462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Nope.Sounds like 462 is using Walgreen's.
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so waht ya doin today?
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L Ross
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Sounds like 462 lives in an area with too big of a population. Out here in the sticks where the County Seat has just over 5,000 people and the County has lost population since 1911, things are somewhat better. Helps ta beat hell when you recognize your pharmacist, banker, car dealer, etc. when you run into them as can say hi. First name basis with the Sheriff, Fire Chief, Town Board Chairman, and Town Patrolman. And we are recent immigrants having only moved here 17 years ago and are not related nor inter married with the locals. Heck, we know our neighbors here for several miles, something unheard of when we lived in Green Bay which had a metro region of over 200K when we left. When we are 5 miles or less from home we automatically wave at every pickup, car, and tractor because it is probably someone we should recognize.Sounds like 462 is using Walgreen's.
Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
The internet constantly spying on us just helped me out. Apparently my post about figuring out a way to float some of the weight of my boat lift caught one of the spy robot's attention. I had a bunch of videos pop up on my phone last night showing people floating boat lifts into place with various methods, some better than others. 1 used 4 what look like 10' lengths of at least 6' PVC pipe, capped on both ends. The clever part was they attached them with straps and then used the boat platform to bring the floats down and the lift up. When they got it where they wanted it, they simply lowered the platform, the lift sunk as the floats rose and the floats were then simply unhooked.
What is killing me is the answer had been in front of my feeble face all the time. Instead of the pipe, I'll simply use capped 5 gallon pails, which I have a bunch of. Pretty sure the metal handles will hold as it will probably take at least 8 buckets to reduce the weight enough to make it easier to roll the lift out on the 4 wheels I've used since I got it. I'm sure I can still push it out using no floatation. But making it lighter would sure be a welcome improvement.
If the handles fail, a fallback would be to use a tightly tied rope around each pail. They all have ribs for strength and that will keep the rope from sliding off. But given how much a pail of sealer weighs, I think the handles will hold up.
I collected a bunch of pails and lids years ago to use as anchors for my EZ-up at the racetrack. Just fill with water at the track. They are stacked up in my shed.
What is killing me is the answer had been in front of my feeble face all the time. Instead of the pipe, I'll simply use capped 5 gallon pails, which I have a bunch of. Pretty sure the metal handles will hold as it will probably take at least 8 buckets to reduce the weight enough to make it easier to roll the lift out on the 4 wheels I've used since I got it. I'm sure I can still push it out using no floatation. But making it lighter would sure be a welcome improvement.
If the handles fail, a fallback would be to use a tightly tied rope around each pail. They all have ribs for strength and that will keep the rope from sliding off. But given how much a pail of sealer weighs, I think the handles will hold up.
I collected a bunch of pails and lids years ago to use as anchors for my EZ-up at the racetrack. Just fill with water at the track. They are stacked up in my shed.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Population is not the problem, it's the overall lack of training and understanding of how to personally interact with those they are paid to serve. I blame it on the advent of the smart-phone -- communicating with ones thumbs -- has caused more than an entire generation to not be exposed to the social graces. Words like "please" and "thank you" no longer exist.
CWLONGSHOT
Well-Known Member
Visit the Dr (Surgeon) for my knee.
Some complaints. Swelling and pain and IT band issues. He is great and everything is great... But Im not happy.
Need more better therapy need to address swelling
So we are checking for possible infection. Another set of Xrays and more meds... Im 100% NOT a thro meds at it and see... But agreed ta try a anti inflammatory.
He is ordering more therapy.
Time will
Tell
Some complaints. Swelling and pain and IT band issues. He is great and everything is great... But Im not happy.
Need more better therapy need to address swelling
So we are checking for possible infection. Another set of Xrays and more meds... Im 100% NOT a thro meds at it and see... But agreed ta try a anti inflammatory.
He is ordering more therapy.
Time will
Tell
Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
Being concerned about infection is not unreasonable by any stretch. You need to nip something like that in the bud. It's like a tick bite. I get one, I call my doc and get the 2 pack anti-biotic to be sure I'm good. I've only been bitten once, knocking on wood here. I've met too many people who are still suffering with the side effects of Lyme.
JonB
Halcyon member
This morning, I got a forwarded email from a cousin who lives in MN.
The email was about one of my AK cousins looking for me. She and her late husband are the ones I stayed with when I visited AK in 1997. She is coming to MN for a week long visit, which I don't have any details yet? Maybe she is visiting relatives on another side of the family? or Maybe a medical visit to the Mayo? She was near retirement age when I visited in 1997, so she is no spring chicken today.
Anyway, she arrives tomorrow, I hope to get to the town where she is staying at, for at least, a one day visit.
The email was about one of my AK cousins looking for me. She and her late husband are the ones I stayed with when I visited AK in 1997. She is coming to MN for a week long visit, which I don't have any details yet? Maybe she is visiting relatives on another side of the family? or Maybe a medical visit to the Mayo? She was near retirement age when I visited in 1997, so she is no spring chicken today.
