Sorry I am just seeing this response, I could have used the laugh earlier in the day.
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Oops - sorry! Are you having a home birth? It works for lots and lots of women. I would only advise that if your doctor estimates a more than 10 pound baby, you might want to rethink that decision. Very few babies are that big when they are born. It's more common if the mother has gestational diabetes. I didn't, so, super unusual. If you having a high risk pregnancy and you are planning a home birth, make sure your midwife has experience with high risk pregnancies. Ok, that's two pieces of advice. I'll stop.
I bought a plane ticket today.
I played sooooooo much better tonight.
And I hurt a lot this morning.
Ugh. Tuesday.
Big fan of Tuesdays. https://youtu.be/n8QurABRsqE
Slow news day...
I want Keith David to narrate my life.
grilled swordfish, taters, slaw
Since it is always top quality swordfish, I do absolutely nothing to it. It's usually an inch thick or a wee bit more...I just use very high heat, five minutes per side, voila! Serve with a wedge of lemon...
Every once in a while I sprinkle on just a bit or dressing before grilling (olive oil, balsamic vinegar, seasonings)...just for a change.
How old do kids need to be for Tolkien? 16 months is too young but I’m already wearing out on brown bear.
Dessert time...
Tennis this morning. Acupuncture at noon. Zoom lecture for Neonatologists this afternoon.
Waiting is the hardest part...
I miss that insurance camel.
I love Richard Scarry for younger readers. Good vocabulary building and kids love staring at the pictures, so you can really turn your brain off for a little while and just let them explore.
Personal favorites are Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and What Do People Do All Day?.
Top 10 smelliest states. Thoughts?
Smelliest States
Maryland
California
Florida
Delaware
Massachusetts
Alabama
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
https://www.zippia.com/advice/the-smelliest-states/
About 20 years ago in Stowe Vermont where there are numerous regulations about most things (down to tiny details) a guy was denied a development permit for a chunk of land on the popular Mountain Road, the opposition being led by nearby property owners. So he did his revenge homework, found that farms have very loose regulations, so he put in a pig lot, many stinky swine producing waves of pig manure odor. 400 pigs in all, the land was sweetened with chicken dung as well.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/19/u...-pig-farm.html
p.s. make that about 40 years ago...time, it flies!
BAK - Biking Across Kansas
The Register's Great Bike Ride Across Iowa has too many people for me - it appeared to be a rolling party. BAK was a little more family friendly. We even had a couple of cops from Long Island come and then return with their families for a few years.
I am lecturing in Waterloo, Iowa in a few weeks. This will be my first official lecture in my new capacity and it is nice to kick it off in such a world-renowned City.
I’m a man grown but still enjoy a nice atta boy.
They found a new ocean!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/e...southern-ocean
perfect lawnmowing conditions: 69 degrees, 31% humidity dew point of 37. Commence loud noise.
Crushed my slides.
Spent my day cleaning up our flooded kitchen and basement. Waterline under the kitchen sink burst. Fortunately, I was home doing paperwork in the basement when I heard the soaked drop ceiling collapse at the other end of the basement. Was able to run upstairs and turn the cold water shut-off valve off before the whole house flooded. Now have started the insurance process and am waiting on the water restoration folks to show up. Will probably need a new kitchen cabinet, kitchen floor, drop ceiling, and some downstairs furniture restored/replaced.
How's y'all's days going?
The line from the shutoff valve to the faucet under the sink was that old blue pvc type stuff, which required many folks to replace it (in their yard) for their main water line due to potential for breaking. I didn’t know my kitchen sink had it. I’ve checked other bathrooms sinks to be safe, and they’re all good.
Rainy Friday.
Apropos of recent conversations regarding ethnic foods in Iowa, I had one of the better gyros of my life in Dubuque a few years ago.
Headed out in a few minutes for an uncle/nibling day. They think I’m wacky and semi-seriously roll their eyes at me very regularly, and that’s exactly what I’m going for.
Along the burst pipe front, if you want to worry about something when you're gone, worry about your fridge's ice maker if you have it connected. Several appliance dealers I know refuse to hook them up, they have a VERY high failure rate...I know three people who have had their kitchen floors ruined (plus basement damage) due to the shabby parts in those things.
I've got more stuff to worry about if you're interested!
I worked in an office that had a coffee machine installed one Friday afternoon. It had a small water feed - think McD straw or ice maker sized. We came in Monday morning to a flood, water 50' in each direction from the break room. Computers that were on the floor were fried. Fortunately the vendor got to pay ServPro.
I'll work with 120V. I'll do taps and flaps in sinks and toilets. I won't work with water lines, though!
-jk
Log in to work to try to make a dent in the mountain I am trying to tear down, and I find out that they did "updates" last night and now we cannot access ANY of our folders. Where is that head-banging emoji when you need it?
I have had to unfollow LinkedIn contacts who do medical device sales for liking overtly nasty political rhetoric on there. I am pretty shocked that this occurs on LinkedIn.
It's 7:46 am and I could use a good nap.
At our lake vacation/weekend house (recently sold), it was our policy to turn off the main water supply at the street if we were going to be gone for more than a day. Strongly advised. Just be sure to turn off the water heater, so that if there’s a leak, the empty water heater doesn’t blow up. We can’t do this at our “real” house, as we have to have critter sitters come by to feed and walk our 3 dogs.
Harder to work on nice days when you want to be outside or rainy days ideal for napping and lounging?
