Well, Well, Well. I Got X Jail!

Apparently you can't ask Chuck Schumer when he's going to stroke out and leave us in peace. Who'da thunk? So for 12 hours I can read X but not like or post or any of the 'normal' reason's anyone would be on X in the first place. So, why bother? I guess, for the next 12 hours I'll just have to, I don't know, sleep (since it's almost my bedtime anyway), or read my book or watch YouTube. I'll figure something out.

Didn't get anything done around the house today. Yesterday SWMBO started the prep for her colonoscopy and today I got to drive her to Gig Harbor by 1130. Got her checked in and all the 'designated driver' paper signed and they took her to a back room so I walked uphill to a small restaurant for some breakfast.

Wouldn't you know it; not 5 minutes after I ordered the 'Farmer's Omelette' she calls with the news that they're rescheduling her for Friday and I can come and pick her up. Well, it was only a block so I told her to walk to the restaurant and I'd buy her breakfast. Only took her 15 minutes to make it. Good breakfast. Great company.

By the time we got home it was nap time and I just didn't feel like getting all physical around the house anyway. Didn't know I was starting that long slow slide to X jail but I made it!

So I've been straightening up my Emby server on the NAS and on my localhost machine. Trying to get everything organized. Added our Music files from the NAS but didn't like the way it handled the artist/album picture display and organizing so I killed that library off. Also added about 200 more episodes to two more 'Arrowverse' playlists. Man, that's going to take us forever to get through. Just started season 1 of Supergirl. (Nice legs!)

Not much else going on. My Ex- tried to send me our middle daughter's obituary but it kept taking me to Facebook. I can't get on Facebook. I got kicked off there years ago and haven't even tried to get back on it. Sooooo, I looked it up at "Forever something' and, basically, found what I'd already been told. She got an infection and died before Canada Medical could save her. So Canada can kiss my royal ass forever.

Other than that: bought a trash panda trap yesterday and set it up by my grape plant. Didn't catch anything. Watched a few video's about 'how to' but haven't put everything in place. Yet. I know where I'm taking the beasties when I catch them though; and it ain't very local.

Grapes are really starting to turn purple and I want some left over for me.

So, guess I'll go cry in the beer I don't drink and find something else to do. Dishes maybe ...

Teach a man to fish, and he'll be able to eat for a lifetime. Teach a Nigerian to phish, and he'll become a prince

I'd be okay if this damned headache went away. Been almost 2 months now. Constant ache with the occasional actual pain. Head pounds when I bend over, cough, sneeze, or fart too hard. Probably time to e-mail my Doc again.

Lazy Sunday. Lazy weekend actually. Took SWMBO to Arby's last Thursday and then to WinCo since we really needed Bacon and a few other things 'right now.' Sort of a Date Day a day early.

Then, Friday, I took her to Denny's partially because I didn't really feel like cooking, partly because Friday IS Date Day, and partially because we needed to stop at WinCo across the street and get some things we forgot Thursday. (Wet Cat Food for one. Personally, I'd hate to have to wet my cat before feeding it. And what about the dry cats? Don't get me started.)

Saturday SWMBO went off to the Genealogy Library as per her usual Saturday. I processed 9 trays of Banana's (@ $.33/lb at WinCo this week) and a tray of grapes. I found I could feed the grapes through the banana slicer if I didn't mind doing one or two at a time. Which I did so I got out the food processor and used the slicer blade. Worked just fine. Kinda sorta messy cuts but cuts non-the-less. Off to the freezer and then the freeze dryer last evening.

The rest of the day was doing 'things' around the house. Watering the garden. Transplanting a couple of those sycamore trees to the front yard. (They're doing fine!)

Damned Trash Panda's have found my grape plant and are wreaking havoc by pulling grapes off then dropping them to the ground when they find them not ripe. I put one of my trail cams out there and have some great shots of them climbing the trellis. So I put grease on all the uprights today and we'll see if that slows them down any. Grapes are starting to turn purple though. Sure hope there are some left after ...

Today, Sunday, was the laziest day I've had in a long time. I mylar bagged the freeze dried banana's and grapes (the finished fairly quickly!) and more 'stuff' around the house. SWMBO is starting her prep for her colonoscopy so I didn't have to cook dinner for two.  So I had Hot Dogs and chips.

Other than that: made the bed. Watered the garden. Added some more grease to the uprights on the trellis. Played on the Quest 3 a bit (but the headache made me stop way sooner than I wanted to). Played with the AI thing.

I do enjoy making those old family photo's from the way-back-when move. I can even pay extra and have it give voice to them; but why?

Ah, well. Three more episodes of Grimm and I'll be done with that. What to start next?

As A Man, I Can Go All Month Without A Period. Unless I'm Texting

Then I use periods all the time. Which apparently means something bad. Anger or something. I'm too old to know. Or care.

About time to catch up I would think. IF I were to do anything that required catching up.

