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[Montrovant]

The little one is sick. She came home early after throwing up at school, and threw up again after she got home. Right now she's asleep on the couch.

 

[InsaneForJesus]

I was deathmental am now InsaneForJesus
Scotland is great well apart from the weather but its been sunny here the last few days
Montrovant , am sorry your little one is unwell i hope she feels better soon

 

[Gracie]

Well, I am less stressed today. The drive was freaking me out. Ever driven thru LA and their yarnballs of freeways and highways and interstates?
*shudder*
Google and Bing both gave me such weird directions, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. And fwys turn into highways and if you make the wrong lane turn, you wind up in an area you don't want to be in. So...I have been freaked out. But...my friends are going to rent a car in their town, drop it off in Ventura at the Enterprise location, we meet them there and they ride with us back to their place. He will ride with mrG and she will drive my van.

I feel so much better.

 

[Gracie]

Oh, and she went shopping in their little beat up truck and got THREE dressers waiting for me to paint. CA CHING!!!!
I told her we all will have THREE cars now. 2 trucks and one van. They are happy.

Mine. She said do as I wish with it:

 

[Montrovant]

My employer got off work a bit late today, and between that and the little one being sick, she asked me to make the sides for dinner. I, of course, promptly managed to ruin boiling rice.

 

[Ringel05]

Just finished dinner, made a pork roast with apple/mustard glaze, the wife told me that one is a keeper and she was right.

 

[saveliberty]

Oh. Ok! I ve been so far into my own dumpy world I have neglected to keep up on everyone else. Very fair weather friendish, and I apologize. Nothing irritates me more than fair weather friends. I hope I am not one.

Glad you still have your job, although less pay. Somethin' is better than nothin', know what I mean Vern?

We are all good Gracie. My situation is far less difficult than yours.

 

[saveliberty]

On my last job in which somebody other than me paid me, I started out at $2,000/month to do administrative stuff, plus commission for the claims work I did. It wasn't long before I was making more money than I had ever made, so the boss decided I was being overpaid and assigned the administrative stuff to a secretary (it eventually took two of them to do it) and said I would just be on straight commission. And when I say straight commission that is the pure truth--no money for expenses or any benefits of any kind, but they were withholding social security and taxes so that turned out to be a real benefit when it came time to collect social security. But not having to do all the administrative crap left me more time to work claims so I added about $30k to my commission earnings.

So it is the truth that when you are actually paid for what you do instead of some agreed salary, less can be more if you have more to do. (That made sense to me even if it sounds wierd. )

I followed what you were trying to say completely. It is hard to function without the four people total that left Wednesday. I also was told by several others they plan on leaving Friday or very soon. Looks like another three at least, which means I will have to be extremely creative on getting vehicles ready for sale. To complete the rehire, I have to turn in my paperwork Friday. It is done, but I am not decided on whether to turn it in or not. Could be a negotiation tool or stupid move, who knows?

 

[gallantwarrior]

The little one is sick. She came home early after throwing up at school, and threw up again after she got home. Right now she's asleep on the couch.

Sorry for the little one, Montro. Keep her warm, lots of liquids (especially if she's tossing it).

 

[gallantwarrior]

Well, I am less stressed today. The drive was freaking me out. Ever driven thru LA and their yarnballs of freeways and highways and interstates?
*shudder*
Google and Bing both gave me such weird directions, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. And fwys turn into highways and if you make the wrong lane turn, you wind up in an area you don't want to be in. So...I have been freaked out. But...my friends are going to rent a car in their town, drop it off in Ventura at the Enterprise location, we meet them there and they ride with us back to their place. He will ride with mrG and she will drive my van.

I feel so much better.

Maps are your friends and I'm sure you, or Mr. G., are capable of deciphering them, if not folding them back into their pristine packets.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Alas, no dinner here. I spent the better part of the day with my partner, negotiating to obtain a nice John Deere 410, with lots and lots of extras...not the least of which is a custom built boom capable of lifting 3 tons 70'. This baby is more than what I've been looking for and will be a HUGE asset up at the homestead. Now we have to find a trailer to drag it away on. My Dodge will pull the thing with no problem. I really felt sorry for the guy, he lost his job on the North Slope in January and has been unable to find any other work up here so he's heading for Oregon/Washington. There are some job available in that neck of the world, but he has to pretty much sell up all but the essentials. His asking price was outrageously low but he told me he feels pretty good letting the machinery go to my partner and I. There are some common threads among the three of us (Alaska is a small place, in some ways). We've decided to name the new acquisition Backho'zilla. The name was provided by my daughter.
Nothing lifts the spirits like a newly acquired piece of heavy equipment.

 

[Pogo]

Oh! Scotland! I have always wanted to go there for a visit. Ireland, too. But mostly Scotland. Don't know why. Just fascinates me.

That's interesting -- I've always had the exact same wish.

Sometimes I wonder if it came from reading comic books as a wee bairn that featured Scrooge McDuck.

 

[Pogo]

Well, I am less stressed today. The drive was freaking me out. Ever driven thru LA and their yarnballs of freeways and highways and interstates?
*shudder*
Google and Bing both gave me such weird directions, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. And fwys turn into highways and if you make the wrong lane turn, you wind up in an area you don't want to be in. So...I have been freaked out. But...my friends are going to rent a car in their town, drop it off in Ventura at the Enterprise location, we meet them there and they ride with us back to their place. He will ride with mrG and she will drive my van.

