Hot here, and continues to be hot in Texas, and much of the mid-west. It was in the 80’s even with some overcast, and late in the day. I’m expecting the same today, but maybe today I’ll get in the lake.
Saturday had me doing a bunch of stuff before leaving the house. One thing was putting my network rack back together and making sure my cams were up and recording. Two of the neighbors had their trucks burglarized the night before and I didn’t get any video. Both left the trucks unlocked, both lost gubs. That is just seriously stupid, and it’s the second time for the one guy.
Finally I got on the road. Stopped in Conroe to do a pickup. More stuff for the BOL. Eventually got here.
My perfectly prepped garden has sprouted GRASS in a uniform layer. If I’d planted it, I doubt it would have looked so good. That’s going away today, and some veg WILL get planted. One good thing, it showed that the back two feet of tilled earth don’t really get enough sunlight. The new grass was much thinner there. I will keep that in mind as I plant.
Lots of projects today, we’ll see what gets done. We will get out on the water, and I think I’ll probably get into the water this trip. My wife insists that we have some fun today.
And since it’s Mother’s Day, and she’s a mom, I guess I better do what she tells me to do….
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms.
n
Reminds me of Albuterol, the asthma rescue inhaler. It was about $7 an inhaler without insurance. But they used freon for the propellent. The replacement is $50 to $100 now. Asthmatics were such a drain on the ozone layer, you see.
Again, they aren’t shy about sharing their plans for you.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
Albuterol freon inhalers were also off patent by decades.
I just got a new inhaler. $26 after one insurance, self funded by the employer, at CVS.
My wife can get it with her Federal Government BCBS insurance as primary for $7 copay. Working for the VA, she gets the same plan that the White House staff receives.
My coverage wherever I worked used to be about the HSA, but, unlike the previous job, the new company won’t let me have an account since my wife’s plan, my secondary, is too generous. I don’t know if that is the company limited by the IRS or going along with the agenda since it is a big tech supplier to the Feds. In the meantime, we are burning through the HSA accounts from the last two jobs.
The top line of the colonoscopy in February was $26,000, about half of that pathology. The two insurances are still negotiating with the doctors, hospital, and lab. The end number should give me an idea as to how our combined coverage will work for a while.
Erasing the stench from the previous previous job from the resume is Priority One right now unless I want to go work the counter at OReilly on the corner.
The guy up there at the register on Sunday afternoons is about my age and has a late model Lexus, obviously a refugee from something significant. He seems to sharp to be National Instrument, the last big layoff source pre-pandemic here. One day, I’ll have to inquire about that story.
My one red line with any employer is that I won’t jab to keep working remote. When that happens, I’ll call it a career, but the yoga pants will have to make the confrontation and show up at the TWC hearing afterwards.
Fortunately, with the new job, they accept the testing alternative and provide the tests if I have to go on site.
It is already 76 F west of the Brazos River and the sun is not up yet. Gonna be a hot one today.
I ventured outside yesterday at 4pm to grab the mail. I could ot hear myself think in the 125 foot walk to the mailbox due to all the air conditioners running at full speed. And while I was walking back to the house, the 30+ year old mail truck went down my country road at over 50 mph. I guess he was trying to generate a breeze since they do not have a/c.
We are going to have a birthday lunch after church for our 35 year old baby girl today. But she never went to bed last night so that is probably out the door. How did I get this old ?
Delancie was good in what was possibly the last we will see of his character and, possibly, the actor, but the rest was meh.
I understand now why Orla Brady signed for a back up gig on “Death In Paradise”. My guess is that she will be in their Christmas event episode, probably filming now, at a minimum.
You aren’t as disappointed as Disney in where the “Star Trek” franchise went Thursday. My wife confirmed both captains appearing in one scene among the reshoots for “Doctor Strange”, and The Mouse already had the authentic “Star Trek” experience hotel. Burbank is also counting on fans showing up for Trek Lite “The Orville” for Hulu numbers.
@lynn:
Passage of time, Lynn, passage of time… Tick, tock. It’s the same for me.
G.
Also, this from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Quatrain 51:
in Edward Fitzgerald’s translation.
Not that I want to “cancel half a line”. It’s been a good life for me. And for you, also, I think.
G.
Is our friend in Coffeyville still hammering this site?
