back in. 4 days later it remains undisturbed.
I'm pretty sure that it had no idea what was behind the walls of it's new food pantry, but it had no intention of sticking around long enough to find out.
Now that the semi-panic about it has worn off and I have assessed the situation, it's not completely terrible. The damage is on the overhang of the porch, almost all the way toward the front of it. The hole itself, when it let in water, would almost certainly be above the soffit panel (the overhang of the overhang). Worst case is that it's far enough in to let water into the wall, but again, it's a steep pitch and it's just the overhang over the concrete porch so it's not like I'd be getting water into the walls of the house.
I think I should be able to get an extension ladder up to the very top of the peak of that overhang and do the work from on the ladder. As scary as that idea is, it still sounds better than doing all that roof climbing I was doing the other night. I'm going to see if maybe I can get my friend to bring his. I have two of them, but they're not as long and pretty flimsy when extended fully. His is so bulky and heavy it almost requires two people to set it up straight.
I cut back what I could the other night too. I even got on my 10 foot extension ladder this time and cut more back than I thought I'd be able to.
The problem is, these trees are very mature and very tall. I've been able to get to the ones that are close to the roof about as tall as the peak of the roof... hopefully 10 feet away, but there are branches that are so high I'd never be able to reach them no matter what I do. Branches that height on the furthest tree practically drape over the entire roof of the house.
I've heard they're not like cats though, and it would probably die if it tried to jump down to the roof from that height.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I guess it's just "wait and see". One thing ... while squirrels are great at jumping down from heights and landing, they still need a path back up. Even if a squirrel were to land on your roof, it would face the scary experience of having to climb down your house and run across the lawn to get back to those trees. One or two experiences like that would discourage any except the most intrepid, I imagine.
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Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Yeah. I'm probably good now, especially after I patch it.
I just kind of find it humorous that last spring I had branches literally scraping the roof when it would get windy and didn't have any squirrel problems and now that they were cut back and there wasn't any that were within 3 to 5 feet I find an industrious squirrel that eats holes through shingles.
I never would have questioned that they were capable of doing it, but I imagine that there's a system of ROI in place for animals that would rival our own and with a squirrel having no idea what a roof is, I can't see how it would figure that burrowing into them would be a good expenditure of calories, unless it was absolutely sure there was something in there that it wanted.
For all it knew, it could have been 8 inches of those shingles to burrow through with nothing hollow on the inside.
What are the chances I have a retarded squirrel? I'm sure I'm not the only person to ever have this happen before, but it's not exactly something that people worry about happening when they think about their roofing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Do you think the racoon was keeping the squirrel away? They do that ... one animal in a nice place can keep other animals from the area. If the first animal should vacate, something else can (and in my house will!) mosey around.
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It's possible, but those trees have been there since well before I bought the place and until last spring the only animals I had in my house was an occasional mouse, which I can't imagine would have scared off any squirrels and were rather infrequent to begin with.
I think this squirrel must have seen access into a roof like this somewhere else and knew that it was a good idea or something. Otherwise I don't see how it would have picked the top of a roof with shingles as the place to start drilling.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well, we're making progress on various things. Latest project is to install shelving in the garage so hubby has a place to put his stuff and turn the space into a more useable workshop. We bought the plywood (Baltic birch, nice stuff) a couple of weeks ago when we went to the lumber yard but were waiting on some lag bolts and brackets, which finaly arrived. The lowest shelf is going to be extra-strong because it may serve as a temprorary sharpening station/benchtop; that shelf was installed yesterday. Today DD and I sanded the shelves in prep for oiling them, making them (I hope) more resistant to wear and stains/dirt.
I hope we finish the brackets tomorrow, and oiling the shelves soon after that, but I had to call a temporary halt on the garage-work for some overdue house cleaning.
I have to say the coronavirus is helping us save money and fix the house. We used to go out Fridays for lunch, which I miss, but I don't miss the drain on the pocketbook or the hole in the schedule.
There was a retirement luncheon scheduled, and as a former coworker I was invited, but it was just canceled. I learned from my fellow retirees that things like zumba classes and line dancing classes have been suspended for a month. I suppose the month will give them time to assess the situation. I also learned that Kaiser Permanente, a ginormous HMO here, has sent out notices that over-60 should stay home as much as possible.
Or, as Chris Martensen explained the new paradign: #staythefuckhome.
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Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
YAY rain!
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
YAY rain!
Glad to hear that Kiki. It's dry in my neck of the woods for a spell.
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I'd like a drought over here please. Could you send some of that West Coast weather my way when you get a chance?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'd like a drought over here please. Could you send some of that West Coast weather my way when you get a chance?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Dry weather just got here and I want it to stay for a while.
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Lady that I know has asked me to pick up some hand sanitizer today. I will but I hate the stuff as I react to the alcohol in it.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd like a drought over here please. Could you send some of that West Coast weather my way when you get a chance?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Dry weather just got here and I want it to stay for a while.
Good luck.
I've had 5 years straight with heavy to record rainfall in my area.
