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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

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Friday, July 3, 2026 1:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Local station from Washington state is running "ID4".


Like the movie???

I don't even know what that means, but I giggled.





Restless tonight... I pulled down a few boxes of things to start sorting through, and just kind of been cleaning my house. I really can't wait for it to cool off. I think today was the worst of it, though we wont' get much relief until Saturday. They just ended the Extreme Heat Advisory at midnight, but I'm not feeling that in my house right now. It's gross even with a fan on me. It was 80 on the 2nd floor at 1PM today, it's 82 up there 12 hours later.

I'm surprised I made it out in the garage and outside as long as I did today. Been drinking a ton of water to make up for that.


Well... It's going to cool off, but careful what you wish for. I'm seeing about half the days for the next 8 with thunderstorms, and most of the rest with rain. And it's still not getting below highs in the 80's while all that is going on.



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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.


Yes, the movie and you are the second person to ask me that.

"Independence Day" that old movie with Adam Baldwin in it as a Major.

Stay hydrated for sure SIX.



I don't ever remember anybody calling the movie ID4 back when it came out, but then again, the internet wasn't a part of my life and all I got was the perspective from my small sphere of influence and whatever the media said. I know that the ID4 logo was a thing that was on branding for toys and stuff. I think one of the bad-guy aliens was the last toy I ever bought or my parents ever bought me (if you don't count video games). I REALLY liked that movie when it came out. The special effects blew my mind. It's one of the only movies that I ever saw in the full priced theaters more than once, first with a friend and I somehow talked my dad into taking my brothers and I to see it the following week without waiting for it to go to the dollar show.

I worked at a Toys R Us around that time and they always threw the promotional stuff out, but I got them to give me the huge canvas Independence Day banner they had above the action figures in the toy aisle when they finally took all that down. It was huge... something like 20 to 25 feet wide, and a full shot of the spaceship over the city as it was blasting a building.

I got rid of that in the dehoard. One of the things I wonder if it would have actually been worth any money since they were probably pretty rare 6 years ago, but Independence Day??? I'm not going to beat myself up over that one. It probably should have been put in a landfill 30 years ago.


Do you remember if they called it ID4 in Canada? I know that you have your own Independence day, and I would assume that many nations do. But save the possibility of a rare coincidence or copycat nation, they're not very likely to be on July 4th as well. So I could see it making sense to be marketed everywhere else as ID4.

I always just assumed that was the Internet doing what the Internet does and giving shorthand to pop culture history. But maybe it was that the entire rest of the world was being sold the movie "ID4", and here in America it was called "Independence Day", and once the world got a lot smaller a decade later the majority ruled on the name of the movie.



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Friday, July 3, 2026 3:14 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Got everything done in the rain and that includes a lousy morning at mah jong. Couldn't break a 1,000 points. Finished with over 800. Almost had winds & dragons twice but couldn't get rid of tiles.


Well, THAT day sucked!

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Friday, July 3, 2026 5:19 PM

SIGNYM

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I scrolled up to see the pix, showed them to hubby too. He likes your renovation SIX, and from a perfectionist like him that's high praise!

I guess I musta forgot, but did your big AC crap out?
Didn't you have a window unit at one point tho?

Sis just put in central AC last year, and I'm so relieved on her behalf. Us old folks don't do well in the heat. I hope you find some relief soon, too! At least a window unit for your bedroom so you can sleep at night!


*****

Every few days I slow down a bit. That was Wednesday. Yesterday I got caught up in kitchen work and running errands ... Among other things our pharmacy called up and nagged me to pick up our meds. I was just waiting until they were ALL ready so I wouldn't have to go twice! And dear daughter makes a Huge Deal about getting "safe and sane" fireworks for the 4th so that's what we did.

The temp here has gone up a bit so indoor work for me.
But the most astonishing thing happened a few days ago. As I was finishing up that day's weeding, an younger teen who was popping wheelies on his electric motorcycle (looks almost like a light motorcycle for dirt racing) stopped and asked me if I needed any help! Well, I told him I was just finishing up but offered him a job for $15/ hr abd told him to have his mom or dad call me direct in two weeks so they know what's going on. In two weeks I'll have a plan mapped out and I can schedule his work. If he does well I'll bump his pay up.