I just did battle with a striped maple tree along our driveway, cut down a slew of dead branches with one of those long, unwieldy sawing tools borrowed from my savant friend...still dizzy from staring way up at the tree. If I were a squirrel, it would have been SO much easier...
It does look nice now. Will Mrs. Womble notice this when she sashays home after her fancy pants lunch along Lake Champlain? Might I accrue valuable spousal points? https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/garden...s/tree-pruners
(the one I used isn't like the one in the picture, it has a saw blade on the end)
The niblings were rather a handful this morning. It’s nap time.
Watched the NCAA Track and Field championships for the first time in more than a decade.
I think I mentioned that I'm driving up to Vermont on Sunday to get Paddies and bring him back to Boston for a visit.
Well it's a splendid morning on the other side of the lake. Enjoy!
Headed out for a longer-ish run.
How long is he going to be home?
I very much like hearing about everyone's vacations and day trips. I'm living vicariously through everyone until I go on vacation. Yesterday was our first big group meeting since I officially got my new title (I'm probably going to go ahead and get my business card tattooed on my back). I had to face the Grand Inquisitors.
You're having a very good run recently. Also I am excited about your trip to Europe! Next year for us hopefully. And my family has never been to Europe, but, as I mentioned in another thread, I did spend quite a bit of time in and around Dobson North Carolina growing up so I assume it's basically like that.
Witty!
No, a Westie. ~12 years ago, Grandma asked us to watch him for the weekend - and somehow never seemed ready to take him back. When her venerable, docile (lazy) Labrador passed on she had opted for a purebred terrier - which proved a poor match.
All is well. Once the hyper puppy, Shanley is now the consummate gentleman dog.
Saw this little fellow hanging out waiting for mom while I was out hiking with puppers.
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Going up tomorrow, coming back to Boston with Paddies on Monday. Heading back to Burlington on Friday with Paddies and Arrow. Going to Lake Monsters games on Saturday and Sunday, coming back to Boston with Arrow on the 21st. Paddies has a job in Burlington for the summer. He's moving to the DC area in late August.
Did I mention that we have an announced production run schedule for Romeo & Juliet?
I looked back a couple of pages and I think the answer is no.
We open November 5, 2021, a mere 588 days after the original date. Our director tells us that our production may be featured in a story in The Boston Globe, complete with picture, about how theaters have weathered the pandemic. We seem to be somewhat unique in keeping the cast together. For you non-theater types, keeping the production together is only possible because it's Shakespeare. (OK, it would have been possible with any play in the public domain.)
First pesto of the season.
Will go nicely with venison
For those of you thinking of ways to yank on the chains of superstitious theater people, a word of advice, find out how the stage manager feels about that issue before pulling any nonsense.
My favorite stage manager has a t-shirt that says: All the world's a stage and I call the cues.
You pull that (*&#% with a superstitious stage manager? They'll find a way.
Ants! 🐜 🐜 🐜
I feel like I have short arms. But then maybe I just have long thighs? Definitely a longer neck than optimal.
Just wondering, who kept their same PO Box all 4 years? Mine was on East where I lived freshman year(Pegram). I lived on Central year 2 and West years 3 and 4. But ROTC was always on East, so I had to go over there 3 times a week.
I’m currently dealing with a mom o’possum and her little family under my deck. Drives my dogs crazy. Had a trapper come out for many dollars. He captured 3 of the teenagers, but let the momma escape. Went to Harbor Freight and bought my own trap for about $25. Since then I’ve caught 3 more teenagers, but the momma is still on the loose.
For the tender hearted out there, all are being released in a non residential area near a river, with an opened can of tuna to snack on. The teenagers are grown enough to not need momma’s milk anymore.
Hopefully that’s a good distance away. Amazing how far many animals can truck back to home!
I really thought my dog would keep squirrels and woodchucks out of the immediate backyard but I guess he’s not out there enough.
Back in my childhood I have a very funny memory of my dog freaking out one night and my stepfather going out bank in His tightie whities and a shovel to retrieve what he thought was a dead possum...
Took them about 3 miles. Hopefully that’s far enough. Otherwise, I’m catching the same ones over and over. Apparently, possums have as many as 12 or more in a litter. I’ll start worrying if I get to 13 critters caught.
Yep. Sometimes possums do, um ... play possum.
Excited to eat some Indian food with friends from Vanderbilt in Nashville tonight.
You should lead with how you have a new group of friends who think everyone from New Hampshire is a feral rutting beast easily tempted by maple syrup...or shiny objects.
Start there and then hit ‘em with your Jay Bilas opinions.
Maybe after samosas throw in 700 push-ups for good measure.
When the rest of the LTE posters swing by, they’re going to be very disappointed in us again
Tonight, we’re going to The Whip.
Mmmm, chips.
Sometimes you need a good march:
https://youtu.be/VY189np-iBw
Funny S&M story. My HS calculus teacher, Ms Moody, used to make little comments during class whenever we came to a Science & Math problem in the book, which were shortened to S&M. None of us understood what she was talking about but we were pretty sure they were inappropriate. During my senior year, I dated one of the administrator's daughters. She (mom) started to tell me all the school district dirt after I graduated, which was oh so much fun. Anyway, apparently Ms. Moody - and remember this was back in the 90s so this wasn't a laser - had printed off a sex toy catalogue and not made it to the printer from her room in time to get it before anyone saw it. She didn't get fired, it just got put in her file.
All of this, as I've gotten older, has made me realize that you really have to work to get fired sometimes.
Chaatable is the real deal for Indian cuisine. Drip what you're doing and go to Nashville.