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Wednesday Meese. 62 here in Kingston, no rain today – yay. Going up to 82.
Blackouts in Puerto Rico continue.
Good morning. Another day for indoor exercise. Watching Le Tour, hoping the American boy wins back the mountains jersey today. Had a really productive day yesterday.
It’s 83 heading for 100 and who knows with the heat index. Sunny at the moment. Yesterday we generated 19 KWHs and the m-t-d is 289 – not on track but gained a little.
I’ve got errands to run today – if the stores I need to go to were open I’d be doing them right now. I don’t have A/C in the car (or rather it doesn’t work) so the sooner I’m out and back again the better. I know that I’ll be the only one masked just about every place I go. I’ve got to get these glasses adjusted and that means diddly “personal space” so I’m taking an extra mask along to give the guy if he doesn’t have one. And he probably won’t.
I’d best get started on my online chores. Get as much done as I can before I can leave. Everyone is doing about the same. Or was as of last night. Not necessarily good, but no worse. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
And the A/C just kicked on. sigh.
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 86 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 108. Sunny skies are in the forecast. Yesterday afternoon there where rain clouds over the mountains but they never made it here. Blistering hot for another 3 days at least but I am pretty sure that they will extend the Excessive Heat Warning again. I suspect it is difficult to forecast when exactly unexpected weather events will end.
Finally some indictments in the fake elector schemes at the state level (Michigan just charged 16). It is time for January 6th “white collar” criming to be punished. It is likely that tRump will be indicted at the end of the week for January 6th actions and that trial will not be managed by the Florida MAGA judge who doesn’t mind being a laughingstock as long as she pleases her patrons. It is too bad that impeaching a federal judge requires 2/3 majority in the Senate – it would be nice to clean out the worst of the worst MAGA judges who have no interest in the rule of law. Republicans would never vote against one of their own. Mike Pence is crying that the American People and not the Justice Department should decide tRump’s fate – he apparently forgot about the 2020 election! We did decide – we voted to restore the rule of law and part of that is holding his old boss accountable for his crimes, including fraud against the American People by refusing to peacefully transfer power after his loss.
I am working on some accounting this morning that I should get finished by the 20th. That’s tomorrow! I won’t be taking my morning walk outside, it is already too hot, so I will head over to the fitness center this afternoon after I run some errands. I need to pick up a Powerball ticket; the jackpot for tonight’s drawing is over a billion dollars and I could use the money. :) The first thing I would buy is a vacation home in San Diego where the summer temperatures are in the mid 80s with overnight lows in the 60s. I would not want to live there year round but I would not mind getting out of town during the hot season here.
See all y’all later!
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! We woke up to 74 F. and lovely rain this morning. It’s gone now, of course, but it was nice while it lasted.
Great Mother, yesterday was a hard day! Went to the barbershop to get my hair done, popped into the supermarket to get a few things, came back for lunch, went out at 2 p.m. with Dearly to get the free ice cream being given away on Great Oak Common, then went to get a quick mani. Ran home, changed, then went to the UU dinner at 5, and left there a little after 7 to get to the Great Oak Clubhouse classroom, where we had a read-through of the play I wrote.
One man, who plays the “bad boy” of the piece, appears to be nearly blind. He was hopeless at reading his part, even though the font had been enlarged. Hope he studies it and his cues before the play happens.
I’m playing Sheila, a member of the Raging Grannies. I have to make a sign to use as a prop—perhaps buy a stick from Lowe’s and some posterboard from somewhere. I’m not good at lettering, but I’ll manage something.
Should I put, “Change babies, not the climate” on one side, then “Ban guns, not books” on the other?
Anyway, my relatives were so thrilled that my piece appeared in John Kelly’s column in yesterday’s WaPo that I prowled the halls this morning before anyone was up, and snagged a few extra copies of yesterday’s Metro section from people’s recycling bags.
Unfortunately, the more you write, the more ideas you get. My head is filled with angry dialogue from the next play I want to write. This play will have three women characters and either one man or no men. Rant, rant, rant. It appears that the director dislikes plays that are only 10 minutes long, so this one will have to be 15 minutes.
That’s enough from me this morning. Can’t bear to say anything about Polly Ticks—it’s All Orange, All the Damn Time. Anotherdemocrat, can’t you get former Congressman Paul Ryan to come down to Texas and push Abbott into the Rio Grande? WHAT a louse Abbott is!
Wishing a good, QUIET day to all at the Pond.
Thursday Meese. Another day without rain (yay) here in Kingston. 62 going up to 85.
My favorite frosh Rep is Jasmine Crockett from TX – don’t know how many of you are following her.