Hmmm. Still have that headache that occasionally gets pounding but mostly just stays in the background until I bend over, sneeze, cough, or otherwise suddenly exert myself.

BUT, I did fix my back ache that I got every time I laid down for a few. Turns out it was my office chair after all. It has a slow leak in the height cylinder that lets my knees slowly be higher than normal and that, apparently, is just enough difference to throw my back out of sync (or something). Anywho, raised my chair to the highest level available and the back ache completely went away. Go figure!

Been playing with a program online that you can animate old (any) pictures and have been going through all my old family photo's. You can also make them nude if you want but the results are flaky. Fun to play with though; but I mostly like the animation part.

Nothing else going on. Been mostly hot and sunny outside so SWMBO and I haven't been in a hurry to finish off the deck this week. Did the annual "cleaning of the fans" but that only took an hour for the three of them. Been fixing up other things that have deteriorated the past year or two around the house. Mowing. Taking the land plane to the driveways. Keeping the trail clear.

Getting too old for this shit.

Garden is mostly done for the year. Still have some pumpkins and cucumbers growing. Grapes are finally starting to turn purple and there's probably 50 lbs of them hanging on the vine.

Been freeze drying everything I can. Picked a butt-ton of blackberries last week and have them all freeze dried now. Was looking at my pantry and realized I still have 10 pints of blackberry juice I canned a few years ago. Need to figure out if I'm going to do anything with it or not.

A friend gave me 5 dozen eggs so I freeze dried them all and gave him about 2.5 dozen back. He brought over some of his apples and we got them freeze dried too. I may have sold another Harvestright Freeze Dryer.

Anywho, we need bacon and some other things at the store so I'm thinking we'll make today Date Day and then take her to Taco Bell for lunch tomorrow.

My Day Was Spent Elbow Deep In Blood...

Yesterday we bought a 27lb chuck to make some burger. $134! Spendy but cheaper then buying chubs of burger. Took over an hour to trim what fat out of it I could and almost an house to grind it up.

Out of it I got 5 freeze dryer trays of cooked and 4 1-lb sucker bagged into the freezer for when we need that 'fresh' stuff. Should be burger for almost a year the way we use it.

Also did 2 trays of mushrooms and 2 of chicken breasts.

Found out I really can't stand in one place for 2-4 hours like I did today. Makes my fake knee hurt somehow. AND I should never take that medication the Doc gave me for the headache during the actual day. (Makes me feel woozie and sick to my stomach.)

So, spent pretty much most of the day in the kitchen. But, the mess is all cleaned up and I don't have to worry about it tomorrow.

Otherwise pretty much SSDD around here.

I'm So Much In The Loop That I Just Found Out Family Had Died...

That's how close we all are. But, at least I found out in a phone call instead of through e-mail like with my daughter. So, there is that.

Uncle T.R. was 96(?) or thereabouts, died last March. His sister, my Aunt Betty, 94 or so, died in April. Aunt Betty and I were way closer since she was over to our house a lot while I was growing up. She and my Mom were close.

Now, I know people get old and die. The part that really bothers me is that this leaves only 3 Aunts & Uncles between me and the distinction of being the oldest member of my family still living. And that's a scary thought.

Will miss our annual communications and once-a-decade visits.

Ah, well.

Otherwise, SSDD around here. Had a Doc appt yesterday and he says that for an fat old guy I'm doing pretty good. (I may have paraphrased.) All my labs are right at mid-range results (including the famous PSA) but my Potassium is still too low. I need to double my daily intake. And lose about 80 lbs.

I'm about to ask for a different Doctor though. Mine is okay, but, no matter what I tell him he immediately goes to "Let's try ..." another pill. Told him my back hurts so bad after laying down for 10 minutes that I can barely walk. His response was "Have you had physical therapy?" No. Not yet. And he didn't do any kind of exam. I would have had a patient that told me that take their shirt off and turn around and let me look at it. Do a bit of poke and prod to see where it hurt and if there was any noticeable deformity. Not him. He does not do exams. And I don't know if that's just the way they're training new doctors or what. In my day we pretty much manhandled everything.

The response to my statement "I've had a pretty constant low grade headache for a month." resulted in "Let's try this pain medicine." History taking is a lost art.

Not that I miss finger-waves at all though. The PSA is much better.

SWMBO and I have been finishing the deck. Work we started last summer. Spent way too much on paint at Home Depot today. And $300 for new heavy duty shelves for downstairs. I'm thinking this winter project will be to finally get the basement cleaned out and straightened up. It'll be the perfect thing to do on those way too many rainy days coming up.

Playing with an online AI that makes your static pictures move and did this one of my ex- for just playing with the program. The results are almost heart breaking. I remember when she looked and smiled like that back in the early 70's. Before that smile eventually disappeared. Ah, well. That's life I guess. Still, I think this particular picture turned out really well. Going to go through all my old family pics and do some more.

All this time that has passed and this is the best I can come up with for a post. Sad. Just sad.