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What passes for conversation in our home. "There's a black bug, feet up, in the bathroom." "Is it sunbathing?" "No. I think its a viewing."

Rolled up to Sherwood Gardens today (44F 20 mph winds). Peak tulip eta is this weekend through the following weekend.

Dusting off my Matador cape and sword cause I need to go through the JFX/Beltway juncture about 3 times in two days during Rush Hour. Normally, it's zero times monthly.

Wicked short review 1. They fell in love with their scenery. 2. Choreo has a lot of feet slapping the floor. 3. They grind on their points until they are dead. Not a bad movie, but not great either.

It's tuesday. good times, bad times, I've had my share but this week is full of things that take forever

"Yeah, I gotta go be doritoed." would be the best part.

too many headsets!

This is excellent about why you can't find an in-network therapist when you need one. When you add Medicare's insanely low reimbursement rates for therapy, it's no wonder why lots of people have "coverage" but no access to treatment. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I got a youtube thing to watch the acceptance speech. But, instead it's a bunch of commercials and live people doing an intro for her, following by another doing the same. Is this what it always is? I haven't watched broadcast TV in almost 40 years.

I got my fourth "We lost your Data" notice from Health Care companies. This one was so expansive, "We don't know what they got so assume they know everything about you." Each one comes with two years of credit monitoring, but I've already run out of credit reporting companies.

Not about the written piece, this is about the photo. Doesn't he look like a particularly shrunken old man? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

2 trips to pickup 'scripts. One was $65 on my part D plan and 35 using a discount card. One was $ 320 Part D and $12 using a discount card instead. Last one was $30 copay for 30 pills. Checked it at Mark Cuban Cost Plus and it's $3.03 for 30 pills.

Review: crumblcookies.com in White Marsh, MD. Mixed feelings. The cookies are ok, not great and for $5 each, i want great. Mine was underbaked, icing undermixed, toppings from stingy hands. Employees are very nice. Maybe a visit from corporate trainers to teach the operators how to train.

Doing a Wolverine retrospective prior to the current movie. I'm on call too, so I hope the worlds don't collide.

Good God Almighty, www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqVN...

dh had me open the bread. he said I must have put the twist tie on in the "wrong direction." I pointed out that he could have turned the loaf around and then it would be in the right direction for him. He produced "The Look" and it made me happy.

I admit cooking snobbery. I'm pretty good sometimes but I expect more from "real chefs." Never been to a starred place, but I'd expect only sadness. I'd spend what's left of my life trying to match, but never measuring up. Secretly, wtf spiralized turnip with 3 garnishes and 2 sauces?

Huh. Watched somebody put pastry dough through pasta sheet rollers. That's brilliant.

Cool. Just saw a chef on Masterchef: The Professionals take longer peeling shrimp than I do. Quite chuffed.

Definitely don't eat Dying Mall Pizza.

Table - new life after replacing/adding hardware and reassembly. I would stand on it, except that it's legs end in small casters without locks and I don't like to ride. Next is installing table/leaf locks and the new extenders.

BankOfAm - their call director doesn't recognize person, representative, living, debit card, credit card, fraud, associate or that card transactions get denied. I asked for a human 5 times AND it got a bit p/a. "Your wait time would have been reduced if you told me what's wrong."

I often get this comment.

Anybody actually know shit about tomatoes? Mine usually die early, but not this year. I have some kind of mass market "heirloom." Bottom starts to rot before tomato is red? Wtf is that called -or - its probable cause?

Reminder that backup for home computers is also important. I started using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows three years ago. It's free. I've never had to touch it after the initial installation - it just works.

Just cause. I'm starting to go nutz from the heat. www.reddit.com/r/bizarrelif...

Been working on renewing a table, 5 leaves and 6 chairs. Mostly solid mahogany - 40s-50s modern. Bought for $250. So far, tools & supplies also about $250. Not counting time. There is some kind of comfort in bringing something back to life and structurally sound again.

Tools! Somehow, I always need something I don't have. I know a fair number of people and yet, none of them have ever needed the thing I do. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Finally, a road I have actually been on collapsed in a landslide (outside of Jackson, Wy). It joins being in a building that caved-in from a lighting strike AND unknowingly riding out a tornado in Indianapolis while the surrounding buildings were destroyed.

Jury Duty (without AC but only in the jury waiting room). Never got called up. Made $3.52/hr - whoo hoo!

My city, so ignorant. Potemkin shade structures (not big enough, not shady enough and costly-see those planters? also see no fans or cooling) instead of something actually useful - like covered bus stop waiting areas downtown. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/shad...

So how much of this is really about Tesla drivers?

Mass Murders - I'm at an estimated 2k ants. 10% with my old, gray, hands. 10% hot soapy water. 80% poisons that, in theory, don't kill bees, birds or any other animals.

Working on refinishing a cool 1950's dining set that is def not colonial. Some parts require mineral spirits but that smell gets stuck in my hair or something. I can smell it for the rest of the day.

DH is asking about the expiration date on something at the grocery store. I actually said Today is Bridgerton day, so you have 6 days,

You know that bottle of Chambord that you bought and forgot? Take it out and put it in cake. Really.. Try it at about 3x what you'd use of vanilla extract.

dh "I made pizza." "What's on it?" dh "Italian stuff." That's my darling - 73, college educated & everything. At least it was engineering and not communication.

Google & Find my device is a giggle. They will use your device to track others Android phone and use others to track yours as you move around. But they claim this is purely for your benefit and they will not use your data as it is encrypted with your pin. Amazingly, they have your pin too.

Cooking with Jello - new and under-exciting experiments for people facing colonoscopies. I was awarded two days of Jello prep because I'm special. For day two, we have clarified pineapple juice with lime gelatin "ice cubes" on the menu for lunch. 🤨

Last night at midnight, it was over 80 F in our bedroom. Kept trying to fall asleep while thinking: it's still April and various scary tidbits from the news about more global warning.

Community Yard Sale was today! (aka Opportunity to exchange my basement junk for yours!) NEVER do this. It took well over a week to prepare, started set up at 6 am, overwhelmed at one point, sold everything by 11 am. Remains went to Savers at noon. We're dead now.

In love with this person ... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This right here, this is my internal life... www.reddit.com/r/bizarrelif...

Nothing like that first cuppa decaf while reading about methylene chloride.