Sunny and hot Thursday

[Othersharon]

I had a post almost finished this morning but DS came to help with a few things around here. We unloaded the trailer with all the bags of leaves, some from last fall and most from recently. Took them out to the Project as they call it here. Now I have lots of bags to full up again! Plus he brought the project he had to stabilize the doggie steps for the RV. Now to convince Rascal to use them. He wasn’t interested in go up them today but I’m hoping it’s partly because son and his dog were here but I’ll have to work with him on them before we are supposed to go camping next month. We also went ahead and put the air units in the two windows since we’re supposed to have a string of hot weather. Changed the oil I’m the lawnmower and put a new blade on it. Fed him a Subway sandwich for lunch. Seems like a small price to pay for his help! Lola got inspected yesterday so good with the state for a year. The office lady wasn’t there so I talked to her this morning and told her I’d be in with this afternoon or tomorrow to take care of the bill. Small town living! Now I just need to give her a bath and de-winterize and we’ll be ready to roll. Even added some things I store in the house in the winter while she was parked near the house. Judy, makes me wonder why all these changes need to be made when they cause such headaches for the users. Barbie, hope your manager and owner take seriously what you tell them happens with that guy. And sadly not the first time something like this has happened. I’m kinda envious of all your gardens! I’m not even going to try to grow anything again this year. Didn’t last year either. We have plenty of markets around here to just go and buy what I need as I need it or want it. And it’s all farm fresh so I can avoid the grocery store this time of year for fresh produce. Probably makes me lazy but so be it! So now I’m off to the garage to take care of my bill. Hope you all are having a great day and remember to smile.

[PeggyinCT]

Hello Everybody,
Just wanted to say hi to Sharon and thank her for opening morning coffee. Another first for me today...I got a pedicure and was a little surprised to see a big increase in cost!!! The pedicure cost as much as a pedi/manicure in 2019, the last time I had one. There’s no point in getting my hands done because I play in the dirt every day. What did you do today? Peggy

[Shirlv]

Afternoon Sharon and Peggy. Warm sunny day. Drove to Best Buy and bought a new IPad. The challenge now is to transfer data from old to new IPad. Will ask fo family member to monitor me while I tackle this. I like trying new things but IPad too expensive to mess up. On my way out the door to have pizza and wine with porch friend. She lives on the water so a beautiful view, good company , pizza and wine. Be safe

[Bethers]

Barbie, you sent your wind! It's atrocious today and looks like it'll be here through both tomorrow and Saturday, my two days off. I guess I'll be a bum! I will go to the store for a couple things, but no sightseeing in these winds for me! My rig is rocking and rolling. I'm lucky that Ty ignores it.

Sharon, I got tired just reading all you did this morning. Peggy, you might be scaring me off getting a pedicure. Then again, I don't have anywhere local to get one so might not be a problem.

I convinced my managers they'd love an air fryer. They've used it every day since they got it a couple weeks ago. She mentioned nachos in it this morning and I slapped my head that I'd never thought of that. Yep, I did nachos in mine for lunch. Lol

[BirdbyBird]

Lark has decided to be my Physical Therapist and makes me take her for walks. She has Managed a couple times this week. She is a good therapist. Pushy but gentle at the same time, allowing me to slow down if needed and to sit and enjoy the bird song while resting. She seemed to enjoy nap that followed later. We made 2 miles today. Dr appointment tomorrow morning and hoping to head off to Marietta with Jane for another weekend of dog shows. The RoadTrek isn’t finished getting her batteries updated but that still works CIndy will bring her generator and we will Red Roof it. May everyone find some good adventures this weekend.

[OregonLuvr]

We are getting some much needed rain here last night and today. Not enough tho. Just enough to make everything wet. Mostly cloudy but I will take what we can get. So just been puttering around the house today until after lunch. Made a big pot of chili and froze enough for 2-3 meals with some leftover for tomorrows lunch. Was going to make a meatloaf too as I bought the ground beef and pork but decided just to food saver and freeze it for another day. Going to have a pot pie for dinner and small salad. So that takes care of today LOL sipping on a Caramel Mocha, soooo good. Now going to find something on Hulu, Netflix, or Prime to watch for a while.