I feel so much better.

Maps are your friends and I'm sure you, or Mr. G., are capable of deciphering them, if not folding them back into their pristine packets.

Ah, maps. I love maps, or at least used to. Still have about a million, including somewhere a road map of Poland.
GPS makes ya real lazy though.

 

[Gracie]

Screw the maps. It isn't really them that is the problem. The problem is the multiple names of each and every fwy, hwy, rd, route, etc.
101 is the ventura freeway when you get near ventura, but then its still the 101 aka 85B, which turns into the 210 but is really still the 101 and the 134, THEN goes to 210 with other stupid names of 34A or some such...and you have to be in the correct lane on that yarn ball otherwise you wind up in san diego or worse, a part of a neighborhood you do not want to be in....so in the middle lane. And hope it doesnt lead you to some other godforsaken place. Then you have to find the 10 but it twists left right up down north south east west....so aim to palm springs but you might wind up in upper arizona instead of where you want to go. 101, 134, 85B, 210, 10, ventura hwy that turns into another hwy I forget the name of, but still is the 101 until you get to wherever then its the 134 but is STILL the 101 that happens to be the non remembers hwy name as well.

Fuck that shit.

 

[Ringel05]

Well, I am less stressed today. The drive was freaking me out. Ever driven thru LA and their yarnballs of freeways and highways and interstates?
*shudder*
Google and Bing both gave me such weird directions, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. And fwys turn into highways and if you make the wrong lane turn, you wind up in an area you don't want to be in. So...I have been freaked out. But...my friends are going to rent a car in their town, drop it off in Ventura at the Enterprise location, we meet them there and they ride with us back to their place. He will ride with mrG and she will drive my van.

I feel so much better.

Maps are your friends and I'm sure you, or Mr. G., are capable of deciphering them, if not folding them back into their pristine packets.

Maps? I remember those things........

 

[Gracie]

Did I mention that the Morongo Rez is nearby...and has a casino?
I like penny slots.

California Casinos | Morongo Casino Resort

 

[InsaneForJesus]

Good Morning everyone Banana and tea for breakfast
got my younger nieces coming over for until Sunday , then my sister is coming over to see them ( my mother has custody of my younger nieces ) my husband needs to go and get shopping today so he leaving me at home with the nieces while he does that dragging them with us to do the shopping is a pain in the ass as they ask for things when we trying to remember what we need and normally we forget something.
The younger nieces are 13 and 15 i also have two older nieces and a nephew and a great niece from one of my older nieces she is getting baptized in a week or so . all of my nieces and nephew are all my sisters kids ( I have one sister with five kids )
am still half a sleep here need to wake up need more tea

 

[Dajjal]

Did I mention that the Morongo Rez is nearby...and has a casino?
I like penny slots.

California Casinos | Morongo Casino Resort

I used to repair amusement machines. the odds are stacked against you, and the machines are controlled by a computer. The machines that the most money are the ones set to a generous payout. They have a switch half way down the coin tube, which makes the machine pay out less. So that the tube does not empty itself

 

[Foxfyre]

Well, I am less stressed today. The drive was freaking me out. Ever driven thru LA and their yarnballs of freeways and highways and interstates?
*shudder*
Google and Bing both gave me such weird directions, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. And fwys turn into highways and if you make the wrong lane turn, you wind up in an area you don't want to be in. So...I have been freaked out. But...my friends are going to rent a car in their town, drop it off in Ventura at the Enterprise location, we meet them there and they ride with us back to their place. He will ride with mrG and she will drive my van.

I feel so much better.

Maps are your friends and I'm sure you, or Mr. G., are capable of deciphering them, if not folding them back into their pristine packets.

Maps? I remember those things........

Well, I am less stressed today. The drive was freaking me out. Ever driven thru LA and their yarnballs of freeways and highways and interstates?
*shudder*
Google and Bing both gave me such weird directions, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. And fwys turn into highways and if you make the wrong lane turn, you wind up in an area you don't want to be in. So...I have been freaked out. But...my friends are going to rent a car in their town, drop it off in Ventura at the Enterprise location, we meet them there and they ride with us back to their place. He will ride with mrG and she will drive my van.

I feel so much better.

Maps are your friends and I'm sure you, or Mr. G., are capable of deciphering them, if not folding them back into their pristine packets.

Ah, maps. I love maps, or at least used to. Still have about a million, including somewhere a road map of Poland.
GPS makes ya real lazy though.

Indeed it does. We don't buy maps any more but heavily depend on the Garmin. I think I would not dare drive the roads of Los Angeles without a GPS system. Gracie is far more brave than I am. But when Hombre and I were driving the entire state of New Mexico as well as a good chunk of Texas, we had maps to every city, town, village, and sometimes county. If somebody was headed for Tijeras NM (population 500 or so) and needed a map, we had one.

 

[Foxfyre]

Good morning everybody. Our windows and doors are wide open to welcome in the crisp fresh morning air. We'll close up later today as it warms into the mid 80's. The sky is so blue now it hurts your eyes to look directly at it, but later it will give way to white thunderheads and a few showers here and there. It is still monsoon season in New Mexico. But as I lament that the showers are still too inadequate to fully break the back of our prolonged drought here, I am reminded of our blessings.

A friend who lives in the area recently posted these photos:

Interstate 12 approaching Denham Springs LA.

And when the rains came, 90% of the homes in that parish have been severely damaged or destroyed: