Slept okay last night.

45 degrees in the Fort this morning.

VA doctor's appointment this afternoon.

Peddle something today.

Have a wonderful day!

ZzzZz

• 46 degrees in the "Sparkling Sh#$hole by the Sea"
• Ended up making a batch of marinara yesterday. When temps go into the 40s, my basil goes to heck really quick.
• Butt is on the pit with ribs and sausage to join later
• Fasting for blood work (routine) sucks. If I have meat on a pit this early, I want a taco!

Dog declined walk. Oatmeal for breakfast. Work. Work out. Work.

Benny is sick again this morning. I might have to get someone to cover my on-call and take him to the doctor. He has cough/congestion/chills, but no fever (I found my thermometer). It's not like him to be sick.

-Back in Texas for Halloween

-Up at 5am to take my father in law to the dr for a surgery

-SIL moved out of my Texas house yesterday without telling anyone

-Need to fine tune my fog machines for tomorrow and pick up some extra fog juice

-Worried I might not have enough candy. We are always so close to running out and end up having to ration the last several pieces.

-Have fun out there folks!

Having to work is stupid

Great day yesterday on the Bay of Banderas. Looking forward to another tropical day and shopping on the Marina. Yesterday's sunset:

Bought Benny Dayquil this morning, and he says it's helping. Considering cancelling his dental appointment tomorrow. He's not had a fever, so I'm not sure that he could spread anything. If he doesn't feel well in the morning, I'll definitely cancel.

Up at 3 AM to catch early flight from Milwaukee to DFW. Waiting for flight to Easterwood. Looking forward to seeing family and hopefully a nice buck Saturday morning!

Username checks out?

-I'm off work today. back tomorrow
-gotta go to the post office
-zoom interview at one thirty
-gonna give the dogs a bath
-clean the air fryer/toaster oven
-put away a bunch of laundry
-was not productive yesterday so need to be today

- sup buttholes
- ready to go to the whales vagina saturday
- boobs
- later gaywads

I don't understand why the roofers don't lay down big tarps to drop the shingles / trash from the roof onto. Seems like it would expedite cleanup instead of shoveling everything from the grass into a wheelbarrow. Not criticizing, just curious. I'm sure there's a reason; they're the ones working their butts off, I'm sure they'd adopt shortcuts if they existed.

Made hoagies last night for Italian roasted pork, still have plenty for leftovers today.

Maid comes today, so I'll have a clean house.

Why don't you ask George that question?

• Been a busy morning of meetings
• Homemade Starbucks dupe coffee and poptops for breakfast.
• Lunch soon (not sure what).
• Little sad about my bathroom remodel. The cabinet/door/molding color has a hint of pink in it. At this point we will leave it for awhile, but definitely a little down. Especially since this is the first major thing we've done to the house since moving in 16 years ago. But the rest is looking good. All we have is one small section of tile to be grouted, class door/wall to be installed and lights to be put up.
• I am excited about the very large shower though! It's got shower heads on either end.
• I am very grateful for this weather as we have been able to leave the windows wide open to help air out the paint smell.
• Meetings this afternoon.
• Travel work tonight.

Make it a great day!

Newsflash:
I called and rescheduled Benny's dentist appointment tomorrow. I wouldn't want to work on him if I were a hygienist.

713nervy said:

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I don't understand why the roofers don't lay down big tarps to drop the shingles / trash from the roof onto. Seems like it would expedite cleanup instead of shoveling everything from the grass into a wheelbarrow. Not criticizing, just curious. I'm sure there's a reason; they're the ones working their butts off, I'm sure they'd adopt shortcuts if they existed.

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They will make a lame attempt to pick up all the old roofing nails.

They will fail.

A good lawn care guy will have a big wide magnet on wheels he can push around like a dolly. It will pick up a lot of the ones the roofers missed.

After that you will need to go out and start looking for them.

Random childhood memory:

In 12th grade (January 1990) I got a bad case of the flu. Mom, being mom, made me go back to school the first day that I didn't have a fever despite the fact that I had a nasty cough. She sent me with my prescribed bottle of codeine cough syrup. I can remember taking a dose before English class and then asking my friend Moises if the walls were "squirming." Young naive me never thought to share it or use it any way outside of what was prescribed. But what was prescribed kicked my ass that day.

Out of town for a few days but thankfully my dog was still in the yard when I got home.

A lot of roofing companies do that. Some will skip and don't. Either way they need to be going around the entire house with the magnets and do so several times before leaving. Don't let them skip that step.

Today's TMI post.

My oldest son was conceived 15 years ago today at the La Quinta on Texas in College Station. The one that just caught fire. We had spent the previous 3 years trying to conceive and spent I don't know how many thousands on fertility treatments. In late Sept. the fertility dr said to take some time off of the drugs and IVF.

We checked in. Did the nasty. Went to dinner with our friends and then went to midnight yell. Next day we watched the Pirate and Tech beat the Ags then went out to Northgate for Halloween.

AtticusMatlock said:

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A lot of roofing companies do that. Some will skip and don't. Either way they need to be going around the entire house with the magnets and do so several times before leaving. Don't let them skip that step.

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They have the big magnets! I see them! I think they're behind because they didn't expect to remove 4 layers of shingles + wooden shake. So I will be nosy and look out for them.

I would've asked George about the tarps but he'd left to go empty the giant trailer. Funny enough, they've since laid down big tarps even though I never said anything. Better late than never, I guess.

That's the part I'm least excited about. I KNOW I'm gonna have to pick **** out of the lawn for months.

I remember our butthole roofers who didn't have tarps absolutely demolished our bushes letting it all slide off into the landscaping

UGH, Uncle Mark ****ed up. He's been obsessed with them taking off the chimney because it used to leak down into his room from there. That would be resolved with the new roof, but he couldn't get over it. They removed it - for an increased fee - and they had to replace it with this tall ugly silver thing that's BUTT UGLY. Ugh!

jetch17 said:

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I remember our butthole roofers who didn't have tarps absolutely demolished our bushes letting it all slide off into the landscaping

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This is also happening. Makes me sad.

713nervy said:

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UGH, Uncle Mark ****ed up. He's been obsessed with them taking off the chimney because it used to leak down into his room from there. That would be resolved with the new roof, but he couldn't get over it. They removed it - for an increased fee - and they had to replace it with this tall ugly silver thing that's BUTT UGLY. Ugh!

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When he goes back to Reno you can have it bricked around so it looks like a chimney