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Decrepit |
Nov 19 2023, 06:44 PM
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Joined: 9-September 15
From: Mid-South USA
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Project: Trim Tree Branches away from roof Status: Phase two complete Due to the number of branches lying in clumps atop my lawn, I envisioned this as a three-to-four-session project, spread out over as many days. Having rested yesterday to allow my sore neck and upper back a chance to recover, which didn't stop me from doing that morning's weight-lift/resistance session and afternoon walk, today, right after a light forearm exercise session, I started cutting fallen branches to manageable size and carrying them to my driveway. The largest clump was tackled first, expecting it to be the totality of today's session. Once done, I decided to cut and carry as much of clump two as I could before giving out. When all was said and done I had cut and carried all five clumps. They reside peacefully on the unused side of my driveway/parking slab. Early on my lower back began hurting, but not enough to throw in the towel. (I was tempted to several times.) The right side of my neck is bothering me again. Otherwise, I suffer from nothing worse than expected mild general stiffness/soreness. As to phase three, carting branches to our town's official burn location, I've no definite plan. As in years past, I'm going to play it by ear and hope things eventually fall into place. QUOTE(mirocu @ Nov 19 2023, 03:46 AM) Just went for a walk and to take pictures of my old school as I've heard it's up for future demolition due to reasons. Such a shame, but at least I have pics of it now even though not everything looks as they did back then.
So far as I know, my Grade School and first High School, located in the same complex, are still operational and look much as they did back in the day. (The band building is alas long gone.) My second High School is operational but looks vastly different from what it did when I attended, thanks to being totaled by a tornado three to four years after I graduated. (That same tornado demolished the auto dealership dad worked at and my parents' home.) My Junior High School has been derelict for decades. I don't know how much of its remains, if any, still stand. This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 19 2023, 06:45 PM
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treydog |
Nov 19 2023, 06:44 PM
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Master
Joined: 13-February 05
From: The Smoky Mountains
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Good on you, Decrepit! I have done two rounds of blowing leaves off the roof/out of the gutters so far this autumn, and need to do at least one more. However, as we are having visitors for Thanksgiving, Mrs. Treydog has informed me that I am to wait. In other news, "Separate Paths," Book 2 of the Unnamed Saga will go live on December 3. The UnnamedThe ebook version of "Challenge Accepted" (Book 1) will also be available at a promotional price that week. "Ancient Powers" (Book 3) is undergoing editing, proofreading, and cover design. "Dark Visions" (Book 4) is about halfway into the first draft (55000 words).
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The dreams down here aren't broken, nah, they're walkin' with a limp...
The best-dressed newt in Mournhold.
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Decrepit |
Jan 11 2024, 09:37 PM
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Master
Joined: 9-September 15
From: Mid-South USA
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Project: improve health/fitness Status: <sighs>
This afternoon's exercise-walk was likely my last for an extended period of time, very likely until sometime in March at the earliest. Tomorrow, a rain/storm day, temps begin to turn drastically colder. From Saturday onward, highs are expected to be from the thirties down into the teens for quite a while. No way will I trust myself to walk for extended periods, outdoors, in that sort of weather without facing possibly dire health consequences. Oh well, I knew it had to happen sometime. My hope was that prohibitively cold weather would hold off until the end of the month, as it does some years. On the bright side, I can now hold off buying a new pair of exercise/walking shoes. My current pair don't have many miles left of 'em. Thanks to an extended route and more consistent six-day-per-week walking schedule, they haven't held up as well as previous shoes of the same make/model, which is to be expected. That said, I'll be able to survive the winter wearing them indoors during resistance training sessions.
Project: renewal State Driver's License / Real ID renewal Status: Running out of time
Having gotten my tags in the mail yesterday, I planned to take care of this sometime next week. But with temps as low as they are expected to be, I might drive to town tomorrow and handle it, storms or no storms. I hope the lady I spoke with on the phone this morning is correct in that I do not need to bring any of the identification paperwork mentioned online.
I really ought to make a grocery run tomorrow too. But my normal grocery run day is Monday, I doubt I can predict what I need for next week this far in advance. Still, I'll think on it.
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Decrepit |
Jan 12 2024, 06:44 PM
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Master
Joined: 9-September 15
From: Mid-South USA
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Project: Renew State Driver License / Real ID be area turns into an ice-skating rink Status: DONE!
I bet on the Revenue Office opening at 0800, as at least one online site states, rather than 0900, as a different site states. As rarely happens, I made the correct assumption. Arrived circa 0815. Very few customers ahead of me, so very short wait. No info needed to verify I'm me, other than handing in "old" license/ID. Wasn't even asked to take a vision test, a first. Renewed for the max time allowed, eight years, which cost me $40US. (Car Tags have already been renewed, online.)
Project: Get groceries before the area turns into an ice-skating rink. Status: DONE!, I hope
Drove to Wally World immediately after getting new License/ID. Got everything on my list except Tomatoes, which I forgot, and Frozen Cauliflower, which they were out of. (I likely have enough cauliflower on hand to last through the end of next week, if I'm careful.)
