In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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You're never too old for that stuff, Brenda. My brother's still a big kid and the whole basement has just of many of his toys as my nieces'. I've had to find room for some of the overflow from time to time.
Don't sweat the drek. It's childish and unfortunate, but it will be gone soon enough. It's already got far more airplay here than it should have.
EDIT: Hey. Look at that. It's gone. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're never too old for that stuff, Brenda. My brother's still a big kid and the whole basement has just of many of his toys as my nieces'. I've had to find room for some of the overflow from time to time.
Don't sweat the drek. It's childish and unfortunate, but it will be gone soon enough. It's already got far more airplay here than it should have.
EDIT: Hey. Look at that. It's gone. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I know. Was just poking a little fun at myself.
I am just trying to find a spot for the God of Thunder. My friend over the last couple of years has bought me a Jayne figure, Dr. McCoy from the reboot series of movies and Dr. McCoy talking bobblehead from the original series. I even bought myself a treat today. Got a House Stark coffee cup.
Ding dong the dreck is gone. Yay!!!!!
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Geebers it's cold. :(
Strange to see that it's going to keep getting colder until 9AM and it won't be warmer than it is this second until 10AM on Thursday.
Hope it's warmer where everyone else is, and if it isn't, try not to go outside the next few days unless it's absolutely necessary.
Stay safe! :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Cold weather got to my hometown, where sis still lives. Over 400 closures (schools, offices, airports ... you know the drill) and blizzard-like conditions.
Here, we anticipate getting rain Thursday thru Monday. Unlike previous storms, when the rain bands would tend to evaporate the further south they got (as they plowed into the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge and RRR Redux) the storms seem to be getting stronger and stronger. Almost three inches of rain is expected over the next five days.
I like this website 
which shows where we are, rainfall-wise. I guess my layman's long-term prediction might come true after all. 
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Bureaucracy: It's not just for government. Business manages to be just as Kafka-esque. Health insurance particularly. When I retired, my insurance transition went without a hitch: since I retired a couple years early (due to health) I COBRA'd my plan and all was well. But that left me six months shy of Medicare, so hubby continued to work so that he could COBRA HIS plan for my last six months.
Well. Hubby retired, and I've had the most ridiculous time getting all the insurances to work. The first was getting Medigap for Dear Daughter. The people at the KY office were young and stupid, and sounded like a bunch of diversity hires. After having filled out an application for her, I ran into a solid two-month delay, and NOBODY could tell me why! I finally found out that they wanted to do medical underwriting, which was stupid because she was covered by creditable insurance, so I wound up reaching out to our state insurance commissioner. But in the meantime, I called their midwest office and spoke to someone who knew what was going on. Oh! she said The person who filled out this application forget to check the box that she's been covered by insurance!
Seriously??? A checkbox? Don't these people do training in their sales office??? I sure hope the company isn't paying them a commission!
And then there was hubby's COBRA. The insurance premiums are processed by an intermediary company. So I filled out the application, and - anxious to get those payments started because all of the COBRA administrators make such a big deal about YOU MUST GET THOSE PAYMENTS IN WITH OR WITHOUT A COUPON OR YOU WILL BE DROPPED FROM COBRA! - I sent in the first check ahead of time with the account number in the memo. Well, they cashed the check but didn't credit it to the account! So there I am, patting my back for being on top of things and thinking everything is going great, I've already written my second check and mailed it in (ahead of time) when I get a notice - on Dec 18th - that I was dropped on Dec 14th as a result of non-payment. It has taken me until NOW, Jan 6, to get that error straightened out and insurance restored (for now). The scary part is they could have been complete dicks and just booted me off with no recourse.
But I discovered ANOTHER error when I was calling the insurance company itself to see if the payment processor had sent in an "urgent update" on my insurance status as they had promised: It seems that when the insurance rep said I could continue to use the old insurance card, she was WRONG. So even if the payment issue had never come up, the authorizations would have bonked anyway because the old numbers were inactivated. They're sending new cards.