I'd like my poor house to get a break from it until I know I've done all the work outside I need to do.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:It looks like most of the rain tracked Washington and north. You really DID get our rain this year! No wonder it seemed extra soggy where you are.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Glad to hear that Kiki. It's dry in my neck of the woods for a spell.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Only 1,871 days remaining on the Impeachment Clock.
How exciting. 002780
Now that the Democraps blew their wad on the Fake Impeachment, maybe they will try for a real Impeachment.
Well, at least we know what the future holds for Corona Collusion Impeachapaooza 2020.
Question, what do you guys think?
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Quote:It looks like most of the rain tracked Washington and north. You really DID get our rain this year! No wonder it seemed extra soggy where you are.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Glad to hear that Kiki. It's dry in my neck of the woods for a spell.
Yup. I'm used to soggy just not extra, extra soggy.
I'm glad for the dry right now.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd like a drought over here please. Could you send some of that West Coast weather my way when you get a chance?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Dry weather just got here and I want it to stay for a while.
Good luck.
I've had 5 years straight with heavy to record rainfall in my area.
I'd like my poor house to get a break from it until I know I've done all the work outside I need to do.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Suppose to be dry for this week where I am but that can change. Know that the weather people are worried about when the snow pack begins to melt. See how much flooding happens.
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I was running errands today, and everybody seems to be doing their best to comply with best practices, but they're all doing something different!
At AAA where I went to re-up my car registration, they were asking people at the door if they were healthy before they let you in. And the stanchions were set WAY back from the counter, but there was no 'social distancing' for people in line. But then there were hardly any lines.
Then I went shopping at Whole Foods. It's kind of a long drive, so I go maybe every 6 to 8 weeks and stock up on things I can't get anywhere else. There was someone standing at the door asking if you were healthy but people were wandering in anyway. Despite that, it was relatively empty. And BOY! were there a lot of empty shelves! But I was going for boneless pork shoulder, and they had stacks of it, so they let me buy 10lbs. And they DID tell me they have special early senior hours in the AM when everything is freshly stocked, so I'll probably go back in a week or two once I get all the pork and bean stew cooked up and frozen, and get a bunch of brisket for beef and bean stew, and beef, potato, and green chili stew.
Then I went to Trader Joe's. They had someone spritzing everybody's hands with sanitizer, and another person wiping the cart handles with sanitizing wipes before you went in. And they made sure of it! No spritz, no cart-handle wipe, no entry!! OTOH the spritz was really volatile and the handle wipe one perfunctory swipe. So while I appreciate their intentions and diligence, I'm not sure it does much good. Anyway, the store was empty as well, along with a crap-ton of empty shelves. But no social distancing in lines, and none between the cashier and patron. (They also had someone spritzing hands on the way out.) Anyway it's less than a mile drive so I have no issue with going back later for the rest of what I need from there.
All told, interesting times.
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"5.7 earthquake shakes Utah, causing moderate damage and closing Salt Lake City airport"
Well that'll shake you outa' bed!
Utah, hunh. I wonder what fault runs through there.
ETA:
Well, I didn't know that ...
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”Utah is earthquake country,” he said, noting that fault lines crisscross throughout the Salt Lake Valley and along the Wasatch Front. Each year, the state sees hundreds of miniquakes.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/3/18/21181930/utah-earthquake-prepar
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Not too many people out today when I went for a walk. Lots of distance between folks in stores and such.
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Quote:Have not yet gone shopping, that's for tomorrow. We're limting our shopping to once per week ... not running off to get this or that. Will prolly go to Ralph's and Stater Bros as usual. But I feel we have our sanitizing routine in-place for when we get home. I'll let you know how what the stores look like over here. One thing for sure: with schools closed, I see a lot more families walking with their kids when we walk the dog.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was running errands today, and everybody seems to be doing their best to comply with best practices, but they're all doing something different!
At AAA where I went to re-up my car registration, they were asking people at the door if they were healthy before they let you in. And the stanchions were set WAY back from the counter, but there was no 'social distancing' for people in line. But then there were hardly any lines.
Then I went shopping at Whole Foods. It's kind of a long drive, so I go maybe every 6 to 8 weeks and stock up on things I can't get anywhere else. There was someone standing at the door asking if you were healthy but people were wandering in anyway. Despite that, it was relatively empty. And BOY! were there a lot of empty shelves! But I was going for boneless pork shoulder, and they had stacks of it, so they let me buy 10lbs. And they DID tell me they have special early senior hours in the AM when everything is freshly stocked, so I'll probably go back in a week or two once I get all the pork and bean stew cooked up and frozen, and get a bunch of brisket for beef and bean stew, and beef, potato, and green chili stew.
Then I went to Trader Joe's. They had someone spritzing everybody's hands with sanitizer, and another person wiping the cart handles with sanitizing wipes before you went in. And they made sure of it! No spritz, no cart-handle wipe, no entry!! OTOH the spritz was really volatile and the handle wipe one perfunctory swipe. So while I appreciate their intentions and diligence, I'm not sure it does much good. Anyway, the store was empty as well, along with a crap-ton of empty shelves. But no social distancing in lines, and none between the cashier and patron. (They also had someone spritzing hands on the way out.) Anyway it's less than a mile drive so I have no issue with going back later for the rest of what I need from there.