Anyway, she arrives tomorrow, I hope to get to the town where she is staying at, for at least, a one day visit.
Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
Just watched my old dock leave on a flatbed. Sold it on Marketplace in less than a were. Guy owns a marina on the Erie Canal and is going to use the sections to make short runs of docks for boating slips.
I thought I was going to have to give it away (gladly) or have a giant bonfire. Instead I pocketed $750.00. But I won't have it long. The painter called and said that he's done blending in the paint repairs on my '39 Indian tank. Guess what it cost? $758.52. I'm gonna give him $800.00. He says he painted it and he cannot see where he blended it in.
It's a good day in Mudville!!!
I thought I was going to have to give it away (gladly) or have a giant bonfire. Instead I pocketed $750.00. But I won't have it long. The painter called and said that he's done blending in the paint repairs on my '39 Indian tank. Guess what it cost? $758.52. I'm gonna give him $800.00. He says he painted it and he cannot see where he blended it in.
It's a good day in Mudville!!!
CT of feet Tues. was a bust, but cardio doc thinks my stent is clogged. Says I probably need to get a neuro doc on call. Plan on changing cardio doc to this one as he can actually do procedures. Other doc is great, just doesn't do procedures. GP is (I think) setting me up for disabled tag for parking. She's tiored of driving me to appts. but is doing good feeding me. Bless those caregivers. Had lunch with the guy that lent me the walker, it really helps. Don't want to pull a Biden.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
One of my major peeves; someone calls (happened yesterday), without announcing themselves says, "is this R.J.?" If they're really lucky and I'm feeling good, my response is, "that depends, who the hell is asking?" I have been known to just hang up. What the heck ever happened to the most common phone etiquette? Identify yourself before demanding info from the party you're calling.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Well, well, well, and how about that. Some lounge lizard millenial, sitting at home clad in pajamas and bunny rabbit slippers, sipping guava-flavored sparkling iced tea and munching on tofu-flavored rice cakes, fixed the bank's technical problem(s).
My wife is elated! Though the sun didn't shine outside, the indoors was vividly aglow with her banking-happy radiance. Duke and I no longer have to walk as if on eggs or avoid her.
My wife is elated! Though the sun didn't shine outside, the indoors was vividly aglow with her banking-happy radiance. Duke and I no longer have to walk as if on eggs or avoid her.
fiver
Well-Known Member
i got the nice lady with the obvious Indian accent today. [right after the guy also with the indian accent, and the gal with a southern accent, and another guy with hardly any accent, but possibly more feeble than myself at pushing the proper buttons on a computer]
she had no clue that European poker is not a local baseball team under blackout conditions.
IOW fox sports-2 wasn't working on my satellite.
i could not care less about poker, and especially about it being played somewhere in Europe, but i did want that channel and the other 24 we are paying for turned back on.
as they say on spongebob,,, [french accent] 8hrs. later,, after yesterdays attempt.
she had no clue that European poker is not a local baseball team under blackout conditions.
IOW fox sports-2 wasn't working on my satellite.
i could not care less about poker, and especially about it being played somewhere in Europe, but i did want that channel and the other 24 we are paying for turned back on.
as they say on spongebob,,, [french accent] 8hrs. later,, after yesterdays attempt.
I`m slowly getting the garden planted.
I tilled second half of the garden yesterday.
For the last time before I plant it.
I will try to get the corn and cantaloupe planted today.
Our area started fire season yesterday .
I need to get the outlying grass mowed before it get too dry.
I tilled second half of the garden yesterday.
For the last time before I plant it.
I will try to get the corn and cantaloupe planted today.
Our area started fire season yesterday .
I need to get the outlying grass mowed before it get too dry.
JonB
Halcyon member
I disagree.
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No caller ID on my landline, which is used for most of my calls...rarely use the Cell due to measured $ervice with Tracfone.
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On the landline, when there is a call with a pregnant pause, then a staticy transition to a voice, I know it's a tele-marketer and I usually just say, "not interested" as I hang up...usually while they are starting to deliver their Schpeel. If I got time to kill, sometimes I play little jokes on telemarketers, but they usually call at inopportune times, so it's usually a hang up.
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When a friend or acquaintance calls and doesn't identify themselves, which is often the case with the younger folks, I just say, "hello" and then am mostly silent, I just listen to try and figure out who it is. They usually stop the conversation and ask, are you still there? That's when I guess who this is, I am usually wrong, then they announce who it is and usually start the conversation over. Yeah, that's kind of passive-aggressive, but that's how we roll in rural MN
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Jon, all I can say is your living behind the eight ball. Get yourself a cordless phone, preferably with multiple handsets. Have had free Caller ID for at least the last thirty. Both in Michigan and in rural Arkansas. Even my old fashioned cellular flip phone, has Caller ID................ which hardly gets turned on. I don't even give that number out.