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Off work tomorrow due to snow. Praise the Bleak Lady. Possibly Thursday as well, we'll see
No need to thank me.
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You don't look like my goddess at all.
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Allegedly there was supposed to be snow starting two hours ago. It's still rain. Meh.
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Heck, we're supposed to get snow here in Big D on Thursday.
Eve trolled me by texting to ask if we were prepared for the "big storm".
Freakin' Mainer. She can bite me.
Re pop culture references, I knew my students wouldn't get my Fonzie references, but it blew me away when they'd never heard of E.T.
Also when coworkers had never heard of Hill Street Blues, so my quotes, both common and obscure, went totally over their heads. Then I discovered how many of my coworkers were born *after* the Loma Prieta earthquake. (I was in high school.)
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We aren't getting any snow from this one.
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What's "snow"?
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What's "snow"?
Nothing. What's snow with you?
Something about that seems off.
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Who will buy my underpants,
Red, frilly underpants?
Underpants with Extra Holes,
Tra la la la la!
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Who will buy my underpants,
Red, frilly underpants?
Underpants with Extra Holes,
Tra la la la la!
I like my underwear to have no holes. At all.
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So, I'd like to apologize in advance if this upsets anyone, but I was kind of busy last year and it seems like I missed something important that happened on the forums.
Anyone know what happened last November/December? Seems like some sort of big storm around here.
Not the Sarah/Diego and/or Jessica stuff, but something else?
I honestly know nothing about it except that, apparently, "something" happened during that time frame.
Please feel free to PM me, if this isn't the correct place to chat about it.
Either way, love you guys!
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FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
We just had our first successful in-home nurse meetings, yesterday, and they both went well! Forward is still hard, but God is good.
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We just had our first successful in-home nurse meetings, yesterday, and they both went well! Forward is still hard, but God is good.FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
May she continue to heal.
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I am at work.
I never thought I would be so happy to say those words, but I am.
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What's "snow"?
HERESY!!!!!!!!
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Well, the tires are done just on time. Had about .5 inch of freezing rain and then about 1.5 inches of EXTREMELY WET snowfall by the time we got the old car to the shop.
Front tires were dangerously bald and the back ones had plenty of tread but somehow were suffering from dry rot so we replaced all four with good new all-season tire tires for just over $400 which is actually not as much as I expected to pay given the whole global shipping crisis situation.
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6 MORE WEEKS OF WINTER
ALL HAIL THE GROUNDHOG
Well, the tires are done just on time. Had about .5 inch of freezing rain and then about 1.5 inches of EXTREMELY WET snowfall by the time we got the old car to the shop.
Front tires were dangerously bald and the back ones had plenty of tread but somehow were suffering from dry rot so we replaced all four with good new all-season tire tires for just over $400 which is actually not as much as I expected to pay given the whole global shipping crisis situation.
That's a DAMN good price for replacing all 4. Are these basic tires or something else?
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Turns out that losing a fingernail doesn't hurt much at all. It's the injury to the underlying finger that makes the fingernail come out that's horrifically painful.
My fingernail basically fell off because of the infection. No muss, no fuss, just, "Pop! There goes your fingernail!" Didn't hurt at all beyond the infection.
But of course when you tell your co-workers you're back at work on Wednesday after losing a fingernail on Monday, you're some kind of god.
When the reality is, I put a Band-Aid on it, and it doesn't hurt at all unless I directly bang it into something (which, being me, I do a lot).
Social perception vs. experiential reality. Interesting difference. And I'm sure had I not had an infection that popped it off, losing it would have been significantly more traumatic... except they recommended almost the exact same treatment for Impus Minor's ingrown toenail. Apparently if it's done by a professional it's simply not so bad.
That's a DAMN good price for replacing all 4. Are these basic tires or something else?Well, the tires are done just on time. Had about .5 inch of freezing rain and then about 1.5 inches of EXTREMELY WET snowfall by the time we got the old car to the shop.
Front tires were dangerously bald and the back ones had plenty of tread but somehow were suffering from dry rot so we replaced all four with good new all-season tire tires for just over $400 which is actually not as much as I expected to pay given the whole global shipping crisis situation.
For me all 4 tires runs $900, but that's including:
(a) Being in the Bay Area, and(b) Buying high-end Michelins.
That's a DAMN good price for replacing all 4. Are these basic tires or something else?Well, the tires are done just on time. Had about .5 inch of freezing rain and then about 1.5 inches of EXTREMELY WET snowfall by the time we got the old car to the shop.
Front tires were dangerously bald and the back ones had plenty of tread but somehow were suffering from dry rot so we replaced all four with good new all-season tire tires for just over $400 which is actually not as much as I expected to pay given the whole global shipping crisis situation.
For me all 4 tires runs $900, but that's including:
(a) Being in the Bay Area, and
(b) Buying high-end Michelins.
I already have high end Michelin, but I need to replace them.
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Yeah, the tires were just run of the mill Firestone all seasons for a smaller vehicle so it wasn't too painful on the pocketbook. They're not explicitly winter/snow tires but they should hold up just fine if the drive home was any indication given that the roads were quite literally as bad as they've been all winter (thus far) this year.
The area I live in is also very much lower income and CoL which I am sure is part of things too. The region isn't exactly a locus for poverty or anything but when the automotive industry collapsed, automated, and cut worker benefits over the last few decades the economy of the region very much faltered and it stopped keeping pace with national cost of living increases that have made life so darn expensive in more affluent areas.
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So, they have Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep for free on PS plus this month.
