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A FB post from 8 years ago popped up my "memories" today. I mention that a Duke landmark was torn down that week. I don't say what it was. Anybody have any ideas? What did Duke tear down in June 2013?
Right now, it's beating the heat -- Seattle is at the start of an unusually long (for June-uary) heatwave, and not many folks here have A/C.
But I did come here after a long hiatus, to see the tributes to James Armstrong. Such a surprisingly devastating bit of news about someone who I've never met in person, but yet have considered to be a friend for well over 2 decades. :(
Birds aim.
Fight me.
I'm in Portland Oregon for three nights and then Seattle for 4. It is 80 and I can't believe how pleasant it seems here. I know they have been in a heatwave, but anything below 90 is a gift for East Coasters. We are just going to miss scorching hot temperatures here.
Whoa, Ben Wallace got old and gray!
Yes. Yellow jackets ambush. They evened up the score on me this evening.
They had built a nest right above the 🚪 on my screened porch and would hover around as I was going in and out. So, unfortunately, I had to eliminate the nest. While mowing the lawn(yes, reel mowing has jumped the shark) near a crepe myrtle, I felt a sharp jab at the base of my skull in the hairline right above my neck. As I spun around trying to identify the source, what should I see? A yellow jacket hovering right out of reach.
Yellow jackets 1, YBT 1.
Spreadsheets….
the crowd turns on Wilson!
I am feeling rather chipper because I walked four miles with spouse and hound, then mowed the lawn for 90 minutes, I'm bursting with virtue...plus it's 75 degrees and sunny
I made a really nice pesto yesterday that I’m enjoying again today.
A proper chili cheese dog should be eaten with:
a. your hands
b. potato salad
c. a knife and fork
d. a nice Chianti and some fava beans
Isn’t there just a little bit of Britney Spears in all of us?
Part of me wants to start a new thread on the main board congratulating Nick Cannon on becoming a father (again)...
Still alive!
Hox hox hox
Eyez vs. eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQLncRO3GsY
I’m glad I hired a company to both take out the old and put in a new pool fence. They had to bring in the hydraulics to get the old posts out. I would have been digging myself silly.
Somehow, the wall anchor that held my soap dish in the wall failed. The soap dish slipped, bounced off the faucet, and busted the bowl of the sink. I guess I know what I'm doing today.
I was on a conference call yesterday, a call whose sole purpose was to go over each individual step of a report that is due next month. When they got to 9f, I blurted out, "GTHC! GTHC!" Good thing my office mate was out. And I was muted on the call. Some people might not understand.
I have precious little patience for ESPN talking heads nowadays, but I will watch the hell out of them when they're losing their minds about Trae Young and YOUR ATLANTA HAWKS.
Paddies is the hospital in Vermont with a collapsed lung.
Hope y’all are hanging in there ok, Bostondevil.
Send us an update when you get a chance BD.
Quote from Paddies: I'm in my hospital bed hooked up to an air sucking machine keeping my lung inflated. We're waiting till the machine shows I'm not leaking air anymore to disconnect it. Doctors said they expect that maybe tomorrow. It's not hurting as bad as it did earlier.
Storms were predicted for this evening - initially expected at 6, then 9, then maybe never. We went to see Curtains at Theater in the Park. Before it started, they said there were various circumstances that would put a stop to the play, such as lightning within 7 miles of the park. If that happened, the stage wyould go dark and the orchestra would stop playing. Just as they were getting to the reveal of the murderer and the final number, out go the lights. The cast's reaction was pretty funny. There were several double takes. Everyone headed for the cars. Fortunately, Sister Sue had seen it so she could tell us who did it.
I don't know if you guys recall but the best parenting moment of my life was how I managed Scooby-Doo. When my children were extremely small I purchased DVDs of old Scooby-Doo episodes. And that was what we watched incessantly. And my kids definitely didn't get it, but I over laughed at all of the gags and jokes. And they found my laughter at those moments to be funny. So they would ask to watch Scooby-Doo all the time. So I never had to watch Barney or any of that other stuff and eventually they started laughing at the gags and the jokes too.
I could pass for shaggy at times.
Interesting that the UNC tenure thread closed only after it went pirate.
The correct answer of course was E. all of the above. It really just depends of course. If the chili dog isn't properly loaded with chili, A. will obviously work. A properly loaded chili cheese dog needs to be eaten with a knife and fork. Potato salad goes with anything. Unless it doesn't. And while most reserve a Chianti and some fava beans for consumption with liver, they are mere accompaniments to the chili dog and don't take away from it's excellence. So, if that is what floats your boat, go for it.
Delayed by Health and Safety protocols?
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his pants. The bartender asks, “hey — do you know you have a steering wheel sticking out of your pants?”
“Aye,” replies the pirate, “and it’s driving me nuts.”
Do you know why pirates are so mean?