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Friday, July 3, 2026 5:54 PM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by Brenda:
Local station from Washington state is running "ID4".


Like the movie???

I don't even know what that means, but I giggled.





Restless tonight... I pulled down a few boxes of things to start sorting through, and just kind of been cleaning my house. I really can't wait for it to cool off. I think today was the worst of it, though we wont' get much relief until Saturday. They just ended the Extreme Heat Advisory at midnight, but I'm not feeling that in my house right now. It's gross even with a fan on me. It was 80 on the 2nd floor at 1PM today, it's 82 up there 12 hours later.

I'm surprised I made it out in the garage and outside as long as I did today. Been drinking a ton of water to make up for that.


Well... It's going to cool off, but careful what you wish for. I'm seeing about half the days for the next 8 with thunderstorms, and most of the rest with rain. And it's still not getting below highs in the 80's while all that is going on.



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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.


Yes, the movie and you are the second person to ask me that.

"Independence Day" that old movie with Adam Baldwin in it as a Major.

Stay hydrated for sure SIX.



I don't ever remember anybody calling the movie ID4 back when it came out, but then again, the internet wasn't a part of my life and all I got was the perspective from my small sphere of influence and whatever the media said. I know that the ID4 logo was a thing that was on branding for toys and stuff. I think one of the bad-guy aliens was the last toy I ever bought or my parents ever bought me (if you don't count video games). I REALLY liked that movie when it came out. The special effects blew my mind. It's one of the only movies that I ever saw in the full priced theaters more than once, first with a friend and I somehow talked my dad into taking my brothers and I to see it the following week without waiting for it to go to the dollar show.

I worked at a Toys R Us around that time and they always threw the promotional stuff out, but I got them to give me the huge canvas Independence Day banner they had above the action figures in the toy aisle when they finally took all that down. It was huge... something like 20 to 25 feet wide, and a full shot of the spaceship over the city as it was blasting a building.

I got rid of that in the dehoard. One of the things I wonder if it would have actually been worth any money since they were probably pretty rare 6 years ago, but Independence Day??? I'm not going to beat myself up over that one. It probably should have been put in a landfill 30 years ago.


Do you remember if they called it ID4 in Canada? I know that you have your own Independence day, and I would assume that many nations do. But save the possibility of a rare coincidence or copycat nation, they're not very likely to be on July 4th as well. So I could see it making sense to be marketed everywhere else as ID4.

I always just assumed that was the Internet doing what the Internet does and giving shorthand to pop culture history. But maybe it was that the entire rest of the world was being sold the movie "ID4", and here in America it was called "Independence Day", and once the world got a lot smaller a decade later the majority ruled on the name of the movie.



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I don't think it was called "ID4" when it first came out. That just sort of became short hand for the movie for quite a while. You said "ID4" and everyone knew the movie you were talking about.

I don't remember the toys for ID4 but I do remember the poster for the movie. Never had one but it was cool.

It was called "ID4" up here too. Yeah, anyone else's Independence Day falling on the 4th would be pretty rare. Canada Day is July 1st. It just passed on Wednesday.

Apparently, it was done as a promotional thing. I had to look that up. Most like to make it marketable around the world.

I have a copy of the movie and still watch it once in a while. That was fluke Thursday night running in to it. I thought if tv channels ran it, it would be on Saturday as it is the 4th.

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Friday, July 3, 2026 5:56 PM

BRENDA


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Got everything done in the rain and that includes a lousy morning at mah jong. Couldn't break a 1,000 points. Finished with over 800. Almost had winds & dragons twice but couldn't get rid of tiles.


Well, THAT day sucked!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger


It really did. Happens every so often that I can't break a 1,000 points. Some Thursdays are just a struggle.

