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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:21 am
One of those pictures that needs a place to hang.
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:25 am
now we just need a toddler playing in the street....
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:31 am
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:22 am
grrrr
(Brrr)
it’s 13 degrees out this morning and the flame sensor on my furnace decides to crap out
amazon won’t have a new one here till sometime this evening
(Brrr)
it’s 13 degrees out this morning and the flame sensor on my furnace decides to crap out
amazon won’t have a new one here till sometime this evening
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:00 am
Yikes!
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 12:01 pm
Here’s an instance where Hurrah for Amazon is appropriate. You
don’t have to wait 5 days for a service call and another 5 for them to order the part.
don’t have to wait 5 days for a service call and another 5 for them to order the part.
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 12:07 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:29 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:20 pm
i managed to get the furnace to stay lit, though it’s still throwing up the error code green rapid flash, red slow flashpipistrelle wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:29 pmThey have same-day delivery? I thought that died.
And...brrr.
the part will be here tonight it’s a 1 minute swap out, once the furnace has cooled off
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:05 pm
Can confirm. We get power outages here fairly frequently that can last for hours. We always supplement with the wood stove, but when the power’s out we shut all the doors to trap the heat in the living room. And we can cook on it if we have to.
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:37 am
Yep, we haz two wood stoves, one in the sitting room and one in the library fireplaces and we have lots of power outages out here in BFE Virginia. Plus they really save us from going broke running the heat pumps in this drafty old 200+ year old house
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:04 pm
My youngest son and very successful businessman just called me up to tell me he was probably going to die soon and just wanted to let me know. He said he'd gone to (what we call) a "Doc-in-the-Box", otherwise known as a walk in clinic because he had a sore throat and they told him he had high blood pressure of 185/105. He is a workaholic and always has been, and he's very good at what he does. He's an artist and employs a bunch of other artists who design all these crazy car wraps you see all over the roads and he also employs a bunch of other guys to do the printing of all the materials as well as those who do the actual wrapping.
I told him he wasn't going to die, that they do have medications for high BP. He said he was sure he would and that I'd probably out live him, being a healthy old person with normally low blood pressure.
Such a goober. I told my Mr. (a retired PCP) to call the kid and talk to him... 
I told him he wasn't going to die, that they do have medications for high BP. He said he was sure he would and that I'd probably out live him, being a healthy old person with normally low blood pressure.
Such a goober. I told my Mr. (a retired PCP) to call the kid and talk to him... Hijack This Thread
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:51 pm
Okay, this sounds like a really weird phone call.MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:04 pm My youngest son and very successful businessman just called me up to tell me he was probably going to die soon and just wanted to let me know. He said he'd gone to (what we call) a "Doc-in-the-Box", otherwise known as a walk in clinic because he had a sore throat and they told him he had high blood pressure of 185/105. He is a workaholic and always has been, and he's very good at what he does. He's an artist and employs a bunch of other artists who design all these crazy car wraps you see all over the roads and he also employs a bunch of other guys to do the printing of all the materials as well as those who do the actual wrapping.
I told him he wasn't going to die, that they do have medications for high BP. He said he was sure he would and that I'd probably out live him, being a healthy old person with normally low blood pressure.
First, your son is not dying (unless he failed to disclose something to you).
You say he is running a very successful business, but sounds like he's pushing himself too hard (type A personality?).
I assume he has good health insurance so why a trip to a walk-in clinic? Does he not have a primary care physician?
The BP is not horrible, but is a concern. And without a full set of disagnostic tests, nobody can just point at the BP-- oh there is the problem.
Sure, there may required medication, but pills don't solve everything. He may need to incorporate lifestyle and diet changes.
But anyway, again, that sounds like a weird phone call. Is he a hypochondriac-- one of these people who spend too much time self-diagnosing on WedMD, etc?
Good luck on your Mr. talking some sense into the boy.
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:21 pm
Tell your son to take his medicine! I ignored a doctor when he told me to do something about it and then I had a stroke. Now I wouldn’t be without the meds. It took a few months to adjust but 15 years on my bp is 130/76.
Also, do you mean wraps like this?
This was on mr’s ‘57 Volvo. It’s a Ukrainian designer’s idea of what an iguana looks like. He’d never seen one.
