What's under your lip/in your nose right now? - Part 2

[Waho]

I've only been called on having a portion in once. Hilariously enough, it was the front office Secretary at my old high school. She noticed my upper lip didn't move quite right when I laughed.

Sorry to hear about your uncle Roth, that's gotta be tough on him. Especially being sound of mind enough to realize it.

Had a good weekend (two days finally) around here. Dropped off a recliner for my fiance's grandparents (her grandpa messed up his hip and was trying to recover while sitting in lawn chairs), then did some painting and installed some new light fixtures and bathroom hardware at their new place on Saturday.

Sunday I cut some limbs off the dead white pine in my front yard (that stuff is a lot easier to move in a pickup bed vs a wheelbarrow), then decided to smoke some chicken wings. Then I whipped up a batch of white chocolate chip/cranberry cookies.

 

[hittman]

You're way too active for me Waho. I didn't do a whole lot of anything this weekend besides mow the lawn.

 

[rothenbj]

Yeah, I just got finished cleaning up my Escape. I took it back from my gf who's now making my mom's old 2000 Prism as junkie as the Escape was. I've had it for at least two years since my Bravada got too expensive to fix anymore. It's become the "work vehicle", used for trailering and getting firewood. It was so messy when I took it over that I just didn't feel like dealing with it. Her old dog that died last year had hair all over the interior and it was used for cleaning up my uncles's house and a move of her sister which left a pile of stuff in the back seat and rear area. Took about three hours to clean out, vacuum out, clean the dust and dirt off the leather seats and interior plus washing the outside. It actually looks like a car again. It's hitting close to 100k but driven only in bad weather so the miles go on rather slowly now.

 

[The Rebel]

First day of school for the boys, which means the household can return to some type of routine. This summer has been busy. Feels like I was working and then going 100mph through the weekend and back to work. Kind of looking forward to just chilling on the weekends, going to the boys football games, and catching up on stuff around the house. And a break from this hot weather would be nice too. Had a few days last week where we opened the house up and aired it out, but yesterday it got hot again so back to closed up and air on. Looking forward to the cool fall evenings...

 

[hittman]

Our high school started back a week and a half ago and my oldest daughter went back to college over a week ago. We've been having a lot of rain and there have been flash flood warnings.

 

[rothenbj]

Hey Hitt!

 

[hittman]

Thanks Roth.

 

[Waho]

Happy birthday Hitt! I'll be sure to have a beer for ya tonight.

Got the rest of my fiances grandparents furniture moved yesterday. They have some very nice old solid oak pieces that are heavier than heck, but my future brother in laws and I managed to Tetris it into the U-Haul.

A lot of the tools/workbench/garage stuff won't fit in their new garage, so they just gave it to me. Now I gotta clean out my pole barn to get it all arranged in there.



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[hittman]

Thanks Waho. I need to go down and clean my basement some to make room for an elliptical machine I bought from a guy at work.

 

[hittman]

Our patio umbrella fell apart so we made a quick trip to the at home store for a new one.

 

[Guttermouth]

Wow,
you visit workaholic land and miss all kinds of stuff.dishwashers,Engagements,lights,new cars.sheesh - you people LIVE!!!!!
heh.
missed you guys and thought i'd stop in and say hey!
HEY!!!!!!!!

 

[hittman]

Hi gutter. Good to hear from you.

 

[rothenbj]

Good timing Gutter, I was just thinking about you last week and wondered how you were doing. I even watched a movie about the Vikings this morning (actually I looked at the time, it was yesterday morning) and thought of you. Learned all about Eric the Red as the Vikings worked their way from Scandinavia to Iceland, them Greenland and eventually to America. Interesting stuff I only casually understood. Learned those horns on the helmets were a fiction of Hollywood's imagination also.

I saw that on KODI TV that I added to Amazon's Fire Stick, the best $35 I ever spent. Anyone who subscribes to Amazon Prime should look into it. I think I could become a cord cutter at some point and am starting to look into the pieces you'd need to get the things important to enjoyable alternatives to FIOS TV.

 

[hittman]

I'd like to cut the cord with my cable company. I'm sick of haggling for a price every 12 months.

 

[Guttermouth]

Good timing Gutter, I was just thinking about you last week and wondered how you were doing. I even watched a movie about the Vikings this morning (actually I looked at the time, it was yesterday morning) and thought of you. Learned all about Eric the Red as the Vikings worked their way from Scandinavia to Iceland, them Greenland and eventually to America. Interesting stuff I only casually understood. Learned those horns on the helmets were a fiction of Hollywood's imagination also.