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Friday, July 3, 2026 5:57 PM

BRENDA


Well, I got a new hair dryer and some groceries. Weather can't make up its mind. Stay a little sunny or cloudy or rain.

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Friday, July 3, 2026 11:18 PM

SIGNYM

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Well, I got a new hair dryer and some groceries. Weather can't make up its mind. Stay a little sunny or cloudy or rain.


At least you got that!
I hope the weather clears up for you.

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Friday, July 3, 2026 11:39 PM

BRENDA


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Well, I got a new hair dryer and some groceries. Weather can't make up its mind. Stay a little sunny or cloudy or rain.


At least you got that!
I hope the weather clears up for you.

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Yeah, I did manage to get what I needed when I was out.

Weather is suppose to be cloudy tomorrow and maybe rain. As usual just have to see.

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Friday, July 3, 2026 11:47 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Despite intentions I spent the day in the kitchen again. First up: a pile of dishes, pots and pans. Then finishing cooking 2 chicken carcasses to make broth, and picking the chicken off the bones for the dog, along with the heart, lungs, gizzard, and liver for the dog. Trimming and wilting spinach. Dividing up and storing the dog treat, bbroth, and spinach. Cooking pork country strips for bbq.
Done now.

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 9:46 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Another 1.5" of rain and thunderstorms today.

Getting really sick of this summer.

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 1:43 PM

BRENDA


Cloudy and sunny when I go out in a minute. Couple of small things to do.

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 5:38 PM

BRENDA


All done on what is actually a lovely day up here. It would be nice if it holds.

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 6:02 PM

SIGNYM

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Another 1.5" of rain and thunderstorms today.

Getting really sick of this summer.

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I feel for you! When I lived in WNY the one season I absolutely hated was summer. Hot, sticky, and no AC. Usually thunderstorms meant a cooler front coming thru, but sometimes it would rain and then the sun would come out and the sidewalks would just steam.

Plus, our bedrooms were on the 2nd floor, right under the roof with no attic crawlspace and no windows on the west side of the house, where the breeze usually came from. No wonder I had a hard time getting to sleep in the summer!

It's only gotten worse since then, and with you not being next to a big moderating body of water like a lake, it's probably a lot worse where you are.

Sounds like you need some relief!

IDK what your AC situation is like, but maybe you could sleep in the basement if it's significantly cooler there? Also, cool showers, maybe?

*****

Meanwhile, here, our weather has turned seasonable and we're heading into my keast favorite season here, which is also summer!
Too bad the good weather in June was all wasted on Dr appts and emergencies!

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 6:16 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Another 1.5" of rain and thunderstorms today.

Getting really sick of this summer.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.


I feel for you! When I lived in WNY the one season I absolutely hated was summer. Hot, sticky, and no AC. Usually thunderstorms meant a cooler front coming thru, but sometimes it would rain and then the sun would come out and the sidewalks would just steam.

Plus, our bedrooms were on the 2nd floor, right under the roof with no attic crawlspace and no windows on the west side of the house, where the breeze usually came from. No wonder I had a hard time getting to sleep in the summer!

It's only gotten worse since then, and with you not being next to a big moderating body of water like a lake, it's probably a lot worse where you are.

Sounds like you need some relief!

IDK what your AC situation is like, but maybe you could sleep in the basement if it's significantly cooler there? Also, cool showers, maybe?

*****

Meanwhile, here, our weather has turned seasonable and we're heading into my keast favorite season here, which is also summer!
Too bad the good weather in June was all wasted on Dr appts and emergencies!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger



I appreciate your concern. I'm just being a big baby is all. It's really not that bad. I know I'm about a decade older and got the diabeeters now, but I've been through way worse summers all my life, and most of them without any A/C at all.


It finally did break... probably right around midnight when they lifted the heat advisory that had been up for 4 or 5 straight days and nights. When I woke up this morning, not only was the thermostat down under 80 for the first time in as many days, but it was actually at only 75.

