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Post by Cornflake on Apr 23, 2024 7:17:20 GMT -5
Good morning. Looks like about 60 to low 90s here. No complaints about that.
I'll see my primary care physician today, mostly because he wants to see me every six months. Lately I've noticed some hearing loss for the first time and I'll raise that with him. Maybe there's a hearing aid in my future.
Too many possibilities in Wordle. Have a good day.
Wordle 1,039 X/6*
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Post by Marty on Apr 23, 2024 8:25:52 GMT -5
Good morning.
42F-60F mostly sunny.
Feeling almost normal and Simon seems to be doing well too. I'll try to get some work done today.
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Post by howard lee on Apr 23, 2024 8:46:48 GMT -5
Happy birthday, William Shakespeare! Born on this day in 1564.
In his honor I will read some of the Sonnets today. Wishing everyone a good Tuesday.
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Post by Tamarack on Apr 23, 2024 9:57:01 GMT -5
Cloudy and very windy.
Still searching for a vehicle for our daughter. Had a deal on a Ford C-max plug-in hybrid. Asked the advice of a local transmission shop and they told me to run from it. CVT tranmissions suck and CVT transmissions on hybrids suck worse. Back to searching Craigslist and FB Marketplace.
Gonna bike to the gym this morning. Two wheels are better than four.
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Post by kenlarsson on Apr 23, 2024 11:05:08 GMT -5
Good afternoon. Back from taking the new trail bike out to the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area. Got lost for a little while but I managed to find my way out. Lots of fun and right now I'm pleasantly exhausted. Looks like a slow afternoon.......
Have a great day.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 23, 2024 11:07:12 GMT -5
The parent units have left. We are doing a boatload of laundry today and cleaning the house. We have way too much food in the fridge, thanks to the parents, so I have to deal with that as I don’t know when we will return here, with our daughter due in Nov. Just when you think you know what you are doing, life pitches a curve ball.
Hot today here. Truck needs washed, so that will get done.
Mike
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Post by martinfever on Apr 23, 2024 12:50:16 GMT -5
Willie The Shake looks like he should be in Jethro Tull or something.
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Post by Hobson on Apr 23, 2024 13:05:33 GMT -5
Looks like Mr. H has survived his bout with whatever intestinal problem he had. Good thing because I'll be taking him for an eye injection this afternoon. Yes, he had one last week, but this is the other eye.
I've been working on a household budget. Not because we need one, curious about where the money goes and also how much it takes to just stay in our house. No mortgage, but HOA fees, utilities, property tax, insurance, and repairs and maintenance. I got tired of finding the information and didn't finish.
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Post by david on Apr 23, 2024 13:05:46 GMT -5
Wondering what the little white lines dangling from Willie's collar are supposed to be.
Another mild weather day here. I am tidying up loose ends for the last few days rather than doing billable work. Oh well, it all needs to be done.
Off to babysit in a couple of hours.
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Post by Cornflake on Apr 23, 2024 13:38:31 GMT -5
Shakespeare looks kind of like Howard.
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Post by howard lee on Apr 23, 2024 13:49:12 GMT -5
Shakespeare looks kind of like Howard.
Ya think?
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Post by t-bob on Apr 23, 2024 14:01:47 GMT -5
Shakespeare looks kind of like Howard. Ya think? not howard shakespeare - howard g.
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Post by millring on Apr 23, 2024 15:12:26 GMT -5
I too failed at wordle. Because I use the same starting word every day I often get e and r. Childishly, it kinda pisses me off 'cause it's not a lot to go on. "er" can start or end a word, be in the middle, or not even be connected. So, in an experiment to see if I increase my odds of winning more quickly, I've decided when I get "er", I'll sacrifice the next word in order to score more information. Though it seems counter intuitive to do so, I think it increases the odds ... but I could be wrong. And today I certainly was because my second word (with no "er" in it) score zero new letters. Wow. So now I really had wasted a guess...and the word was one with too many possibilities.
All day rain made the route less than fun, but I got through and I'm already home. Been working on a project and with Dar off at dog training and the house to myself I may put some time in on it.