Also, do you mean wraps like this?
This was on mr’s ‘57 Volvo. It’s a Ukrainian designer’s idea of what an iguana looks like. He’d never seen one.
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:22 pm
There are wonderful medicines for controlling high blood pressure now. I have been taking 3 of them for years and have the blood pressure of an 18 year old athlete. 
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:03 am
neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:51 pm
Okay, this sounds like a really weird phone call.
First, your son is not dying (unless he failed to disclose something to you).
You say he is running a very successful business, but sounds like he's pushing himself too hard (type A personality?).
I assume he has good health insurance so why a trip to a walk-in clinic? Does he not have a primary care physician?
The BP is not horrible, but is a concern. And without a full set of disagnostic tests, nobody can just point at the BP-- oh there is the problem.
Sure, there may required medication, but pills don't solve everything. He may need to incorporate lifestyle and diet changes.
But anyway, again, that sounds like a weird phone call. Is he a hypochondriac-- one of these people who spend too much time self-diagnosing on WedMD, etc?
Good luck on your Mr. talking some sense into the boy.
He knows he's not dying, he's actually quite funny about it all. In his entire adult life this is the third time he's ever really complained about anything, the first time was hemorrhoids and the second time was a broken foot. He does work very hard, but his business partner/wife works even harder, she's the bomb! He sits at his computer working with clients on what they want, she literally does or manages pretty much everything else. My job in the family is to be at her disposal in picking up, dropping off, or tending to the grandkids. He does have a PCP but you have to make appointments for that, quicker just to go to a walk-in and it's still covered on his insurance.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:26 am
Sounds to me like son wanted to be comforted by Mama Daisy. Even though he logically knew that stuff, he passed an "old age" mile marker and needed his mama. 
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:49 am
I hope Mr. Gets through to him! Good luck!MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:04 pm I told him he wasn't going to die, that they do have medications for high BP. He said he was sure he would and that I'd probably out live him, being a healthy old person with normally low blood pressure.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:52 am
LOL! Of the two he was always the biggest mama's boyTiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:26 am Sounds to me like son wanted to be comforted by Mama Daisy. Even though he logically knew that stuff, he passed an "old age" mile marker and needed his mama.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 6:10 pm
Went to the honey baked ham store in Pasadena today to get ham and turkey. Although we pre-ordered on the website you don’t pay until they weigh it.
The last two years they had it set up for drive thru due to COVID. This year not, and the line was over 1block/1hour long. I don’t think anyone minded. It was a beautiful day.
The group I stood with included 2 people who personally know the winner of the $2billion Powerball jackpot. She’s a neighborhood gal.
I guess that’s as close to a jackpot as I’ll ever be.
The last two years they had it set up for drive thru due to COVID. This year not, and the line was over 1block/1hour long. I don’t think anyone minded. It was a beautiful day.
The group I stood with included 2 people who personally know the winner of the $2billion Powerball jackpot. She’s a neighborhood gal.
I guess that’s as close to a jackpot as I’ll ever be.
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:08 am
Q. Why did the wise men bring frankincense and myrrh?
A. They were men. By the time they got around to Christmas shopping, that's all that was left on the shelves.
I do sexist jokes about wimmin, too also. But I'm a woke guy, so it's okay.
A. They were men. By the time they got around to Christmas shopping, that's all that was left on the shelves.
I do sexist jokes about wimmin, too also. But I'm a woke guy, so it's okay.
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:22 am
I think the correct terminology is "I identify as a woke guy."
Edit: Predictive mistypoing
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:11 pm
I've seen "The Mousetrap" in London 3 times. No, I am not going to give away the ending.
The Mousetrap: Agatha Christie's West End hit heads to Broadway after 70 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63744907
No, I am not going to give away the ending. The Mousetrap: Agatha Christie's West End hit heads to Broadway after 70 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63744907
The world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which marks its 70th anniversary on Friday, is to open on Broadway for the first time next year.
Agatha Christie's whodunit premiered on 25 November 1952 in Nottingham's Theatre Royal. She initially thought it might run for only eight months.
But it has since become a West End fixture, being performed almost 29,000 times and seen by 10 million people.
The show has been staged in the US before, but never on Broadway.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:37 pm