It's still humid as shit and the 1.5" we're getting overnight tonight isn't going to help with that, but at least for now the temps seem to be about anywhere from 10 to even 15 degrees cooler on the highs for the next few weeks. Not fun seeing everything in the 80's either, but after what we just went through we'll probably hardly notice that... as long as the power stays on.


I'd like to get one summer out of the basement in this house between finishing it and selling it, just to say I finally did. I haven't spent much time down there at all outside of sanding/painting things, laundry, rolling smokes and fixing catastrophies ever since I found out I was on a flood plane about 5 years after I bought the place.

I just don't like being down there. Some of the closest to PTSD memories I've got happened down there.


But about 5 days is the limit with my current A/C setup. I think if that heat wave kept up for another 5 that I would have found my way down there regardless.

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Sunday, July 5, 2026 1:41 PM

BRENDA


The usual Sunday around me.

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Monday, July 6, 2026 1:40 PM

BRENDA


Nice day and things to do. Out in a bit. Well, one of the new things I bought works. Hair dryer. Gave it a try yesterday.

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Monday, July 6, 2026 2:34 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Nice day and things to do. Out in a bit. Well, one of the new things I bought works. Hair dryer. Gave it a try yesterday.


Sounds like the old one belongs in e- waste.

Enjoy your weather, BRENDA.


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Monday, July 6, 2026 6:37 PM

BRENDA


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Nice day and things to do. Out in a bit. Well, one of the new things I bought works. Hair dryer. Gave it a try yesterday.


Sounds like the old one belongs in e- waste.

Enjoy your weather, BRENDA.


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The old one will.

It is just gorgeous out. Not too hot.

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Monday, July 6, 2026 6:38 PM

BRENDA


All done on a gorgeous day. Not too hot. Just nice.

Air fryer will soon be set up for its test run tomorrow.

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Monday, July 6, 2026 11:59 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Wow. Good for you on the air fryer, Brenda.

Is it a decent size. I know they can come pretty small. Mine wasn't the biggest, but it was a free hand-me-down so I can't complain.

You'll have to tell me some good easy recipes once you know your way around it. I've used the thing twice since I got it and I know I'm missing out on a lot by not using it.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2026 1:16 PM

SIGNYM

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I haven't thought of using an air fryer. Might be a good thing to have, tho. I'll go check out some recipes when I have more time and see if it will allow me to make things I am either already using my convection oven for, or can't make at all.

Thinking zucchini stix.

SIX, how much starch are you allowed? When I make fake "fried" food like "fried" chicken or "breaded" zucchini stix, I use two parts parmesan to one part panko (extra puffy-crunchy Japanese bread crumbles) to reduce the starch but still get the crunch.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2026 1:33 PM

BRENDA


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Wow. Good for you on the air fryer, Brenda.

Is it a decent size. I know they can come pretty small. Mine wasn't the biggest, but it was a free hand-me-down so I can't complain.

You'll have to tell me some good easy recipes once you know your way around it. I've used the thing twice since I got it and I know I'm missing out on a lot by not using it.

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I've been looking at then for a while since I found out you can actually bake in them. Things like cupcakes and such. Very versatile.

This one is smaller and fits perfectly in the spot I picked out for it. I could carry it home in its box. So for me that's not too bad.

I will let you know. Like I said my first test will be chicken legs for tomorrow. It's suppose to be really good for meats and I can make things like stews and such in it too.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2026 1:35 PM

BRENDA


Out soon on a bright day. Things to do then come back and drop them off. Pick up the toaster oven I have to donate to a thrift store not far from me. Temp is sitting at around 68F.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2026 5:54 PM

BRENDA


Done for today. Having a sit down now. Still sitting at 80F in my area.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 12:48 AM

SIGNYM

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!




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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 1:27 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Wow. Good for you on the air fryer, Brenda.

Is it a decent size. I know they can come pretty small. Mine wasn't the biggest, but it was a free hand-me-down so I can't complain.

You'll have to tell me some good easy recipes once you know your way around it. I've used the thing twice since I got it and I know I'm missing out on a lot by not using it.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.


I've been looking at then for a while since I found out you can actually bake in them. Things like cupcakes and such. Very versatile.