[BarbaraRose]

Went to WM Great Clips to get my hair washed and cut (just the back that I keep very short) by my old manager, Kat. I told her what happened and she said not to let them drop the ball on this. I don't intend to. I texted my new manager and she said they are "working on it" and that they are contacting the woman customer who was verbally harassed by my coworker, and get her story. I haven't heard anything back yet and it is almost 7pm. I sure hope they don't think they will just slap him on the wrist again and let it go. I won't tolerate that.

Bought some groceries and came home. Just gave a haircut to my next door neighbor on my patio. I need to get a different chair if I am gonna do haircuts out there. The back of the chair is too high. Will look for a cheap, low, folding chair.

I got a spray sealer for my gourd and sprayed it. Did a few coats on it. I used a matte finish since it is supposed to look like red rock in the background. I will take some pics tonight and post them later. I learned a lot I need to do differently next time.

Lola seems to be slowing down some lately. Nothing specific but she just sleeps more and isn't keeping herself quite as clean as she had been. She is about 17+ now so I guess that is to be expected. Otherwise she is having normal poops and eating well. I can't even say that about myself! I guess we are both getting up there.

The wind died down for a few hours today but is blowing hard again this evening. It isn't so hot now tho. Sorry Beth for sending it your way!

[JudyJB]

I remember the first time I had a computer with Windows 8. Microsoft engineers removed the function where you turned the computer off when you were done, and they hid a bunch of functions behind margins of the screen so you could not find anything. I called technical support, and the guy on the phone suggested that I go through a tutorial to learn how to turn my computer off. At that point, I blew up and started ranting about how they really expected me to take a tutorial to turn the computer off instead of just pushing an off button!!! I told them I did not have time for this garbage and how they ought to learn how to design computers so they were easier to operate and did not need tutorials for things like turning them off??? By the time Windows 10 had come around, they had had so many calls about how they had hid things and made things harder, that they went back to some of the old Windows 7 functions!!

Drove from Dana Point, through LA, and made it about half way from LA to SF. Only 200 miles to drive tomorrow to Napa. Very stressful, but after getting different directions from too many people, I was afraid I would miss all the complicated turns and just decided to take the shortest way and follow I-5 the entire way. Had to stop for gas once, but that is a very long drive--270 miles in total today.

[Acadianmom]

My son was here the other day to borrow my Seal-A-Meal thing. He's not sealing food but comic books. Is he ever going to grow up. He mentioned making nachos in the air fryer. I had never though of that. I have some taco meat already cooked in the freezer. I'll have to get some chips and try it.

I hope Barbie's wind doesn't get here but maybe it would blow the rain away. I got another 2 inches last night and it has rained off and on all day. The rain that had moved off to the East is now backing up and we are under a flood warning. My land drains on to the neighbor's land. Their land had almost drained off but now it's backing up. It's probably because the river is so high. It was suppose to clear up tomorrow but now it's not until Saturday.

I have never had a pedicure or manicure so don't know how much they cost. My ex-sister-in-law has a nail shop but she has never been able to talk me into getting my nails done. It seems like every time I do anything around the camper I break a nail or two.

Judy, I feel the same way about the computer "improvements". I don't know why they keep changing things that are working. I guess the only way to make more money is to keep making new programs.

I am getting Annie to eat most of two little cans of cat food. Hope I can put some weight on her. She is getting old too. I think she is 14 this year.