Republicans hate when people expose their lies – they think that everyone is a gullible Faux News viewer, unable to discern truth from utter bulldung. Rep. Crockett is knowledgeable about the process, too bad she is surrounded by fools.
Puerto Rico
Good for the lawyer!
Question: As Puerto Rico is part of the United States, how can people hope to evade paying taxes by moving there? It doesn’t make sense.
There were special laws passed to attract mainland folks – who can then avoid paying Federal income tax
Good morning. Did my walk, it’s disgustingly hot — 81 degrees already. Watching Le Tour. The American boy who had the mountains jersey has fallen off several places. I still have hope for him. The one from Texas has had several good days, and been interviewed by NBC Sports a couple of times. Anyway, getting ready for an in-office day.
Dearly used to be able to watch Le Tour in years past, but now he would have to pay. Bummer. He hates spending money.
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Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 84 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 109. Sunny skies are in the forecast. As expected, the NWS added another day of Excessive Heat Warning and the next predicted break in the heat will be Sunday. I am not holding my breath. Last night storm clouds formed over the mountains but did not result in any rain here.
Skipping reading the news today; I need to get my walk in before it heats up. Yesterday I was in the middle of a project during the walking “sweet spot” and then I was too tired in the afternoon to do an afternoon walk on the treadmill. Today I have the last of what was a flurry of appointments and I should be done with dentists and doctors for another year.
See all y’all later!
It’s 80 and the heat index is 86 – no, I didn’t open the house last night or this morning – heading for “only” 95, heat index 103, and overcast. Yesterday we generated 17.7 KWHs and the m-t-d at 306.7 gained a smidge.
I do not like days when I have to run the A/C but I don’t get enough sunshine to run it on. It’s supposed to cool off overnight – down to 70 and I can open up with that. Whether last thing before lights out or whenever I get up to go to the bathroom during the night will depend on how soon it cools down. LOL.
I couldn’t do half my errands yesterday because the stores weren’t open yet. Even though online info said they should be. Although Good Thoughts and prayers up for the vacuum cleaner store guy (I called the store to check for new hours) – he’s a sole proprietor so if he’s not there the store isn’t open and his mom’s in ICU (stroke & brain bleed) and may not make it. I told him not to worry about being there for me & I’d get back with him next month. I did get my glasses adjusted, thankfully, but by an anti-vaxxer, anti-masker who condescended to wear one (a surgical mask) at my request while waiting on me. Telling me the whole time about how if people just exercised and ate right their immune systems would be strengthened & not hurt by catching COVID, which he’d proudly done 3 times. Sigh.
My sister was supposed to call yesterday evening and give me an update on the family, especially how her son was doing. She didn’t. He was supposed to come home from hospital after his latest/last (?) chemo. That would worry me if I didn’t know my family so well. She’d have called if there was something wrong/scary going on. When everything’s OK, she “gets busy and forgets”.
I’ve gotten in one 10-minute walking session today but I’m not sure about the other 2. Even walking slowly is raising my core temp. Which is great – when the air temps are under 80. Meanwhile I’ve got online boosting chores to do so I’d best get to them. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
OMG, I cannot believe these antivaxxers. My late sister was one, apparently. Crazed, that’s what they are, crazed.
Sorry about your lack of sunlight and consequent restraint with the a.c.
Good luck with the walking! I’m hoping to get on the treadmill after the meeting.
{{{Diana}}} Yeah, my brother and my youngest sister. sigh.
I don’t reduce my A/C – my computer barely tolerates the 80 degrees I set the thermostat anyway (that’s where I like it). I just wish I was generating more electricity. I’d hate to have to give more money to SWEPCO after all the free electricity I’m giving them. They average out over the month what I use and what I generate. As long as I generate in a month more than I use from them in a month I don’t have a bill – but they don’t either, they get to keep it.
I managed my 2nd 10-minute session. We’ll see about the 3rd.
Good Thursday morning, Meese! It’s 76 F. here in Ashburn, a lovely, fair morning but with a Code Yellow. We’re now 8 inches under par for rainfall for the year to date. “They” say we’ll have thunderstorms late tonight and into the morning, but “they” usually lie. Most thunderstorms bypass Ashburn. It may be that the said thunderstorms are as embarrassed by Loudoun County antics as we are: two Democrats have been up to a lot of shenanigans, involving trips to URUGUAY, of all places. These are the Chair of the County Board and an administrator, Julie Briskman (she who flipped the bird to Orange’s line of SUVs when he was on his way to his golf course here).
Today I have a 3 o’clock meeting with the Publications Committee, at which time I’ll pitch the stories I want to write for the next issue: Banned Books Week in October, the Raging Grannies, the Knitting Club, and residents who don’t restrain visiting granddogs. My neighbor suffered injuries and had to go to the ER after the two Labradors knocked her and her small rescue dog flat on the pavement.
