I just completed my registration for the Muskoka Novel Marathon. Hopefully, this year will be more productive than the last two (although last year wasn’t terrible). Now I just have to decide if I’m going to start something new or work on one of my many WIPs…
Eish! Sounds horrible!
Strongs! May your mother recover fully!
We just got through a pretty bad ice storm. Yeah, welcome to spring in Canada.
I was on the bus home yesterday and it was diverted because they were repairing a downed power line. An older lady with a cane started to lose her mind. We had to go about 6 blocks perpendicular, then another 10 blocks or so in the right direction, then come back the original 6 blocks to get back on course. It’s the only way. It turns out that the repairs were being done right in front of her apartment building and no matter where the driver let her out would be a long hike for her.
Where the bus was going, it would put me about half a block from my house. I convinced her to get off with me so I could get my car and drive her home. It took 30 minutes out of my day and saved someone a huge pile of grief.
The bus driver was trying to ignore her because he was frustrated with the traffic.
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Holy crap, @Woodman. I hope your mom is OK after all that.
Yeah, we were stuck in the house all weekend, and I ended up working from home on Monday (thank goodness I have that option). Because Mr. TM was off yesterday, the second car didn’t get cleared of ice, so I spent 15 minutes this morning trying to chip it all off. Yup, welcome to spring in Canada. Snow flurries expected this evening.
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Good on ya, and I hope you land in a better place.
Also, somebody’s got to say it – don’t forget to wave your hat.
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Were going to inpatient rehab today. She’s back into afib. And her dad is in the ER with heart failure.
I’m exhausted, I have no idea how my wife did this for two weeks with me. Otoh, I wasn’t forgetting instructions and arguing with me about whether or not she won a prize for being the best patient last night.
There appears to have been some serious consequences to a two glass of wine baseline for the last several years. She has been seeing bugs on the walls and mumbling about spitting acid to fix her leg.
Praying for you. Strongs!
Asked a cement company if they can dump their dry and leftover concrete at our place so that we can fill the excavation up quicker. They are willing to assist, and we get it done at a cheaper price too.
Basically our freeholding is clay soil, and you’ll need to have a floating foundation for a house. We already excavated part where we want to build, now we are filling this up with building rubble.
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One of my favorite books is John Steakley’s ‘Armor’. It’s your typical ‘power armor space fighting’ book but I love it. I found the audio book on Audible this morning on a whim. And me having just finished Andy Weir’s ‘Artemis’…
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That seems like a win-win for everyone, Ook.
@Darktan: I remember Armor developing a definite cynical streak mid-way through. Seemed like a good ‘response’ to Starship Troopers as I remember. Not a “You’re horrible” but more “You’re being overly simplistic” if that makes sense.
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I repaired a jaw fracture on a 4.5# doggie today!! My boss happened to be in town doing a couple of knee surgeries and this dog just happened to come in at the right time. Super duper excited, and I think I can do it on my own next time. It was great for me! Maybe not so much for the doggie but he’s all fixed now!!
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Also, separately, because it deserves its own post…
Holy crap, @Woodman, that’s awful. Sorry, man; I hope she gets back to some semblance of healed and normal as quickly as possible.
Happy days. Got second iteration of owncloud (virtualbox app) to work.
First iteration was a shambles, and did not work well.
Of course, said owncloud appliance is in a proper DMZ.
I had the heebie-jeebies whilst we were using a Western Digital MyCloud device on our LAN - and it “disappeared” most mysteriously, prompting the need for a proper cloud service, managed by ourselves.
PROTIP - Remember to change the “owncloud” password from its default of owncloud to something stronger, otherwise you’ll have a pwncloud…
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The abandoned house across the street is finally on the market after 3 1/2 years!
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Mother is getting released from hip therapy Friday. Yay!
They couldn’t get the heart thing worked out so when they release her they are scheduling heart work… boo!
I’ll say “Like” to the release, but not click the “like” because of the heart work. Sending good thoughts your way!
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No bots on hangouts for today. Going to be a good day today. 
My mom didn’t come home yesterday because she’s got pneumonia. But I did mow her lawn and run out of gas three feet after the last patch was mowed.
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Found a discussion in one of the Not Always Right stories about how there should be a “Not Always Humble” category that went like this:
User 1:
Makes a change to all the “Look how witty I am!” posts we’ve been getting lately. Here’s a “Look how much of a jerk I am” post instead!User 2:
I’m still holding out for “Not Always Humble”, the sub-site of NAx which features stories where people send in examples of how clever they think they’ve been.User 1:
Please no… the amount of self-satisfaction it would generate could reach critical limits! Don’t you know that a dose of 10 milliClarksons causes nausea, and 5 microTrumps can be fatal?User 2:
I don’t believe you. Reading this site exposes you to at least three megaKardashians an hour.User 1:
Fortunately I’m immune to that level of dosage as I had a vaccination about ten years ago. It wasn’t pleasant; it involved watching the entirety of Disaster Movie at the cinema.Mind you, it might be wearing off, as I found Matt Lanter palatable on Timeless. I am not looking forward to getting a booster shot…
I’m easily amused tonight.
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