All told, interesting times.
Been slogging thru the past few weeks, hubby finally got all of his four 8-foot shelves up, with our help. The last thing to do is oil the last two shelves so he can screw them into place. And I FINALLY scrubbed the shower stall with bleach spray and a scrubbing brush on a drill. God, I hate grout and tile! But it's sure a lot cleaner now! Been pushing dear daughter to finish her chores too, so we got the recycling totally cleared out, and she did some much-delayed tidying up.
In the meantime, glad to hear that IRS has delayed tax day by 3 months! I have not YET put that paperwork together! Now we need to find ONE MORE fiduciary so the legal and financial paperwork can be drafted.
I've been having a real hard time sleeping lately ... waking up at stupid o'clock, usually because I feel like I can't fully inflate my lungs. Treating it as acid reflux or stuffy nose doesn't seem to help (altho I have both). Come to think of it, I might be having a subtle asthma attack ... I think I'll try the rescue inhaler when it happens again.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching Contagion with the family; it's a great reminder that even if things seem a little tedious right now, things could always be worse!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I truly hope the inhaler works, Signy!
The next few months are going to be a long slog. Given how many at-risk people are in the family my biggest hope is that nobody gets sick or ends up with serious complications, or worse.
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I know you don't have aversions to doctors like I do Sigs.
Don't treat that like I treat everything. GO SEE A DOCTOR.
As far as stores are concerned around me, I can only speak about two of them and report that it's pretty much just as bad as you hear on the news. Went to Aldi around 5 days back and couldn't get cans of chili with beans (there was chili without beans), couldn't get large containers of peanut butter (there were small containers), couldn't get milk. The paper towel/toilet paper/sanitizers and hand soap was all wiped out as well. Not that I eat it, but you couldn't buy any bread either. I was able to buy ground beef and frozen vegetables, although there was no chicken except for the extremely high priced small packages of it.
Yesterday I went back, first thing in the morning. Chili with beans was back in stock and full, but all the peanut butter was wiped out. The entire frozen food locker was empty (no beef, no vegetables). Milk was wiped out. No bread.
Went to the dollar store after that and although the store as a whole didn't look nearly as bad, toilet paper and towels were gone as well as any hand sanitizers. Surprisingly, the ingredients to make your own sanitizers were still in stock. I know that Amazon was sold out of all of that, so it looks like the DIYers haven't raided all the dollar stores yet.
I called up the elderly couple who lives across the street to see if they were OK and if they needed anything. They're doing well and they're all stocked up. I let them know if they needed anything I'm right across the street and he said the same to me.
He also gave me a tip on a gallon of milk. I'm on my way out the door to see if he was right.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Got my milk.
Very grateful to the helpful older lady who didn't work for the place going around letting people like me know that customer service was checking people out with 10 items or less so I didn't have to wait in line for an hour and a half to buy it.
Almost a ghost town on the streets otherwise. Kind of eerie driving around the hometown and seeing so little cars everywhere.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Out for a small walk.
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Had walk. Brought lunch back with me. Most restaurants are open but for take out only.
Just picking up little things that I need and know I can get without too much trouble.
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Oh, I can watch "Picard" tonight. It is running on my local science fiction channel. I didn't know that but then I am not usually home at 6pm on a Thursday. Thursday I am usually busy with mah jong then work.
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I hate my allergies. 
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I hate mine too. I know how that feels.
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Wow. I shopped at two stores, and since I shop with a list it's not like look for everything everywhere, but... First of all, way more crowded than I was hoping for, or expected.
But then, with schools and so many businesses closed, there are probably a lot more adults at home than usual, and they're shopping at normal working hours.
I saw more masks than just us. I saw one at Ralph's, but five at Stater Bros.
Ralph's had a sign posted that they were going to let in only 50 at opening, and 25 per 10 minutes thereafter. It didn't seem to change the crowding; I think this was "business as usual" for them (except maybe the morning of Super Bowl Sunday) but boy, were the shelves bare!!! Just thinking my way thru the store ... tender fresh vegetableshafl gone, berries all gone. Potatoes, fruits, oinions, yams still in stock.
Walking my way past the liquor - all vodka gone. (Other distilled spirits remain)
Water - all gone. (Why???)
Margarine and butter all gone, except a few boxes of very expensive imports.
Cooking oil - mostly gone. (I was looking for canola oil)]
Rice and beans - gone.
Meat mostly stocked but then they were limiting to two per customer per type.
Shirataki noodles and tofu- gone.
On-sale ground turkey- gone.
Pasta- gone.
Canned soups and boxed broths - gone.
I didn't even look at the TP section
I asked the cashier (whose tag said "sales manager") whether this was due to increased demand, or poor supply, and he said "increased demand".
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Over at Stater Bros, the second store on my agenda ... the parking lot was full.
The fresh vegetables were much better stocked, but they too were out of things ... different things! ...