This one is smaller and fits perfectly in the spot I picked out for it. I could carry it home in its box. So for me that's not too bad.

I will let you know. Like I said my first test will be chicken legs for tomorrow. It's suppose to be really good for meats and I can make things like stews and such in it too.


Oh, cool. Mine probably isn't too much bigger than yours is then. I've seen smaller than mine before, but not too many. My buddy and his wife gave me their old one when they got a Ninja branded one that was twice the size. Those lucky bastards somehow got picked by Amazon to be in their "freebie club" where they get tons of free stuff from Amazon every year, and all she has to do is write product reviews and take pictures and videos of the products in use.

Everything they get though is counted as income, and at full price of the product and not any of the sale prices either. I'm guessing some form of 1099. I'll bet they pay on way more income every year just from free Amazon stuff than I have in any year since 2009 when I last had a good job.

The new Ninja was free, and the smaller one they gave me was free before that.


I know it does a hell of a job reheating GOOD pizza. A few years ago my Aunt came over for Easter. We knew everything was going to be closed, so she got a pizza from our favorite place by my Grandma's the night before and we just heated it up in the air fryer and you could hardly tell it hadn't come straight out of the oven. No microwave is going to do that. It's possible to do with an oven, but it's a lot more difficult to get it just right with preheating the big thing compared to that little one.

I'm not surprised you can bake in it. Aside from the limitations of the size of your thing, I bet you could do anything with that which could be done with an oven.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 1:30 AM

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!


Good for her.

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Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!



And good for you too.

Let me borrow some of that motivation. I seem to have misplaced mine somewhere around here during that storm.



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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 1:32 PM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!




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That's fantastic news on both fronts SIG.

Decluttering that kind of work is never done.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 1:34 PM

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Wow. Good for you on the air fryer, Brenda.

Is it a decent size. I know they can come pretty small. Mine wasn't the biggest, but it was a free hand-me-down so I can't complain.

You'll have to tell me some good easy recipes once you know your way around it. I've used the thing twice since I got it and I know I'm missing out on a lot by not using it.

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I've been looking at then for a while since I found out you can actually bake in them. Things like cupcakes and such. Very versatile.

This one is smaller and fits perfectly in the spot I picked out for it. I could carry it home in its box. So for me that's not too bad.

I will let you know. Like I said my first test will be chicken legs for tomorrow. It's suppose to be really good for meats and I can make things like stews and such in it too.


Oh, cool. Mine probably isn't too much bigger than yours is then. I've seen smaller than mine before, but not too many. My buddy and his wife gave me their old one when they got a Ninja branded one that was twice the size. Those lucky bastards somehow got picked by Amazon to be in their "freebie club" where they get tons of free stuff from Amazon every year, and all she has to do is write product reviews and take pictures and videos of the products in use.

Everything they get though is counted as income, and at full price of the product and not any of the sale prices either. I'm guessing some form of 1099. I'll bet they pay on way more income every year just from free Amazon stuff than I have in any year since 2009 when I last had a good job.

The new Ninja was free, and the smaller one they gave me was free before that.


I know it does a hell of a job reheating GOOD pizza. A few years ago my Aunt came over for Easter. We knew everything was going to be closed, so she got a pizza from our favorite place by my Grandma's the night before and we just heated it up in the air fryer and you could hardly tell it hadn't come straight out of the oven. No microwave is going to do that. It's possible to do with an oven, but it's a lot more difficult to get it just right with preheating the big thing compared to that little one.

I'm not surprised you can bake in it. Aside from the limitations of the size of your thing, I bet you could do anything with that which could be done with an oven.

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Yeah, I was talking to someone who had one and they said doing chicken legs is great in it. So we shall see. You have to leave it on for 20minutes before using to get it used to being on.

I bet it would be great on pizza. Well, I don't need anything big just for me.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 1:35 PM

BRENDA


Out in a minute on a cooler day. Small things to do.

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!




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That's fantastic news on both fronts SIG.