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Post by Russell Letson on Apr 23, 2024 15:18:47 GMT -5
We celebrated Shakespeare's birthday (a high holiday in this household) by taking C. to the ER--not for anything dire, but to make sure that her lousy upper-respiratory infection (AKA "bad cold") wasn't something more serious. This was on the advice of the CentraCare telemedicine nurse and thanks, I suspect, to a protocol designed to minimize exposure to litigation as well as to more completely eliminate the worst possibilities. Her regular doctor is, of course, completely booked up, and the vibe from the nurse was that the Urgent Care clinic would be sub-optimal. It's nice to have a round of tests (including chest X-ray, EKG, and triple respiratory-virus swab, followed by a session with the ER doc) confirm that it's a more or less normal respiratory virus, but the time-effort-resources overhead is significantly greater than it was in the old see-your-doctor days. On the other hand, 78-year-olds with a history of bronchitis maybe do need to be cautious. (But do I wonder how long it took for someone in authority to look at her history.)
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Post by howard lee on Apr 23, 2024 15:43:56 GMT -5
We celebrated Shakespeare's birthday (a high holiday in this household) by taking C. to the ER--not for anything dire, but to make sure that her lousy upper-respiratory infection (AKA "bad cold") wasn't something more serious. This was on the advice of the CentraCare telemedicine nurse and thanks, I suspect, to a protocol designed to minimize exposure to litigation as well as to more completely eliminate the worst possibilities. Her regular doctor is, of course, completely booked up, and the vibe from the nurse was that the Urgent Care clinic would be sub-optimal. It's nice to have a round of tests (including chest X-ray, EKG, and triple respiratory-virus swab, followed by a session with the ER doc) confirm that it's a more or less normal respiratory virus, but the time-effort-resources overhead is significantly greater than it was in the old see-your-doctor days. On the other hand, 78-year-olds with a history of bronchitis maybe do need to be cautious. (But do I wonder how long it took for someone in authority to look at her history.)
I hope C. feels better fast! That upper respiratory ick is nothing to be trifled with.
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Post by millring on Apr 23, 2024 16:28:37 GMT -5
Do you see it? I didn't at first either. The photo is cropped from a much larger whole - not by means of photo processing, but because there was no way to get far enough from the scene to take in the whole of it with the camera lens. At least, not without a panorama, wide angle lens. But I also missed the obvious . Several times. How often my expectations cause me to not see what I'm looking at. I drive by this home every Thursday. And yet it wasn't until this past week that I finally saw what I'd been missing. LOVE. It's right there. Right there in the very middle of it. At the very heart of it. LOVE. I'm thinking it's a perfect picture of it. I fear that I've so often thought that love was something that happened when everything got perfect. When the circumstances and the environment and brain chemistry and....and. I fear I've believed that when my universe was in order, it was THEN that I would see love. But it's not like that, is it? Love is a mess. Love is not a picture postcard perfect scene. Love is the only thing that makes sense of the chaos of my real life existence. I'm terrible at it. I've always been terrible at it. Upon seeing the commandments -- the Law -- simplified to "love your neighbor", I got the message right away. It wasn't letting me off the hook. It was hanging me from an even higher one. I realized that love's not EASIER than a code of ethics. It is immeasurably HARDER than a code of ethics. It is the code of ethics AND. Not the code of ethics OR. It says that I am supposed to do -- and eventually mean it. That sucks. I wish it were a feeling, and that in being so, I only had to act the way I felt. But it's not. It's a responsibility. And a hard -- maybe impossible -- one. So, it's a hard thing. But it's a beautiful thing. It really is the only thing that makes the mess of life worth trudging through. At least, I think it is. I still couldn't live in a house like the one in the picture. As perfect a picture of love as it might be, I still need a little order. But I got the message.
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Post by concertinagirl on Apr 23, 2024 16:28:42 GMT -5
Shakespeare looks kind of like Howard. How funny you should say that. I thought so too!
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Post by millring on Apr 23, 2024 16:35:37 GMT -5
Shakespeare looks kind of like Howard. Sure. Maybe. If Shakespeare had been handsome.
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Post by Cornflake on Apr 23, 2024 16:58:48 GMT -5
"I realized that love's not EASIER than a code of ethics. It is immeasurably HARDER than a code of ethics. It is the code of ethics AND. Not the code of ethics OR. It says that I am supposed to do -- and eventually mean it. That sucks."
Oh, I don't know.
C. S. Lewis had a good answer to those who ask how they're supposed to love their neighbor when they don't even like him. It's been years so I can only paraphrase: act as if you love your neighbor and eventually you'll find that you actually do.
Praxis.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 23, 2024 18:22:16 GMT -5
C. S. Lewis had a good answer to those who ask how they're supposed to love their neighbor when they don't even like him. It's been years so I can only paraphrase: act as if you love your neighbor and eventually you'll find that you actually do. Praxis. Yeah. Way too much work. Much easier just to be the asshole in the gray house. Mike
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