The meat case in front of their meat-cutting area was empty except for their on-sale items (flap meat, pork ribs)
Rice and beans - gone
Anything to do with canned tomato, whether crushed or sauce or pasta sauce - gone
Canned vegetables- gone
No canned tomatillos, and only a few cans of green enchilada sauce left
Lite coconut milk- gone.
Of course, water- gone (limit one)
Rubbing alcohol- gone
Sesame oil- gone.
Soups and boxed broths- also gone
IODIZED SALT- gone
I think all together I struck out on completely on ham, picnic roast, sesame oil, canola oil, on-sale ground turkey and shirataki noodles. I was hoping to get canned tomatillos to make enchilada sauce, but none was to be found, so I bought pre-made instead (for chicken enchiladas). They were ALMOST out of canned lite coconut milk (for Thai red curry) ... now they're all out, since I bought the last four cans. I was hoping to get four lo salt boxed chicken broth, but could only find two, not lo salt. Speaking of salt ... we have just few tablespoons of iodized salt left, but seeing as the store didn't have any, I had to buy kosher salt instead.
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But, on a happier note, I made a b!thcin! beef stew a few days ago. It was just a regular recipe (beef, onion, potato, carrot, celery, white wine, lots of bay leaves, mushrooms and flour) but I browned the meat before I started, and browned the onions, then simmered the meat in white wine with a lot of bay leaves and some peppercorns for a loooong time because it was beef chuck, which has more flavor but also more gristle. It went over very well; hubby (who "hates beef") had three servings and daughter (who's not a fan of onions) had two servings... and of course scarfed up all of the potatoes because neither Frank nor I should eat them, altho for different reasons.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I hate mine too. I know how that feels.
Yup. Went out yesterday and got some more eye drops. Today it was just a box of cereal and an extra can of soup. I keep canned soup on hand in case I don't feel like cooking.
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Grocery stores here limiting meat to 2 packages per customer.
Still fresh veg. Some canned goods gone and of course paper towels and toilet paper. Some cleaning products gone too.
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Decided to watch part of wrestling program last night for fun. Interesting with no audience except the some of the other wrestlers in the seats.
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lol... yeah. My buddy was telling me he was watching some MMA fights the other night and it was one of the strangest things he'd ever seen. With nobody cheering in the audience you heard every noise, every grunt, every punch and slam like you were right in the room with them.
How you doing up there, BTW Brenda? You got everything you need?
I know it's driving my little brother a bit nuts right now that his church shuttered their doors and ended all the social gatherings they did. After his sobriety, the church has become an important part of his life.
I told him that if he ever needs to talk to somebody just to give me a call.
I assume that your Mah Jong games and other social gatherings that you can't do right now are just as important to you. Just remember this isn't going to last forever and we'll all get back to normal soon.
It might not feel like it quite yet, but spring is here.
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lol... yeah. My buddy was telling me he was watching some MMA fights the other night and it was one of the strangest things he'd ever seen. With nobody cheering in the audience you heard every noise, every grunt, every punch and slam like you were right in the room with them.
How you doing up there, BTW Brenda? You got everything you need?
I know it's driving my little brother a bit nuts right now that his church shuttered their doors and ended all the social gatherings they did. After his sobriety, the church has become an important part of his life.
I told him that if he ever needs to talk to somebody just to give me a call.
I assume that your Mah Jong games and other social gatherings that you can't do right now are just as important to you. Just remember this isn't going to last forever and we'll all get back to normal soon.
It might not feel like it quite yet, but spring is here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It was strange but they put on a fair show for the people watching at home. So, it wasn't too bad as I said. You could hear the grunting and stuff. And of course you had the "Heel" or "bad guy" wrestlers and the "baby faces" or "good guy" wrestlers in separate groups but they were still snipping at each other and of course when someone was thrown out of the ring and landed by them, there was the usual shouting and jeering. Antagonizing everyone all part of the show.
I think I'm in pretty good shape supply wise and if I do go out. I'm not out more than an hour and back. I keep my distance from people, mind I always do when I am out walking.
I can sympathize with your brother. If I didn't have this thing or internet, don't know what I would do. Hoping to hear from friends in Alberta next week.
My games do and even my work. My work was cancelled first as my boss who is a doctor was in contact with someone the day after I worked that had the virus. She did the right thing and had a test done then called me and asked me how I was. I'm fine just dealing with my allergies.
Got one game of mah jong in on Monday then got a call in the evening that the senior centre I got to was closed through all of this. The lady who runs the mah jong group was thinking about cancelling it anyways as a precaution.
I know that just reminds me of some odd books I've read over the years like through high school.
Sundays my one day at least that I don't go anywhere. Couple of things to do tomorrow but after that we shall see.
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Weather calling for rain down in the US. And for rain where I am.
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YAY rain for here! 
I myself am puttering. I *should* be doing more, but I've been mostly just cooking, cleaning up old computer files, and so on.
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That is great news for you Kiki.
Myself it is just cards on the computer and some tv along with some music right now. Got a tape on that has different songs on it. Started with Elton John and "Crocodile Rock" then on to a couple of Bay City Roller songs now a little Bryan Adams "Straight from the Heart." A good Canadian guy.