Decluttering that kind of work is never done.


Tell me about it!

Hubby keeps things bc they may be useful "someday". So we have angle iron, and wood pieces, and computer parts and cabling galore.

Dear daughter. Sigh. She just hangs onto the most useless stuff. Even trash, which she is sometimes too lazy to, er, trash. I have to constantly patrol after her, even with her money-making recycling. She's disorganized as hell, too. After the e-waste roundup we have to tackle her room. Not intending to get rid of anything bc she would resist fiercely. Just organize. (At first. )

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 1:47 PM

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Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!


Good for her.

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Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!



And good for you too.

Let me borrow some of that motivation. I seem to have misplaced mine somewhere around here during that storm.



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SIX, you were going full-bore to tackle an adrenaline and PTSD provoking situation. I think you need to take a breather and do a reset!

Is there anything small and completely unrelated to anything you've been doing that you can accomplish in one or two hours? Find a couple of recipes for an air fryer, maybe?

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 6:28 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, I took the dog in for a senior dog wellness check, to update her vaccinations, and have her incisions looked at.

I was kind of dreading the news because one of the emergency vets detected a heart murmur stage 3-4 (max is 6) but THIS vet didn't detect anything, and the other emergency vet didn't either. So IDK how a heart murmur can come and go, but it's good news that it's gone. Yay!

Hubby's biopsy came back benign. All is good for now, so I can kind of unkink myself and put the focus back on decluttering. Looking forward to spending another productive morning boxing stuff up for donation. Another yay!




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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger


That's fantastic news on both fronts SIG.

Decluttering that kind of work is never done.


Tell me about it!

Hubby keeps things bc they may be useful "someday". So we have angle iron, and wood pieces, and computer parts and cabling galore.

Dear daughter. Sigh. She just hangs onto the most useless stuff. Even trash, which she is sometimes too lazy to, er, trash. I have to constantly patrol after her, even with her money-making recycling. She's disorganized as hell, too. After the e-waste roundup we have to tackle her room. Not intending to get rid of anything bc she would resist fiercely. Just organize. (At first. )

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger


Yeah, I've heard the "It might be useful" line before that drove my mum batty with my dad. Also a friend's mum as my friend's dad was the same way.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 6:28 PM

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All done for today. Having a sit down now.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 11:13 PM

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Off to mah jong in the morning.

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Thursday, July 9, 2026 4:44 AM

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SIX, you were going full-bore to tackle an adrenaline and PTSD provoking situation. I think you need to take a breather and do a reset!


While not untrue, and I am getting a little slower these days than I used to be, I can't keep letting every little setback throw me off track like this. I'm sitting around playing video games and wasting time when I know there's a lot of stuff that needs to be done and less time than I'd care to admit to myself that I need to do it in before I'll be trying to cram this type of stuff in between working for minimum wage doing something completely worthless with my time.

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Is there anything small and completely unrelated to anything you've been doing that you can accomplish in one or two hours? Find a couple of recipes for an air fryer, maybe?


It's funny that you mention it, because I did get something done that needed doing for nearly 2 months now today. I'm not going to name the company here, because this seems so fantastically random that it's got to be some sort of super-infrequent glitch, or you'd be hearing people complain about this sort of thing all the time...

But I had this credit card, you see... One of many. And out of all the cards I've ever had in my life, this is now the second card that required either a smart phone with the app to log into your account, or some rather draconian 2-factor login procedures that were forced on you with no way to opt out.

After they did this, I still kept the card for probably a few years. I only used it once a year to keep it active so I wouldn't get any changes in my credit score for closing it out. But that was before they made the change to the auto-call system. My phone is VOIP. Back in the day, you use to be able to use VOIP phones to navigate the phone networks, but somewhere along the way that eventually changed everywhere. Not all at once, but over time. Now if you aren't calling a live person, a VOIP phone is completely useless to you in 2026. It's a great thing that in tandem with all of this they have also added voice recognition to a lot of their systems so you don't actually need to press the keys, but not everyone has done that yet.

