What are you doing today?

Been down to North Carolina for Melen's college graduation. Got home late last evening.

Today I have to return the rental (Ford Expedition) that I picked up down there for a 1 way rental to haul Melen's belongings back home.

I have to go pick up Walter from the dog jail.

Mid-morning we have a replacement blind being delivered for our living room. The original is not working properly, so the company made a replacement and that is being delivered today. The installer will remove & replace so I don't have to do that.

Probably do a bit of yelling (later today) at Melen to start sorting through her stuff, much of which is in plies in the foyer of our home. Much of which is in piles in our spare bedroom. Much of which is in stacks of tote bins in our garage. HOW DO KIDS ACCUMULATE SO MUCH STUFF while they are in college???

Getting the truck camper packed. Got it loaded onto the truck two days ago. The boat is packed and ready to go tomorrow. I'm heading out tomorrow morning 3.5hrs away for our annual fish camp.

Been busy, mostly yakking on other forums and causing a ruckus for my now discontent with Trump.
Won't go there here because this forum isn't about politics for me and never was really.

Aside from that, had a very busy day this afternoon running about shopping etc.
He who calls me Aunt Lollie made us dinner tonight, along with one of his friends.
Oven ribs wrapped in foil and cooked at 275 'til they fell off the bone. then brushed with Heinz Kansas City Sweet and Smoky sauce.
He also cooked some pasta, then made a cold salad ahead of time with cuke, onion and ranch dressing.

Thank you Mike and Cruz!

Heading out tomorrow to spend the weekend with the kids. I will mooch food and drink and expect to be waited on hand & foot.

Been busting my ass working on the new fireplace mantle and need a break.

Maybe next week I will do a few mods on the truck.

I still love Trump!!! It's the Dummocrats that suck.

TiredRetired said:

Heading out tomorrow to spend the weekend with the kids.

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Have fun.

If I don't get rained out I will plant soybeans tomorrow.

On site at work enjoying the sunshine doing as little as possible, looking forward to getting home to make some garden benches to go with the table i made from reclaimed timber yesterday evening.

Galvatron said:

On site at work enjoying the sunshine doing as little as possible, looking forward to getting home to make some garden benches to go with the table i made from reclaimed timber yesterday evening.

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Table looks good!

Back to the sad reality I live in of going to physio and sitting at home in pain.

Yesterday I took the cat to the vet to have him neutered.
He is a lot less vocal (at night, especially) and always wanting to go outside now.
He is content to sit beside me now for hours.

Today I worked. What else?
Everything is good here.

Finally feeling chipper after the colonoscopy and endoscopy that I had done on Tuesday. Everything seems to back to normal. They pumped so much air in to me that my butt could have acted as the booster rocket for the shuttle.

Might get something done today. I don't know what but I've got to do SOMETHING!!!!

Planting flowers, mulching and generally working outside. Hope the rain holds off long enough to do something.

Nice day out. Did some errands this morning. Taking a trip to the border this afternoon to pick up parts for the truck. Even with the crappy exchange rate it's still worth the trip to get parts. For example. An upper control arm here is 270 plus tax. Got it for 31 in the states.

Adding a window room. Rain has stopped progress for today. Plus it's downright cold here. 58 degrees.

I got it easy
just cleaning more headstones. a brush takes the dry moss off. as far as the stone turning color I let it be. was tempted to leave bird crap on one yesterday

For the first time in 5 years i am seeing my eldest daughter katie,taking her for lunch, wish me luck.

Galvatron said:

For the first time in 5 years i am seeing my eldest daughter katie,taking her for lunch, wish me luck.

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Good to hear from you. Hope lunch goes well.

Sitting by a nice morning campfire with a coffee in my hand listening to the morning birds chirping. We had a short thunderstorm that dropped buckets of rain last night.

Had to stretch to find the thanks button, Brian

Oh it's been a day off.

I've been lazy mostly.

Made a quiche for dinner and they all loved it.

Why is this thread fucked up for size? Wow...

Replanting all my tomato plants after all this shit weather and storms have flattened my plants.

Planting my soybeans today.....finally stopped raining.

Spent the day working on paperwork for yet another specialist. Had an appointment with my lawyer. Didn't do much else.

Physio then a welding job on the flatdeck trailer. Now a meeting this afternoon for our foster daughter. Then home to await another child possibly coming into our home. The one we had a couple weeks ago ended up going home after 2 nights.

I had about 8 hours broken up sleep which might not sound bad except
it was in about a 57 hour period.
I was at my neurologist last week and told him that the Trileptal I was on was making me too sleepy.
After I take the afternoon dose I was knocked out (or zombie like) for three hours.
So neurologist gave me some new drugs to try.
He told me they were similar to Trileptal without the sedative effects.
Since the new drug is very similar to the old I needed no gradual transition.

Without the old's sedative effects I am having a lot of trouble sleeping. The past few days has been the worst in not being able to sleep.