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So, they have Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep for free on PS plus this month.
GET EET!!!
Seriously, we're re-playing all the way back through Borderlands 2 (once my finger heals enough) just to get Lara Croft guy to the point that he can play Tina Tina.
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What's "snow"?
HERESY!!!!!!!!
The very BEST Canadian ragga star there has ever been.
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So, they have Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep for free on PS plus this month.GET EET!!!
Seriously, we're re-playing all the way back through Borderlands 2 (once my finger heals enough) just to get Lara Croft guy to the point that he can play Tina Tina.
I was actually waiting for it to finish downloading when I came on here.
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His suggestion (I kid you not) was to superheat a paper clip and put it through the fingernail to relieve the pressure.
I tried this, and it didn't work very well. Switched to a heated safety pin, no joy. Stuck the pin between the nail and finger... no joy. Squeezed the fingernail after the pin stick. THAT did it. Gross, but a relief. Didn't lose the nail and avoided doctors. Most of the nail did detach, to be fair, but it restuck eventually.
I have more gross stories if you like.
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I was going to go in today and carve a boulder but I ended up staying home and catching up on the dishes that built up during Tiny T-Rex's quarantine and the General's stomach illness.
Tomorrow though I'm definitely going in to work.
Also, Jimmy the Groundhog says an early spring but his prognostication has gone downhill in accuracy since they stopped letting him maul the mayor beforehand.
Maybe you can maul the mayor on his behalf?I was going to go in today and carve a boulder but I ended up staying home and catching up on the dishes that built up during Tiny T-Rex's quarantine and the General's stomach illness.
Tomorrow though I'm definitely going in to work.
Also, Jimmy the Groundhog says an early spring but his prognostication has gone downhill in accuracy since they stopped letting him maul the mayor beforehand.
It's Sun Prairie, they can maul their own mayor.
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Eve was talking smack again about prepping for Dallas winter storms v. Maine winter storms, so I let her know that I exchanged the empty propane bottle and picked up a bottle of schnapps for the cocoa.
Like I don't know how to prep.
Seriously, though. Dallas folks hear we might get an inch of snow, and suddenly the grocery store shelves are as bare as during the first month of the pandemic. Good freaking grief.
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Eve was talking smack again about prepping for Dallas winter storms v. Maine winter storms, so I let her know that I exchanged the empty propane bottle and picked up a bottle of schnapps for the cocoa.
Like I don't know how to prep.
Seriously, though. Dallas folks hear we might get an inch of snow, and suddenly the grocery store shelves are as bare as during the first month of the pandemic. Good freaking grief.
We're on the northern side of this thing rolling through and one would have thought that it was the apocalypse or something... we went from moderately decent stock levels to half-bare shelves.
We LIVE IN freakin' NORTHERN ILLINOIS. This is **winter** folks! FFS!
Was that for the Prius? Don't those use special low-resistance tires that cost more, in addition to your other two points?For me all 4 tires runs $900, but that's including:
(a) Being in the Bay Area, and
(b) Buying high-end Michelins.
I'm fairly sure that's an urban legend, since even at the dealership I've never been offered special "Prius" tires, but even if they did I'd happily give up the mileage for the safety.
Even at 80 mph on good tires you can feel the Prius is starting to lose stability. At 90 mph it's downright unpleasant. Tires dedicated to mileage rather than traction would be a Bad Thing.
I don't trust the Prius' wee tires in the first place, and neither GothBard nor Impus Major can resist going 80 in it, so I'm going to get them the best tires I can.
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Eve was talking smack again about prepping for Dallas winter storms v. Maine winter storms, so I let her know that I exchanged the empty propane bottle and picked up a bottle of schnapps for the cocoa.
Like I don't know how to prep.
Seriously, though. Dallas folks hear we might get an inch of snow, and suddenly the grocery store shelves are as bare as during the first month of the pandemic. Good freaking grief.
We're on the northern side of this thing rolling through and one would have thought that it was the apocalypse or something... we went from moderately decent stock levels to half-bare shelves.
We LIVE IN freakin' NORTHERN ILLINOIS. This is **winter** folks! FFS!
One of the great things about living in an eternally drought-parched area is that if you need to make a big shopping trip and you see rain in the forecast you can wait until day 3 of the rain: The shelves will be full and the stores will be empty because nobody wants to go out in the "big storm".
In the Central Valley we had an occasional storm that hit a rate of 1" an hour, which is really a downpour. 1" in a day is an unusually wet day in the area I live.
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Huh.
Ice-T has a heavy metal band. And it is quite m-f-king nice fine.
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Huh.
Ice-T has a heavy metal band. And it is quite m-f-king
nicefine.
I met him.
He and his wife are very nice!
Eve was talking smack again about prepping for Dallas winter storms v. Maine winter storms, so I let her know that I exchanged the empty propane bottle and picked up a bottle of schnapps for the cocoa.
Like I don't know how to prep.
Seriously, though. Dallas folks hear we might get an inch of snow, and suddenly the grocery store shelves are as bare as during the first month of the pandemic. Good freaking grief.
We're on the northern side of this thing rolling through and one would have thought that it was the apocalypse or something... we went from moderately decent stock levels to half-bare shelves.
We LIVE IN freakin' NORTHERN ILLINOIS. This is **winter** folks! FFS!
Oh wow, so many people in Portillinois!
....a place...
*sob*
I can't eat at anymore!!!!
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I'm just trying to stay out of everyone's way while they get ready for the day.
My day includes getting a new furnace filter. Excitement personified.