All of this would be academic if I wasn't looking at additional sinus surgery in the near future for this chronic sinus infection that I've been dealing with for ... years, apparently. (Which was part of the health issue that caused me to retire in the first place: couldn't sleep bc I couldn't breathe, and didn't know it and neither did anyone else.)
BRENDA, be grateful for your healthcare system! (oh, and push your doctor to do more for you, or get a second opinion. It's not like they can kick you off the rolls!)
MEDICARE FOR ALL CITIZENS! After h
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Negative 18 degrees right now.
Only 32 more hours until we get back to positive temperatures.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SIG, I am GRATEFUL for my healthcare and all it has done for me over the years and what it did for my mom, brother and my dad.
Wasn't for our system up here, I wouldn't be here talking to you. My mom wouldn't have survived her first run in with cancer. My parents couldn't have afforded all the medical bills when my brother was a baby from his asthma attacks which led them to the hospital multiple times.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Negative 18 degrees right now.
Only 32 more hours until we get back to positive temperatures.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Cold and clear out here right now. Not sure if we are expecting any more rain. Would have to check the weather site I use.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Negative 18 degrees right now.
Only 32 more hours until we get back to positive temperatures.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Holy fuck, that's cold!!
Jeez! Been thru a couple of bad blizzards, this sounds like one for the books!
Quote:That's what the headlines are saying!
Polar vortex by the numbers: 6 states in US record temperatures lower than South Pole
Hey SIX, if you want a good weather website try https://www.wunderground.com They fine-tune the forecast for your LOCAL (and I mean, to your zipcode) conditions, not just to the nearest airport weathers station, and their 10-day is very detailed.
But ... jimminy! I'm astonished!
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Er... I'm glad you're keeping your house warm. Nothing spells trouble like frozen pipes. I hope you have a goodly amount of antifreeze in your car radiator: same problem. Maybe some frost heave under your patio or in your yard. Fingers crossed that everything comes thru in good shape when the weather warms!!
There is one good thing about polar vortexes: They kill beetles that overwinter under tree bark and/or in the soil. Altho sometimes tree sap freezes too, and the trees themselves explode.
I wonder what's going on with JSF. He lives up in Minnesota or thereabouts, I believe. I would expect him to be posting about his weather experience.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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lol yeah. :) It is fucking cold.
-13 right now, according to your site. With a low of -21 tonight.
My old man said that it got this cold once in my life around these parts in the mid eighties, but I don't have any recollection of that. Must have been toasty warm inside.
I was supposed to have work the last few nights, but there was no way I was going in. I called them up this weekend and let them know. I live further than anybody else non-management does, and with the state of my car I wasn't putting my life at risk. I don't have a cellphone either, so yanno. Didn't feel like dying on the way to the gas station if she broke down on the expressway.
I put the hard hint in that I'd prefer not to end up with any absences over this since I've been there well over a year and never had one yet. I also offered to work two extra days to make it up after the fact rather than just use PTO. I guess I'll find out tomorrow that the decision was on that. Not even going to get mad if it doesn't go the way I prefer. I made that phone call knowing full well I wasn't going in even if that meant wrecking my perfect attendance.
Meanwhile.... It will be interesting to see what my bill is next month for the gas/electric. This should be the end of the brutally insane cold, but the 15 day outlook doesn't really look all that great for February so far after that.
I've still got the thermostat at 68 on the 2nd floor. Going to keep it there the whole year and see what happens.
The "gap" from 2nd floor to 1st floor looks to be just about as large as I thought it would during this cold snap. I'm looking at about 57 degrees now, and I thought it might drop to as low as 55. Still got 19 hours before we're back into the low positives and one more night dipping to negative 1, so that might actually happen.
It's a little reminder of how cold I used to be in my house all winter long when I'd have the thermostat set to anywhere between 58 and 63 degrees.
Never again! 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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