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Now that I'm retired "going out" was never high on my agenda. I walk the dog, sometimes with DD. Does that count?
I DO miss Friday lunches with dear daughter and our monthly "all girls" get-togethers with sis, dd and me, tho. It's good to get out of the house and go somplace else once in a while. 
Seeing as we didn't go out a whole lot anyway, it's not like I suddenly have a whole lot of time freed up. We've been pushing forward on home projects ... hubby now has all of his (birch plywood) shelving oiled and installed; it looks quite useful and handsome, I must say.
I took about an hour-and-a-half today to use my flame thrower on the backyard weeds! 
This was the first time I actually used it, aside from testing. I'll be interested to see how the weeds look tomorrow ... you have to give them time to wilt and die. Back to other stuff ... life is an undending treadmill, I think!
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It was strange but they put on a fair show for the people watching at home. So, it wasn't too bad as I said. You could hear the grunting and stuff. And of course you had the "Heel" or "bad guy" wrestlers and the "baby faces" or "good guy" wrestlers in separate groups but they were still snipping at each other and of course when someone was thrown out of the ring and landed by them, there was the usual shouting and jeering. Antagonizing everyone all part of the show.
I'm not a fan of real fighting (MMA/Boxing) or fake fighting (WWE and is WCW even still a thing anymore even???), but I really have to check on youtube to see if some of this footage is up. I have a pretty good imagination, but I don't know if it's doing the actual situation justice. This sounds bonkers.
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I think I'm in pretty good shape supply wise and if I do go out. I'm not out more than an hour and back. I keep my distance from people, mind I always do when I am out walking.
That's good. I am, and I'm not at the same time. I've always had a reasonable supply of stuff on hand. But when it comes to food I'm not going to change up my eating habits and/or stock up on a bunch of canned goods that I'm never going to eat. Most of the stuff I buy is fresh or frozen and doesn't have a long shelf life, so I can't stock up on any of it if I don't want it to go bad. I've got enough food in here to last maybe a month, with another few months of rice if things ever really got bad (which I don't think is going to happen at all). 1 of the 2 gallons of milk I bought the other day is already gone, so I'll have to go back then.
I'm actually interested in seeing what the places look like when I do. I was actually really surprised how much stock of nearly everything the other store had when I got the milk, despite the lines being over an hour long to check out.
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I can sympathize with your brother. If I didn't have this thing or internet, don't know what I would do. Hoping to hear from friends in Alberta next week.
My games do and even my work. My work was cancelled first as my boss who is a doctor was in contact with someone the day after I worked that had the virus. She did the right thing and had a test done then called me and asked me how I was. I'm fine just dealing with my allergies.
Got one game of mah jong in on Monday then got a call in the evening that the senior centre I got to was closed through all of this. The lady who runs the mah jong group was thinking about cancelling it anyways as a precaution.
I know that just reminds me of some odd books I've read over the years like through high school.
Sundays my one day at least that I don't go anywhere. Couple of things to do tomorrow but after that we shall see.
We really are quite lucky that something like this happened at the time it did, with all the cheap entertainment on the internet that makes it easier to stay inside.
To be honest, even though I chose to do it myself nearly all the time before this went on, I'm really starting to feel a bit clostrophobic, now that everybody else is being ordered to live like I already did.
So the timing as far as eras is excellent. As far as the time of year around here? Not so much...
It snowed a few inches yesterday here, and I woke up this morning to white covering everything. Gross.
I just want to get outside and start working out there again and keep my mind off of this stuff.
Sounds like you're okay up there. Good to hear.
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I'm not even sure if the place I want to get my gutters made is open or not now, but I really need to call them for another quote.
The price of aluminum had gone up quite drastically in between the time I got my 2nd quote (Somewhere around 2014/2015) and summer of last year, but has been sharply falling since and is now lower than it was when I got that quote.
I don't think it will actually be any cheaper than the last quote I got, but I was surprised last time I got a quote that the price hadn't gone up since 2013 either and that's because the price of aluminum had gone down.
I think I know what I'm spending my stimulus money on... well... if the place is open anyhow. I'm not buying the piece of shit gutters they have at the big box stores with seams that are going to leak a few years later.
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It was strange but they put on a fair show for the people watching at home. So, it wasn't too bad as I said. You could hear the grunting and stuff. And of course you had the "Heel" or "bad guy" wrestlers and the "baby faces" or "good guy" wrestlers in separate groups but they were still snipping at each other and of course when someone was thrown out of the ring and landed by them, there was the usual shouting and jeering. Antagonizing everyone all part of the show.Quote:
I'm not a fan of real fighting (MMA/Boxing) or fake fighting (WWE and is WCW even still a thing anymore even???), but I really have to check on youtube to see if some of this footage is up. I have a pretty good imagination, but I don't know if it's doing the actual situation justice. This sounds bonkers.
