Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Five

[Ken_A]

at $55... that is one expensive salt shaker.

 

[Kenna]

On a lighter note, got home today to a box full of mail. In there was a box from Kenleigh's Fiber Studio. It is a needle felted Spock, my heart dog who passed on December 2014. My Best Friend Ever ordered this for me, took over a year until Shannon could get to making it. But Spock is home. This felted Spock even has some of his fur in it!!

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Aww Cathy! [emoji24] [emoji24] [emoji24]

 

[Kenna]

yep.

but what from what i can gather, gary's kodi does the same.

i have no clue which is better

i'm too lazy to install kodi on my pc (which i think gary has done) and install plugins, which i've already installed on playon

i can watch near anything, free. if kodi gave me a mayweather/pacquiao PPV, then i'd spend extra

i haven't paid for cable tv in about 2 years.

Ok. I want what ever allows me to watching everything on cable tonight for nothing. I'd cut the cable lines forever if I could get current programming.

 

[Rotowoman]

You gotta go all the way out to the island????

No, no, Baby!! The meeting was held at headquarters not far from where I live. Do you really believe for one minute that this girl would drive 3 hours for that??? Uh...NO

Roto - I love maroon, or dark cranberry or cabernet -

I couldn't think of the word "Burgundy" Yeah...burgundy, maroon, whatever....yeah, that's my favorite

 

[Kenna]

Good morning. It's still below freezing here right now but the temp will rise quickly. Bright and clear.

A story of no relevance whatsoever to anything except for the fact that my brain just dredged it from my past for no known reason:

It was 1971. I had recently dropped out of college put my education on hold in order to find myself. (I'm going back when I do.)

I was working for my Dad in his metal fabrication shop, and was sent on a road trip to get a steel rod from the junk yard about 15 miles away. We're talking NY metro area miles here, not highway miles.

I was given a 20 dollar bill from the petty cash box for the purchase, and put it in my wallet, which contained nothing else except my driver's license and some scribbled phone numbers.

On the way to the junk yard, I smoked some crumbled dried tobacco leaves.

All junk yards in NJ used to be ginormous places where you brought some tools with you and picked through endless piles of stuff on your own. Then, if you found what you wanted you removed it from whatever else it was attached to, brought it to an inside counter, negotiated a price, and carried it out through the gate to your vehicle.

So anyway, I was looking for a 3/4" diameter piece of steel rod that needed to be at least 6' long. My mind was taking major side trips away from the task at hand; see two paragraphs back for reason. The proprietor comes outside and asks what I'm looking for. I tell him, and he says "come with me". We walk about half a mile to a pile that has what I'm looking for.

Now it's time to negotiate a price. "How much?", I ask. The guy eyeballs the tall, lanky, disheveled long-haired kid before him, and he must have taken pity on me. He says "a quarter". As I start to reach for my wallet in the right rear pocket of my tattered jeans, the guy says "now don't go pulling out a 20 dollar bill on me".

Quickly, I stop reaching for my right .... pocket, and reach instead for my left front pocket. I pull out everything in there. There's a rubber band, a dime, some pocket lint, two nickels, a machine bolt and three... no... four pennies. The kind old man (shoot, he was even older than my 45 year old Dad!) accepted the 24 cents as payment.

Great story!

 

[Kenna]

Good morning, Porchers........on my way out again, but wanted to share this, especially for the Texans! A field of blubonnets!

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Yes! TY, Gracie!

 

[LittleBird]

My apologies for this absurdly long multi-quote. Been hangin round Deb a bit - blame her!

OK...........we were Leo the Lions of Lower Moreland H.S. class of ..........well, I graduated!

And, before I head to the kitchen for some serious belly satisfying food, I wanted to post this for all the seniors!!!
**************************************************************************************************************
SENIOR TRYING TO SET PASSWORD

WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.

USER: cabbage

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

USER: boiled cabbage

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

USER: 1 boiled cabbage

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.

USER: 50damnboiledcabbages

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character

USER: 50DAMNboiledcabbages

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.

USER: 50DamnBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessNow!

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

USER: ReallyPissedOff50DamnBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow

WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use

Priceless. And accurate!

I found a new way of generating passwords. Grab your Bible, and choose a verse. You got upper case, lower case, punctuation, and numbers. And how many to choose from??

Good idea! I had a client whose system was clever. We had to use nonsense passwords to get them through. I'd take a sentence and use the first letter of each word, followed by a numeric date. Still do

good catch, didn't even notice that

Maybe cuz there were numbers? Hehehe

It would appear one doesn't have to go to Florida to swat flies and swap lies.....the back porch will suffice....

Er, Yuup!

We all do from time to time... Especially in this thread...

I manage in every thread!

You want it to be a No Fly zone?.

Bells, have you made it your mission to evoke at least one belly laugh from me, each day?

 

[Kenna]

Good morning everyone! I pray that all is well with y'all on this beautiful day!



Yeah, we haven't even checked. She tried to get disability man years ago on the basis of her Type I diabetes and associated complications. It took much prodding to get her to even apply... she was subsequently denied and we spoke to a lawyer. He told us that there was nothing he could do; auto-immune diseases were not covered by disability (but obesity is?!? WTH?). Anyway, she just doesn't want to fool with it. If things get absolutely dire and gets to a point where we HAVE to have the added coverage to pay for medical expenses, then we'll probably try again. For now, we'll just suck it up and manage as best we can.

RA is autoimmune h is pretty much automatically qualifying. I could have retired almost upon diagnosis in '97. But meds worked well enough to keep me moving so I kept working & finding jobs I could do.

 

[Iffy]

OMG - I want one of them LOL - I take that back - I want two - one for the Philippines... LOL...

