Well, got the medical stuff in hand, as much as that's possible, lol! Now need to wait till tomorrow for outcomes. Only had to wait two hours, off line, for the GI nurse to call back. But the GOOD news there is, in setting up the info for a fast transfer, discovered that they have an 800 number! Since I use a pre-paid phone card for long distance (which being next state over, they are), and 800 number is a God-send.
Just got the stairs swept and shiny clean in prep for doing more preservative work. Today's being blessedly *gorgeous*!!!
Another third of a can of preservative used on the stairs. Now working the porch edges. I figure I can do the internal (not rained on) parts more at my leisure. . . . Don't know why I'm always putting on this year's coating so late in the season. Well, this year I do, lol! But it's really not that different from usual. Maybe I don't really think we'll get winter until it begins to actually show up? Thinking about putting a "painted rug" in the middle. But that wouldn't be till spring.
I never really liked the terminology "Old Farts" but this makes me feel better about it. And if you ain't one, I bet ya you know one! I got this from an "Old Fart" friend of mine! cid:1.242376535@web121620.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
OLD FART PRIDE I'm passing this on as I did not want to be the only old fart receiving it. Actually, it's not a bad thing to be called, as you will see.
Old Farts are easy to spot at sporting events; during the playing of the National Anthem. Old Farts remove their caps and stand at attention and sing without embarrassment. They know the words and believe in them. Old Farts remember World War II, Pearl Harbour , Guadalcanal , Normandy and Hitler. They remember the Atomic Age, the Korean War, The Cold War, the Jet Age and the Moon Landing. They remember the 50 plus Peacekeeping Missions from 1945 to 2005, not to mention Vietnam . If you bump into an Old Fart on the sidewalk he will apologize. If you pass an Old Fart on the street, he will nod or tip his cap to a lady. Old Farts trust strangers and are courtly to women. Old Farts hold the door for the next person and always, when walking, make certain the lady is on the inside for protection. Old Farts get embarrassed if someone curses in front of women and children and they don't like any filth or dirty language on TV or in movies. Old Farts have moral courage and personal integrity. They seldom brag unless it's about their children or grandchildren. It's the Old Farts who know our great country is protected, not by politicians, but by the young men and women in the military serving their country.
This country needs Old Farts with their work ethic, sense of responsibility, pride in their country and decent values.
We need them now more than ever.
Thank God for Old Farts!
Pass this on to all the "Old Farts" you know.
I was taught to respect my elders. It's just getting harder to find them.
Cat ~~ While I'm thinking of it: It's time to start reminding your mundanes what a great city Chicago is to visit. Millenium Park. Buckingham Fountain. Willis (formerly Sears) Tower. The Art Institute. The Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago-style hot dogs. Deep-dish pizza. The most beautiful skyline in the country. And all for only $145/night at one of the nicer hotels in the Loop.
If they travel at all, they should be in Chicago this coming Labor Day.
Bill, I keep forgetting to tell you, I read The Door Through Space by MZB. Enjoyed it very much. A good, solid story with a believable and sympathetic first person narrator and good evocation of an alien world. She certainly was versatile,wasn't she? I was telling listener, more recently I've been reading her Shadowsgate series. Waiting for the fourth and final volume from the library. These novels in which psy powers, magic and mundane world romance blend. Good light reading. They engage without being overly demanding.
Just so nobody misses it, Alan left a great post on yesterday's thread *this morning* because it wouldn't post here. Here 'tis':
[This user is an administrator] Alan in CA For some reason the comments on the new thread don't want to open for me this morning (Monday), so I will post here.
My new wireless router cum hard drive (Apple Time Capsule) does in fact seem to have a greater range, and serves to automatically back up my laptop. All good.
Recovering from the weekend at the hospital; had to lay down and get some quality sleep after work and before driving home yesterday.
Cat--thanks for the tip on the MZB 4-book series; sounds interesting. I'm close to finished with the Darkover series now and figure I ought to give someone else a chance, though! My current break from Darkover is "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" by Gaston Leroux (1907), said to be the first and still one of the best locked room mysteries. I'm more than halfway through, and it seems every bit as complicated as Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone." Both are of course dated, but ripping good yarns that keep one guessing. I started reading an Agatha Christie story, "The Incident at Styles," but quickly found it uninteresting. Maybe it would have turned out well, but as far as I got it was too much of a slog and seemed terribly imitative. Maybe it was a very earlsy one, since it is out of copyright and available for free, unlike her other stories. "The Lady Vanishes" worked well as a movie, certainly.
You are amazing. I suppose it comes from simply having to rely on yourself for most everything. I know I make more of an effort when it's up to just me than when I'm sharing the honour with someone else.
Once she hit her stride with the Darkover books she pretty much stuck with that until she started on the Avalon books. But she had done a number of things earlier in here career. The Darkover books are pretty much all I've read, although I do have one of her earliest books as part of an Ace double. That one I wasn't impressed with, Which was part of the reason I never went back and checked out her other early works.