So here is me, a little over a year ago now, calling them up to finally cancel the card once and for all. Because they made a fatal change to that auto-call system. You used to have them call you and they'd just state who they were, why they were calling and give you your 6-digit number. But now? They call you, tell you who they are and why they are calling, but now they require you to PRESS 1 to receive your 6-digit code that you absolutely require to be able to log into your account.

Shit. Oh well. Nothing I can do about it. Hopefully my 833 credit score doesn't get hit too hard by this. At least it's over and I don't have to think about it anymore...




Fast Forward almost one year, and my yearly Sams Club auto-renewal comes in, and Jack didn't think to ever change the payment method there after cancelling the card.

No big deal, right? You cancelled that card almost a year ago. Just deny the transaction, and Sam's can let me know it failed and I'll use a new card. Bada bing, bada boom.

....

Nope. I got a fraud alert asking if it was me, and I half didn't take it seriously for a while and figured it had to be spam since I didn't have that card anymore. And it should be mentioned that in no point in time did I ever reply to anyone there and tell them that it was or was not a fraudulent translation, because honestly, I didn't believe that it fell under either of the stated categories, even though I had no clue what the hell was going on.

But then I looked at my Sam's account and yes... They did indeed appear to have re-opened my closed account and made that payment. On an account that I couldn't log into anymore and cancelled a year ago. And now on an account where I don't even know the account number. Thank god I'm resourceful enough to think that my bank would have a record of my last payment amount and the date of the transaction on my history, or I might have been looking into getting a lawyer to open that fucking thing for me so I can shut it down for good.


So... after enough time has passed for any specifics of all of this to have long left my waking memory, all I had was a deep sense of "I really don't want to do this today" regarding the issue. But I finally did it today.

It took the both of us nearly a half hour to finally verify that they were actually talking to me based off of their obscenely strict verification rules. And if we weren't able to do that, I wouldn't have even been able to pay the amount I owed, let alone get somebody to finally close it out for me.

So she opens it up finally and tells me that my account was never closed. They closed down the old number, issued me a new card and it was activated.

"Excuse me? It's already activated too? Who did that? Holy shit? Are there any other charges but the one???"

No.

"Then why....?"

Oh... this is weird. They appear to have closed down your old number, issued you a new number, which is activated, but there is no record of any card ever having been mailed to you.

"Right. Like I told you. I never got a new card. As far as I've been concerned this entire time, this card no longer existed. And if I didn't happen to see that potential fraud email in my junk folder over a month ago and remember to make this phone call this week, I would have been paying a late fee on a card that accepted a charge I wasn't even aware took place and it would have been only the 2nd time in my entire life that I forgot to make a payment of any bill on time."


I'm not even going to tell you what all I had to do to finally get back into that account by proxy. I'm not proud of it. But these days I'm not as quick to fighting every little battle that comes my way as I used to be. The lack of stress of being able to just put it all behind me and forget about it is just simply worth the trade off. Screw them for putting me in the position that they put me in, but what are you going to do?

It could have been a lot worse. They could have actually mailed that apparently pre-activated replacement card a year ago and somebody could have been just destroying my credit for a few months before I finally got alerts about what was happening.


It's just infuriating. Everything about it. Technology was supposed to make everyone's lives easier and better. And I think for a good while there were a lot of the right people in the right positions and we were collectively making that happen.

Now it seems like they take away all the frills that you used to take for granted, make you pay even more for the service through all of your wasted time talking to barely literate people half a world away who couldn't possibly care less about your problems or your time, and everything that technology actually did make easier since the mid-90's is all being removed and additional roadblocks are being put up all over the place.

If I didn't know better, I'd think that maybe somebody with the means to make it happen just really wants everything to fail for some reason.

But anyway... Not exactly "productive", but it is something that has been weighing on the back of my mind to some degree or another for quite a few weeks now and it's another thing I get to purge from the mental to-do list.


