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[Foxx]

On 2/4/2023 at 10:45 AM, Foxx said:

I've wanted to post this thread for a while now. The events of this morning gave me the impetus to do so. 

 

Just a thread to post anything meaningful that happened in your life today. Or if you just want to post whatever happened today.

 

 

I'm in my office surfing the 'net, and I hear a diesel engine outside the window that sounds like it stopped in the road. Wanting to see what was happening, I got up to look out the curtain. I see that the town snow plow salting the roads has stopped because my elderly neighbor was at his mailbox getting the mail. After a bit, he walked across his front lawn, enabling the snow plow to proceed without fear of possibly running him over. So I continue to watch my neighbor walk across his snowed front yard in his slippers and, with his walking cane, walk towards the neighbor's house. 

 

I figured he got some of their mail delivered to his mailbox and wanted to give it to them. Now it is dangerously cold out there today, and I am always concerned about this neighbor, but he has good children and grandchildren that come over every day to look in on them and stay for hours caring for them. Unfortunately, they were not around this morning.

 

So, after watching him struggle to get to the neighbors and fumble around for a couple of minutes, I realize something is not right. I put my coat and shoes on and go out to see if I can assist him. Sure enough, he thought he was heading back into his house. He tells me that he is blind and can't see a thing. So I explained to him that he was at the neighbor's house, not mine but the one on the other side of him, and proceeded to walk him back to his house. We get to the open garage door, and he says that he is okay from there. I told him we are close; let me walk you to the house door. He thanked me profusely, and I told him he was welcome but that I was just glad I heard the truck outside my window, or who knows what would have happened. 

 

All I know is that if he had gone out in the dark to get his mail last night, it might not have been a very good morning here. I will wait for his daughter to show up, explain to her what happened, that his getting the mail might not be a good idea, and that I can get it for them if it helps.

 

 

Anyhoo, is anything happening in your world today?

A follow-up of sorts, here.

 

The next day after this happened I stopped over to make sure everything was okay and tell them that I would get their mail from the roadside box and bring it to them so that this doesn't happen again. During the course of conversation, I mentioned that a friend of mine up the street has the post office instruct the mailman to deliver her mail to a mailbox she has at her door and that it might be a good solution here. A couple days after that, I wait till I see the daughters car in the driveway and go over to see her to mention the mailbox at the house thing. She said that her mom had mentioned it to her and that she was going to call the post office. So I told her that if they get a mailbox for the house, that I would mount it for them.

After about two weeks of retrieving their mail for them (they get quite a lot of mail!), there were two days in a row where nothing is in their mailbox. It didn't dawn on me that maybe the mailman was bringing to mail to them himself, but my wife said she saw the mailman walk the mail up the driveway and leave the mail between the door and the storm door.

 

Approximately two weeks after that, they got a mailbox that I mounted to the side of their house next to the front door. So now that is all set. I guess my only concern at this point is that that walk to the mailbox everyday was most likely the extent of his daily exercise. I will have to noodle what we can do to keep those muscles moving.

 

 

[Ann]

Today I...

Went out to lunch with Hubby, then we went for pedicures. I liked the place so much, I'll be going back regularly! Bonus, I will not have his feet exfoliating my calves at night for at least a month. 

All that, and the cleaning people came and cleaned our house while we were out.  

So, no cooking, no cleaning, no husband with abrasive feet.  Truly a wonderful day.  

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

Today I successfully got ChatGPT to call me "We Are Legion."

 

Failed to get it to call a chicken an "elephant," though.  There's always tomorrow.

[devnull]

1 hour ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

Today I successfully got ChatGPT to call me "We Are Legion."

 

Failed to get it to call a chicken an "elephant," though.  There's always tomorrow.

How many billable hours did that take?

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

30 minutes ago, devnull said:

How many billable hours did that take?

 

None.  Billable hours are for Sudoku.

[Fansince88]

Today I took a trip to the dump with my wife....Alone. then I went shopping with my wife....alone. Then we called a friend and got lunch. We have not gone out alone in 6 months without my daughter and granddaughter. We miss them but I'm not in my 20s anymore. Daddy is home from UAE so it makes us all happy!

[IDBillzFan]

Today I will watch my only child graduate high school, and I'm something of a wreck.

 

I understand everyone calls their child a miracle baby, but in this case, it's absolutely true.

 

Prior to his conception, my wife and I were close to divorce when she started experiencing a sever case of endometriosis. She was in the hospital getting pain meds at least once a week, landing on the couch wearing a Fentanyl patch in a foggy stupor until she was ultimately correctly diagnosed.

 

We had two choices: a full hysterectomy -- or get pregnant. She was too young for the former, so we got lined up with a doctor who specialized in AI. It took a couple of times, but she finally got pregnant, and at that very moment he was conceived, she never suffered from endometriosis again. Miracle #1.

 

But the pregnancy was very difficult, ultimately landing them in the hospital for the last 6 weeks on strict bedrest after she passed what they referred to as "the toe test:" when you're bleeding so much it finds its way to your toes. We were certain we would lose him, and I pray none of you ever have to be in a hospital watching them have trouble trying to find your child's heartbeat.

 

He was born about four weeks early, and it was Miracle #2. I had to go to the store to buy preemie onesies for him, and remember kneeling down at the rack in the store and sobbing. 

 

Today he graduates with a full ROTC ride to Norwich University, where he'll major in Studies in War and Peace. God help him, he wants to return to Idaho and run for the senate seat.