WWE is still around but WCW was bought up by the WWE a good number of years ago and was folded in to them. What I was watching is a new company on the block started by Cody Rhodes son of the late Dusty Rhodes and it called AEW.I get what you are saying Jack. But the company has a contract with the cable network to fill a 2 hour block of time. If they don't then AEW will be in breach of its contract and so on and so on and so on.Quote:
I think I'm in pretty good shape supply wise and if I do go out. I'm not out more than an hour and back. I keep my distance from people, mind I always do when I am out walking.Quote:I'm actually interested in seeing what the places look like when I do. I was actually really surprised how much stock of nearly everything the other store had when I got the milk, despite the lines being over an hour long to check out.[/b quote]
That's good. I am, and I'm not at the same time. I've always had a reasonable supply of stuff on hand. But when it comes to food I'm not going to change up my eating habits and/or stock up on a bunch of canned goods that I'm never going to eat. Most of the stuff I buy is fresh or frozen and doesn't have a long shelf life, so I can't stock up on any of it if I don't want it to go bad. I've got enough food in here to last maybe a month, with another few months of rice if things ever really got bad (which I don't think is going to happen at all). 1 of the 2 gallons of milk I bought the other day is already gone, so I'll have to go back then.[/b quote]
I'm sort of the same way. Keep enough on hand for a few days. I eat very little canned goods just because of the salt and sugar levels that used to be in them. Don't know about now. My problem is that I have a blood sugar problem which means that I must always have something around to be able to nibble on. Low blood sugar is my problem which is the other end of the scale from a diabetic.I'm guilty of that up here. Have to take a look around and see what is and isn't available. Local Walmart that I deal at had paper towels in for the first time in over a week. Lots of eggs there and at another grocery story that I deal with. Too bad I can't eat them. I am allergic to them. But I got the cous cous and pasta and frozen veg that I wanted. I dropped almost an entire container of cous cous last night on the kitchen floor. Vacuumed up what I could get at but the good thing was that I still had enough for my supper.
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I can sympathize with your brother. If I didn't have this thing or internet, don't know what I would do. Hoping to hear from friends in Alberta next week.
My games do and even my work. My work was cancelled first as my boss who is a doctor was in contact with someone the day after I worked that had the virus. She did the right thing and had a test done then called me and asked me how I was. I'm fine just dealing with my allergies.
Got one game of mah jong in on Monday then got a call in the evening that the senior centre
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I'm in a bit of a different situation here: family keeps me alternately busy, irritated, and amused. The trick will be to get thru this without killing each other.
SIX, it will be good if the snow (snow??? In late March???) goes away for good so you can get back to working on your house. Also, with the sunnier days you may feel more positive.
BRENDA, you sound as if overall you fared this past winter a lot better than when you were living in that dank, dark room. Good for you! Do you have a hobby, or could you develop one? Work and mahjong played an important part of your life, and this lockdown may last for over a month.
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I'm in a bit of a different situation here: family keeps me alternately busy, irritated, and amused. The trick will be to get thru this without killing each other.
Yeah... not me. Being alone before was a choice though. When it's forced on you it feels a lot more lonely. I was supposed to go down with the old man to visit my brother last week, but was told that there were no visitors.
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SIX, it will be good if the snow (snow??? In late March???) goes away for good so you can get back to working on your house. Also, with the sunnier days you may feel more positive.
Yup. And a LOT of it. Maybe 5"?
That wasn't anywhere in the accuweather predictions. It wasn't even supposed to get cold enough again for this to happen.
I've got a theory that the shutdown of nearly all production in China for as long as it did created a temporary global cooling effect.
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I think I'm going to go out to the grocery store in a while.
See what stock levels look like around evening time. It's been a while since I've been outside the house.
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BRENDA, you sound as if overall you fared this past winter a lot better than when you were living in that dank, dark room. Good for you! Do you have a hobby, or could you develop one? Work and mahjong played an important part of your life, and this lockdown may last for over a month.
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I have. I've got my writing and I am making a start on going through family photos. Got another frame that I want to do up and hang. I'll be alright. Friend here in BC checked in with on the phone for a bit. So that was good.
Might make me get on the phone to the one cousin I am in contact with in Alberta. She's in one of the high risk age groups being in her early 70s with underlying health issues. Nothing dramatic but arthritis runs in my family bad on my dad's side.
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I'd say my experience shopping today was an eye-opener, but I'd be lying.
But it would be an eye-opener for people who have been panicking.
I was able to buy at least one of every single thing I normally would buy when I made my normal trips there. Every single one. Including milk, which had been out of stock even first thing in the morning a week ago. Also, coffee of every variety was stocked on the shelf when I lucked out on the last container of it last week when I went.
5:00PM and they even had some paper towels, toilet paper and soap left on the shelves. They weren't full, but they weren't empty either.
It seems the hoarders have gotten their fill, and hopefully the opportunists get a real good buggering over this and get stuck with a bunch of inventory they have to spend the next 20 years using themselves when nobody is willing to pay their black market prices because stores are quickly going back to their normal levels of goods.
The end of the world is not coming. Once the panic dies down, life will eventually return to what we used to know. Maybe some things are changed a bit, but it will more or less be like it used to be and at least half the dummies will forget it even happened a few months later.