Martha

[snowball]

went with my dd tonight to a book club meeting neither of us had read the book... I enjoy the author so assume I would enjoy the book...
other than that and playing on FB coloring one page or was it two a page in word search magazine didn't accomplish anything... but did learn how to cook chicken breast without it being dry a different way of making cinnamon rolls, how to make Korean BBQ fried chicken Boa looked yummy saw several DarMan video's not to mention the bridzilla stories and other's that I got sucked into so pretty much a wasted day...
when I wore contacts there was times when without them in I was seeing as clearly as if I'd had them in... experienced that today could see so clearly both distance and close up
Barbie hopefully something will change for you so you will be able to work without guff
loved that picture that Sandi did
Tina good to hear from you as well as Judy was getting concerned about both of you
I wish we had more markets to go to but this area just isn't farmer market area our season isn't great for a lot of stuff
although my grandson planted quite a garden he is in a lower area and season is longer we will hope that it works well for him so that we can all join in...
I need to end so I can crochet didn't last night cause it was so late and late again tonight perhaps I won't but I should
tomorrow for sure will go get the truck told you I did nothing although tomorrow really need to wash some clothes
sheila

[JudyJB]

Martha, I think it is job security for developers.

About 15 years ago, I was assigned a project to write text for on an online training program for a pharmaceutical company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They wanted the training to be ready as soon as the new software program was released to employees. So, I would drive 2.5 hours to Kalamazoo, say on a Monday, and sit at a desk and take screen shots of each stage of the program, and write notes on how everything worked. (Open this box, enter this or that, click on something, go to the next box, and enter blah, blah, blah, on what they called "storyboards.") So, I'd spend maybe 3-4 hours doing this and then drive home. For the next couple of days, I would prepare descriptions of what should be on each page, along with text that should appear, and add small images of the screen captures for each page. Then I would go back to Kalamazoo and test what I had written to make sure it was accurate and worked.

Ha!! When I would test what I had taken notes on and the screen captures, nothing was right. Turns out the developers had made changes to the appearance of the screens and how they worked, so everything I had done for the past three days was worthless!! I would check with the developers who would assure me that they were done making changes. So, I take more screen captures of the newly designed screens, make more notes describing how it worked, and go back home. Would go through "correcting" the images, text, and descriptions on my storyboards, and then go back to Kalamazoo the next week to find they had changed stuff again!!!!!!

Management wanted to know the status of what I was doing, and I gave them what I had, but told them about the constant changes and versions, etc. After about a month of this, they cancelled the training project, and I have no idea about what ever happened, but I was temporarily off the job. And in fact, this pattern repeated itself on several projects I worked on. The lesson I learned is that software developers just cannot keep their hands off of stuff!!! Even if they say they are done, they just can't stop "improving" stuff, but they drove me absolutely crazy.

[BarbaraRose]

I remember Windows 8. It was awful! I went back to the earlier one until they came out with Windows 10. They completely skipped Windows 9.

The reason prices have gone up in so many businesses is because of the revenue lost during Covid. Our prices went up $2.00 for each service as well. I can't remember the last time I had a pedicure. Probably in cosmetology school! I do my own.

Martha, you can send your rain out here!! We so desperately need it!

Sheila, glad to hear your eyesight is so much improved! Great news!

Judy, driving thru LA and up thru the Grapevine pass on the 5 takes forever!! Not a fun drive at all. Hope you get to Napa tomorrow without any problem. Then you can relax for awhile.

Tina, glad Lark is keeping you on your feet and being a good therapy dog! Golden's are great at that!

My knee is sore tonight. Not sure why. It is my bad knee I had surgery on 21 years ago that occasionally still gives me trouble. Maybe I twisted it a little today. Just getting old and fragile! I have ice on it now and just took some Ibuprofin. It should be fine in the morning. Usually wearing a soft brace on it overnight does the trick but I can't find any of my braces (I have one for pretty much every joint on my body!). They are in a box somewhere but I don't know where.

Off to bed...

[MandysMom]

Funny talking about the various versions of Windows because I remember sitting in a computer club meeting in Reno, when DOS was it. They announced that this new OS, called Windows was coming out! I still have our Epson QX10 , which was pre windows, in a box as Mel couldn't bring himself to get rid of it as he felt it was valuable history!

Velda

[BarbaraRose]

Lol! I am sure there is a computer museum somewhere that would be happy to have that!