What's up with you? - Page 220

JoeP · #**5476** 02-28-2020, 02:58 PM

Gorgeous enough for a pic?

Ensign Steve · #**5477** 02-28-2020, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miisa

After about three minutes the thus-far pleasant silence was broken by my boss exclaiming that "Isn't it wonderful that we can do this and not feel the need to fill the space with idle chatter?"
Then we continued tacitly, unfazed by his attempts to sully the room with aforementioned idle chatter, for another minute or so until the tardy colleague showed up.

Egad that is a serious pet peeve of mine. In my experience, however, it's usually some loudmouth who is incapable of ever shutting up who walks into a room and immediately belches out, "Gee, it's quiet in here!" My #1 goto retort is "IT WAS!"

Good on your boss for being quiet in the initial 3 minutes, and on all of you for remaining quiet after the unfortunate interruption.

specious_reasons · #**5478** 03-05-2020, 03:37 AM

I took my camera with my new lens to work. It was a nice sunny day, so I got a few good pictures.

The moon was out this afternoon - the full sized image actually has quite good detail. This is a cropped so you can actually see it:

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vremya · #**5479** 03-05-2020, 02:04 PM

My ankle was doing better until someone stepped on me in the supermarket. :ouch:

JoeP · #**5480** 03-05-2020, 03:11 PM

Was there a covid-19-panic-buying melee?

Or was it just a regular doofus?

vremya · #**5481** 03-06-2020, 01:42 PM

Just a regular doofus - he apologized profusely, so I'm not too mad at him.

Miisa · #**5482** 03-07-2020, 08:49 AM

There is a massive trend here of collecting Moomin mugs, and they release a few new designs every year. I mostly haven't bothered with them as I find them both overpriced and overhyped. But this year they released a Miisa mug, which if course I had to get. She looks like me, her life is like mine, even her dog looks like mine.

specious_reasons · #**5483** 03-08-2020, 03:34 AM

I took my camera out today - the entire neighborhood is on a big hill, and I keep on trying to capture the sense of the hills in this area. That's not the pictures I wanted to share - I was walking to the crest of the hill, when I spotted a bald eagle hanging out on a house's roof. Here it is, enhanced and cropped for your enjoyment.

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So beautiful.

:eagletear:

JoeP · #**5484** 03-09-2020, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

I took my camera out today - the entire neighborhood is on a big hill, and I keep on trying to capture the sense of the hills in this area. That's not the pictures I wanted to share - I was walking to the crest of the hill, when I spotted a bald eagle hanging out on a house's roof. Here it is, enhanced and cropped for your enjoyment.

Attachment 11051

So beautiful.

:eagletear:

And today on theycantalk ...

JoeP · #**5485** 07-25-2020, 12:31 PM

I cleaned my butt.

Long overdue - it was getting pretty stinky, and full of all kinds of gunk. No idea how some of it got in there - I didn't find any dead rats but wouldn't have been surprised (unless ... if one got in there and decomposed among all the brown goo ...?)

I couldn't reach deep enough inside to scrub all of it, but I used a hose and hopefully dislodged most of it.

I should really do this every year.

BrotherMan · #**5486** 07-25-2020, 07:47 PM

Miisa · #**5487** 07-25-2020, 08:07 PM

He is such a catch. :squeezle:

Kyuss Apollo · #**5488** 07-26-2020, 12:25 AM

In other news, I had a yard sale today and sold a shit ton of crap that I rarely or never use and don't want to take with me when I move in a week and half. Happily all the stuff that would be really useful to some one else, like the weed-wacker and the oil-less air fryer and the wheelbarrow concrete mixer and the bag of clothespins, all went. Most of the stuff that didn't sell is the useless crap, like the vases and the busted microphone stand and the half empty boxes of nails and screws and that stupid cupcake holder thing that ex-Mrs. KA left here when she moved five years ago are still here.

BUT -- all that crap that didn't sell is not in the house anymore. One step closer to the transfer station.

JoeP · #**5489** 07-26-2020, 03:27 PM

It rained so much yesterday afternoon and today that my water butt is nearly full again.

JoeP · #**5490** 07-29-2020, 01:32 PM

Whenever I think I've mostly got my ducks in a row they send me more ducks.

Ymir's blood · #**5491** 07-29-2020, 05:58 PM

Hi everyone. Just checking in :wave:

Ensign Steve · #**5492** 07-29-2020, 06:15 PM

Always happy to hear from you! :hug:

JoeP · #**5493** 07-29-2020, 06:39 PM

Yb!

Ymir's blood · #**5494** 07-29-2020, 06:44 PM

We are in the process of moving. The owners of the rental house we've been in for 13 years have decided to sell the place. We thought about buying but with the Pandemic and the time frame we had, didn't seem like a good idea. The property management company found us another house.

Complications:
The old lease expires on Friday, the new one starts Saturday.
The property management people managed to get us access on Monday, but today found out the owners of the new place are having it videoed tomorrow and didn't want us moving in. We've been moving stuff since Monday... We've got it worked out to keep our stuff in the garage until the video is done tomorrow, hopefully morning.
My 70 year old parents are bringing their pickup to help us move furniture. I wanted to avoid asking them to travel (though they kept offering) because of the pandemic. However the local UHaul place is booked solid for weeks because it's a college town and all the leases expire at the same time as ours.

So currently the plan is to move the furniture and thus us, tomorrow after the video person gets done and we'll have Friday to finish up everything and clean.