Alan ~~ I suspect The Mysterious Affair at Styles was imitated rather than imitative. There were several potboilers among her voluminous output, but I believe that is considered among her better but not very best books.
Still a bit of a rough time around these parts, but the talk of winter reminds me of one victory I did have recently. Talked D into letting Brady live indoors. He always sleeps inside at night, but out of deference to Son's dog aversion, the dogs tended to spend most of the day outdoors. Even though he's a collie, the lack of body fat makes Brady get cold pretty quickly when lying on his side in the back yard. Neighbor recently mentioned that he'd often see Brady lying in the yard on the side nearest to his house, and would watch to see if he was breathing.
That clinched it for me. I don't know how much time Brady has left, but he deserves to spend as much of it as possible indoors!
Alan, I'll have to check with Sis, but think The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the first Hucule Poirot novel. It's not one of my favorite Christies, though I must say Poirot has grown on me through the years. Christie had a long career in which she wrote pot boilers, supernatural tales, spy thrillers and stories that are best described as puzzles as well as murder mysteries.One murder mystery that you might like is Ordeal By Innocence. Another of my favorites is The Clocks. A thriller I'd recommend is Destination Unknown. They Came To Baghdad is also enjoyable, as is Spider's Web. Though I like Poirot and Miss Marple, they both are sort of acquired tastes. So, maybe you should start with any of these.
Oh, but you know what you might like? The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace. It's right up your alley since you're a forensic toxicologist. As the title suggests, the novel consists of letters and other documents. I found most of it a bit of a slog till the last few chapters, but believe me, the deneument is spectacular.
Howard's always first, even on a Monday morning.
ReplyDeletePretty sunny warm day going on out there. Already 65º heading toward 70º. And then two days of solid heavy rain, maybe as much as two inches!
ReplyDeleteWork to do, miles to go. Have a good 'un all!
Well, got the medical stuff in hand, as much as that's possible, lol! Now need to wait till tomorrow for outcomes. Only had to wait two hours, off line, for the GI nurse to call back. But the GOOD news there is, in setting up the info for a fast transfer, discovered that they have an 800 number! Since I use a pre-paid phone card for long distance (which being next state over, they are), and 800 number is a God-send.
ReplyDeleteJust got the stairs swept and shiny clean in prep for doing more preservative work. Today's being blessedly *gorgeous*!!!
Sooo good to hear of you getting an 800 number to use!
ReplyDeleteAnd a gorgeous day into the bargain! Whoo! Sure do love the good days.
It's warm here, though overcast. Cold and rain coming later this week.
But today we have today.
Another third of a can of preservative used on the stairs. Now working the porch edges. I figure I can do the internal (not rained on) parts more at my leisure. . . . Don't know why I'm always putting on this year's coating so late in the season. Well, this year I do, lol! But it's really not that different from usual. Maybe I don't really think we'll get winter until it begins to actually show up? Thinking about putting a "painted rug" in the middle. But that wouldn't be till spring.
ReplyDeleteThis is both funny and true.
ReplyDeleteI never really liked the terminology "Old Farts" but this makes me feel better about it.
And if you ain't one, I bet ya you know one!
I got this from an "Old Fart" friend of mine!
cid:1.242376535@web121620.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
OLD FART PRIDE
I'm passing this on as I did not want to be the only old fart receiving it. Actually, it's not a bad thing to be called, as you will see.
Old Farts are easy to spot at sporting events; during the playing of the National Anthem. Old Farts remove their caps and stand at attention and sing without embarrassment. They know the words and believe in them.
Old Farts remember World War II, Pearl Harbour , Guadalcanal , Normandy and Hitler. They remember the Atomic Age, the Korean War, The Cold War, the Jet Age and the Moon Landing. They remember the 50 plus Peacekeeping Missions from 1945 to 2005, not to mention Vietnam .
If you bump into an Old Fart on the sidewalk he will apologize. If you pass an Old Fart on the street, he will nod or tip his cap to a lady. Old Farts trust strangers and are courtly to women.
Old Farts hold the door for the next person and always, when walking, make certain the lady is on the inside for protection.
Old Farts get embarrassed if someone curses in front of women and children and they don't like any filth or dirty language on TV or in movies.
Old Farts have moral courage and personal integrity. They seldom brag unless it's about their children or grandchildren.
It's the Old Farts who know our great country is protected, not by politicians, but by the young men and women in the military serving their country.
This country needs Old Farts with their work ethic, sense of responsibility, pride in their country and decent values.
We need them now more than ever.
Thank God for Old Farts!
Pass this on to all the "Old Farts" you know.
I was taught to respect my elders. It's just getting harder to find them.