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Quote:Oh that's right, silly me! I forgot about your writing! That's a GREAT hobby to have! And family photos ... wow, for me they bring up a lot of memories.
SIGNY: BRENDA, you sound as if overall you fared this past winter a lot better than when you were living in that dank, dark room. Good for you! Do you have a hobby, or could you develop one? Work and mahjong played an important part of your life, and this lockdown may last for over a month.
BRENDA: I have. I've got my writing and I am making a start on going through family photos. Got another frame that I want to do up and hang. I'll be alright. Friend here in BC checked in with on the phone for a bit. So that was good.
Might make me get on the phone to the one cousin I am in contact with in Alberta. She's in one of the high risk age groups being in her early 70s with underlying health issues. Nothing dramatic but arthritis runs in my family bad on my dad's side.
Glad you're checking up on your relatives. I was just in touch with one of my sisters ... she lives in a much lower-risk area than I do, and yet it seems that her grocery stores (for example) are taking this MUCH more seriously than where I live, enforcing the 6 ft distance, even in the checkout line, and her county health dept is going to set up drive-thru testing today, if I got that right. LA County is such a fustercluck, they don't know if they're housing the homeless or providing for illegal immigrants or protecting health or fostering political correctness. Competing goals, lack of clarity. Oy.
Well, anyway, I think we should just keep tabs on each other too.
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Quote:People's pantries and fridges are full, and except for the fact that more people are cooking at home so there will be an overall increase in demand, I'm assuming that we will reach steady-state soon. I'm assuming the shelves will once again be restocked, if not by this Wednesday then by next.
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I'd say my experience shopping today was an eye-opener, but I'd be lying.
But it would be an eye-opener for people who have been panicking.
I was able to buy at least one of every single thing I normally would buy when I made my normal trips there. Every single one. Including milk, which had been out of stock even first thing in the morning a week ago. Also, coffee of every variety was stocked on the shelf when I lucked out on the last container of it last week when I went.
5:00PM and they even had some paper towels, toilet paper and soap left on the shelves. They weren't full, but they weren't empty either.
It seems the hoarders have gotten their fill, and hopefully the opportunists get a real good buggering over this and get stuck with a bunch of inventory they have to spend the next 20 years using themselves when nobody is willing to pay their black market prices because stores are quickly going back to their normal levels of goods.
The end of the world is not coming. Once the panic dies down, life will eventually return to what we used to know. Maybe some things are changed a bit, but it will more or less be like it used to be and at least half the dummies will forget it even happened a few months later.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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They had signs up at the Aldi saying something along the lines of "adhere to social distancing" with a figure of a stick person like on (male) bathrooms with "6ft" under it and arrows pointing both ways.
You can tell that people have their hands full with real life stuff because a month ago the Twitter Mafia would have been RAGING!!!!! that the signs only showed the male stick figure and weren't inclusive.
Nobody was enforcing any of that though. There's only 2 or 3 employees there, and a rent-a-cop always on duty who's toughest duty every day is trying not to fall asleep standing up.
That's good too, because the day they militarize the cops on duty and have armed people actively pushing people away from each other and/or start ticketing people for standing too close to each other is the day I never shop at Aldi again.
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People's pantries and fridges are full, and except for the fact that more people are cooking at home so there will be an overall increase in demand, I'm assuming that we will reach steady-state soon. I'm assuming the shelves will once again be restocked, if not by this Wednesday then by next.
Yup. That's what I've been telling everyone I talk to. My friend was pushing me to buy up all the coffee I could since he knows I can't live without it. I told him that the supply will catch up with the demand once the hoarders have their fill.
They very well might be back to normal levels as early as Wednesday here, given how high the stock levels were as late as 5:00PM on Monday. More than half of the stuff was practically full, and a lot of it that was empty is probably just because they haven't gotten any of that particular item in a few days (keep in mind that most of these places receive their inventory based off of last years sales for items on the same day, usually with a 2-5% extra boost, so they probably don't have the ability to actually specifically order stuff they're short on since it's all computerized and automatic these days).
The cashier (the same one from last time) was having a much better day. You could see it on her face. I didn't have to cajole a smile out of her this time. :)
I might go back in a few days and pick up some random thing I could stand to have one more of just to scope it out again and see what levels were at.
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SIGNY: BRENDA, you sound as if overall you fared this past winter a lot better than when you were living in that dank, dark room. Good for you! Do you have a hobby, or could you develop one? Work and mahjong played an important part of your life, and this lockdown may last for over a month.
BRENDA: I have. I've got my writing and I am making a start on going through family photos. Got another frame that I want to do up and hang. I'll be alright. Friend here in BC checked in with on the phone for a bit. So that was good.
Might make me get on the phone to the one cousin I am in contact with in Alberta. She's in one of the high risk age groups being in her early 70s with underlying health issues. Nothing dramatic but arthritis runs in my family bad on my dad's side.