OMG - there really is such a thing - I thought it was a joke... Had to Google it...

Sumtimes I get serious 'bout funny stuphph... and versa visa.

at $55... that is one expensive salt shaker.

I saw da device premiere on an 'All-American Makers' type show. I thought it brilliant. Apparently, da show's 'financier' did also. I seem to remember it hit da market 'round $19. Just like MS, someone did some creative marketing!

I'm just waiting fer one dat will shoo 'way pelicans, seagulls, cormorants and loons down at da 'office'!

 

[Rotowoman]

My experience with meetings like that is that some issue has already been decided and we are to discuss, guess what has been decided, and come to a consensus that agrees with the unspoken agreement. Be careful with the discussion part: someone is taking notes.

I hope you are with a better company than I was.

I actually kept my mouth shut this time....BWAHAhahaha.....but I made up for it afterward with a private meeting with my boss AND the new director.

The meeting was extremely boring to me. It talked about the financial state of the company during this down turn in the oil field. They didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Even more boring was when the Materials Director brought out all these charts on what was used, blah, blah, blah, blah........but they fed me.

Yea, I used to have a bad rep for walking out on those...

I didn't need to walk out. I just went somewhere else in my mind.

That's all well and fine when it's allowed without consequences. We had a VP call a meeting of all floorpersons and pit bosses.....one guy showed up 5 min. late and was terminated on the spot, the same thing would have resulted if anyone walked out....

Hell, the bosses were late!! I was ...... because I was on time and they took MY time.

I just watched this; haven't laughed so hard in weeks.

Now, that was laugh out loud funny and I enjoyed it immensely!!

What I'd like to do is bring my dog with me to work. He does NOT like water. He doesn't like a bath, and won't go out to potty if the grass is wet. I'd LOVE to introduce him to the beach and see what his reaction would be.

 

[MikeE3]

LIS "it" was the popular theory at the time. "Make 'em smoke, make 'em inhale and make 'em sick so they won't do it again!"

Yep it was ... my good friend got caught w/ some smokes in his room. His Dad made him eat a cigar. When we somewhat older ... my friend came home a bit tipsy ... we scored a six pack of beer. Well, in keeping with the theory, his Dad took him to the kitchen and kept giving him shots of whiskey 'till he got quite drunk and sick.

Drag Racing,

Now that I have in my 'background'. My 1st job was at a service station and the young owner built some of the fastest cars around. He was my 1st hero. Also, I still leave by the advice of, Corvette George, one of the regulars at the shop who seemed to have 'yet another' Corvette every few months.

Any George taught me not to add up how much money I was spending on my 'hobby' or I wouldn't have any fun in life.

In case anyone is interested, the PBS show NOVA tonight is "Vikings Unearthered". About the discovery of a 2nd Viking settlement in Newfoundland. I don't know if it's on tonight for everyone, tho.

Watching that. Yikes! ... Glad I wasn't a Viking ... I don't want no parasites crawling out any/all of the orifices of my body ... NO I DON"T. May have nightmares tonight.

Does parasailing count?

If not, just get ya a Bug-A-Salt...

Janet can I have one ... please, please ... I really, really want one. Let's get 2 then you can have on in the bathroom 'case one of them spiders shows up again.

 

[Kenna]

Good Afternoon Everyone. No I didn't sleep till noon, just first chance I've had to pop in and say howdy. Doree just ran to the store to get me the "Clear" things I can eat tomorrow before doing the dreaded PREP![emoji38]Oh boy, I can hardly wait. One thing different than last time I had a 'scoping is the prep is only a liter instead of the dreaded gallon but, I have to do it twice. Once tomorrow night and again he next morning. Oh what fun!!!

Why do they keep changing it up on us? Just one more reason to dread it, not knowing what to expect this time around.

 

[garyoa1]

Nope. Green.

Jup. Datz wut I sed! Gdooeen. (German pronunciation) Means green. Akchooley if u pronounce it correctly... sounds like green.

 

[garyoa1]

OMG - I want one of them LOL - I take that back - I want two - one for the Philippines... LOL...

OMG - there really is such a thing - I thought it was a joke... Had to Google it...

Hah. I have one. Work fairly well, actually.

 

[therussellv]

Ebening floks, lng dey, totly borked, gon ta bed

Last stinkie 10/15/2013

 

[Iffy]

Ebening floks, lng dey, totly borked, gon ta bed

'Nite Gary... whoops...

 

[garyoa1]

Ebening floks, lng dey, totly borked, gon ta bed

Last stinkie 10/15/2013

Gu nit

 

[MattB101]

I had a private room & bath in rehab after my 1st & worst surgery. Was there a month & it was heavenly! I never left my room except to go to therapy! Peace & quiet & recovery do the trick!

When I had my cancer surgery they had me up roaming the hall the third day. Thought I was gonna die. Couldn't get up by myself or back in bed by myself. They left me standing next to the bed waiting to get back in for almost 1/2 hour. I was hot by the time the nurse wandered in, i'd buzzed her around five times and told her I couldn't get in bed without help. "Honey, what are you doing standing here?" She says when she sashays in.

 

[MattB101]

What I'd like to do is bring my dog with me to work. He does NOT like water. He doesn't like a bath, and won't go out to potty if the grass is wet. I'd LOVE to introduce him to the beach and see what his reaction would be.

So you have one of those too! Mine actually likes the beach. Not the water, won't get close to it but, loves the beach, lots of new doggie type smells.

 

[garyoa1]

Heh, our female is like that. She'll go on wet grass, but if it's raining all bets are off. She'll cross her back legs and hop around the house til it stops.