Yesterday I went to my regular doctor's substitute, (regular Dr. was booked up), about a sore in my mouth.
I got some medicine to apply to the sore with a cue-tip or cotton ball. I have neither of those. Since I haven't had a chance to walk about one
and a quarter mile in 100 F plus heat to get them, (I have seizures so I am unable to drive), I've been using my finger to apply the medicine.
After the Dr. visit I was unable to get to sleep until after 3am then I woke up at my usual time around 7am
I had only slept about 4 hours. later I finally was able to get back to sleep for about an hour but I needed to get up to call the neurologist's office. I wanted to tell him that I wanted off the new drugs.
Then after being put on hold etc. I was told to wait for a call back. After that I had to call a specialist about a sore in my mouth.
After over an hour I finally got a call back from the neurologist's office.
Dr.'s nurse said she would ask Dr. In the meantime we agreed that I would keep taking the new drug.
Then I called about my mouth.
I can't get in to see the specialist about my mouth for almost 3 weeks.
By that time the sore might be healed.
Later the neurologist's nurse called again and told me to stop taking the new drugs. (Of course I had already taken today's day dose.)
With all that was going on I was unable to get a chance to take a nap.
I could probably get used to the new drugs and get so I can sleep without the sedative effects of the old but the new don't seem to work any better than the old.
They are much more expensive. I'm sure I will hit the drug coverage gap soon, then I'm not sure what (if anything) my insurance will pay for the new kind of drugs.
Because there is no generic version of this new drug there they are expensive.
I need to take 2 pills total daily. The pills cost $24 each.

Hope things improve for you. I was having a hard time sleeping for months. My doc prescribed desipramine at bed time. Start off with 25mg then if needed go 50mg. It helped me

Tinkering with an astronomical time switch for my outside lighting that has suddenly decided not to shut my lights off one hour before sunrise. Mechanical issue so we shall overcome.

Rain coming for the next 5 days so outside work will be on hold again. It just never seems to stop raining for any length of time. Mowed yesterday between raindrops and the ground is saturated and the tractor wanted to dig up the lawn.

Other then that no complaints. Life is grand.

As if things could get worst . . . just as I was about to go to bed - when I tried to close my vertical blinds (they cover a large picture window,) they wouldn't tilt (to shut). Then they wouldn't close at all.
It's a long story but I had a big mess. I was so tired I just got a sheet and flung it up over the unit that holds the blinds. That at least partially blocked the window.
I didn't sleep well but got up around six and fiddled with things.
I noticed that two of the parts that hold the blinds had popped off the track.
I finally got them popped back into place.
Of course the blinds still won't tilt shut. I think the chain that controls this got off the pulley gears. I am to tired to mess with it though.
It's funny how when I was concentrating (to try and fix that), I had no seizures.
I have noticed that before.
As soon as I was done and sat down to rest I had a petit mal seizure.
Of course it's impossible for me to concentrate every waking hour of the day.
And I also have seizures when I am asleep.
I'm going to try and get some sleep.

Cat, I sure hope things get better or at least manageable for you.

Today I have a bunch of running around to do. After that it depends on the weather. I have a tree that died away down at the bottom of the garden. If it stays dry it'll give me a chance to try out my new, little Echo chain saw.

Yesterday morning I did a bunch of shopping in Tyler. I went to Sam's to get one of Bob's bug killers. I also wandered around and added about $400 to the bill. No wonder my wife hates it when I get loose in that place. I then headed off to get my new pellet bbq grill/smoker. When we were RV camping down in Fredericksburg, the guy next to me had a Green Mountain Grills "Davy Crocket" pellet grill. It's small, packable and ideal for two people camping. It is heavier than I thought though. It must weigh 55 pounds but I can still get it in to the back of the car. I spent the afternoon putting the bug killer together, about 5 minutes and putting the grill together. That took a little longer. I think that I'm going to enjoy that thing. It has a wi-fi connection so I can sit inside and control and monitor everything from my phone, including the temp of the food while I'm sitting inside, in the a/c, drinking a beer.

I'm still awaiting delivery of my mini water pump (again thanks to Melensdad). Hey Bob, quit posting. You're costing me a fortune.

Pure stubbornness & perseverance
paid off where brains failed. I got th3 %#*^ blinds fixed. Of course I lost my watch. It's kind of big and clunking and I new I would sweat a lot so I took it off.
It vanished.
Even if I don't find it a $20 watch is cheaper than paying to get the blinds fixed or buy new and having them installed.

EastTexFrank said:

Hey Bob, quit posting. You're costing me a fortune.

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Well, I can't just blame Melensdad for my expenditures any more. When it comes to spending my money, he has a superior who leaves him in the dust!!!

My wife told me that she bought a new John Deere riding mower so she can mow the grass around her beloved Mineola Memorial Library annex. She said not to worry about it, if everything goes to plan it will coming to our house in about 2 years. Firstly, she doesn't mow the bloody grass around our house. Secondly, the way she mows that rough as a cob ground, it's not going to be worth much in two years time. Thirdly, I have no need for a riding mower.

Next, we were sitting around the house this afternoon, after I got all my running around done, and I stupidly said, "Let's go look at the new RV Center that just opened". It's really quite impressive, especially for a little East Texas town. So, I'm standing inside talking to a guy I know and I see my wife go outside to where the RVs are parked with a salesman it hot pursuit. She comes back inside and announces, "I've found the new RV that we've been looking for". We've been looking for???!!!! I didn't even realize that I WAS looking for a new RV but it seems that I'm going to be bringing a new one home if we can get the price right.




Today I spent $40 to get my little chain saw fixed, $8 for lunch and $5 for a lottery ticket. That lottery ticket better come in big, and I mean "BIG", or I'm going to be standing in line for food stamps.

God, I love that woman. If nothing else, she has style!!!!