How Do You Feel Today? v4

Post by **Skyweir** » Tue May 28, 2019 11:27 am

Hahahahaha.. Ive been working away and now have family visiting .. and I head away on Saturday for another week. This time looking after 2 labs.

Post by **Sorus** » Tue May 28, 2019 3:12 pm

Orlion wrote:Took a day off of work, went to the dentist to have a filling and standard cleaning, left with a surprise root canal.

So, I guess that's my life's metaphor right now.

Ah, surprise dental bills. One of my least-favorite surprises.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Tue May 28, 2019 4:13 pm

Yesterday was a US National holiday. Folks are probably recuperating from the three day weekend.

Post by **Sorus** » Tue May 28, 2019 8:34 pm

Avatar wrote:Unpleasant.

Had a nice quiet weekend, read, played games, confiscated a very big dead rat from my smallest cat, and a smallish live one from my biggest cat.

Monday now though...

--A

My cats started the day by finding a bug. They harassed it for a while, then apparently lost track of it. The bug is still at large, and presumably annoyed.

Post by **Skyweir** » Wed May 29, 2019 12:13 am

Today tired .. woke at 0430hrs and could not get back to sleep. Annoying.

Ageing.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed May 29, 2019 5:22 am

Sorus wrote:My cats started the day by finding a bug. They harassed it for a while, then apparently lost track of it. The bug is still at large, and presumably annoyed.

You don't know how lucky you are.

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Wed May 29, 2019 10:41 pm

I wouldn't mind if they would actually catch the bugs. This lot seriously failed in hunting school.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Thu May 30, 2019 3:50 am

I'm stressed because I've been putting off a few communications... so I have to send emails.

One of them I'm especially dreading because I kinda need to collect a refund for participation fees I covered for a group of people...
...and I never mailed them about it before, and now it'snearly the end of the school year.

well, hopefully I'm going off to do that now!

Post by **Avatar** » Thu May 30, 2019 5:15 am

Urgh, I know how you feel. Also been avoiding comms lately.

And I have the unpleasant task of telling the new guy at work that he needs to pull his socks up... ::sigh::

--A

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Thu May 30, 2019 8:27 pm

Avatar wrote:Urgh, I know how you feel. Also been avoiding comms lately.

Yes... I even know some things that "lock that" down, and stuff...

But hey, I stayed up late and sent my mail.
Slept much better than the previous two nights.

And in the morning, I got mail back from about half the people who I needed to hear from.

Av wrote:And I have the unpleasant task of telling the new guy at work that he needs to pull his socks up... ::sigh::

Metaphorically?

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Fri May 31, 2019 11:53 am

I was wondering the same thing. ^^^

School closed a week ago, and I am beginning to feel like I can think clearly, and actually relax.

Stag of the dawn resigned from the work that made him miserable for the past year and a half and actually feels happy, and I'm happy for him.

Buck of the dawn (our son) got engaged (I think I shared that already?).

We're heading Stateside on Tuesday!

Post by **Skyweir** » Fri May 31, 2019 12:29 pm

Yay you Deer

And congrats Linna on your comms issue.

Post by **Avatar** » Sat Jun 01, 2019 10:25 am

Obviously metaphorically.

I don't care about where he wears his literal socks, or even whether they are worn at all.

Even the boss is frequently barefoot in the office in summer.

His metaphorical socks on the other hand, we do care about.

Anyway, was very busy Friday. Lost power at about 11h30 on Thursday, so we all went home, had some catching up to do as a consequence.

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:01 pm

I miss summer

its getting very wintery fast. I think this property stay is going to be challenging

Post by **Ur Dead** » Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:36 am

Heck of a week.. The highlight of this last week of May was when the waste
management came around and collected the garbage...

But on Saturday at 2:15 PM.. Electrial power was restore to our neighborhood...

Monday was the day of infamy..

13 tornado ripped thru the Dayton Ohio area.. with the nastiest one being an EF4.

Took the power grid down across the entire area...
Lost power at 10:30 PM on Monday and then restored on Saturday...

Got a some damage from the storm.. a part of the roof was lifted off my house and a batch of siding was torn away...

Went out Tuesday and cured my front lawn.. it had a case of the shingles.
But our area was very lucky..
We couldn't see the twister but we sure saw the line of transformers explode in the distance and headed for the basement..(it was around 10:30 PM)
Some area's were destroyed down to the foundations...

Funny thing.. I was looking out the basement window and we had a wooden chair on the deck and it didn't budge an inch.
While we were looking for the darn thing there wasn't any rain, hail or wind...
It passed to the north of where I was but some outer winds did the damage to my home.. and there was no sound at all... strange.
It looked like it jumped over sections of land and torn the other places to hell and back.

So this past week was fun without power, internet or phone service..
But I am counting my stars.. I had to travel to a number of places during the week.
What I saw torn the heart out of me seeing home completely gutted.
Road closed because the damage was so massive. Driving 20 miles more just to get home from
my destination...

Talked with a man from the power company.. he said that some areas will take 3 month before power is restored... Ack...

But I am alive..
One elderly man was killed in a town 60 miles to the northwest.. a car was slammed into his home and he was killed. That was an EF3 tornado.
Up to 150 people in the area were hurt by the storm..

Check out tornado, Dayton.. you can see what happened..

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:11 am

Crazy. Glad I don't live in an area subject to natural disasters.

Monday. Meh.

--A

Post by **StevieG** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:03 am

Wow, that sounds seriously scary Ur Dead. I just looked up EF4 tornadoes as I didn't know the term - 170mph winds?? That's just crazy.

Our power went out about a week ago for 2 hours and it felt like the end of the world to the kids. I'll have to send them over to the united states of crazy to experience a REAL outage!

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 1:03 pm

Ur Dead, so glad you are safe.

Driving to Abuja right now, our flight is early morning. Looking forward to seeing our fams!

Post by **Lazy Luke** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:48 pm

Ur Dead wrote:Check out tornado, Dayton.. you can see what happened..

Had a look at the Dayton Daily News photos.
What puzzled me was why people living in tornado alley continue to live in wood houses! Wouldn't masonary homes be safer?

Reading about the 2013 Moore OK disaster, with winds of up to 210mph (EF5) puts claim to the fact that masonary homes are no more safer than wood.
Gosh!

Post by **Cagliostro** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:26 pm

Feeling old.
Went to the Dead Milkmen concert Saturday night, and had one of those "dammit, I'm not too old" moments. I went in the pit, and my knee is now swollen painy pain pain. It was a very friendly pit, and everyone was helpful and having fun. There was some guy who left with a gash above his eyebrow and blood poring into his face. I fell onto my knee and shouldn't have been a big deal, but saw it when I got home and realized it was more than just the stupid bruise I thought it would be. Been icing it since, and just want to ice my whole body, as I just hurt.
Anybody have a younger body I could download my consciousness into?

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How Do You Feel Today? v4