I saw that on KODI TV that I added to Amazon's Fire Stick, the best $35 I ever spent. Anyone who subscribes to Amazon Prime should look into it. I think I could become a cord cutter at some point and am starting to look into the pieces you'd need to get the things important to enjoyable alternatives to FIOS TV.

Hahaha. yeah, ol eric the red... i guess it's like anything else, weird stuff gets added in to the story to romanticize it up a bit.that whole thing is weird really, the conversation almost always goes " where are you from?" (meaning what nationality) and it's just easier to say "i'm from viking stock" or " i still have family in denmark" than "well, my family is technically from here and here via denmark and took a boat from there to here...etc.. etc...
the viking thing usually just gets an "oh, i see it now" or a "huh" and subject change.my chiropractor loves it though for some odd reason - goes out of his way to introduce me as his "viking patient" followed by a quick "look at that beard! it grows in like that overnight!!!".such a weirdo......


we did the cord cutting thing a few years back using netflix,plex media server and a roku running the plex,youtube and netflix apps.we're sort of old and independent movie nerds so our movie collection is full of stuff that's either stupid hard to find or long out of print and i digitized the stuff i couldn't find already digitized on torrents and we haven't looked back.plex allows us to store content on a local server and browse through and watch via the roku.
i've been experimenting with casting content from the streaming sites and we've had good luck with that for new shows and,well, pretty much anything new these days if it's not up elsewhere.
what a lot of people don't realize is how proactive with your entertainment you have to be after you go to a setup like that though.the whole "turn on the idiot box and zone out" thing goes out the window.it defintitely took some adjustment but after a couple of years of not seeing regular television, it's amazing how.... abrasive ?..... it is. i can't sit with crass,overcompressed commercials being shouted at me anymore without wanting to get up and leave the room.

 

[hittman]

I been considering switching to google fiber. We got an advertisement the other day from them that said they have phone service now. My wife says we have to have home phone as long as we have a child at home. I don't know why. My youngest lives on her cell phone.

 

[Guttermouth]

I been considering switching to google fiber. We got an advertisement the other day from them that said they have phone service now. My wife says we have to have home phone as long as we have a child at home. I don't know why. My youngest lives on her cell phone.

do it man!!!! if we could get service of that caliber here, i'd be on the waiting list for it.

 

[hittman]

I'm not sure if my TWC bundle price is considered to be under contract or not. I don't want to have to pay to get out of it. I need to find out.

 

[The Rebel]

Google fiber is supposed to be so good you'll smack your momma. I really hope it makes it my way soon. I just did the switch back to Direct TV as my cable was getting a bit pricey. I play the game every two years to keep up on the introductory pricing. My wife would probably die if she couldn't keep up on her "stories", so we need to keep some sort of regular programming. If not, I'd drop everything and cut the cord in a heartbeat. She's all about keeping a land line too even though there are enough cell phones around here to conference in a small school of teenagers. But once my youngest is old enough for his own phone, I'm ditching the landline for good.

 

[rothenbj]

I agree and from what I understand, you can get many of those regular shows while chord cutting, even NFL football. Kristin from CASAA is a chord cutter and a big Green Bay fan. She gets all their games. I haven't gotten into it deep enough to see exactly where and how but I have two years to investigate. The one thing I wonder about as more and more people go that route is whether the ISPs will then start throttling bandwidth. I'd hate to see bandwidth structures like we see in wireless.

I watched four movies (well 3 plus part of one that I need to return to) that are showing in local theaters this weekend. That's $50 worth of movies free over air. Granted the picture quality suffered a bit on a couple of them, but still. For someone that's only been to a theater once in maybe 35 years, it was a treat seeing them current.

My uncle went south real quick. I had him out to the Legion last Saturday. He had only gone once a week the two previous weeks and his eating had become less frequent. He also went out in the parking lot around midnight on his wheelchair, clipped a curb and toppled two weeks ago. Fortunately someone ending her shift found him out there and got him back to bed. Last Wednesday I took him to an appointment and he was lethargic. Thursday he got worse and by nightfall, I got a very morbid sounding call. They had moved him to the hospital side as he was unresponsive.

I even called the funeral director to let him know he might get my uncle before I got to a scheduled 10AM meeting with him. I went directly to the assisted living location after the appointment and stopped at the office to check what room he was in. They told me the room number and said he was sitting up in the room and asking when he was going back to his "home" (his nice room). I was shocked but there he was, somewhat coherent but very tired. We talked a bit as he slipped in and out of sleep. I wondered if maybe it wasn't quite his time.

However, by Sunday, that all changed. He's now in the state I expected on Friday and it's just a matter of time. Heading to his room to clear out his stuff this morning.