Spoiler!
What’s a pitrate’s favorite letter?
Spoiler!
How much do pirate earrings cost?
Spoiler!
Just mowed over a yellow jacket nest. They let me know all about it.
How is Paddies?
Why did it take the pirate so long to learn the alphabet?
Spoiler!
Onions!
I ordered Indian take-out this evening for me, my wife, and my mother. Ordered a lot; everyone is tired and it's been a long week. When I got to the restaurant, the guy says, "This is a big order. How many people is it for?"
I lied and said "4".
Why...
PNW is fantastic. Love the vibe, mountains and food. Drivers do cruise in the left hand lane on the interstate though. That is a real black mark.
spontaneous pneumothorax in medical speak means - hellifweknow! It is a fairly common problem in tall, thin, young men. They don't know why it happens.
I'm doing fine. I'm figuring out when I can get back up there given other family demands. I'm heading back up on July 5th for 4 days.
Tall, thin, Caucasian males in late teens/early 20s are at increased risk of idiopathic pneumothoraces. We don't know why,but it is true. Bubbling means some air is still escaping.
BD already knows this info.
NC State kicked out and Vandy to finals in baseball.
Good Will Hunting but about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck shopping together at second hand stores for vintage lamps.
What the heck is a UAP? Sorry, too lazy to look it up. That would require opening another tab on my web browser. And searching...
*Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, this is marketing in action.
So, sometimes self-censorship is the best form of censorship.
Yeah. Dinner at a GREAT place last night (mkt) and it was 90 degrees INSIDE. I am dreading this. Momiji tonight for sushi.
It’s toddler play pool time.
If I fits, I sits.
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“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
How is Paddies?
The nurses are charging it for him when he needs it, but I think he wants to be using the phone most of the time. And sure, a charger might be obtainable within the hospital but he's up in Vermont and I'm in Massachusetts, I'm trying to find someone who will either bring him one he can borrow or let me send them money to buy him one - and bring it to him. He has a chest tube, he can't go to the lobby store himself right now.
Boudreaux's Butt Paste What a great product name.
Yes. There is a point at which you learn to ask for all of the things that you need. At some level it doesn't matter how much you know or how smart you are but there is a world of adults that you don't feel like you fit into at his age. Even though he is an adult. I have two of them and they would not ask.
He's having a CAT scan today to see why it's taking so long to resolve.
Yellow jackets now lead 2-1 Apparently, the new nest is in the branch of the crepe myrtle that hangs out over the lawn right at neck level. I bumped into as I was mowing. Instead of wiping out this nest, I will relocate the branch to another tree and try not to get stung again.
Finally finished staining all my decks/rails/arbors. I wisely used stain that has an ironclad 4-6 year warranty. This means I won’t have to re-stain until 2022 or 2023. The manufacturer will then deny the warranty, due to improper prep, wood too old, wood too new, wrong season, wrong brush, or I didn’t wear appropriate clothes, Of course, the few drops that got on the concrete deck around the pool will be there for eternity.
I wonder if the documentary the kids from The Blair Witch were making before things went south and the witch made them all stand in the corners would have been any good. Probably not.
Boo and Bubba. Well, alrighty then.
Went sailing on a private sail around Bainbridge Island. Top tier!
I own some PNW...
http://www.pinnaclewest.com/Home/default.aspx
I have a soft spot for utilities and this was the main utility in AZ when I lived there.
The heat is sort of weird. If you are in the sun then it is absolutely shocking and somehow the sun feels hotter here than at home. But in the shade 100° sort of feels like 85. You could reasonably sit outside and not sweat if you were in the shade.
Uh oh. Nurse told my wife she looked like she was dropping this morning. Hopefully that means we’re still weeks away but that puts us on almost exact same early timeline as baby number one.
Anxiety ratcheted up. At least we’ve been through this rodeo before if it does happen.
The surgeons may be getting involved with Paddies. And they keep asking him if he's a smoker (he is not.)
1. How early is early is a good question.
2. The chest tube issue sounds like a positioning issue to me.
There are a lot of very good docs at UVM, but by and large the Med Center has a Can't Do attitude...no one taking charge of patients, just letting things drag on and on. Most tellingly, folks who work there will tell you the same thing. When my wife needed a shiny new hip, we endured several (3) completely useless appointments at UVM before we set sail for Dartmouth, where crisp professionalism is everywhere. It was like night and day.
Jay Williams is wearing a suit that intentionally exposes his bare ankles on NBA Countdown. They're in between capris and pants. Papris...is that a thing? I think I'd get made fun of if I posted about this in the main board NBA Playoffs thread.
In suit form? These weren't quite like capris/manpris. More like the below...not a fan in formal wear.
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Crossed off state #47 (Arkansas) today. Onward to #48 (Oklahoma) in the morning.
Wisconsin, North Dakota and Hawaii