To my knowledge, this morning's worst SNAFU was letting the receipt for my License/ID slip out of my hand while carrying groceries from the car to the house. Naturally, it fell into a puddle of water and is pretty thoroughly disintegrated. Why didn't I put it in a jacket pocket rather than leave it sitting on a car seat? I know why, but some things are best left unsaid.
Yes, I've avoided the beginning of too-cold weather, barring some unanticipated emergency that requires an immediate response that can only be enacted away from home.
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Decrepit |
Feb 21 2024, 04:24 PM
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Master
Joined: 9-September 15
From: Mid-South USA
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Project: Prepare and File 2023 Fed & State tax returns Status: Done, and I was right to be skeptical of last year's drastic reduction of tax withheld on my Military Pension
Prepared and e-filed State & Fed tax returns via TurboTax this morning. You likely don't recall that, fairly early last year, I received a pay statement from DOD in which tax-withheld from my military pension had been drastically reduced, that I called the appropriate agency and was unable get a to satisfactory justification for said reduction, and that I restored most of the reduction via my retirement account's "Additional Income tax Withheld" function. It's a darn good thing I did so! Had I not, I'd have owed hundreds on this year's Fed Tax return. As it is, even with my adjustment, I'm getting a Fed refund of roughly $235. On the other hand, I get $420 back from the state, basically everything I paid in. (My state no longer taxes either Social Security income or Military Pensions. I like to pay a little into the system anyway, just in case.)
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mirocu |
Mar 25 2024, 05:49 PM
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Spam Meister
Joined: 8-February 13
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Lol birdIt matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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Decrepit |
May 13 2024, 03:33 PM
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Master
Joined: 9-September 15
From: Mid-South USA
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Project: see adequately while at the computer Status: much improved, not perfect
I've used the same pair of $12 off-the-rack Walmart eyeglasses at the computer for years and years, well over a decade if not longer. Those $12 glasses no longer provide sharp focus, not helped by the stick'm-ism I developed maybe five years ago.
My prescription bifocal eyeglasses correct stick'm-ism. They do not, however, work at computer-screen distance. I was at wit's end trying to figure out a workable solution. Then, yesterday, I recalled that 4 or 5 years ago I asked my eye doctor to write a computer-distance prescription, giving him the approximate distance in inches I sit from the screen. The resultant pair of glasses was a failure, too out of focus to use. (They were fine at about 2ft. I sit roughly 3.5ft away, sometimes more.)
My vision has worsened since then. I hoped that the once-too-strong prescription might now match my vision. It does! Not perfectly. But it's appreciably closer than my $12 wonders. Stick'm-ism is corrected! Focus could be a bit sharper, but is definitely improved. The "new" glasses are still at their best if I move closer to the screen. Since that ain't gonna happen I'll take what I can get.
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TheCheshireKhajiit |
May 13 2024, 04:13 PM
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Ancient
Joined: 28-September 16
From: Sheogorath's shrine talking to myselves!
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QUOTE(Decrepit @ May 13 2024, 09:33 AM) *snip*
As expensive as glasses can be, it’s really good that you were able to finally use those prescription lenses! It’s great they help you with your ‘puter!
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
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mirocu |
May 26 2024, 04:59 PM
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Spam Meister
Joined: 8-February 13
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Firewood: The Endgame Next Marvel movie..? Maybe not, but we are indeed in the final stretch of firewooding 2024. Today was the last of cutting full-length logs into pieces and now we just have to split them. Not a whole lot either, but still enough for maybe two Saturdays unless Dad does some work during the week. We'll get more or less as much as last year to our customer. A little bit less to us but we don't need that much anyway. Despite me burning through as much as I could last fall we still had some left spilling into this year. So we good Random moisture test showed between 9% and 15% in the pile so it's drying up nicely.
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Lol birdIt matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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TheCheshireKhajiit |
Jun 2 2024, 04:13 AM
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Ancient
Joined: 28-September 16
From: Sheogorath's shrine talking to myselves!
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QUOTE(Dark Reaper @ Jun 1 2024, 07:46 PM) I was going to make some healthy homemade fruit roll-ups but ended up making some kind of berry mixed applesauce that's really good. Going to have to recreate it for Thanksgiving Day.
Sounds like that would be yummers in some dressing!
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
May you walk on warm sands!
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treydog |
Jul 3 2024, 05:59 PM
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Master
Joined: 13-February 05
From: The Smoky Mountains
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Happy to announce that the Kindle version of the third book of our series Ancient Powers is available for pre-order. (Paperback will be live on July 7). Also, the Kindle versions of the first two books Challenge Accepted and Separate Paths are available for .99 US through July 10. Writing these has been great fun, and we have many folks here at Chorrol to thank for giving us the support and encouragement to have reached this point. One thing to note: While there are now THREE books, "The Unnamed Saga" won't exactly be a "trilogy." The draft of Book 4 is already at 96000 words, and even that one won't be the finale. Or maybe the series WILL be a seven or eight book "trilogy." Our deepest gratitude to everyone here in the Chorrol family.
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The dreams down here aren't broken, nah, they're walkin' with a limp...
The best-dressed newt in Mournhold.
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