I also have to find a Lammas ritual for two somehow, somewhere. My friend wants to have it in a park or at my place. On top of all that I want to get cracking on the short story for the contest! This year’s theme is “A Voyage Through Time.” The deadline is August 31.
Yesterday the dialogue (mostly shouting) for my next play kept running around my brain, so I had to stop and write it down before it disappeared down the Well of Creativity. I’ve found if you don’t get these things down immediately, they vanish.
That’s enough from me this morning. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Good morning, 69 and sunny outside my window today. Another busy day ahead and I’m weary but our visit with Erica and her family is going well so it’s “good weary.” We will have lunch at the bookstore today, then make plans for dinner. In between I have a lab appointment and go to the dentist to get the stitches removed, yay!
Friday Meese. 68 going up to 79 with thunderstorms. Sigh. Have to wait (again) to get my yard/lawn mowed.
Puerto Rico
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 88 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 109. Mainly sunny skies with a slight chance for rain in the late morning and early evening. If the temperature drops to 84 before sunrise, as my weather widget is predicting, I will try to get my walk in.
The news is ghastly. I am not certain how people can vote for Republicans and be proud of what they are doing in the House of Representatives – are 50% of Americans complete garbage people and are fine with that? I really don’t want to know the answer to that.
Yesterday was a bit of a lost day and my brain woke me up telling me to get things done before the sun came up. So I need to get back to it.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Got my walk done, watching Le Tour. One of the commentators said that it isn’t impossible for the American kid to get the mountains jersey back, and the one from Texas is doing well. Eight more hours of work. I can do this.
It’s 75, going to drop down to 70 then go back up to 77 once the rain passes through. I hope the rain will take the clouds when it does pass through but I doubt it. It’s dark enough to need the lights on. But the PV system is on, too. Just a trickle but it’s on. (It’ll probably go off for a while as it gets darker though.) Yesterday we generated 12 KWHs and the m-t-d at 318.8 lost ground. And will lose more today. But at least the A/C won’t be on.
My sister did call yesterday. A couple of times actually. Grant’s just finished his 5th chemo and the doctor still isn’t satisfied. He says there’s a hormone that men just don’t make except when they have cancer and it’s still showing up, just a trace put showing up, in Grant’s body. My sister has talked Grant into getting a 2nd opinion from an actual cancer research hospital. That’ll happen in 2 weeks. Because it’s entirely possible that men do make traces of that hormone as a normal thing and it’s just our binary-insisting “medical science” that says otherwise. And Grant’s already “abnormal” in having gotten testicular cancer at 37.
I just made chocolate pudding and would bake something if I weren’t stocked up on baking for several more days. GF quick breads don’t freeze all that well so I try not to bake more at a time than I can eat before it spoils.
Off to do my boosting chores. Hoping my fingers will work right so I can do them. LOL. If I should ever come into a very large sum of money, there would be one day – only one day but one day – when the needs of everyone on my list for that day would be completely met. And a few other folks as well. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Friday morning, Moosekind! Well, wonder of wonders, we did get some low rumbles of thunder, lots of lightning, and heavy rain last night, according to Dearly Beloved. I of course heard nothing, being deaf as a post, and saw nothing, as I went to sleep at 10:30 p.m. Today it’s 76 F., gusty winds will start in an hour, and we will have low humidity. This morning the raindrops on the windowpanes vanished so we now have a clear blue sky and sunlight.
Went to the Resident Publications meeting yesterday, at which they shot down 3 of my 4 ideas for stories and even deferred the Knitted Knockers story until the Winter Issue. They said the Raging Grannies were too controversial, Banned Books Week is happening after the Fall issue comes out, and the dogs knocking people down is a nonstory. They also rejected the 85% dark chocolate I provided. I had to fob it off after the meeting on a delightful young man whose face lit up when I offered it to him. I never eat the stuff, of course. They seemed to like the Lindt dark chocolate truffles, however.
Feeling pretteh crappeh for the last two days. The awful food here has caused stomach pains. I’ve taken Pepto Bismol and will eat little or nothing today. Only mint tea makes me feel better. Won’t hurt my piggy self to lay off food for a while.
What else…a Zoom call with sister-in-law in Australia tonight, a pedicure at 11 this morning, and a visit to Harris Teeter this afternoon. Gave Dearly a soft-boiled egg and soldiers for breakfast but could not manage anything but a fruit smoothie myself.
I’m going to write that short story if it kills me! Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Oh. My. God. I got a reply from John Scalzi!!! One of my favorite authors.
Saturday Meese. No rain today – hoping to get my lawn mowed. 60 going up to 84.
Puerto Rico