"Maybe I don't really think we'll get winter until it begins to actually show
ReplyDeleteThat's probably it. And it's pretty much the way I operate too.
Cat ~~ While I'm thinking of it: It's time to start reminding your mundanes what a great city Chicago is to visit. Millenium Park. Buckingham Fountain. Willis (formerly Sears) Tower. The Art Institute. The Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago-style hot dogs. Deep-dish pizza. The most beautiful skyline in the country. And all for only $145/night at one of the nicer hotels in the Loop.
ReplyDeleteIf they travel at all, they should be in Chicago this coming Labor Day.
I thought they were my muggles. *grin* Sadly, my chances are about zero of persuading them.
ReplyDeleteBill, I keep forgetting to tell you, I read The Door Through Space by MZB. Enjoyed it very much. A good, solid story with a believable and sympathetic first person narrator and good evocation of an alien world. She certainly was versatile,wasn't she? I was telling listener, more recently I've been reading her Shadowsgate series. Waiting for the fourth and final volume from the library. These novels in which psy powers, magic and mundane world romance blend. Good light reading. They engage without being overly demanding.
ReplyDeleteJust so nobody misses it, Alan left a great post on yesterday's thread *this morning* because it wouldn't post here. Here 'tis':
ReplyDelete[This user is an administrator] Alan in CA
For some reason the comments on the new thread don't want to open for me this morning (Monday), so I will post here.
My new wireless router cum hard drive (Apple Time Capsule) does in fact seem to have a greater range, and serves to automatically back up my laptop. All good.
Recovering from the weekend at the hospital; had to lay down and get some quality sleep after work and before driving home yesterday.
Cat--thanks for the tip on the MZB 4-book series; sounds interesting. I'm close to finished with the Darkover series now and figure I ought to give someone else a chance, though! My current break from Darkover is "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" by Gaston Leroux (1907), said to be the first and still one of the best locked room mysteries. I'm more than halfway through, and it seems every bit as complicated as Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone." Both are of course dated, but ripping good yarns that keep one guessing. I started reading an Agatha Christie story, "The Incident at Styles," but quickly found it uninteresting. Maybe it would have turned out well, but as far as I got it was too much of a slog and seemed terribly imitative. Maybe it was a very earlsy one, since it is out of copyright and available for free, unlike her other stories. "The Lady Vanishes" worked well as a movie, certainly.
Off to salt mine No. 1; TTFN
Today, 11:00:37 AM
Alan, I learn so much here from you and Cat that comes in handy when I'm at the Library! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing. I suppose it comes from simply having to rely on yourself for most everything. I know I make more of an effort when it's up to just me than when I'm sharing the honour with someone else.
ReplyDeleteWhat? They never leave Springfield for vacation?
ReplyDeleteOnce she hit her stride with the Darkover books she pretty much stuck with that until she started on the Avalon books. But she had done a number of things earlier in here career. The Darkover books are pretty much all I've read, although I do have one of her earliest books as part of an Ace double. That one I wasn't impressed with, Which was part of the reason I never went back and checked out her other early works.
ReplyDeleteAlan ~~ I suspect The Mysterious Affair at Styles was imitated rather than imitative. There were several potboilers among her voluminous output, but I believe that is considered among her better but not very best books.
ReplyDeleteStill a bit of a rough time around these parts, but the talk of winter reminds me of one victory I did have recently. Talked D into letting Brady live indoors. He always sleeps inside at night, but out of deference to Son's dog aversion, the dogs tended to spend most of the day outdoors. Even though he's a collie, the lack of body fat makes Brady get cold pretty quickly when lying on his side in the back yard. Neighbor recently mentioned that he'd often see Brady lying in the yard on the side nearest to his house, and would watch to see if he was breathing.
ReplyDeleteThat clinched it for me. I don't know how much time Brady has left, but he deserves to spend as much of it as possible indoors!
Sometimes small victories are the most important ones. Congratulations, Renee.
ReplyDeletePuddle, thanks for re-posting this.
ReplyDeleteAlan, I'll have to check with Sis, but think The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the first Hucule Poirot novel. It's not one of my favorite Christies, though I must say Poirot has grown on me through the years. Christie had a long career in which she wrote pot boilers, supernatural tales, spy thrillers and stories that are best described as puzzles as well as murder mysteries.One murder mystery that you might like is Ordeal By Innocence. Another of my favorites is The Clocks. A thriller I'd recommend is Destination Unknown. They Came To Baghdad is also enjoyable, as is Spider's Web. Though I like Poirot and Miss Marple, they both are sort of acquired tastes. So, maybe you should start with any of these.
Oh, but you know what you might like? The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace. It's right up your alley since you're a forensic toxicologist. As the title suggests, the novel consists of letters and other documents. I found most of it a bit of a slog till the last few chapters, but believe me, the deneument is spectacular.
~*~♥~*~
ReplyDelete*wOOf!*
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