My wife wondered why the reshoots for “Doctor Strange” going for the Trek audience didn’t include Rebecca Romijn since they reached back for the original Professor Xavier, Patrick Stewart.
The house cleaning begins on “Doctor Who”.
https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/ncuti-gatwa-is-the-doctor
I wished my mom a Happy Birthing Persons Day. She was underwhelmed but that’s partly because she hadn’t come across the phrase before. Lucky her.
Up and moving. Sunny and hot. Thermometer says 80F in the shade, but the sun feels like lasers stripping the skin from my bones. Nice breeze though and blue sky.
Gift given, birthing person fed. Need to call my mom.
And then to start the day.
n
When that happens, I’ll call it a career, but the yoga pants will have to make the confrontation and show up at the TWC hearing afterwards.
The wife wore yoga pants to church this morning. I very carefully did not say a word as I did not want a beating.
When I use the term “yoga pants” it is more about the attitude than the fashion choice, but in HR departments at tech companies post-pandemic, the two often correlate.
The top line of the colonoscopy in February was $26,000, about half of that pathology. The two insurances are still negotiating with the doctors, hospital, and lab. The end number should give me an idea as to how our combined coverage will work for a while.
The surgical portion of my wife’s colonscopy with the 13 polyp removal was $19,000 list price at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The pathology bill has not shown up yet. I think that our total out of pocket cost is around $2,000.
Over The Hedge: Suburbs Emerging From Quarantine
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2022/05/08
Just a little over the top.
And those expensive replacements all contain some sort of sulfide or sulfate in the propellant, which my wife is allergic to; there are no rescue inhalers available to her at any price, she is reduced to one brand of a once a day preventative that really doesn’t serve the rescue purpose. Grumble over, thanks for listening.
Do-gooders, reformers, and activists will Save the World(TM) even if they have to kill every last one of you to do it.
I’m literally shaking. The pandemic isn’t over until the CDC, WHO, Pfizer et al. have milked every bit of power and profit from it. To say otherwise is anti-science. What are you, some kind of science-denier?
I should clarify that I meant post-lockdown. However, we probably have more of those coming as the election gets closer.
“Ann Coulter: Liberal Doomsday Scenario: Free Speech on Twitter”
https://windobi.com/ann-coulter-liberal-doomsday-scenario-free-speech-on-twitter/
“I want to send flowers and chocolates to the Twitter employee who has permanently suspended The Babylon Bee. Maybe a car. Apparently it was the madness of that decision that infuriated Elon Musk, to which he decided to buy the entire platform to stop the censorship.”
Who was the moron who canceled The Babylon Bee ?
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-repeats-false-claim-he-once-had-an-abortion
“Do-gooders, reformers, and activists will Save the World(TM) even if they have to kill every last one of you to do it.”
DDT was a trial run.
Made it home. Didn’t get anything planted. The grass was really tenacious and it was really hot, and I didn’t have time to fire up the tiller.
On the other hand, the propane fired instant hot water heater that I bought as a prep several years ago went together without a hitch and works really well. Outdoor showers are better than no showers by a wide margin.
I did get out on the lake with my wife in a kayak for most of an hour. I’m gonna be sore tomorrow.
Got several lights changed out, and new doorknobs on the entry and two interior doors.
Cleaned up the living room. Wife hung curtains, cleaned, hung a ceiling fan, and put the cover plates and register covers on in one of the bed rooms.
We weren’t up there long, but we got a bunch of little jobs done and had some time on the water.
n
Red and Yellow,
Kill a Fellow,
Red and Black,
Friend of Jack.
He was two and a half feet long, Red and Yellow touching, and at the end of my neighbors driveway. The neighbor with the three daughters from 9 months to 8 years. So the wife went and told them, neighbor came out and I showed him where the coral snake went under his bridge across the ditch so we could no longer see him. Forewarned is forearmed.
Freaking snakes. I need a refresher in first aid and treatment for snakebite. Also, identification.
n
So many snakes here that we don’t bother. Most are friendly, but normal caution is advised. They eat rodents, a good thing.
I remember telling Bob I wanted to meet George and Martha.
No snakes in Alaska, unless you count our politicians.
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Remember me lusting after that guitar for 11 weeks, then it being gone when I weakened and decided to buy it?
My husband surprised me with it today.
I bawled big fat tears with snot and everything.
Then I played it half the night. Man is that a sweeeet guitar!
Awesome! Good for him, and good for you!
n