 

If you've read this far, then appreciate this: when he was born, a handful of people from this board and myself were on an alternate Bills message board at the time. They all pooled money together and sent my wife and I gift card. In fact, three of the people on that board at the time are no longer with us; Paul, Thailog and Murph. Cigar Mark lives on another Bills board. But you other dudes know who you are.

 

Okay. Going to push my way through the day. I hate the world he is inheriting, but I promise you all he will find a way to make it better.

[devnull]

Today I replaced the flapper on my crapper

[Uncle Joe]

Googled College World Series baseball on ESPN and basically got Women's Softball links...

[Uncle Joe]

was reminded of my youth:
https://www.keizertimes.com/2023/06/08/mcnary-prank-became-national-news-50-years-ago/?fbclid=IwAR10pkwjfy2Yiuji9ivqP0y7n3V5OCcgfvbvCN39qTBjWyXxON058XX4weU

No, my name is not in the article. No, it is not THE David Cassidy. However, David got to be an extra in a couple Animal House scenes while he was a student at UofO.

And yes, my name is on a tire.

73 tires for the claas of '73
 

Edited June 10, 2023 by Uncle Joe
added pics

[CarpetCrawler]

On 6/6/2023 at 3:51 PM, devnull said:

Today I replaced the flapper on my crapper

 

I bet while you did it you looked rather dapper.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

Today I learned that you can still buy candy cigarettes?

 

https://www.oldtimecandy.com/products/candy-cigarettes-pack?variant=40707883958324&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&tw_source=google&tw_adid=&tw_campaign=17881840005&gclid=CjwKCAjwp6CkBhB_EiwAlQVyxUflsg-Gqmjgmsse6169ATpxGIseG32b64HDmS-Ibx9LLXmLCi8UrhoCV2wQAvD_BwE

 

I'm going to buy some and send them to my youngest niece. 

[Foxx]

1 hour ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

Today I learned that you can still buy candy cigarettes?

 

https://www.oldtimecandy.com/products/candy-cigarettes-pack?variant=40707883958324&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&tw_source=google&tw_adid=&tw_campaign=17881840005&gclid=CjwKCAjwp6CkBhB_EiwAlQVyxUflsg-Gqmjgmsse6169ATpxGIseG32b64HDmS-Ibx9LLXmLCi8UrhoCV2wQAvD_BwE

 

I'm going to buy some and send them to my youngest niece. 

Just a small FYI...

 

Anything after, "?", in a url is just tracking information.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

2 hours ago, Foxx said:

Just a small FYI...

 

Anything after, "?", in a url is just tracking information.

 

I know that.  I usually delete them.  Didn't this time.

[devnull]

3 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

Today I learned that you can still buy candy cigarettes?

 

https://www.oldtimecandy.com/products/candy-cigarettes-pack?variant=40707883958324&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&tw_source=google&tw_adid=&tw_campaign=17881840005&gclid=CjwKCAjwp6CkBhB_EiwAlQVyxUflsg-Gqmjgmsse6169ATpxGIseG32b64HDmS-Ibx9LLXmLCi8UrhoCV2wQAvD_BwE

 

I'm going to buy some and send them to my youngest niece. 

 

So when you visit your nieces/nephews, do you have them call you Uncle Tom?

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

20 minutes ago, devnull said:

 

So when you visit your nieces/nephews, do you have them call you Uncle Tom?

 

Back when I was allowed to talk to them, I would usually get asked about my cabin...

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

Today I spent four hours discovering that the language I've been programming in doesn't treat an inner join as a cartesian product by default, which is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen, and I can't even complain about it because nobody knows what the &#%$ I'm talking about. 

[Uncle Joe]

I was reminiscing today a week after Father's Day..,
I wanted to post this earlier for my virtual friends, TODAY I decided to do so.
 

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/justin-goe-obituary?id=52021402&fbclid=IwAR1sHFCwXUDwhUABlnBS9pnji-OTrafF3_O234NPuNRC8jfxgN77bTjGbyo
@Alaska Darin A real life story about our fears of youth football
@IDBillzFan A college friend of mine that is/was a sports reporter. He is a good man and this wasn't about clicks. This is about telling the truth in order to educate others. I commend him for doing so publicly,
@Augie I don't think I need to elaborate.

Carry on. Its been a rough year for me.

[Augie]

8 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said:

I was reminiscing today a week after Father's Day..,
I wanted to post this earlier for my virtual friends, TODAY I decided to do so.
 

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/justin-goe-obituary?id=52021402&fbclid=IwAR1sHFCwXUDwhUABlnBS9pnji-OTrafF3_O234NPuNRC8jfxgN77bTjGbyo
@Alaska Darin A real life story about our fears of youth football
@IDBillzFan A college friend of mine that is/was a sports reporter. He is a good man and this wasn't about clicks. This is about telling the truth in order to educate others. I commend him for doing so publicly,
@Augie I don't think I need to elaborate.

Carry on. Its been a rough year for me.

 

I guess you know I’ve never been shy about what we have been thru in losing Michael. My heart goes out to all the people who loved your son. 

 

Time doesn’t fully heal, but it definitely helps. God bless. 

[Uncle Joe]

33 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

I guess you know I’ve never been shy about what we have been thru in losing Michael. My heart goes out to all the people who loved your son. 

 

Time doesn’t fully heal, but it definitely helps. God bless. 

To be clear, it was not my son, but that of a college friend.

However, I knew I didn't have to look under the couch a couple months ago...