I think maybe I should paint those closet doors next. Way more than a 2 hour job by the end of it, but not anywhere close to the commitment that having most of your bathroom torn apart and unusable for weeks was. What I really should be doing is trying to find a way to force myself to do at least 1 to 2 hours minimum every single day without missing a day unless there's some emergency or family/friends thing. I'd still have days where I did way more work hours than I should, but instead of days turning into weeks of nothing really getting done, at least I could be saying that I did on or two hours every day instead of nothing getting done.

I still need to go out in the garage and look through stuff and see if I have both of the old tracks to put back up. I don't remember if they were even both there, to be honest. 15 years ago is a pretty long time to be remembering details like that. I did see one of them in a pile of stuff at the back of my work bench the other day, but I'm still working on the dehoard and reorg out there and it's not all easily accessable at the moment. I did not see the twin with a cursory glance, so I may have to buy a new one if I can't quickly find it. I don't want to lose any days to that job just because I'm trying to save a few bucks.


If I were asked the question in a job interview, "What would you say your greatest weakness is?", if I were being completely honest with them it would be that I'm at my absolute best when I'm starving and everything is either already an emergency or right on the precipice of one. I've never been a great self-motivator, and what little of that quality I did once have doesn't seem to be in as great abundance today as it once was.

But that's no way to live, and I don't ever want to go back to living like that again.


I'm going to do what I always do and wait until the absolute last possible minute to get a new job instead of applying for them 3 months ago like my friend was trying to get me to do.


I hate living like that.

And sometimes it just seems like the only real motivation I can find in life is self-inflicted pain avoidance.

And the cycle repeats.

Work your ass off for a few years. Doing your small part to help make somebody else richer. Fill all the various tanks back up to the top, and watch as you can instantly see any inertia you had brought to an immediate standstill after the inevitable, eventual layoff takes place... Never to return again, until things get uncomfortable enough to find the motivation to go back out and fill up the tanks again so you can go back to being left alone.

Same pattern. Happens every single time.

It's just that this is the first time that I've been asking myself how many more of these cycles I think I've still got left in me. If a dying battery had sentience, what a terrible existence that would be.

I've pretty much done the exact opposite of what you probably should be doing in your working life. All the great paying and easy as shit jobs (when you're not a dummy) all came when I was young and didn't quite yet appreciate just how valuable that youth actually was, and then as I got older the jobs got more and more physically demanding, less and less mentally stimulating, and nearly every one payed less than the last one did.


At least I know that part will be different this time. Anywhere I go I'm almost sure to be making quite a bit more than I was making before the last layoff, many years ago now. Inflation adjusted, I'm sure it's not, but as much as I rag on Hollywood for never telling the truth to the people by adjusting everything that comes out today for inflation, I'd be lying that I didn't gaslight myself all the time over the price of things, and I'm still mentally very much stuck back in the late 90's when gas was 79 cents a gallon my senior year summer after most of my childhood seeing 3 digit prices and you could eat your fill until you couldn't even move for just five bucks at any of the fast food joint dollar menus. I practically have a heart attack when anybody tells me what they just paid for a single meal these days. I don't even want to know.


My big concern is my tolerance for idiocy, or more accurately the complete lack thereof these days. The safety fuse just ain't as long as it used to be. I know you need no convincing of that yourself, I'm sure.

I absolutely have to find something night shift that isn't manning a cash register at a 24/7 gas station.

If you can keep my body working hard and consistently enough where I just need a baseline level of mental processing going on so I can just get a great workout and shut the brain off for 8 hours, I'm all in. Don't put any of the lazy chucklefucks within my eyesight or I'm going to get really cranky. I don't like being cranky. Managing them is your job. And promise me you're not going to expect me to train anybody because you and I both know that only 1 out of 20 of them is going to stick around for more than 2 weeks and we can both agree that I've got way better things to do with company time, and I'll consider that a perfectly acceptable replacement for that Christmas Bonus your employer stopped giving your employees 15 years before they hired you on, three company name changes ago. Give me the schedule I want and you won't hear me complain once next year when I get the same raise as the most worthless piece of shit you've got in this building.

Cool?

Cool.



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