Glad you're checking up on your relatives. I was just in touch with one of my sisters ... she lives in a much lower-risk area than I do, and yet it seems that her grocery stores (for example) are taking this MUCH more seriously than where I live, enforcing the 6 ft distance, even in the checkout line, and her county health dept is going to set up drive-thru testing today, if I got that right. LA County is such a fustercluck, they don't know if they're housing the homeless or providing for illegal immigrants or protecting health or fostering political correctness. Competing goals, lack of clarity. Oy.
Well, anyway, I think we should just keep tabs on each other too.
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Yeah, I've got stuff all over the place around here writing wise that is.
When I say family photos it's not just pictures of me, my brother or my mom and dad. I am talking about picture of my grandparents meaning my dad's mom and dad. And those photos are from before the 1920s. Even found a couple of what would be classified as documents: one from 1906. An invitation to my grandad to a Robbie Burns dinner at a Gentlemen's club either in Medicine Hat or Calgary. Can't remember which. That's important because there were a lot of immigrants from Scotland in the area at that time. Also this was a time of "No Women Allowed" and secondly even if she had been allowed into the club being half-Indian, she wouldn't have been welcomed.
The second document is a thank you and welcome home notice from the mayor of Medicine Hat that was for my dad. Thanking him for his service to his country and community by fighting in WW II.
I've got a photo from my mom's side that is old and must be from Ireland. It's heavy so could have been tin-type. Have no idea who in the photo is related to me but it is a group of men by a stone wall. Maybe a couple of feet high. That would put that photograph into the 1800s.
So, I am talking old, old, stuff.
I said I'm thinking about it.
Alberta seems to be supply wise okay, I think. Here in my corner of BC, some stores are marking on the floor where to stand and such and people are obeying pretty well.
Ran into my old landlady today, she said there is some mail for me at the house. Have to go and pick it up then make sure to get a change of address to the place.
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Rain today.
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Went out today and got some laundry soap which I need and a small package of toilet paper. Though I saw people in Walmart with big packages but I couldn't find any in the store. Small was all that left on the shelf and even then not many.
But the fact that I saw some and such is a good sign.
Maybe things are going to slowly start settling down up here. And I mean supply wise. Couple of restaurants have closed and only doing things like "Skip the Dishes". That was the local Wendy's and Dairy Queen.
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Also bathroom sink is clearing out so manager got the plumbers in but they tackled problem from other end. So that is good.
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When I went shopping last at Trader Joe's a LOT of stuff was out, especially the chicken, ground beef, and eggs - but other things too like mayo and sriracha. So this time around I went early and got what I needed. Phew!
As for rain - I think that last little spatter we had was it for the year. When they total it up at USC (where they do the rain graph I post) it'll be ~11.75" for the year. Normal is 15". Sigh.
And the vast majority of California is either 'abnormally dry' or 'moderate drought', according to the USDA drought monitor.
So we'll be going into summer already dry. That's going to make for a ~wonderful~ fire season, which will start early. 
I was SO hoping for a better rainy season than we've been getting for so many years!
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Well, the plumbers got the sink to drain but I can't use it as I tried to run a little water and it just wanted to fill up again. So the sink maybe empty but not usable.
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So it's now draining - very slowly?
If I understand it right, it wasn't draining, they got it to drain normally and emptied it, but now it's only barely draining, again?
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Well, the plumbers got the sink to drain but I can't use it as I tried to run a little water and it just wanted to fill up again. So the sink maybe empty but not usable.
Do you know what they tried?
They probably just need to rod it out.
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So it's now draining - very slowly?
If I understand it right, it wasn't draining, they got it to drain normally and emptied it, but now it's only barely draining, again?
Yes, it drained slowly when I noticed it and it emptied. Then I had to use it to wash my hands when I noticed it starting to fill again. I shut the tap off and it did drain again completely but still slowly.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, the plumbers got the sink to drain but I can't use it as I tried to run a little water and it just wanted to fill up again. So the sink maybe empty but not usable.
Do you know what they tried?
They probably just need to rod it out.
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Have no idea. I found it draining after I got home today from my walk. All I thought at the time is finally with relief.
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BRENDA: Ran into my old landlady today, she said there is some mail for me at the house. Have to go and pick it up then make sure to get a change of address to the place.
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Quote:BRENDA ... they didn't access your bathroom to unclog it, did they? If they DIDN'T, then they might have snaked it out from the cleanout located somewhere outside your apartment.
BRENDA: Have no idea. I found it draining after I got home today from my walk. All I thought at the time is finally with relief.
If that's the case, the problem might still be in the "u" shaped piece of pipe right under the sink ... possibly soap or hair or both. If you haven't already, you might want to try liquid Drano or Liquid Plumber.
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Quote:I would have been tempted to give her some of my opinions about her. I wouldn't, of course, but I sure would have been tempted!
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BRENDA: Ran into my old landlady today, she said there is some mail for me at the house. Have to go and pick it up then make sure to get a change of address to the place.
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Nah, she just surprised me is all. This is twice I've seen her grocery shopping at the local Walmart. I saw her but she called me and asked me how I was and I said fine then she told me about the mail. I have no intentions of saying anything much to her whenever I see her. She's not worth my time or effort.
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